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

Just saying.

While I agree with the general sentiment, there is only one version that could do this great moment justice.

Here, watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/playli...

It's a bit long but pretty good. It's The Fabric of the Cosmos, from NOVA, featuring Brian Greene. It's well worth the time investment.

Tremors of the Big Bang?

I'm afraid there are subtly different reasons for different situations. Many companies have become expert at manipulating the procedures and the rules to hire the type of personnel they want. There was a horrifying but quite straightforward video about precisely how to do this posted to Youtube some time ago:

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

The video is about 8 years old. More of the presentation is available, but the employment policy manipulations are still commonplace.

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You mean Hillary Clinton is a Republican? Her own words supporting increasing H1-B visas.

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Or how she helped her husband make millions in speeches from companies wanting to increase H-1B visas. She even asked the Obama administration to remove H-1B caps while she was Secretary of State.

So, sure, other than your facts being wrong, you are completely right.

I've been out in industry for exactly a decade. I know who they are laying off. I would bet heavily that these are the guys that like doing things the way they have always done things and are content on not improving it. They're the drafters that refused to learn "that CAD thing". You see it all over Slashdot. You guys sure like things the way you used to do them. "Why kids these days don't need to learn Assembly".

I spent a recent layoff learning Python 3.4. It's near impossible to get people off of 2.7 at work or Matlab. Why? Because that's what they learned during undegrad and grad school and that's where everything is written. And they do have a small point, I'm don't have time to go back and re-write 50 years of working software. Once we as a society figured out Linear Algebra in Fortran we stopped messing with it. Numpy, Matlab, et al are just pretty BLAS wrappers.

However at impedes a lot of progress. At this point I feel like I'm in Office Space half the time:

1st Bob: What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the software engineer and bring them down to the hardware engineers?
Tom: Yes, yes that's right.
2nd Bob: Well then I just have to ask why can't the software engineers use the hardware engineer's API?
Tom: Well, I'll tell you why... because... software engineers are not good at dealing with APIs...
1st Bob: So you physically take the flash files from the software engineer?
Tom: Well... No. The project lead does that... or they're e-mailed....

If you're doing things the same way you did them even a year ago, then some lazier person that does your job is currently writing a script to do it that way. So in 50 years we can all look back and laugh at "Those idiots used to do it by hand". If you write a script to save you 1 minute a day, that's 4 hours a business year. If you write a script to save you and all of your co-workers 1 minute a day. That's an additional 4 hours per head per year. Start adding that up over a decade or two.

It's entertaining to watch you guys not wanting to use new tools, I just started writing new tools to use the old tools I wrote. I could reduce my manager's headcount by 3-4 and keep the same work level output with an improvement in quality. Software engineers have already done that, it's what continuous integration is for. Then they got tired of dealing with merges, so they wrote tools to automatically do merges if everything tests out.

CGP Grey's "Humans Need Not Apply" is a good video on the current state of automation. While I don't share quite his outlook his statements about what is going on right now is dead on. (Humans' will just start building warp drives instead of dicking around with what we do now). If TensorFlow can pick those images out that accurately they sure as heck can read the graphs I used to have to read much, much better. Give me the picture of a tachometer trace and I could tell you what's wrong it your car. I don't need to hear it, see it or know what's going on.

Last night on SharkTank there was a guy that had a mobile app that could take your measurements 20% better than a professional tailor, just by taking some photos and doing some math. If you were hoping to be a tailor and spend time measuring people, I have bad news.

Engineers these days use Simulink. Finding Engineers that can Code is hard. So we taught the en

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Well speaking of Mickey Mouse...

Forget Mickey Mouse.

The expiration of the copyright on Steamboat Willie gives you the right to produce derivatives based on Steamboat Willie and only Steamboat Willie. Eight minutes of silent-era sight gags with a synchronized sound track and a thin narrative thread. Walt Disney Animation Studios' Steamboat Willie

The character designs --- which is what the geek really wants --- are trademarked, and without them you do not have the Mouse in any recognizable form.

Mickey Mouse appears as a character in over 200 films, videos, and video games --- and god alone knows how often in other media. Mickey Mouse (Character) You would have a hell of time coming up with an original --- non-infringing --- story for the Mouse.

or for any of the other franchised Disney characters.

Psychostick - Girl Directions

Luckily most people seem to have catched on to the fact that the street address is the easiest way to share your location, but I occasionally still get people insisting that "No, no, you don't need the address, it's easy to find, you just...".

Why smart phones still aren't able to simply send and parse plain text ICBM addresses (without elevation) in an SMS in a unified manner is beyond me. Come on, how often would an SMS contain a match to the pattern /-?\d{1,2}\.\d{4,9}, ?-?\d{1,2}\.\d{4,9}/ that is not a GPS location?

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Same as the Norwegian Blue parrot pining for the fjords.

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

> Oh, they mean rainbows? Right!

Ugh. I hate those friggin' things!

> In Mac-land, we oven referred to programs as apps back then.

Indeed, Apple even called their first object-oriented framework MacApp. The term was not unfamiliar to developers before that.

Here, at WWDC 1998 Steve Jobs says, "people want an advanced OS that runs Mac apps."

Humans killed 400+ civilians at My Lai, and 200+ civilians at No Gun Ri. Both massacres were the result of rage and fear. Robots don't feel those emotions, and have committed no massacres on that scale. I trust robots more than I trust humans.

A lot of people put their trust in nonexistent beings.

As for me, I want a bunch of those Sentry Guns on my lawn.

NK invented Photoshop! Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The USA has been using targeting AI for some years, which still can't distinguish between a garden shed and a tank.

From this we may deduce that once all garden sheds have been leveled all targets become tanks, even if cannot know when this happens. We will count all shed hits as tank hits... because doing it the other way round would unfairly prejudice the weapons' effectiveness. Given a workable estimate of how many garden sheds may exist in the target area we simply upsize deployment so every barrage achieves the same "projected equivalent result". Some may imagine that this shed-tank blindness would be a guilty secret that could be leaked. The military complex has an effective countermeasure, the Preemptive No-Shit-Sherlock Disclosure (PNSSD). Any journalist thinking they are blowing a scandal wide open is referred to the Department Of Tankshed Statistics where folks in lab coats tally tank/shed ratio over time and produce giant reports that nobody reads except the last page, a graph that shows the ratio is increasing slowly but steadily, somehow.

Imagine what would happen when an AI having shed problems comes up against a real War Magician.

Actually, they should get along pretty well.

Dawkins help us if they ever find out how much they have in common and stop shooting each other.

This has been thoroughly covered by great thinkers of the past: Doomsday Device

This 'autonomous weapons systems' debate is under attack, a hostile takeover by radical factions of the Artificial Intelligence research community. When I first glimpsed Hawking's phrase offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control I immediately thought, he's talking about land mines, right? --- but no... it appears they had some hideously complicated Futurist Thing in mind. Okay... perhaps we're just talking about AI because it is fun to talk about it and it takes our minds away from other unpleasant things.

What are we really afraid of? Let's shelve AI for just a moment and make a list.

Things unable or unwilling to identify and spare civilians.
Things that could 'turn' on their masters.
Things that don't know or care that the war ended years ago.
Things too dumb to realize that they were made to do evil.
Things with lithium batteries which are harmful to the environment unless disposed of properly.

A short list! Since LAND MINES meet these criteria (except the last, they are better for the environment than cell phones) without the tiniest glimmer of artificial intelligence --- I would suggest that this fixation on AI is hyper-specific and a little obsessive.

It's like any other piece of technology we might make. If it is designed, engineered and made well by humans who make a reasonable effort to at least consider my short list and take every step to mitigate these items, no matter how smart it is, we'll be as well off as we could possibly be, given that people are making such things.

If we must produce artificial intelligences for war, they should be made by the same companies that make those automotive jumper cables you see for sale at 24 hour convenience stores. The human race would have nothing to worry about.

It also appears the 'autonomous weapons systems' debate has been invaded by people who hate war itself. Who let them in? I would expect the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to advise them sternly, this is not the place to justify or condemn the existence of war itself, this tribunal has been convened to discuss things with processors and neural nets and instruction sets and big fat dual-use research contracts and stuff. We cannot allow you to disrupt these proceedings. (No fighting in the war room!) But sadly --- the Bulletin is permitting people to express their distaste for war. Those who love war find this rude and insensitive. Don't they have feelings,too?

THE BULLETIN: "But no, you're the one who's out of order, bringing up land mines as if they are in any way relevant to this 'autonomous weapons systems' discussion. Land mines are cheap, mass-produced, inevitable, deployed, funded, signed sealed and delivered. There is no way to prevent their use because bad people use them all the time. With land mines we have no choice. But we still have time to choose not to make artificial intelligences. For war. We have a choice."

HOCUSLOCUS: "Okay... so, what if you get your wish and all you AI Play Nice Boy Scouts sign a treaty or something... and we are not afraid any more... so a self-ware AI robot is IS produced, not for war, but to travel the world (autonomously!) to clean toilet bowls. Because you can be sure that in the future we'll be playing among the stars and harnessing neutrinos but no one will ever be able to male a toilet bowl that doesn't crust up with shit. In order to really get toilets clean you need the kind of weaponry the military is only dreaming about today. So this AI has some serious big honking space gun WOTAN stuff. What do you think will happen on the day this machine figures out where all that shit is coming from?"

THE BULLETIN: "We concede you have a point. But at present no one is concerned about the specific scenario of toilet cleaning robots. We may some day convene a symposium to discuss them, specifically, but not land mines. Is that understood?"

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I'd hoped I'd find you in this thread.

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

Given your prior links, I'd be surprised if you didn't know the song. For the rest, give it a click. It's definitely on-topic. I posted at the top of the thread and mentioned that it'd be good if Pope could see it. So, if you didn't click it the first time - there it is again.

Turn the volume up loud and get groovy. Get down with your bad selves! Dance and wave your hands around and gyrate those hips like the Summer of Love has ended and you're desperate to keep it alive! Dance like you've eaten the brown acid. Get down with your partner or get down with yourself. If all you got is a cat? Get down with that.

I'd love to have my DNA tested but, so far, I've not found anyone willing to do it and ensure my privacy is kept. No, you may not assign my DNA a number and throw it in with others without asking. If you ask, I'll say yes. But you may not do it without asking.

That said, it's probably likely that my DNA has already made it out into a test somewhere. I'm sure it got anonymized and sold. You give a blood sample when you enlist. You give a blood sample when you skip a few years and then reenlist. The samples get frozen and stored after getting your blood-type, or so they were. I'm guessing they either grab DNA and run it from all of them, for ID purposes in case of trouble, or that they store them for when they might need to do so.

I'm not so silly as to believe that they'd take my perfectly fine blood sample and throw it out. There wasn't much to do with it back then but they were working on it, it was 1986 when I came home. I mean, it's a perfectly good, preserved, sample and I'm betting they're not worried about room. I strongly suspect they've since run it through the machine and done what they could. I know that blood's not actually the best source of DNA but it works. I don't recall them taking any tissue samples? I wonder if they take tissue samples now? Note to self: Ask a friend. It's easy for 'em to swab a cheek.

At any rate... Anyone else think of the Dr. Demento Show? I hope I'm not the only one... I don't remember who sang it?

"I'm a Neanderthal boy, you're a Neanderthal girl,
Let's make Neanderthal love, in this Neanderthal world."

Hmm... I went and found you the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Where's Pope at? Heh... He'll get a kick out of that reference.

I gave up swearing years ago, along with a few other choice words, in the real life world. Took only a week, no big deal.

If it bothers you to use vulgarities, don't use them. Writing "p*ssed" instead of "pissed" just makes it look like you're trying to get around some nonexistent profanity filter. Or, maybe you were just using self-censorship to set the proper North Korea mood.

Either way, allow me to defer to the late George Carlin's thoughts on the matter of swearing.

Old tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @ 1:37

Closed is not not open.

Basically it's a compression and elongation. A powerful enough source would tear you apart.

Gravity wave LIGO documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's a physical demonstration using a plastic mesh.
https://youtu.be/iS33Hc1REjo?t...

Locomotive horns are for rednecks. This is slashdot.

Get a NASA Reverberent Chamber Horn fitted in your car.

... to remake an old TV Series.

Well, fucked THAT post up.

The Office

I don't believe you're even a human any more. In fact, I'd go as far as to say you're something akin to 791.

A sarcasm detector? Oh that's a really useful invention...

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

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

Ah, but Data gets it...

Erlang is the new rockstart technology reborn as Outlaw Techno Psychobith node.js and ruby on rails are sooo last decade man.

You're probably too young to remember

Or this would work even better... Robot Chicken

"You're not Ulysses
La la la la"

"redesigned user interface for improved ease of use"?

You might try watching the demo videos. They made improvements to the menus, improvements to the context menus, and improvements to toolbars (including a pop-out side panel formatting toolbar thing that I guess is new to the 5.x series).

No ribbon.

Here, have a playlist URL that lets you watch the demo videos directly from YouTube instead of using the embedded videos in TFA.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0pdzjvYW9RHSwdRnZfaxAWICrkBrQl7k

Nope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zl_ke85HqII

NK doesn't give a flying *** about the USA.

Then why do they make movies like this? Serious question.

And now the Pentagon is saying it's tumbling again.

Tumbling refers to a very specific behavior in rotational dynamics. A body is only stable in rotation when it rotates around its minimum or maximum moments of inertia (inertia is a 3x3 matrix, not a single number of even a vector like they teach you in high school). When a body tries to spin around any other axis, it ends up gyrating wildly. What's happening is the spin axis is trying to align with a stable spin axis, but overshoots and passes right through it, over and over. Like a marble that tries to reach the bottom of a bowl (stable point) but keeps overshooting and rolling back and forth.

It's very difficult to recover from because the axis of spin is changing dynamically, so by the time you fire a thruster to counteract the spin, the axis may have changed and the thruster may have little to no effect, or even make things worse. I've been trying to get one of the ISS crew to shoot some video demonstrating it because it's very difficult to demonstrate on Earth. But you can sort of see it by rubber banding a textbook closed (pick one whose three lengths are very different). Spin it as you throw it into the air. Spinning it so the axis is normal to the front/back is stable. So is spinning it so the axis is normal to the top/bottom (assuming the book is taller than it is wide). But spin around the axis through the spine will result in tumbling.

Rotationally-stabilized spacecraft and satellites are carefully designed so the intended spin axis aligns with a minimum or maximum moment of inertia. Someone on the design team has a great big spreadsheet full of the inertia tensors and exact position of every single part that went into the spacecraft, so s/he can calculate its aggregate inertia tensor. If it doesn't quite line up, they have to either add/remove some weight or move some items around until it does.

Luckily, your fears are completely unfounded. NK doesn't give a flying *** about the USA. It is more concerned with South Korea and if it was to use a nuke, they already have a target painted large as Seoul is only 30 miles from the NK border - easily reachable by truck in less than an hour. That is their hostage, should anyone attack them.

NK's entire educational indoctrination program is based on hatred of the U.S. You know how one of the best ways to unite a people is to confront them with an outside enemy? That's what NK does, using the U.S. as the outside bogeyman. You're colossally ignorant of what's going on in NK if you think they don't give a flying *** about the U.S.

40 years ago, at least most of the people in NK knew life before this political brainwashing began. But today most of the population there has grown up hearing and believing the U.S. is evil with no counterpoint argument for their entire lives. Nobody has ever done a massive social manipulation experiment of this scale for this duration, so nobody knows what the result will be, which makes NK incredibly unpredictable when it comes to anything which involves attacking the U.S.

And the ICBMs and nukes are for Japan, China, and the U.S. Holding Seoul hostage doesn't even require NK to cross the border - the city is and always has been within artillery range of North Korea.

Luckily, your fears are completely unfounded. NK doesn't give a flying *** about the USA. It is more concerned with South Korea and if it was to use a nuke, they already have a target painted large as Seoul is only 30 miles from the NK border - easily reachable by truck in less than an hour. That is their hostage, should anyone attack them.

NK's entire educational indoctrination program is based on hatred of the U.S. You know how one of the best ways to unite a people is to confront them with an outside enemy? That's what NK does, using the U.S. as the outside bogeyman. You're colossally ignorant of what's going on in NK if you think they don't give a flying *** about the U.S.

40 years ago, at least most of the people in NK knew life before this political brainwashing began. But today most of the population there has grown up hearing and believing the U.S. is evil with no counterpoint argument for their entire lives. Nobody has ever done a massive social manipulation experiment of this scale for this duration, so nobody knows what the result will be, which makes NK incredibly unpredictable when it comes to anything which involves attacking the U.S.

And the ICBMs and nukes are for Japan, China, and the U.S. Holding Seoul hostage doesn't even require NK to cross the border - the city is and always has been within artillery range of North Korea.

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

I've believed for years that the worst thing you can ever find out is what kind of money your colleagues actually make. I've seen really gross discrepancies at every job I've ever had with idiots being paid too much and good workers being paid too little. Finding out exactly how bad this is in reality is just terrible.

Actually, the reality is the complete opposite - the worst thing to do is keep everyone's salary a secret. By making it open, you actually allow for honest discussions to take place.

Employers love keeping salaries secret because it allows for all sorts of differential salaries - keeping a good person underpaid is easy. And employees often fear revealing their salary because others may think they're overpaid, so everyone is compliant and the company saves money.

The reality is actually much different - employees who share their salaries don't think someone is overpaid, but see who is actually underpaid.

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

I don't know if Unreal comes with a "better" camera out of the box (they do enable a lot of shiny but expensive effects by default, where Unity gives you a more bare bones rendering by default). In either engine, I'm fairly confident that the camera is what you make it. See e.g. this tech talk on procedural cinematography in Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. As for physics, both Unity and Unreal 3D physics are powered by the latest NVIDIA PhysX, so I'll wager that most (if not all) differences you're seeing in this area comes down to the games, not the engines.

Disclosure: I work at Unity, but am not an engine expert.