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No. It happened there because communist revolutionaries would kill anyone that disagreed with them.

A distorted picture of reality happens here because it lives on zombie-like as the remains of a program run by the Soviet Union in order to demoralize the West.

And despite the fall of the Soviet Union, leftists in the West are still behaving as useful idiots.

https://youtu.be/D3OSTflMO80?t...

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Should watch this video from Slavoj iek about political correctness. Man makes some pretty amazing points.

https://youtu.be/5dNbWGaaxWM

Custom Model Rockets
Movie Props (Make your own light saber)
Prototypes
Inventions
Robot Parts (FIRST Robotics)
Phone Cases (with gears)
Thingiverse
Custom connectors for Legos

The biggest questions you have to answer are 1) what material do you want to use, and 2) what the max size of your part? Personally, I like ABS. It is flexible and more forgiving and assembles easily with acetone. My favorite lowend 3D printer is the Makerbot 2X, however you won't get an iron man costume out if it with the 6x9x12 build volume. However, with a few mods you can print, ABS, Ninjaflex, and even PLA.

The Ultimaker 2 is a great printer for PLA, nice resolution, however it uses 3mm filament which is not as common as at the 1.7mm that most of the other printers use.

My lease favorite low end 3D printer is the Makerbot Z18.

It's all good fun, go for it!

...just some sex toys and various Ninji items.

Just this comes to mind : https://youtu.be/oeT5otk2R1g

No system, be it PC or console, can make up for really bad, lazy ports. This has nothing to do with specs, and everything to do with WB being too cheap to hire a good team to port the game, and giving the team a stupidly short amount of time to port it. This reviewer has hardware that completely shits on console hardware and the recommended specs, and yet it still has issues.

The problem is that fructose is psychologically addictive. I've quit consuming it multiple times, but that ends when one day I'm at a birthday party and someone insists that I must try a cupcake, and I then go on a two-week-long sugar-eating binge and gain 20 pounds. (...and I'm serious, 20 pounds over 2 weeks.)

This year I've committed to avoiding fructose entirely, with no exceptions, to prevent it's addictive nature from causing me to consume it regularly again. Despite no exercise and no other dietary changes, I've lost 30 pounds in the last 6 months. It's not a high rate of weight loss, and indeed there are a lot of times I would have concluded that it was no longer working since the number on the scale never seems to go down, but every time I do the math on how long I've been avoiding fructose multiplied by 5 pounds per month, my weight is always that or a little bit less. So it may be slow, but I'll be non-obese eventually.

It's also a fairly easy diet since I can eat as much food as I want and so I'm never hungry, though lately I note that my appetite is virtually non-existant and that I instead eat out of necessity, e.g. my stomach gets sore from being excessively empty, or I start feeling jittery due to having eaten nothing in the last 24 hours. I'd probably be losing a lot more weight were it not for my instinct to not let good food go to waste, which causes me to eat very large meals when I do finally eat something. It would likely be better if I ate more frequent and smaller meals, but there's a limit to how much effort I'm willing to put into my diet, and simply avoiding sugar is enough to reach that limit.

As for why this works, this very long video explains it all. Fructose specifically is simply not metabolized in a healthy way, and sugar in general causes insulin resistance, which causes higher insulin levels to compesate for the insulin resistance, and higher insulin levels inhibit the leptin receptors in the brain, and since leptin is the hormone released by fat cells to tell the brain how much body fat there is, the brain believes there is no body fat and the result is hunger and fatigue. Avoid sugar for about two weeks (at least, it's taken two weeks each of the many times I've quit sugar) and it all sorts itself out. Your brain is able to detect the leptin again, and so it knows you're obese, and so it stops making you so hungry and tired.

Frankly Mr Spock, this is nothing but a distraction. But why? Shatner can explain everything. ; ).

Thinking the same thing. What is the crashworthiness of the thing. If you can do 200 mph, it better have a very good safety cell. Something like this Ferrari 458 in Japan that crashed during a race doing 200 mph (that's 300 kph). The track worker and driver both lived.

One loader | https://youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?t...

Huh? Oh I get it.. 3 types of people! Seems there are two types of people in the world after all.. those who can make funny, and those that can't ;-)

This 100%. C++ has become a clusterfuck of over-engineering and I say that as someone who has worked on a C++ compiler.

* /Oblg. Comedy: Hitler on C++

When you have even committee members admit they only use a sub-set then you know the language is too big.

The C++ committee recognizes there are many problems with C++ iostreams but nothing is being done towards performance and type safety.

The committee would rather argue over the rare case of multi-dispatch / multi-methods then fix core issues.

* http://www.stroustrup.com/mult...

Crap like long long, "long double", etc. should have been deprecated in year X, and removed in year X+5. Are they going to add "long long long" someday?? Having types like "double" in 2015 is just retarded -- replace it with "float64_t", and the fore mentioned long double with the clear "float80_t". Bandaging the problem like int_fast32_t doesn't solve anything. How many fucking integers types does the compiler need to throw at us?? short, long, long long, int, long int, int_fast32_t, int_least32_t, etc. and I'm not even talking about MS's hacks of __int32, __int64, etc. Simplify the dam language already!!! Set year 2020 as the date when these barbaric types are deprecated, and year 2030 when they are removed.

Modules have been in a constant state of on-again-off-again for over 10 years:

* First mention N2073 (Sept.2006)
* Revived N4047 (May 2014)
* 2nd draft N4214 (Oct. 2014)
* 3rd draft N4465 (April 2015)
* Wording N4466 (April 2015)

The pre-processor is STILL broken. One would expect #define token operation to work for ALL user-defined tokens. i.e. This isn't rocket science, just a basic Search-and-Replace:

#define @(func) printf("%s\n",func)
 
void foo()
{
  @(__func__);
}
 
// Hell, even this should work
#define @ printf("LOL. Your pre-processor is broken. HA-HA!\n" )

There are no standard pre-processor macros for function names as a string. GCC has the excellent __func__ which Microsoft finally got around to implementing C99 N2340 in Visual Studio 2015!

The C++ committee failed to learn the first lesson about design:

* "Needlessly complexity is a symptom of bad design."

Or paraphrased from Einstein:

* "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler"

This 100%. C++ has become a clusterfuck of over-engineering and I say that as someone who has worked on a C++ compiler.

* /Oblg. Comedy: Hitler on C++

When you have even committee members admit they only use a sub-set then you know the language is too big.

The C++ committee recognizes there are many problems with C++ iostreams but nothing is being done towards performance and type safety.

The committee would rather argue over the rare case of multi-dispatch / multi-methods then fix core issues.

* http://www.stroustrup.com/mult...

Crap like long long, "long double", etc. should have been deprecated in year X, and removed in year X+5. Are they going to add "long long long" someday?? Having types like "double" in 2015 is just retarded -- replace it with "float64_t", and the fore mentioned long double with the clear "float80_t". Bandaging the problem like int_fast32_t doesn't solve anything. How many fucking integers types does the compiler need to throw at us?? short, long, long long, int, long int, int_fast32_t, int_least32_t, etc. and I'm not even talking about MS's hacks of __int32, __int64, etc. Simplify the dam language already!!! Set year 2020 as the date when these barbaric types are deprecated, and year 2030 when they are removed.

Modules have been in a constant state of on-again-off-again for over 10 years:

* First mention N2073 (Sept.2006)
* Revived N4047 (May 2014)
* 2nd draft N4214 (Oct. 2014)
* 3rd draft N4465 (April 2015)
* Wording N4466 (April 2015)

The pre-processor is STILL broken. One would expect #define token operation to work for ALL user-defined tokens. i.e. This isn't rocket science, just a basic Search-and-Replace:

#define @(func) printf("%s\n",func)
 
void foo()
{
  @(__func__);
}
 
// Hell, even this should work
#define @ printf("LOL. Your pre-processor is broken. HA-HA!\n" )

There are no standard pre-processor macros for function names as a string. GCC has the excellent __func__ which Microsoft finally got around to implementing C99 N2340 in Visual Studio 2015!

The C++ committee failed to learn the first lesson about design:

* "Needlessly complexity is a symptom of bad design."

Or paraphrased from Einstein:

* "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler"

One loader | https://youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?t...

Nonsense, you absolutely can own a howitzer or a bazooka...

You have some paperwork to jump through and a few BATF transfer taxes to pay, but it actually isn't that big of a deal.

Ok, perhaps New York and California don't respect people's rights, but most states do.

You can even get them that fire.

https://youtu.be/EcVk0WtUPtw

That is an annual event that you can attend, bring your machine guns and cannons to and fire them off to your hearts content.

Those people own massive firepower, and frankly, wouldn't hurt a fly. Those weapons aren't cheap, rich people don't rob banks with guns. Maybe with a computer and a pen, that is debatable, but they don't do it with violence.

I've owned fully automatic weapons, back when I was younger I put many thousands of rounds through an AK-47 and M-16. Then I got married and had kids and discovered that I could afford a wife and kids, or ammo. :)

Frankly, automatic weapons are a great way to turn money into noise. Fun, but expensive after awhile.

It's just a little thing called FREEDOM.

It's a shame that you don't believe in it.

https://youtu.be/j2zlPNGuPbw

Actually that video above is the wrong one. That one is creepy. I was thinking more of videos like this.

All of this is reminding me of this guy. I cannot help ROFL when I see these videos. The are so hilarious and I consider them to be among the best works of art of our time.

If I ever happen to see this guy in public filming me I will simply say "I love you! You are awesome! I'm so glad you are filming me!"

With regard to the stores tracking people: I know its a serious issue, but it is also a potentially hilarious one. I can imagine the myriad ways that you could completely fuck with their analytics by engaging in various activities.

Exactly. I did an IMDB search and found a Sci Fi movie from 1969 - Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun. Take a look at some of the effects. They were probably state of the art then and must have looked amazing, but they look extremely fake nowadays. Even if NASA had gotten the best and brightest of Hollywood on the "moon landing production", I doubt that 1) they could have pulled it off with so much realism, 2) they could have all kept the secret for so long, and 3) they wouldn't have used their knowledge from faking the moon landing to make more realistic movie special effects.

The problem with articles like this one is that they tend to under-represent the benefits of static analysis. Products like PVS-Studio are designed to work with C++ and because they have to run in a big compile job, they get run in batch at the end of each day.

This is a problem because (a) C++ is very hard to statically analyse so performance is often poor and (b) the most critical time when you need/want static analysis feedback is when you're actually writing the code itself.

So let me insert a plug here for IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains. Up until I used this (free, open source) program I didn't really appreciate static analysis. I mean, I appreciated it in a theoretical way, but my experience was that running it tends to generate thousands of spurious warnings that rarely reveal serious bugs. But that was because by the time the analysis got to run it was on code that had long since crashed in production, been debugged, unit tested, etc. So there was little meat left to harvest.

IntelliJ has a thing called the Inspector, which runs constantly in the background on spare CPU cores. It scans for hundreds of different kinds of bugs and when it spots one it highlights the bogus code in yellow, right in the editor. What impressed me most about this is that often the editor can highlight very complex bugs within seconds of you writing them, long before any time has been spent on unit testing or in a debugger. It can do this partly because the languages the inspector supports (things like Java, Kotlin, Scala etc) are much easier to parse and analyse than C++. You don't need to invoke a full blown compiler. Also the use of annotations to give the analysers more information is widespread.

But the best thing about IntelliJ is that when it does find a bug (and it frequently does), you can just press a hotkey and get a menu that lets you either suppress the warning ....... or automatically fix it, right there in the editor! So not only does IntelliJ find brainfarts like writing an if statement that will always yield true, but it can do it in real time and then it can often even fix it for you! This video I recorded a while ago shows a few seconds of this feature in action.

... ideally what we really need to get to eventually is the point where we can read all neurons at the same time. Injectable meshes aren't going to cut it for that.

Already been done: https://youtu.be/Skxhii6VFdo

The most problematic part of the low frame rate VR can be mitigated/fixed by using a technique Carmack came up with called time warping:
https://youtu.be/WvtEXMlQQtI
It uses the Z-buffer data and a 3D half sphere to make the 3D headtracking always have the full frame rate your VR equipment can provide, even if the rendering itself runs slowly.

I really hope they've done something about the loud knocking noise whenever anti-clockwise torque is generated

Judging by stills in Logitech's marketing video, the internals seem to be nigh-on identical to the G27, so I don't expect it to be any quieter.

https://youtu.be/218jRhV682k?t...

A pitcher with an elbow injury, a retiring player and a 12 year old who was probably afraid he was going to be humiliated by a girl?

Out of 100 years of America's sport, that's all you could find?

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

http://guyspeed.com/famous-ath...

https://youtu.be/DvHpzyWc1kc

Steve Gibson agrees with me.

This would among other things, stop things like people posting embarrassing youtube videos of other people.

You want to take away one of the few pleasures I have left in life. You monster.

https://youtu.be/Lf3EC6OUk_Y

Dream on. A country that nukes the US is going to get abandoned.

The squeamish countries will close their eyes and count to ten... at which point it will be all over. If they're stupid they'll complain about it after the fact. If they are a bit more clever they'll know to keep their mouths shut.

The ones with some moral character will grant approval and watch with open eyes.
https://youtu.be/PTzbOA6cTYM?t...

I think Dr. Cox says it best..

The middle-aged women I hang out with tend to refer to themselves as "girls" informally, and the use of "girl" to refer to a woman not actually old was very common during part of my lifetime.

Do you understand the difference between "women I hang out with" and "women I work with"? Why something you do when you're chatting up a middle-aged bar maid with a gold tooth and prison tattoos might not be acceptable when you're in the lab with a woman who also worked her ass off to get that PhD and now just wants to accomplish something without being hit on by a 72 year-old bag of snacks? Can we stipulate the difference between "hanging out" and being in a professional environment among peers?

And I'll bet you're old enough to understand that the way someone refers to themselves when in the company of peers is not always the way they would want someone else to refer to them.

vis a vis, https://youtu.be/MSrTnWDTdwI

I'm so tired of you, America.

https://youtu.be/UUkcJlekP9s

Even worse, if you watch their promo video - Dave mentions this at the end of his vblog - it goes actually says:

Did you know that every dead battery you've every thrown away had only used up to 20% of battery life.

That's an out and out lie.

Not true. According to E=MC^2, a single AA battery contains 0.023 kg * c^2 = 2x10^15 Joules of energy. When have you ever used more than 20% of that!!?!?!

Even worse, if you watch their promo video - Dave mentions this at the end of his vblog - it goes actually says:

Did you know that every dead battery you've every thrown away had only used up to 20% of battery life.

That's an out and out lie.

... This is how every university gets going and how the big ones stay well funded. They ask rich people for large sums of money... in the old days that was kings, lords, and the Church.

today... it is business tycoons and big fat government checks.

And from this we conclude Harvard is bad because a tycoon gave them 400 million dollars?

Shock... gasp.... horror.

This is about the part in an article where I ask the people that take it seriously to flip a coin.

https://youtu.be/OLCL6OYbSTw?t...

When country bars are playing good, proletarian Cuban music on their digital jukeboxes, it'll be a glorious time to be alive.

You really don't realize that American country music has always been the music of the proletariat? Do you know anything at all about the "Father of Country Music"?

https://youtu.be/Miy4io-rGo0

Or maybe something a little more recent:

https://youtu.be/VfiJEfBNRqg

And yes, good old Kenny Chesney is singing "union made". Yes, country music has always been the music of the proletariat, even with the "New Country" flag-waving "I believe in Amurka" mass-produced crapola that was sold to the yokels after 9/11. It was Tennessee Ernie Ford that stated in no uncertain terms that he "owed his soul to the company store". Country music wasn't only the music of the proletariat, it was the music of the revolutionary, pro-union, anti-corporate proletariat. And if you could take off your elitist goggles for one second, you'd see that the people in those country bars have a lot more in common with the people in Cuba than they have differences.

And as far as Cuban music over current country music, there's something wrong with you if you'd rather hear Carrie Underwood than this.

https://youtu.be/bZ2mJehaNbE?t...

When country bars are playing good, proletarian Cuban music on their digital jukeboxes, it'll be a glorious time to be alive.

You really don't realize that American country music has always been the music of the proletariat? Do you know anything at all about the "Father of Country Music"?

https://youtu.be/Miy4io-rGo0

Or maybe something a little more recent:

https://youtu.be/VfiJEfBNRqg

And yes, good old Kenny Chesney is singing "union made". Yes, country music has always been the music of the proletariat, even with the "New Country" flag-waving "I believe in Amurka" mass-produced crapola that was sold to the yokels after 9/11. It was Tennessee Ernie Ford that stated in no uncertain terms that he "owed his soul to the company store". Country music wasn't only the music of the proletariat, it was the music of the revolutionary, pro-union, anti-corporate proletariat. And if you could take off your elitist goggles for one second, you'd see that the people in those country bars have a lot more in common with the people in Cuba than they have differences.

And as far as Cuban music over current country music, there's something wrong with you if you'd rather hear Carrie Underwood than this.

https://youtu.be/bZ2mJehaNbE?t...

When country bars are playing good, proletarian Cuban music on their digital jukeboxes, it'll be a glorious time to be alive.

You really don't realize that American country music has always been the music of the proletariat? Do you know anything at all about the "Father of Country Music"?

https://youtu.be/Miy4io-rGo0

Or maybe something a little more recent:

https://youtu.be/VfiJEfBNRqg

And yes, good old Kenny Chesney is singing "union made". Yes, country music has always been the music of the proletariat, even with the "New Country" flag-waving "I believe in Amurka" mass-produced crapola that was sold to the yokels after 9/11. It was Tennessee Ernie Ford that stated in no uncertain terms that he "owed his soul to the company store". Country music wasn't only the music of the proletariat, it was the music of the revolutionary, pro-union, anti-corporate proletariat. And if you could take off your elitist goggles for one second, you'd see that the people in those country bars have a lot more in common with the people in Cuba than they have differences.

And as far as Cuban music over current country music, there's something wrong with you if you'd rather hear Carrie Underwood than this.

https://youtu.be/bZ2mJehaNbE?t...

Contrasting it against a white stormtrooper outfit, yes, even if I was some dumbass who didn't know what a stormtrooper was.

The principal may have been a dumbass, but the real problem here is the cops. The principal was somewhat justified in reporting him, since she didn't know if the gun was real or not. But the cops knew it was a toy, and arrested him anyway. As soon as they realized it was not a real gun, and didn't even look like a real gun, they should have said "This is not the stormtrooper we are looking for. You can go about your business."

I'll just leave this here.

https://youtu.be/0nM0asnCXD0

Strat

Obligatory West Wing map discussion: (it's worth it if you haven't seen it) http://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY

How do you feel, Spock?

https://youtu.be/2yQgbYL4bIE

You've proven my point. It doesn't exist for the computer because it doesn't really understand speech.

https://youtu.be/Gqdy1jLlf50?t... is how it's pronounced by it's creators, but don't just take their word for it - try google translate and have it pronounce the two for you: https://translate.google.com/?...

It's identical. It's a problem that will occur with most "hip" app names which sound like a common word, but which are spelled differently.

I just hope Bethesda takes as much care with the music in Fallout 4.

https://youtu.be/itc8yl9uLD8

Wish on the moon
And look for the gold in a rainbow
And you’ll find a happy time

You’ll hear a tune
That lives in the heart of a bluebird
And you’ll find a happy time

Though things may look very dark
Your dream is not in vein
For when do you find the rainbow?
Only after rain

So wish on the moon
And someday it may be tomorrow
You will suddenly hear chimes
And you’ll have your happy, happy time

So wish on the moon
And someday it may be tomorrow
You will suddenly hear chimes
And you’ll have your happy, happy time.

You know what I really honestly and non-sarcastically can't wait for? The day when you idiots stop voting these people into power. As long as the race for presidency--as long as most every political race at every level in this country-- is between a Democrat or a Republican, that will never happen.

The people in power never got voted in. They were appointed by the shady underworld of real power, and they're the ones that were pulling the strings on puppet Bush and now, puppet Obama. Obama is just special because he's an accomnplished liar and easy to control being a gay chainsmoker dope fiend.

I really can't wait until we get a new president. Then it will everyone bitching about the next one will get told to blame Obama, and then people will counter that blaming Obama is old and tired but the new president is somehow worse for not being radically different.

You know what I really honestly and non-sarcastically can't wait for? The day when you idiots stop voting these people into power. As long as the race for presidency--as long as most every political race at every level in this country-- is between a Democrat or a Republican, that will never happen.

At best it's a couple of dozen people working in the back office and some techs to walk around and monitor the automated plant.

Yeah, just look at all those technicians sitting around in a back room. I think you're mistaking the unibody assemby as representing the assembly of the entire car. It's standard for that to be mostly automated because of all the welding. But after it's painted, assembly is still mostly a well choreographed manual exercise. It just doesn't look as sexy on TV because people don't appreciate the organizational precision involved.

I think a Dixieland Jazz parade would be suitable.

I'm prepared to play in the second line at the Patriot Act jazz funeral.

https://youtu.be/ZyI2XJCJ9ic

Hold on there mister, the Laschamp event only lasted less than 500 years, and occurred in the middle of an ice age, over 41,000 years ago. I don't know about you, but I see a whole lot of unknowns that make it very difficult to conclude that "the climate didn't change". ... I would prefer to not draw any conclusions from what little data we have of this event.

So your preferences are different than Richard Alley's. He concluded at 43:01 that "We had a big cosmic ray signal, and the climate ignores it. And it's just about that simple. These cosmic rays didn't do enough that you can see it."

Maybe this is because Richard Alley's estimate that the Laschamp anomaly lasted "for a millenium or so" matches other estimates that are longer than 500 years.

We have the technology to measure GCR's, and we have the technology to measure cloud cover. Let's verify the theory of GCR's and cloud formation, let's quantify it, and then let's see if we can accurately predict cloud cover and irradiance fluctuations based on this data.

I've explained that the maximum impact of this mechanism has been estimated to be responsible for no more than 23% of the 11-year cyclical variation of cloud cover. Furthermore, there’s no long term trend in Svensmark’s data, which would be necessary to explain the long term warming trend that’s been observed. For more information, see chapter 7.10 of this textbook.

Update: Other relevant papers include Kristjansson 2002 and Laut 2003, followed by Svensmark’s response and Laut’s rebuttal. More recently, Erlykin et al. suggest that the apparent correlation is due to direct solar activity, while Pierce and Adams state: “In our simulations, changes in CCN [cloud condensation nuclei concentrations] from changes in cosmic rays during a solar cycle are two orders of magnitude too small to account for the observed changes in cloud properties; consequently, we conclude that the hypothesized effect is too small to play a significant role in current climate change.”

Another update: Snow-Kropla et al. 2011 makes similar points.

https://youtu.be/il3r4I7ydo8

Actually I saw Lister make this shot in 1991.

https://youtu.be/YW3UyJiOvHY?t...