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Re:Serial Experiments Lain did it first!
Re: Serial Experiments Lain did it first!
The unshaven guy looking for the Knights of the Eastern Calculus IIRC. Unfortunately for him, he got more than he signed up for.
I came here to post exactly this. Mod parent up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1oAczD98pk&feature=youtu.be&t=4m23s
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Re:They want the home users off Win7, period.
Did not realize that in 2020 times are _that_ tough!
( I bet nobody is going to get that reference( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ))
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Causation!
even the rats that developed tumors lived longer than rats not exposed to the radiation
Yow! Cell phone radiation extends ratty lifespan
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Don't feed the glowing trolls
and even the rats that developed tumors lived longer than rats not exposed to the radiation
Oh great, more fuel for Ann Coulter's nutty claim that radiation is good for you.
As best I can tell, her argument has been similar to, "smashing yourself in the head with a hammer is good for you because the first smash makes a puffy bruise that pads the second smash".
One commentator wrote, "Please Ann, walk into the Fukushima plant and test your wonderful theory!"
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Re:Big fuckin deal
Technological progress has stalled. We no longer make the huge breakthroughs we used to make. All we can do now is iterate on what we've had for decades. We can make it smaller, thinner, faster, and more energy-efficient, but that's pretty much all we can do.
All we've developed since the 1970's is Niggertech. We've got a million new gadgets dedicated to keeping us mindlessly entertained, but don't go looking for your Enterprise anytime soon, Captain Kirk.
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Re:ok
Why would you use a Facebook clone with virtually no users instead of actually using Facebook?
Maybe Dear Leader is just a little lonely. Maybe he joined Facebook and nobody wanted to friend him.
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Re:Never misplaced a 747 around the house. Floatin
From what I've seen of airplanes hitting the water at full tilt, getting things to leave them isn't really all that difficult. But, why not take it a step further and design a mechanism to jettison a copy of the black box data and a locator beacon before impact? Say at about 500 ft above ground/water level while on a downward slope at any location not in the vicinity of an airport, per onboard GPS, or immediately upon 'X' G's outside of a survivable impact (rough landing).
They make them. They're called deployable black boxes and they basically eject from the aircraft and float on top of the water. With GPS locator beacon. Typically they're used for military aircraft, but they are used for civilian aviation as well.
Airbus is on board with equipping them, Boeing less so. Boeing's concern centers around accidental deployment - they estimate that there will be 6 or 7 deployments per year.
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Depends on if Sullenberger is flying
> From what I've seen of airplanes hitting the water at full tilt, getting things to leave them isn't really all that difficult.
Sometimes. Other times it's gentler than the average landing at O'Hare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...> Say at about 500 ft above ground/water level while on a downward slope at any location not in the vicinity of an airport
Typically, at 500 feet, an landing airliner will be about a mile and half from one end of the runway, about three miles from the center of the airport. So we might say you're not "near an airport" if you're least six miles from the center of an airport; sound about right? At the moment, there are two commercial airports within six miles of me, and at least two private airfields. At the last place I lived, in another town, there were also two airports within six miles. That's about typical - probably most places in the US have a commercial airport or two within six miles, and a couple of private airfields.
Not that it can't be done, it's just non-trivial.
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Re:I believe this merits a song
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Re:Overuse of the word "misogyny"
This seems oddly appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Sure, some MRAs might be dicks... but there are legitimate concerns that should not be swept under the rug because muh soggy knees.
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Re:We've become Idiocracy
Industrial Age
Information Age
Advertising Age
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Re:US law needs to change
Yes and under Hillary we just won't worry about words mean so any existing law can be used however she wants and rules won't apply to herself and people she likes. That sounds so much better sign me up.
Honestly I don't understand how ANYONE can make the case the Hillary is different than Trump other than what "team" she purports to be playing for.
Hillary contradicting herself for 13min on just about every current issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...Look the only questions in this election are do you like the list Trump put forward for the SCOTUS candidates and do you want people like Paul Ryan to get legislation passed. If the answer is yes then vote for Trump because he isn't any worse than Hillary. The polls indicate he can actually win. If you abstain or vote for a third party you are effectively voting for Hillary that is the reality of the system.
If you like what his happen in Washington right now vote HRC, but don't think for a second that makes you a more responsible person or anything of the sort. She isn't by any measure more qualified to be president than he is. She was unaccomplished as a Senator, and her tenure as sec State was nothing other than a string of failures and scandals. Having had an important job before that you performed terribly at isn't a qualification for promotion.
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Re:The lawsuit was a PR stunt gone well for Oracle
You obviously haven't heard from anybody who's worked for Oracle. Yes, he really is that greedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"The lawnmower has no empathy. The lawnmower can't have empathy."
And then there's the part where basically the entire team of Sun technical people quit en masse after the acquisition.
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Re:Pay up !
Like I said something to do with lizards, or possibly titanium taxes.
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Re:darwinian pressure
You can say that again.
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Re: How about
Maybe joking maybe not. But this is why most people will never be real programmers. Real programmmers enjoy that shit.
I was just in a meeting where client said "no one likes to do hard problem " - and I said, " sorry, you have the wrong people"
Real programmers don't like hard problems which are hard because the solution is hard. Real programmers like hard problems which are hard because the problem is hard.
All that object-oriented boilerplate does not write itself, as much as we try with our wizards and our generators and our domain engineering. For the most part, it just gets in the way.
STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman (Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting - saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.
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Re:This very study is problematic...
Conservative women can be just as toxic as the cave-men
Somehow, I don't imagine this woman is a conservative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From what we know of TrigglyPuff, she's not either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and yes they're still caught up in their male dominated society that can fairly be called a patriarchy.
In some places in the middle-east for example? Sure... yet that's not where we usually hear screams of patriarchy from/about.
Some are even so damaged as to be Trump supporters.
What then of the women supporting Sanders 'for the boys'?
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Re:This very study is problematic...
Conservative women can be just as toxic as the cave-men
Somehow, I don't imagine this woman is a conservative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From what we know of TrigglyPuff, she's not either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and yes they're still caught up in their male dominated society that can fairly be called a patriarchy.
In some places in the middle-east for example? Sure... yet that's not where we usually hear screams of patriarchy from/about.
Some are even so damaged as to be Trump supporters.
What then of the women supporting Sanders 'for the boys'?
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Now Approaching the Shoe Event Horizon!
As was foretold in scripture.
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Don't use cheap batteries.
This is why you DO NOT BUY CHEAP BATTERIES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is what happens if you get a shitty 18650 without any kind of protection circuitry and/or an ecig without a vented battery compartment.
How to tell if the battery is likely to explode:
http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/...
http://lygte-info.dk/info/isMy...
tl;dr stop buying cheap shit and expecting it to withstand a 35+ amp draw.
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Re:Potetntial HackI love the fact that the last four digits of the above (3741) post happen to match an IBM system from 1974 that used the same diskettes described in TFA. The floppy was formatted to the standard described in the 3740 format. This format was later used on the first CP/M computer systems. My first real computer (a Ferguson Big Board II) used Shugart 850 8" floppy drives that used this same disk format. My second computer (an IMSAI 8080) used 851 drives that supported double sided floppy diskettes.
The standard 3740 diskette held 241kiB of data and was very slow. We've come a long way since then.
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As seen on Last Week Tonight
I don't want to worry you but take a look at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Nuclear Weapons (HBO) on https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Is McDonalds going to subsidize this?
Fries will get automated first, because they are super easy, you don't need any intelligence to speak of. Then it will be drinks, you want some fairly clever systems in place to make sure that works right so you don't make a mess, and it's a much more fiddly job than making fries.
Drinks in McDonalds are already automated. For in-restaurant the patron is given a cup and they fill it themselves. For the drive-thru, they use the Automated Beverage System, I think all the human does is put the lid on the drink.
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Re:ban drones
How about fricken drones with friken lasers attached to their foreheads?
I prefer a chainsaw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Python/PHP: learn it in a weekend...
PLEASE anything but PASCAL. Basic, Swift, even Python or PHP is okay. The point is to teach how to solve the problem and the language is just another tool.
Critical thinking skills really are the key. I usually tell my students to write the problem out in plain English or pseudo-code as comments, then write the code that would implement that problem in between the comments. Of course, few of them do that. Programming courses are just something for them to get through.
I think for the next course I teach this fall (Web Programming w/Database Integration), I am going to have them watch The Secret Rules of Modern Living Algorithms on the first day after we go over the usual housekeeping stuff. I'm hoping it will inspire them, it is quite good.
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Old News
Eight-inch floppies were pictured in use about two years ago... skip to 2m 50s
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Re: Corruption + security theatre == profit
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Re:Where are the robots from?
I'm not saying that it will help the fry-baggers, just that for the economy overall the losses aren't necessarily huge. The fry-baggers will probably have to do something else. Hopefully, without having to move.
Where re the lowest people on the ladder going to move? To other towns where there are no jobs they can do, having been replaced by robots?
I've been around a few years, and met and worked with a lot of people. There are people who are simply not cut out for other than menial work. That isn't being smug, it's just reality. We can go all rhapsodic about retraining people to (fill in the blank) but unless something is found for these folk to make a living, we are creating a permanent underclass of vritually useless people Perhaps large parts of America will look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then again, it has already started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
THere ar emany more, just go to youtub and seach tent city or shantytown. They will grow.
But you can't get good discussion. most of the time you get people who think that jobs can be eliminated permanently with no repercussion,. We have done some amazing things with automation, but coupled with wanting to make people poor and dehumanization of the poor, we aren't having discussions on how ot manage this.
WIll it be eugenics? Rapid depopulation in the shantytowns, perhaps some manner of gaseous event? If we get a hugne number of Americans permanently unemployed, a revolt is likely Desperate people do crazy shit.
How will the corporations survive as they have less and less customers? As the automation works it's way up the pay scale - and it will - there will be more unemployed for the shantytowns. And less customers for the corporations. Or will if be a new day, when People can do more or less as they will, work as they wish, or even be idle if they wish.
It's easy to throw out names, easy to not see past one's nose. This might be great, or it might turn America into a third world country.
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Re:Where are the robots from?
I'm not saying that it will help the fry-baggers, just that for the economy overall the losses aren't necessarily huge. The fry-baggers will probably have to do something else. Hopefully, without having to move.
Where re the lowest people on the ladder going to move? To other towns where there are no jobs they can do, having been replaced by robots?
I've been around a few years, and met and worked with a lot of people. There are people who are simply not cut out for other than menial work. That isn't being smug, it's just reality. We can go all rhapsodic about retraining people to (fill in the blank) but unless something is found for these folk to make a living, we are creating a permanent underclass of vritually useless people Perhaps large parts of America will look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then again, it has already started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
THere ar emany more, just go to youtub and seach tent city or shantytown. They will grow.
But you can't get good discussion. most of the time you get people who think that jobs can be eliminated permanently with no repercussion,. We have done some amazing things with automation, but coupled with wanting to make people poor and dehumanization of the poor, we aren't having discussions on how ot manage this.
WIll it be eugenics? Rapid depopulation in the shantytowns, perhaps some manner of gaseous event? If we get a hugne number of Americans permanently unemployed, a revolt is likely Desperate people do crazy shit.
How will the corporations survive as they have less and less customers? As the automation works it's way up the pay scale - and it will - there will be more unemployed for the shantytowns. And less customers for the corporations. Or will if be a new day, when People can do more or less as they will, work as they wish, or even be idle if they wish.
It's easy to throw out names, easy to not see past one's nose. This might be great, or it might turn America into a third world country.
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Re:McDonalds won't be 1st, but they will be 2nd
This sounds like the time I tried to order something at Monolith Burger.
Here we go - as once featured on the Dr Demento show... Fast food Drive thru by Stevens and Grdnic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Tentatively going where no human has gone befor
Take it one step further, watch the updated Atlas robot video walking outside on snow.
Damn hadn't seen that one! For those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Well...
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Re:Well...
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Re:Well...
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Re:Next Try
i can't help but be reminded of Homer Simpson voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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I'm not impressed
This is what happens when employees leave a fast food restaurant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLDFtaL5HI. I might get my fries from a robot arm, but who's going to be there to stomp the roaches?
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Re:The Russians must be laughing...
Yes, like they were when opening Su-24's ultra-modern Russian-built blackboxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "Black box from SU-24 Russian bomber downed by Turkey 'unreadable'"
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His dreams will be crushed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So sad - he will never achieve his dream now!
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Re:Don't worry, nobody will care
You forgot to link why Bernie is actually winning.
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Re:Not apples to apples
Most of the machines that he's talking about do more than just one thing - for instance, a machine can make/wrap a burger (or any type from a range of options) to order - they already have prototypes made.
Another set of machines replace the cashiers entirely with kiosks, yet another machine does the drinks, and still another one still fries whatever - onion rings, french fries, etc etc.
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Re:The enemy of my enemy is my friend
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Re:Hydogen is just a way to store energy
seems it's been done with small boats... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Is there a better way to clean then?
Go for the eyes Boo! - Minsc
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Power satellite videoes
Rapidly ending the use of fossil fuels *without* something to replace them would result in a world wide famine. Fusion or some large number of fission plants could replace fossil fuels, or there is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Shorter version that was shown a the White House recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's about power satellites as a solution for CO2
Keith
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Power satellite videoes
Rapidly ending the use of fossil fuels *without* something to replace them would result in a world wide famine. Fusion or some large number of fission plants could replace fossil fuels, or there is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Shorter version that was shown a the White House recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's about power satellites as a solution for CO2
Keith
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Re:Oh, come on...
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Large businesses with 25% margins are rare
What if they have a long term outlook and preparing themselves for the next 25% margin industry?
Do you have any idea how rare large businesses with that kind of profit margin are? Google, Apple and Microsoft are all basically software companies (yes Apple is a software company) and it's unlikely they will find huge businesses with that kind of margin outside of software and even within software ideas worth tens of billions of dollars don't come around every day. Microsoft has been milking Windows and Office for decades now. Despite everything Google has thrown money at they still make virtually all their money from advertising. Furthermore they don't have a lot of institutional expertise outside of software so if they want to get out of their lane it's going to be a incredibly hard adjustment culturally more than anything else. Worse, they are fighting the law of big numbers. It's far easier to grow a million dollar company by 25% than to grow a billion dollar company by 5%.
I'm not saying it's impossible but businesses like the iPhone don't come around every 5 years. Realistically Apple has had 4 revolutionary products in 40 years (Apple ][, Macintosh, iPod/iTunes, and the iPhone/iPad) that have been major commercial successes for them and they still almost went bankrupt at one point 20 years ago. What's next? No idea. But they are going to have a VERY hard time matching the success of the iPhone/iPad platform. Odds are we will see a regression to the mean. It's possible they will buck the trend but it's hard to have any objective confidence.
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Re:Elderly?
Gen X. AKA the missing or sandwich generation. Also an early Billy Idol band.
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Re:Corruption + security theatre == profit
I've a set of rocks I'm selling, they are known to keep tigers away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Interested?
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King has no clothes
TSA will only be successful when they find individual who will say it loudly and clearly: King has no clothes, and current TSA is a security theater. Without naming the problem, it is not possible to resolve the issue efficiently and effectively.
Reality is that the median throughput of one TSA checkpoint is approximately 5-6 seconds per person, 20 persons per minute, or 1,800 per one hour, but it could be even faster.
Another fact is that every passenger pays, $5.60 per check. At that throughput TSA collects approximately $7,000 per one hour through one lane, and in an airport in a terminal there can be 5, 6 or 7 lanes. We are talking about approximately up to $50,000 revenue per hour. The truth is TSA does need funding from budget, because they collect all the money that they need from the passengers (via airline fees, non negotiable)>
As we said, it is not about the money. Literally, to quote a famous quote from movie the Bug's life, it is literally: to keep them in line.
