The rest of your comment is kind of reasonable. Except, of course, that shit does happen in the U.S. and the individual is not necessarily killed on the spot, and that certainly isn't the end of it.
But your point about it being the U.S's business how it writes its laws, is perfectly correct.
Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. Maybe the poster is an important cultural and artistic artifact, maybe it isn't. But Netflix driving headlong down this road is still a folly, automated review and recommendation systems are the death of art. They'd be far, far better off employing real critics, with real skills and real insight - rather than this piggy-backing on individual users collective daily whims.
It's hideous really. The artwork displayed against a movie or TV show should be at the behest of those that made the show, not algorithms that determine which image is most likely to get you hooked in. The whole thing is deeply anti-art, and logical progressions would be shows that are modified according to your tastes. Perhaps scenes are removed, or shown in a different order. Maybe different product placement is digitally inserted into the show, based on your preferred brands.
"The internet's great poetic folly, to implement this Markov chain of recommendations. You liked this, you'll probably like that." I can't remember who said that, some fella on the radio last weekend, but it's so true. It *is* folly, and it will eventually cause things like Netflix to eat themselves, so there's nothing left. Netflix, just be true to the content. Don't put ads in for other shows (another story from last week), keep the artwork consistent. Provide proper reviews from actual critics on your site. Spin off the production company from the distribution.
Africa needs real help. Not from us, but from their own hard work.
The implication here is that Africa is in trouble, to whatever extent that's actually true, due to their own laziness. Is that what you meant, or is that just an unfortunate side-effect of your lack of care over the words you use?
I'm fortunate enough to have managed to find a microwave that does not feel obliged to tell me the time. I have hung an actual clock on the wall above it instead. I'm sorry that you haven't had the same luck. So while I do appreciate your offer, I will have to decline. Regarding the linux install, how about I upload a disk image to Dropbox instead? That way we can save on the travel costs. Payment is dependent on the install actually working, naturally.
I know you people always blame the user when Linux fails to perform, but the reality is that it simply doesn't work very well for audio and video much of the time. The response to anybody raising a problem with Linux is always, one hundred percent of the time, that you're doing it wrong. Some irony there, since when Apple told you you were holding your phone wrong, you all as one howled with laughter. If I install an OS, plug in a standard USB audio device, and it doesn't work out of the box, then the OS is broken.
Here's an example of a workaround for Steam not working properly on Ubuntu:
Linux is no better in 2018. Flashier, but no better. It's great on servers, wonderful on embedded devices, but it's a hopeless desktop machine.
There are people at my work who use Linux on their laptops. Guess what happens when they try to extend their monitor onto a projector? Guess which machines crash when they come out of sleep? Or wake up, but with the audio broken?
I made a serious attempt recently to give Linux another shot. I'd acquired a machine from work, on which I planned to install Ubuntu, and use for audio and video work. In particular, I wanted to produce some radio on it, and use it for a while in a video installation work.
Ubuntu installed just fine, and appeared to work pretty well. I thought I'd give Steam a try, since my kids love video games, and they were keen to see how well it would work. Steam installed, but neither my login, nor any of my kids, could be entered. They'd all come back with 'incorrect password', even though we were all one-hundred percent certain that we had entered our passwords correctly.
So I gave up on Steam - secretly a little relieved that the kids wouldn't be able to usurp the machine when their friends visited. I installed Dropbox, but found that what I actually got was a command-line interface with no UI at all, but it did appear to work. Without a UI, of course, there's no way of telling that it's continuing to work, or that new files have been added, or whatever, but it did work.
Then I tried to install some audio and video software. I downloaded and built Ardour, after following some reasonably complex but more-or-less correct instructions. Ardour crashed. I opened it again, and this time I was able to enter the wonderful world of Linux audio.
JACK? ALSA? Pulse Audio? It is 2018, audio is not complicated. Linux, please, just come up with a single solution and make it work. Every other OS has managed this. Audio on OSX works perfectly. Audio on Windows is a bit flaky, and has pretty high latency out of the box, but it does work. Audio on Linux is DOA.
So I tried Ubuntu Studio - the separate installation package for "digital artists". Why there would need to be a separate OS package for people who actually would like their audio to work properly is a bit beyond me, but it did what it said on the tin. It also came with Ardor pre-installed, and working. A great step in the right direction.
It's worth nothing that at this point we are now about seven days of evenings into this task. That's quite a bit of time to get a base OS install working, but I suppose I should have just installed Ubuntu Studio in the first place.
With the audio installation more-or-less happy, I tried video. I'd planned to use Processing to build some real-time video processing software, since what I wanted to do wasn't CPU intensive, just memory intensive, and Processing is reasonably easy to use. Not easy to google for, but easy enough to use.
Processing installed fine. I tried one of their online video examples, tried installing the video library. Processing crashed. Tried again, Processing complained about being unable to load libraries.
I gave the fuck up. I installed Windows using my MSDN licence from work. It just worked. The end.
"Theory distracts and confuses" if you're a bit thick. Otherwise, theory is invaluable and allows you to learn from the masters, and stand upon their shoulders (hopefully). Understanding which data structures, algorithms, languages, and methodologies are available to you - and under which conditions you should choose this or that particular solution, will make you a better software engineer.
Yes, they probably are. That 5% is what the doctors spend so many years training for. It's great you've never had anything serious. One day, you might do. Should that happen, be sure to thank the doctors who save your life.
The fact that the thing will turn on in under a microsecond being far from the least of them. The fact that it can lose power at any point without ever becoming unbootable, is another. The fact that it doesn't run an OS is also a welcome relief. The fact that it can actually run without drawing 2 amps, and is thus practical to run on a battery is invaluable. It'll also have proper low-power modes, which will draw microamps or less.
For an actual product that you wanted to ship, the RPi is a non-starter.
Not everything that you point your browser at is a "website". There are router config pages, NAS config & application pages, local servers of various sorts. There is literally no plan to deal with this problem. If google can't be bothered to come up with a good solution to this problem, then Google can go jump in a lake.
Furthermore, people already intercept the data on the way to your browser and inject malware. It's called advertising. Guess what Google sell? HTTPS everywhere will do nothing whatever to solve the real problem that's threatening the web, and your privacy. As an advertising-supported commercial endeavor, the web is doomed.
and google the gatekeeper of allowed certificate authorities.
Why is, of course, the real reason that they're so keen on this. Google have been trying to control the web for years, and this is just another step in their wider strategy.
Just because someone says something you disagree with or find offensive, does not give you the right to be violent and otherwise violate the law.
Firstly, there was no violence in asking someone to leave a restaurant. Secondly, when that person is in government, you absolutely have the right to peaceful protest, up to and including ejecting them from your restaurant. Such a thing may be filed under 'civil disobediance'. There is no parallel between kicking Sanders out, and refusing to serve gay people. One is discrimination, the other legitimate protest.
An interface that you can change at will, provided you change everything that calls it, doesn't really deserve the moniker "interface". It's just a bunch of function calls that can change whenever you want. The entire point of interfaces is to divide development tasks using them, so that one does not have to have everything in the same source tree.
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And so American Democracy, so sick for so many years, finally dies.
You people have ended up with the leader you deserve.
cryptocurrency value produced per hour of mining operation.
Well that part of the equation's easy. The value is zero.
I'm deeply sorry for your friend.
The rest of your comment is kind of reasonable. Except, of course, that shit does happen in the U.S. and the individual is not necessarily killed on the spot, and that certainly isn't the end of it.
But your point about it being the U.S's business how it writes its laws, is perfectly correct.
Peace.
Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. Maybe the poster is an important cultural and artistic artifact, maybe it isn't. But Netflix driving headlong down this road is still a folly, automated review and recommendation systems are the death of art. They'd be far, far better off employing real critics, with real skills and real insight - rather than this piggy-backing on individual users collective daily whims.
It's hideous really. The artwork displayed against a movie or TV show should be at the behest of those that made the show, not algorithms that determine which image is most likely to get you hooked in. The whole thing is deeply anti-art, and logical progressions would be shows that are modified according to your tastes. Perhaps scenes are removed, or shown in a different order. Maybe different product placement is digitally inserted into the show, based on your preferred brands.
"The internet's great poetic folly, to implement this Markov chain of recommendations. You liked this, you'll probably like that." I can't remember who said that, some fella on the radio last weekend, but it's so true. It *is* folly, and it will eventually cause things like Netflix to eat themselves, so there's nothing left. Netflix, just be true to the content. Don't put ads in for other shows (another story from last week), keep the artwork consistent. Provide proper reviews from actual critics on your site. Spin off the production company from the distribution.
Africa needs real help. Not from us, but from their own hard work.
The implication here is that Africa is in trouble, to whatever extent that's actually true, due to their own laziness. Is that what you meant, or is that just an unfortunate side-effect of your lack of care over the words you use?
I'm fortunate enough to have managed to find a microwave that does not feel obliged to tell me the time. I have hung an actual clock on the wall above it instead. I'm sorry that you haven't had the same luck. So while I do appreciate your offer, I will have to decline. Regarding the linux install, how about I upload a disk image to Dropbox instead? That way we can save on the travel costs. Payment is dependent on the install actually working, naturally.
Are you offering to fix my Linux install?
I know you people always blame the user when Linux fails to perform, but the reality is that it simply doesn't work very well for audio and video much of the time. The response to anybody raising a problem with Linux is always, one hundred percent of the time, that you're doing it wrong. Some irony there, since when Apple told you you were holding your phone wrong, you all as one howled with laughter. If I install an OS, plug in a standard USB audio device, and it doesn't work out of the box, then the OS is broken.
Here's an example of a workaround for Steam not working properly on Ubuntu:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32/nvidia-346/:/usr/lib/nvidia-346/" steam
Face it: Linux is not for users.
It was last week.
Linux is no better in 2018. Flashier, but no better. It's great on servers, wonderful on embedded devices, but it's a hopeless desktop machine.
There are people at my work who use Linux on their laptops. Guess what happens when they try to extend their monitor onto a projector? Guess which machines crash when they come out of sleep? Or wake up, but with the audio broken?
I made a serious attempt recently to give Linux another shot. I'd acquired a machine from work, on which I planned to install Ubuntu, and use for audio and video work. In particular, I wanted to produce some radio on it, and use it for a while in a video installation work.
Ubuntu installed just fine, and appeared to work pretty well. I thought I'd give Steam a try, since my kids love video games, and they were keen to see how well it would work. Steam installed, but neither my login, nor any of my kids, could be entered. They'd all come back with 'incorrect password', even though we were all one-hundred percent certain that we had entered our passwords correctly.
So I gave up on Steam - secretly a little relieved that the kids wouldn't be able to usurp the machine when their friends visited. I installed Dropbox, but found that what I actually got was a command-line interface with no UI at all, but it did appear to work. Without a UI, of course, there's no way of telling that it's continuing to work, or that new files have been added, or whatever, but it did work.
Then I tried to install some audio and video software. I downloaded and built Ardour, after following some reasonably complex but more-or-less correct instructions. Ardour crashed. I opened it again, and this time I was able to enter the wonderful world of Linux audio.
JACK? ALSA? Pulse Audio? It is 2018, audio is not complicated. Linux, please, just come up with a single solution and make it work. Every other OS has managed this. Audio on OSX works perfectly. Audio on Windows is a bit flaky, and has pretty high latency out of the box, but it does work. Audio on Linux is DOA.
So I tried Ubuntu Studio - the separate installation package for "digital artists". Why there would need to be a separate OS package for people who actually would like their audio to work properly is a bit beyond me, but it did what it said on the tin. It also came with Ardor pre-installed, and working. A great step in the right direction.
It's worth nothing that at this point we are now about seven days of evenings into this task. That's quite a bit of time to get a base OS install working, but I suppose I should have just installed Ubuntu Studio in the first place.
With the audio installation more-or-less happy, I tried video. I'd planned to use Processing to build some real-time video processing software, since what I wanted to do wasn't CPU intensive, just memory intensive, and Processing is reasonably easy to use. Not easy to google for, but easy enough to use.
Processing installed fine. I tried one of their online video examples, tried installing the video library. Processing crashed. Tried again, Processing complained about being unable to load libraries.
I gave the fuck up. I installed Windows using my MSDN licence from work. It just worked. The end.
"Theory distracts and confuses" if you're a bit thick. Otherwise, theory is invaluable and allows you to learn from the masters, and stand upon their shoulders (hopefully). Understanding which data structures, algorithms, languages, and methodologies are available to you - and under which conditions you should choose this or that particular solution, will make you a better software engineer.
Jquery no longer has any use, and should be abandoned. Just learn actual javascript instead.
Yes, they probably are. That 5% is what the doctors spend so many years training for. It's great you've never had anything serious. One day, you might do. Should that happen, be sure to thank the doctors who save your life.
Funny. But that's not more government, that's more police.
Plus, there's a good chance that young lady wanted different government, not more of the same one that militarised the police.
Google needs the web to be a mostly controlled place so they can continue to profit from it..
it stops intermediate parties from altering the content.
This battle is already lost. The advertisers won.
The fact that the thing will turn on in under a microsecond being far from the least of them. The fact that it can lose power at any point without ever becoming unbootable, is another. The fact that it doesn't run an OS is also a welcome relief. The fact that it can actually run without drawing 2 amps, and is thus practical to run on a battery is invaluable. It'll also have proper low-power modes, which will draw microamps or less.
For an actual product that you wanted to ship, the RPi is a non-starter.
Not everything that you point your browser at is a "website". There are router config pages, NAS config & application pages, local servers of various sorts. There is literally no plan to deal with this problem. If google can't be bothered to come up with a good solution to this problem, then Google can go jump in a lake.
Furthermore, people already intercept the data on the way to your browser and inject malware. It's called advertising. Guess what Google sell? HTTPS everywhere will do nothing whatever to solve the real problem that's threatening the web, and your privacy. As an advertising-supported commercial endeavor, the web is doomed.
and google the gatekeeper of allowed certificate authorities.
Why is, of course, the real reason that they're so keen on this. Google have been trying to control the web for years, and this is just another step in their wider strategy.
Just because someone says something you disagree with or find offensive, does not give you the right to be violent and otherwise violate the law.
Firstly, there was no violence in asking someone to leave a restaurant. Secondly, when that person is in government, you absolutely have the right to peaceful protest, up to and including ejecting them from your restaurant. Such a thing may be filed under 'civil disobediance'. There is no parallel between kicking Sanders out, and refusing to serve gay people. One is discrimination, the other legitimate protest.
An interface that you can change at will, provided you change everything that calls it, doesn't really deserve the moniker "interface". It's just a bunch of function calls that can change whenever you want. The entire point of interfaces is to divide development tasks using them, so that one does not have to have everything in the same source tree.
It doesn't matter. The point is that the file is declarative, not procedural, which prevents the boot sequence from becoming a Turing complete system.
There must be a duration for which the above isn't true. You can't do it in a day, for instance.
What makes a two-week sprint so magical that all tasks, when broken down as you describe, can fit into it?