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You seem to have forgotten what the C in AC stands for. Not to pick on the person but most certainly their are crap corporations out there like Google who will absolutely fire you for expressing an opinion their corporate marketing team do not approve of ie https://theintercept.com/2017/... and http://www.smh.com.au/technolo... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and, well, enough is enough. Whilst I can write ESAD Google and the big shit at Alphabet, no it is not a joke, I mean it, many can not and will suffer consequences for doing so. Google as evil as they come not better or worse than M$ and in the most surprising fashion, consider their exploitative over priced based on marketing nature, much worse than Apple.

Exclusives were probably less disastrous than other factors, but it was indeed a factor. iPhone was exclusive for a while and they did fine but they excelled in every other aspect.

PalmOS certainly was ahead of its time and would have done very well on decent hardware. Every Pre released had too small of a processor and RAM compared to other flagship devices. It was incredibly frustrating waiting 10-15 seconds between simple tasks like adding something to calendar, bringing up the dialer, while every other device did this seemingly instantly. Had Palm charged $50 more and bumped the specs up a bit and not run the worst marketing campaign in history, they would most likely be in a 3 way split with Android and iOS.

They were perfectly positioned to compete and screwed it up almost as epically as RIM.

The question is whether anyone can build a cost effective system vacuum tubes hundreds or thousands of miles long. It fascinates me that Elon Musk has started by building a crappy propulsion system. Why? That is the part we already know how to build, you can contract it out to to the Japanese and get it done quickly.

So where is the plan to build cost effective vacuum tunnels? Maybe China can do it.

Not to mention pneumosilicosis and Trump mincing around like the seventh village person pretending to be you.
Close call as to which is worse.

A little late on that one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's actually a really cool car, but could be way better with some modern updates, possibly even viable for normal use.

I've posted this before, but seems like a good time for it again - very technical, but also very interesting.

90 minute lecture, Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009]

Describes in detail how fructose is metabolized by the liver like alcohol and its affects on blood lipids.

This is like something from the original Robocop movie.

A similar kind of messed-up.

"and remember... we care!"

They might get along better than Siri and Cortana...... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In the 1973 file Sleeper by Woody Allen two of his caretakers in the future discuss his breakfast request and then start a riff on "deep fat". You mean there was no deep fat etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Try this link
https://www.youtube.com/channe... if you don't think "three blue one brown" communicates complex information effectively in a video format I don't know what to tell you. Of course the written information is also necessary, but I don't think it would be accurate to say that you'd be better off with only the written and not the video.

You may still be right that they're rare, but not so rare that they can't make up at least 80% of what I watch on youtube. Maybe you're just not looking for them.

Yep. Too bad we can't trade PDRK political prisoners for ANTIFA members. The latter could live in their utopia.

An authoritarian dictatorship where the people are indoctrinated to a glorification of the state in order to disguise their own impoverishment?

I'm pretty sure that's...actually fascism.

The fact is, El Grande Trumputin and his followers would love to make everything in North Korea happen here.

Private profit, public exploitation.

Asinine behavior like this is what inspires people to write up how to's for removing these things. Turns out a fair number of these how to's already exist.

http://www.instructables.com/i...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://trackimo.com/disable-g...

Asinine behavior like this is what inspires people to write up how to's for removing these things. Turns out a fair number of these how to's already exist.

http://www.instructables.com/i...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://trackimo.com/disable-g...

No facebook, no snapchat, no tinder, no grinder.

I'd think here is the tune you're looking for. Text away.

I've never broken a chair.

Of course not, you never sit on "a" chair, you always double up!

Donald Trump is turning America in to North Korea with his racist policies, supported by neo-nazi republicans.

America has been fighting Nazis since long before Antifa fought back against Trump's KKK and Nazi supporters chanting threats and racism in the streets.

Back in the gold old days, nobody whined when real Americans kicked Nazi ass.

And closely related to the "4-chords":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But do note (no pun intended) that my experiments were mostly focused on early classical music. "Bach era", if you will. (I even put one on SoundCloud, but don't feel like giving a link out just yet.)

Only reference I once knew was the pivot man in a circle jerk.

Silicon Valley - Pied Piper needs to pivot?

"fail" you have to TRY something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2qEUwFbGM

(Garfunkel and Oats "You are such a loser" ... one of the most inspiring pieces if music i have heard recently)

AC

55. Never Index Your Own Book

I showed this index entry to the Mintons, asking them if they didn't think it was an enchanting biography in itself, a biography of a reluctant goddess of love. I got an unexpectedly expert answer, as one does in life sometimes. It appeared that Claire Minton, in her time, had been a professional indexer. I had never heard of such a profession before.

She told me that she had put her husband through college years before with her earnings as an indexer, that the earnings had been good, and that few people could index well.

She said that indexing was a thing that only the most amateurish author undertook to do for his own book. I asked her what she thought of Philip Castle's job.

"Flattering to the author, insulting to the reader," she said. "In a hyphenated word," she observed, with the shrewd amiability of an expert, " 'self-indulgent.' I'm always embarrassed when I see an index an author has made of his own work."

"Embarrassed?"

"It's a revealing thing, an author's index of his own work," she informed me. "It's a shameless exhibitionâ"to the trained eye."

"She can read character from an index," said her husband.

"Oh?" I said. "What can you tell about Philip Castle?"

She smiled faintly. "Things I'd better not tell strangers."

"Sorry."

"He's obviously in love with this Mona Aamons Monzano," she said.

"That's true of every man in San Lorenzo I gather."

"He has mixed feelings about his father," she said.

"That's true of every man on earth." I egged her on gently.

"He's insecure."

"What mortal isn't?" I demanded. I didn't know it then, but that was a very Bokononist thing to demand.

"He'll never marry her."

"Why not?"

"I've said all I'm going to say," she said.

"I'm gratified to meet an indexer who respects the privacy of others."

"Never index your own book," she stated.

And what do we find here, as perceived by an expert, trained AI:

Altogether there are 148 documents, including a letter from GCHQ, a handwritten draft BBC radio program about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and offers to lecture from some of America's most famous universities, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Whoever wrote this found it necessary to gloss AI and MIT, but unnecessary to gloss GCHQ.

Hmmm.

This person will never marry.

That's all I'm going to say.
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You know, Contact is swimming along just fine, and then you meet the bug-eyed Pak Protractor in space. That's how I feel about Cat's Cradle. There were moments it went from good to great, but couldn't quite sustain the epic bits.

Ellie and S R Hadden

One thing about Hadden is that he's really fond of the Ken Burns effect in his private Vidipedia recaps.

That's all I'm going to say.

> Markov-like chains of "hit tune" chord progressions can be mined, for example, to find decent chords.

Hell, even a 4 note chord" works. (Axis of Awesome)

And this gives us gems like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1) Paid for 4K camera that you do not need
2) Waste time downscaling to 1080p
3) Lost all the advantage of images in larger scale
4) Waste time upscaling

Linus Tech Tips uses this workflow for their 4K cameras (see video). That was two years ago. They now have 8K RED cameras ($140K each) but probably still use the same workflow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NFmpJNvd4k

Oops, I meant to link to this measuring tape video, since I think it actually shows off the technology even better.

A few other videos I forgot to link before:
- Finding friends in a crowd using waypoints
- Trying out makeup live on yourself
- More portals to other worlds
- Laying out furniture (I believe IKEA has said they plan to use ARKit to allow people to virtually place IKEA's furniture in their homes so they can get a sense for how it'd look and feel)

Oops, I meant to link to this measuring tape video, since I think it actually shows off the technology even better.

A few other videos I forgot to link before:
- Finding friends in a crowd using waypoints
- Trying out makeup live on yourself
- More portals to other worlds
- Laying out furniture (I believe IKEA has said they plan to use ARKit to allow people to virtually place IKEA's furniture in their homes so they can get a sense for how it'd look and feel)

Oops, I meant to link to this measuring tape video, since I think it actually shows off the technology even better.

A few other videos I forgot to link before:
- Finding friends in a crowd using waypoints
- Trying out makeup live on yourself
- More portals to other worlds
- Laying out furniture (I believe IKEA has said they plan to use ARKit to allow people to virtually place IKEA's furniture in their homes so they can get a sense for how it'd look and feel)

Oops, I meant to link to this measuring tape video, since I think it actually shows off the technology even better.

A few other videos I forgot to link before:
- Finding friends in a crowd using waypoints
- Trying out makeup live on yourself
- More portals to other worlds
- Laying out furniture (I believe IKEA has said they plan to use ARKit to allow people to virtually place IKEA's furniture in their homes so they can get a sense for how it'd look and feel)

Oops, I meant to link to this measuring tape video, since I think it actually shows off the technology even better.

A few other videos I forgot to link before:
- Finding friends in a crowd using waypoints
- Trying out makeup live on yourself
- More portals to other worlds
- Laying out furniture (I believe IKEA has said they plan to use ARKit to allow people to virtually place IKEA's furniture in their homes so they can get a sense for how it'd look and feel)

Yup, AR stands for augmented reality, and it's shaping up to be interesting. In the few months since ARKit was announced by Apple, developers have been putting out some really fascinating demos, some practical, some simply experimental. ARKit is due for its official release later this year with iOS 11, so these demos are giving us a notion of what sort of uses we may end up seeing for augmented reality in the real world.

For instance:
- Measuring real world objects without a tape measure
- Drawing without a pen
- Perusing menu options at a restaurant
- Becoming part of a music video
- Bringing fictional worlds to life

And these are just some of the early demos. There are demos for doing 3D sculpting, putting characters from existing video games in the real world, watching dance performances in your living room, and playing versions of everything from Pacman to Minecraft to a zombie game in the space around you. I originally thought this was all merely a gimmick, but now I'm starting to think that this technology will render a lot of single-use items we have in the real world obsolete, in much the same way that smartphones turned GPS devices, cell phones, and MP3 players into simple apps on our pocket computers.

Yup, AR stands for augmented reality, and it's shaping up to be interesting. In the few months since ARKit was announced by Apple, developers have been putting out some really fascinating demos, some practical, some simply experimental. ARKit is due for its official release later this year with iOS 11, so these demos are giving us a notion of what sort of uses we may end up seeing for augmented reality in the real world.

For instance:
- Measuring real world objects without a tape measure
- Drawing without a pen
- Perusing menu options at a restaurant
- Becoming part of a music video
- Bringing fictional worlds to life

And these are just some of the early demos. There are demos for doing 3D sculpting, putting characters from existing video games in the real world, watching dance performances in your living room, and playing versions of everything from Pacman to Minecraft to a zombie game in the space around you. I originally thought this was all merely a gimmick, but now I'm starting to think that this technology will render a lot of single-use items we have in the real world obsolete, in much the same way that smartphones turned GPS devices, cell phones, and MP3 players into simple apps on our pocket computers.

Yup, AR stands for augmented reality, and it's shaping up to be interesting. In the few months since ARKit was announced by Apple, developers have been putting out some really fascinating demos, some practical, some simply experimental. ARKit is due for its official release later this year with iOS 11, so these demos are giving us a notion of what sort of uses we may end up seeing for augmented reality in the real world.

For instance:
- Measuring real world objects without a tape measure
- Drawing without a pen
- Perusing menu options at a restaurant
- Becoming part of a music video
- Bringing fictional worlds to life

And these are just some of the early demos. There are demos for doing 3D sculpting, putting characters from existing video games in the real world, watching dance performances in your living room, and playing versions of everything from Pacman to Minecraft to a zombie game in the space around you. I originally thought this was all merely a gimmick, but now I'm starting to think that this technology will render a lot of single-use items we have in the real world obsolete, in much the same way that smartphones turned GPS devices, cell phones, and MP3 players into simple apps on our pocket computers.

Yup, AR stands for augmented reality, and it's shaping up to be interesting. In the few months since ARKit was announced by Apple, developers have been putting out some really fascinating demos, some practical, some simply experimental. ARKit is due for its official release later this year with iOS 11, so these demos are giving us a notion of what sort of uses we may end up seeing for augmented reality in the real world.

For instance:
- Measuring real world objects without a tape measure
- Drawing without a pen
- Perusing menu options at a restaurant
- Becoming part of a music video
- Bringing fictional worlds to life

And these are just some of the early demos. There are demos for doing 3D sculpting, putting characters from existing video games in the real world, watching dance performances in your living room, and playing versions of everything from Pacman to Minecraft to a zombie game in the space around you. I originally thought this was all merely a gimmick, but now I'm starting to think that this technology will render a lot of single-use items we have in the real world obsolete, in much the same way that smartphones turned GPS devices, cell phones, and MP3 players into simple apps on our pocket computers.

Yup, AR stands for augmented reality, and it's shaping up to be interesting. In the few months since ARKit was announced by Apple, developers have been putting out some really fascinating demos, some practical, some simply experimental. ARKit is due for its official release later this year with iOS 11, so these demos are giving us a notion of what sort of uses we may end up seeing for augmented reality in the real world.

For instance:
- Measuring real world objects without a tape measure
- Drawing without a pen
- Perusing menu options at a restaurant
- Becoming part of a music video
- Bringing fictional worlds to life

And these are just some of the early demos. There are demos for doing 3D sculpting, putting characters from existing video games in the real world, watching dance performances in your living room, and playing versions of everything from Pacman to Minecraft to a zombie game in the space around you. I originally thought this was all merely a gimmick, but now I'm starting to think that this technology will render a lot of single-use items we have in the real world obsolete, in much the same way that smartphones turned GPS devices, cell phones, and MP3 players into simple apps on our pocket computers.

What is your favorite song?

Definitely this

We might as well add some useful discussion to this otherwise useless thread.

So I'll ask this question to all Slashdotters: What is your favorite song?

I'll also start with mine. It is Matt Mulholland's rendition of the classic "O Holy Night".

"Except that his objections and analysis are incredibly sane and valid."

Except they are not.

Or, to be fair, they are valid and reasonable sane in the domain he's an expert in, which is biochemistry. There, his vids are worthwhile watching. The further he deviates from his on field, the more his analysis because insane and invalid. This is most obvious in his 'analysis' (hardly the name worthy anymore) of political-economic topics like the Brexit, and of engineering domains he really doesn't know much about, such as the Hyperloop and SpaceX. For some reason, he has a pretty obvious bias in some regards (or to some persons, like Elon Musk). His arguments are incredibly weak in those instances, and amount to nothing more then a biased opinion without substantiation by hard data and logical arguments - rather resorting to some gleeful smug badmouthing.

This, in stark contrast to his more rational behaviour and analysis about things of his own field of endeavour.

As for this specific case; if you want a good rebuttal against thunderfoots 'arguments' in a logical and rational way, see: https://www.youtube.com/playli...

Though they too have the tendency to be a bot overzealous in their rebuttal, at least their (counter)arguments on themselves make actually sense.

An agressive fighter like Tyson would have destroyed any UFC fighter in his weight class within seconds.

Only in boxing and only in a boxing ring. If you put a fighter like Tyson up against a machine like Bas Rutten or Hickson Gracie anywhere else it would end up the same, with the boxer, on his back on the ground, unable to use his hands getting a face massage with an elbow or with a paniced look on his face as he gets choked out, not knowing what to do or how to do it. Sure, the take down maybe difficult to get however a semi-accomplished Muay Thai Boxer would patiently chop a boxer down, and never need to take the boxer to the ground, just with leg kicks.

Bullshit. A conservative figher like Mayweather was bound to make McGregor and the UFC look credible, which was the goal.

Hahahahahaha. You have to be shitposting, MacGregor landed more scoring hits on Mayweather than the last few boxers he fought.

What you don't seem to understand is UFC is a testing ground for which fighting systems are credible and effective. Boxing was discredited as an effective fighting system with a bunch of other bullshit martial arts back in the 1990s, boxers have stepped into the UFC and they have been annihilated when that is the only skill the have.

Whatever problems the UFC has you can pick any of your current professional boxers, at the top of their game and put them in the UFC and you will find it is the end of their career from the humiliating beat down they would receive from ONE UFC bout, before they go back to boxing. Kicks in the leg, take downs and none of the boxing fast hands make a difference. Whilst I tip my hat to the professionalism to boxing as a sport, that's what it is. The UFC showed us, long ago, that boxing isn't a credible fighting system.

Even the weight classes are heavier in UFC, where a light heavyweight in UFC is a heavyweight in boxing and on the street boxing is useless against even a semi-credible martial artist who could snap your knee and keep any boxer at distance just by using kicks and denying the boxer any use of their primary weapons.

Every time MacGregor got Mayweathers back, that was where the fight ended anywhere else that wasn't a boxing ring. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about or are shitposting because the scenario you spell out can only happen in boxing. Here is what happens when boxer meets a purple belt in Jui Jitsu, even when you give the boxer a few more weapons Or you can listen to what boxers have to say about stepping into UFC.

An agressive fighter like Tyson would have destroyed any UFC fighter in his weight class within seconds.

Only in boxing and only in a boxing ring. If you put a fighter like Tyson up against a machine like Bas Rutten or Hickson Gracie anywhere else it would end up the same, with the boxer, on his back on the ground, unable to use his hands getting a face massage with an elbow or with a paniced look on his face as he gets choked out, not knowing what to do or how to do it. Sure, the take down maybe difficult to get however a semi-accomplished Muay Thai Boxer would patiently chop a boxer down, and never need to take the boxer to the ground, just with leg kicks.

Bullshit. A conservative figher like Mayweather was bound to make McGregor and the UFC look credible, which was the goal.

Hahahahahaha. You have to be shitposting, MacGregor landed more scoring hits on Mayweather than the last few boxers he fought.

What you don't seem to understand is UFC is a testing ground for which fighting systems are credible and effective. Boxing was discredited as an effective fighting system with a bunch of other bullshit martial arts back in the 1990s, boxers have stepped into the UFC and they have been annihilated when that is the only skill the have.

Whatever problems the UFC has you can pick any of your current professional boxers, at the top of their game and put them in the UFC and you will find it is the end of their career from the humiliating beat down they would receive from ONE UFC bout, before they go back to boxing. Kicks in the leg, take downs and none of the boxing fast hands make a difference. Whilst I tip my hat to the professionalism to boxing as a sport, that's what it is. The UFC showed us, long ago, that boxing isn't a credible fighting system.

Even the weight classes are heavier in UFC, where a light heavyweight in UFC is a heavyweight in boxing and on the street boxing is useless against even a semi-credible martial artist who could snap your knee and keep any boxer at distance just by using kicks and denying the boxer any use of their primary weapons.

Every time MacGregor got Mayweathers back, that was where the fight ended anywhere else that wasn't a boxing ring. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about or are shitposting because the scenario you spell out can only happen in boxing. Here is what happens when boxer meets a purple belt in Jui Jitsu, even when you give the boxer a few more weapons Or you can listen to what boxers have to say about stepping into UFC.

Something along these lines perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Pussy Grabber in Chief tweets Fox and Friends bullshit opinion pieces as fact.

Or watch this much shorter video on why the anti-Strarfordian argument is bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They're also working on home fish delivery.

You DO realize that we can perceive 4 dimensions, right? Width, Height, Depth, and Time.

It is pretty trivial to do when you group the related ones. At work I visualize 20+ dimensions.

i.e. 14 Dimensions:

* X, Y
* Width, Height
* r,g,b,a
* Rot X, Y, Z
* Scale X, Y, Z

There are numerous videos on how to visualize higher dimensions

* Jos Leys - Ãtienne Ghys - Aurélien Alvarez (Dimensions - A walk through mathematics)
* Rob Bryanton (Imagining 10 Dimensions - the Movie)

You DO realize that we can perceive 4 dimensions, right? Width, Height, Depth, and Time.

It is pretty trivial to do when you group the related ones. At work I visualize 20+ dimensions.

i.e. 14 Dimensions:

* X, Y
* Width, Height
* r,g,b,a
* Rot X, Y, Z
* Scale X, Y, Z

There are numerous videos on how to visualize higher dimensions

* Jos Leys - Ãtienne Ghys - Aurélien Alvarez (Dimensions - A walk through mathematics)
* Rob Bryanton (Imagining 10 Dimensions - the Movie)

The problem is that automated testing is no substitute for a QA team.
The QA team is supposed to provide the automatic testing.

Why don't you check out "shops" that actually do "continuous delivery" instead of boring us with your nonsense rants?

This is a long video, you will find shorter ones coming to the point of continuous delivery more quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Zalando is the only company I know that has realized it and is marketing, positioning itself, as an IT company, not as "a shop".

If a product manger/PO has an idea, it can be less than a day that the software is deployed in the cloud and "make money".

They actually are not doing Scrum anymore as traditional Scrum is not agile enough.

There is something disappointing that punching someone earns 2 people $175 million dollars. Shame we dont have as much enthusiasm for Nobel laureates as we do for sports and the oscars.

It would probably end up like novel writing.

People keep calling him a "wunderkind". He doesn't even know what that means.

OK, I'll buy locally produced bananas in Montana, good advice, Sir.

What, you never heard of Banana Montana?

will inevitably go the way of the radio drama

Radio dramas were really good. If you can catch one on a podcast or an NPR station, you'd be surprised how easy it is to get caught up in one. Sure, cable boxes and radio dramas are things of the past, but I wouldn't say they deserve to go to the same place.