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Sorry dude, you've been singing this song for 20 years, and what have you gotten?

Twenty years older, and deeper in debt.

Maybe it's time to realize that the year of Linux on the Desktop is NEVER coming.

Let's just switch to some other paradigm.

Lynchings are different then Riots, but I also linked to RIOTS that not only did property damage, they completely destroyed black towns.

Yes, you did. Your reasoning was something like "(1) white people attacked blacks, (2) white people attacking blacks must be conservatives, (3) therefore conservatives riot". Your error was in premise number (2). So, no support for your claim that the Tulsa riots were riots by "conservatives". Based on history and circumstance, it seems more plausible that they were whites angry at the economic success of some blacks, which would make them progressive rather than conservative, but we simply don't know for certain. Your example didn't support your point, but it reveals your ignorance about the history of racism in the US.

And what we were discussing your the claim that slavery in the 19th century caused blacks in the 21st century to be disadvantaged, which your example had nothing to do with.

I'm not commenting on this further. Your stating clear falsehoods and someday someone will find your comments and assume they have some basis in reality. You don't deserve any further opportunity to post your lies.

Look, I understand where you are coming from: I used to be a progressive and moderate leftist as well: it was the obvious choice as a gay, atheist immigrant, but that changed when I actually started reading history and political science (I'm an independent now).

There is tons of stuff you ought to read, but a good start might be Sowell, who grew up poor in the South and was started out as an ardent leftist:

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

https://www.amazon.com/Intelle...

The word "and" is a conjunction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Aye, not the best choice .... especially when their idea of 'ground breaking' appeared to be to to try and break the ground by flying into it at low speed during a test flight ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A billionair, Silicon Valley, and an airship. But who will act as Grace Jones ?!?

Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy,
Boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl,
Girl Dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

Well, we can fly expensive pieces of sensitive equipment to Mars and deposit them in an orbit (usually) on the surface (sometimes) in working order.

I knew you were a moron when I saw you talking about flying to Mars. Flying is done in an atmosphere.

Yet we can's stick a probe into something that's just a few thousand kilometers away.

Fuck, you don't even have the level of education you can get from watching Futurama , do you?

In a time when you can identify as the gender you want, the race you want, or even the sort of military hardware you want... it seems awful regressive to punish him for identifying as an engineer.

You are full of s***. Your argument boils down to "I am right. But I can't bother to explain why. Anyone who wants to know that I am right can investigate for himself" (add some smugness).

This is an unfalsifiable statement. If somebody says something different (such as GP's comment), you only say: "Oh, he's so wrong. Of course I can't bother explaining why. Google it".

Maybe GP's comment is completely wrong. But you can't win the argument by default. GP's comment gave some assertions and you can dispute that with arguments, logic and links. You are not God to say "They are wrong because I say so."

It's no wonder that you love traditional news sources. They are the same as you. "Trust us", "Everybody else is fake news". The same smugness as Rachel Maddow saying Trump could not win in any way https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

These traditional sources were the same media that told us that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We only had to trust them. The same way we have to trust you because. ... because... because.... Ok, just because.

4 minutes is still more than double this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., I think a specialized team can do this in 60 seconds.

Reminds of one of George Carlin's bits: "The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

Here's a team of amateurs doing it in 4 minutes with only relatively minor modifications to the engine. Design it from the ground up for engine swap and have a robot do it, and I have little doubt at all you could do 2 minutes.

Have leftists ever thought about why so many average people are turning away from so-called "mainstream" news sources, and instead choosing to get their news from alternate sources?

It's actually quite simple: average people see what's being reported in the "mainstream" press, and they just can't reconcile what they're being told with what they're actually seeing while on the job or going about their daily lives.

Meanwhile, the reports from these alternate sources actually end up being far more reliable. What's reported actually matches what average people are actually witnessing for themselves.

Average Americans are well aware of how their jobs, and/or their relatives' and friends' jobs, are being shipped off to third-world countries who can offer better prices only because these third-world locales totally lack the safety and quality standards that are found in the US.

Average Americans are well aware of how illegal aliens are taking many jobs. It frustrates these average Americans when the go to get fast food, or they go to fill up their gas tank, or they try to get a small home repair done, and they're served by somebody who can barely speak English and who can barely do the job at hand.

Average Americans are well aware of how so much of the violent crime in places like Chicago, St. Louis, L.A., Philadelphia, Atlanta and Houston is black-on-black violence, yet the police and non-blacks end up getting blamed for it by "protesters" and the mainstream media.

Average Americans know that something is wrong when they take a vacation to San Francisco, and they spend their days dodging the homeless who are urinating and defecating on the sidewalks.

Average Europeans know that something is very wrong when all sorts of third-worlders, many of them illegal aliens, are allowed to flood into Europe uninhibited, and this is supported by the EU. It becomes even more evident when there are numerous violent attacks committed by these foreigners or their Europe-born offspring.

Average Europeans know something is wrong when there are grenade attacks in Sweden and sexual assaults in many German cities during New Year's Eve celebrations, and it isn't people of European descent who are responsible for these incidents.

Average Europeans watch videos like this one, showing the real illegal immigrant situation near Calais.

Average Australians know something is wrong when they're priced out of even the smallest homes in the major Australian cities because foreigners have bought up much of the property, often not even bothering to use it in any way, other than as a way to try to store what's likely ill-gotten wealth.

The "mainstream" narrative has diverged so far from what average people around the world are witnessing that they can't help but look for other sources of information that better match what they're actually seeing and experiencing. They're looking for real news, not politically-correct news that pushes a leftist narrative.

Blaming your actions and choices n prior choices made by someone else is just plain immature and reeks of the "Well *he* started it..." line that virtually every parent has heard from their kids...

Also from the President of the United States.

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

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

That has all the answers you need

plastic-eating microbes could get loose and destroy everything made of plastic...But, that's just science fiction.

For 30 odd million years after trees evolved, nothing could eat dead wood. Dead trees piled up and their accumulated weight created the coal deposits that Trump knows and loves so well today.

Then after a few handy mutations, a microbe learned to eat wood. These microbes then learned to cohabitate in the gut of insects we now call termites in order to get around better. Together they eat houses.

Could happen with plastic.

And guitars.

Right, because Intel hasn't yet released any mobile chips that support 32GB in 2 DIMMs. Well, other than the i7 in my wife's gaming laptop, which was already an older model when I bought it for her more than a year ago.

Right, it's Intel's fault Apple doesn't sell laptops with the maximum amount of RAM possible. You know, just like the 2011 MacBook Pro I have sitting next to me could only possibly use 8GB of RAM (again, due to Intel's limitations, supposedly) but it's been running just fine with 16GB (and able to use all of it as well) of aftermarket RAM for 6 years.

No QUAD CORE, KABY LAKE's (or later) that supported more than 32 GB, sorry. That's what Apple was counting on.

And the much lower power consumption of the Kaby's was ESSENTIAL to Apple meeting the THERMAL BUDGET for the design.

And THAT was ESSENTIAL for the 2016 MBP's being able, unlike its 2015 predecessor, to run full-tilt, with NO THERMAL THROTTLING of the CPU nor GPU, making the new MBP MUCH faster in SUSTAINED high-demand Applications than its predecessor, EVEN THOUGH THE CPU IS ABOUT 8% SLOWER.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

And IIRC, your 2011 MBP only supported 16 GB after APPLE released a FIRMWARE REVISION. So perhaps it just took them a little bit to develop and debug the firmware patch, "Qualify" their memory controller with a good sampling of different memory modules, and get all the sign offs necessary to push out something as potentially catastrophic as a "BIOS" update. Perhaps they didn't feel they could get all that done by the initial engineering cutoff (freeze) date. So they shipped with an 8 GB limit at first.

So, sounds like "Engineering in the Real World" to me.

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

I like this flying car - shame it's only the shell of a car filled with Helium:

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

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

It's already happened. Here's another one.

It's already happened. Here's another one.

Sure public transportation is fine. You said Uber and Lyft.

Dude, I'm not the Emperor of the World. I'm making my predictions of the future. Whether you like it or not, whether I like it or not, I predict that Uber and Lyft and such services are going to become more common in the future (especially if there are self-driving cars). It's too bad you don't approve, I guess, but there it is.

(In principle a city or county could operate a service similar to Uber or Lyft. Perhaps that would make you happier?)

They have at least thought of these things?? Wow, drink the kool-aid some more.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you believe that Tesla is spending thousands of dollars per car to provide the hardware for self-driving, without having thought of common problems like driving in snow in the winter. They've been testing this stuff for years, but presumably you believe their testing was flawed and/or inadequate. I'd be interested to find out from you what Tesla did wrong, and why they are wrong to think that their hardware is adequate.

Would you say the Tesla hardware is completely useless, or would you say that there are some circumstances under which the Tesla hardware can do a useful job of driving the car? Also, in your opinion, are the various videos of self-driving Teslas all faked? And the videos where a Tesla equipped with "Autopilot" takes action on its own to avoid an accident, are those faked?

Sure public transportation is fine. You said Uber and Lyft.

Dude, I'm not the Emperor of the World. I'm making my predictions of the future. Whether you like it or not, whether I like it or not, I predict that Uber and Lyft and such services are going to become more common in the future (especially if there are self-driving cars). It's too bad you don't approve, I guess, but there it is.

(In principle a city or county could operate a service similar to Uber or Lyft. Perhaps that would make you happier?)

They have at least thought of these things?? Wow, drink the kool-aid some more.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you believe that Tesla is spending thousands of dollars per car to provide the hardware for self-driving, without having thought of common problems like driving in snow in the winter. They've been testing this stuff for years, but presumably you believe their testing was flawed and/or inadequate. I'd be interested to find out from you what Tesla did wrong, and why they are wrong to think that their hardware is adequate.

Would you say the Tesla hardware is completely useless, or would you say that there are some circumstances under which the Tesla hardware can do a useful job of driving the car? Also, in your opinion, are the various videos of self-driving Teslas all faked? And the videos where a Tesla equipped with "Autopilot" takes action on its own to avoid an accident, are those faked?

WHO? Ronnie Pickering!

of a similar thing. Less rich people who can afford lake houses and sit around sipping microbrews, more garage hacking, moments of sheer terror, exhilaration and proximity to death and/or loss of a limb. Better soundtrack than yoga studio lite.

http://www.colinfurze.com/hove...

For the impatient: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Who's in first https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm really glad the summary took the time to specify that AI was short for Artificial Intelligence, I had no idea!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [Youtube, Red vs Blue]

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That's of course true if your design goal is to run it and on a central server.

I must confess at the moment the "central server" structure that a cheap Synology at home offers is enough for me (I can mount the drives in Windows and Linux locally or over the Internet via ssh, and also access them via a web interface) . But some years back I listened to a very interesting "Gitify your Life" speech of someone who manages everything from shell configs, to office documents to holiday photos in a central-server-less structure in GIT repositories on different machines. Which has the added benefit that you don't have a central server that can lose your data.

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

Having recently upgraded to VDSL broadband, I was browsing Youtube a few days ago and typed in "Heaven is a place on Earth". The music video by Belinda Carlisle is rather creepy with masked women in dark uniforms holding illuminated world globes and moving in unison. In the comments section were many comments about the "San Junipero" episode of the "Black Mirror" series. Intrigued, I watched some clips on Youtube about it yesterday. The episode ends with the song playing in the background as the lesbian lovers are reunited again and presumably live happily ever after for all eternity in a virtual reality.

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

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

Having recently upgraded to VDSL broadband, I was browsing Youtube a few days ago and typed in "Heaven is a place on Earth". The music video by Belinda Carlisle is rather creepy with masked women in dark uniforms holding illuminated world globes and moving in unison. In the comments section were many comments about the "San Junipero" episode of the "Black Mirror" series. Intrigued, I watched some clips on Youtube about it yesterday. The episode ends with the song playing in the background as the lesbian lovers are reunited again and presumably live happily ever after for all eternity in a virtual reality.

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

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

Dead skin. He has done it before

you are welcome

And likely spoonfuls of prozac in the mornings and most definitely the anti-depressant of a 4k calorie diet.

I don't take anti-depressants. Never had, never will. My current diet is 1,500 calories per day.

Where you for example sit at work "waiting for a script" so you're on slashdot. Do you actually believe that? How's that script of yours doing?

I just finished re-writing the parser section of my Python script. It's currently grabbing, parsing and saving my 8,000+ comment history into a CSV file. This usually takes 30 minutes.

I believe you are a fat loser with no brains, so this is where you socialize.

I was at the Silicon Valley Comic Con 2017 this weekend, where I posted some comments on Slashdot in between events. Check out my William Shatner video from the sixth row at the City National Civic.

SVCC 2017 - William Shatner - The Bicycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppJiwDSz0j8

So if regular programmers who form the bulk of the workforce can't grok them, the languages need to be fixed, not people.

I know what you're saying, but there's a real danger here that the industry will find itself caught in a local extremum. An engineer of 1880 could easily have said that if regular engineers who form the bulk of the workforce can't understand this "electricity", then it needs to be fixed to conform to the world of steam.

The worst thing we can do as an industry is think we know what we're doing. And in a sense, we're already there.

On the internet, short of blocking them on social media, you are confronted with them constantly.

Actually, I think it's the ability to block (or just de-friend) that creates the biggest part of the problem. It creates echo chamber effects, which help ideas morph into their most virulent and effective forms, especially ideas that demonize the holders of opposing ideas -- which, from a memetic evolutionary perspective are really cooperating ideas, not competing at all.

A good, though somewhat annoyingly dumbed down, explanation of this process and effect is this youtube video. If you haven't watched it, you really should -- and then think about the ideas that you hold and consider the possibility that they have evolved specifically to push your hot buttons in the most effective way possible, and how you can counter that.

"People often cite spraying sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere which creates these sulphate aerosols that reflect sunlight back to space as if that is a complete countermeasure to global warming. But you have to remember that the problem of greenhouse gas emissions is a problem to do with trapping the infrared energy from the surface and that is not physically the same as reflecting more visible sunlight back to space. Where this mismatch will potentially create issues is in trying to understand, not so much the direct global temperatures but what happens to the water cycle. What will happen to the monsoons. What will happen to the moisture that feeds the rain forests. It's quite conceivable, for example, that you meight end up choking the supply of moisture to the rain forest which would then stop absorbing carbon dioxide. You would inadvertently have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - completely in the opposite direction. So the potential for unforeseen consequences is enormous."

It sounds like something we should only consider if we have complete confidence in the climate models, and the models show that there would be no net negative consequences.

"Climate" is the integrated effect of "weather." If the former is chaotic, the latter has bigger error bars than you think it does.

You have the relationship between climate and weather exactly backwards. Climate encapsulates the statistics of the system. Tim Palmer explains in this Perimiter Institute lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"More than 30 years" .
More than 60 years, as it was mentioned towards the end of Bell Telephone's Science Hour "The Unchained Goddess" episode on weather in 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When you're looking at climate, your looking at how the characteristics of the system change. Though the weather is chaotic and sensitive to initial conditions, the boundaries are not. Dr Gavin Schmidt (NASA) explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This illustrates. Change Sigma and the system changes predictably. We can't predict the weather in New York 100 years hence, but we can know how the probabilities will change in a globally warmed world.

Instead of having trillions of ice crystals, all we have to do is use one big one.

I will eat a leather shoe if you can convince me that climate models

Climate models are not necessary. Basic back of the envelope physics shows the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

this video.

The March for Science seems focused on earth's bleak environmental future. Fortunately, science has some sure fire answers:

1. Nuclear energy

2. Geo-engineering

3. Carbon dioxide extraction

4. Albedo modification

5. Solar radiation management

You get the idea.

However, you probably won't hear much during the March about the world's population as the root cause of climate change. Nobody wants to face the obvious fact that we are having too many babies. If you suggest that population growth is the fundamental problem behind climate change, the science loving marchers will reply with their timeless response.

Despite a flood of scientific data illustrating human overpopulation, people refuse to accept it. Where is the March for Birth Control? Boys and girls, if you want to stop climate change, get your tubes clipped/tied.

So, can a March for Science change anything? Oh sure! Because it is backed by the democratic process, and Americans can always send a message at the ballot box. (ROTFL)

Politics is a pay-to-play game, and Citizens United has etched that rule in granite around the Capital Rotunda. Which means the environmental crisis will not be addressed until Big Money finds it more profitable than the status quo.

In the meantime, there is really nothing to worry about. Even the long term crisis caused by population growth will soon be a thing of the past.

Science teaches us that if we don't solve our problems, mother nature will
do it for us.

Are you sure you're not missing a letter?

Everyone gets used to doing things a certain way, and gets irritated when things are improved.

An example among data-entry types is being able to use keyboard shortcuts vs having to use a mouse, It slows them down to have to use a mouse.

Another is the Microsoft Ribbon, where people had the old menu system totally memorized, and suddenly couldn't find anything because it had been "improved" and "re-arranged for you convenience". Instead of making it an option that you could toggle, it was a mandatory upgrade.

This is totally irritating, especially when the new version has improvements that are geared to the enterprise, or software profit margins. I have talked to too many people who would routinely tell me this. This is a minor point of contention.

I still have an old computer that works just fine thank you, and run an old word-processor without a lot of this extra fluff. Heck, George R. Martin uses an old dos word processor because it is more convenient for him.

In this context, I am reminded of the old video about choices in spaghetti sauce. turns out, that in the world of spaghetti sauce, there is no one perfect spaghetti sauce, despite decades of advertising to the contrary. The truth is that there are many perfect spaghetti sauces (chunky, vegetable, extra spicy, etc) and you get more sales by catering to the individual tastes of people. Which is why we now have multiple varieties of sauces, etc on the shelves these days.

You can watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Large companies like MIcrosoft are still in pursuit of "the perfect software" or "the perfect user interface" when they should give users options and choices when it comes to user interfaces and performance behavior. There is no one best interface, etc. just like there is not one best spaghetti sauce. While there should be an update for security reasons, etc. what does that have to do with the sort of an interface a person likes?

Similarly, there can be genuine product improvements when you do things a certain way, but also it is merely the pursuit of the cool and novel vs actual improvement. I upgrade systems because I need a certain functionality, and sometimes it is a royal pain when I cannot

I am a constant crank about software as a service. Especially if I can do what I need and keep a system running well for many many years, so that it is cheaper than paying a yearly fee.

aren't you supposed to spout this kind of: "Man will never fly!" garbage _before_ it's been clearly demonstrated. The video shows it taking off and in forward flight

To call that demonstration "forward flight" you need to be charitable or gullible. Look again. The front motors are pointed straight down. That does not qualify this thing as an airplane at all, it qualifies it as some kind of helicopter. Helicopters also can fly forward, but they are not airplanes, and they suck for fuel efficiency. Like this thing, which claims to be fuel efficient because of its wings, but don't be stupid. Look at it, it doesn't even have wings on the front and the back wing is little more than a spoiler.

You can see what is going on more clearly in this video of their 1/5th scale model (i.e., 1/125 weight) where the motors are always angled down at least 40 degrees, otherwise it will fall out of the sky. If it had proper wings the motors would point straight back. All that downward vectoring comes straight out of the battery life, which is the main selling point of this concept. Well, if you are a snake oil collector then feel free to buy this concept.

Some wise person said "an open mind is a fine thing, but let it not be gaping".