I know Microsoft has been shady as fuck pushing it, but since Microsoft seems to think it's the last operating system they'll be releasing, I'll likely be forced to upgrade eventually anyway. The last day to upgrade for free is July 29th. Should it be taken advantage of, or is windows 7 the Alamo until they stop releasing security patches for it?
I've recently toyed around with "Tilt Brush" in VR using a Vive, and while it might be not as boring as the "Job Simulator", it became pretty boring after 15 minutes or so. Doing "Tilt Brush" for 25 hours sounds dangerous to your mental health - not because of VR!
Tilt Brush is just a creative paint program. Plenty of people paint for hours for fun.
I more or less stopped reading Slashdot years ago because all of the news articles appear days behind when they first appeared on the front page of Hacker News. The discussions are much better here, but a slightly better discussion system doesn't justify rereading the same arguments.
Would you expand on this? It sounded like a reasonable assumption to me. If you're saying there are situations where it's not reasonable, it'd be nice to know what those situations are.
When they first introduced it, I right clicked it and removed it from my toolbar. I haven't thought of it since, yet there are people threatening to boycott Firefox over it.
I've never about:config disabled it. Is it selling my privacy? Doubling firefox's memory usage? Supporting terrorism?
As interesting as it is to guess why another waterfall government IT project failed, I'd rather know why we aren't using wheelbarrows with wheels closer to the center. As a guy who has mostly used wheelbarrows for moving concrete, having the wheel support the majority of the load instead of half (or whatever) sounds like a huge advantage.
The Wikipedia article on wheelbarrows suggests "However, the lower carrying surface made the European wheelbarrow clearly more useful for short-haul work." Does that reason really pan out? Can anyone think of any other reasons?
For those that don't want to read it, this is the argument: "If we adopt a law holding that a person has the right to kill himself, soon we will also adopt euthanasia; because if the individual has the right to say when his life is no longer worth living, soon society will claim this right as well."
The rest just bashes the media, liberalism, and socialism.
Are there any guesses on how fanboyism correlates with atheism?
It would be interesting to learn if atheists were more likely to fill their religious gap with consumer products or if atheists were also less likely to become fanboys.
Disclaimer: I'm an atheist that avoids apple. Disclaimer: correlation != causation
If you look at all the games through history, how many multiplayer games can you name that people have played for more than 10 years that weren't competitive and balanced? I can think of 0.
I feel like this guy's idea of a "fun" unit is one that looks cool but is strictly worse than alternatives, and losing is NOT FUN. If his "fun" unit dominated the others, everyone would build the "fun" unit and the game would NOT BE FUN.
Magic the gathering has plenty of suboptimal cards, and I do enjoy trying to "break" them. However, I only usually try to break it once or twice. Then, it effectively goes in the waste bin.
Adding a lot of cruft units to Starcraft 2 for the sake of "fun" is just going to make the game more difficult to hotkey and more intimidating to new players.
Plenty of us enjoy games that take skill to play and time to master. You don't waste that sort of time on a game that isn't balanced.
Put another way, if a motivated student wanted to become a top-notch programmer and cared only about his knowledge and not the bragging rights of being able to read Knuth's books to completion, would you still recommend this series or is there another resource that you would like to share that you think explains the concepts better?
Personally, whenever I pick up one of these books, I get turned off due to having to learn a trivial programming language just to understand the examples. (Not because I think learning it would be difficult but because it feels inefficient. I wouldn't be interested in computer science if efficiency wasn't a main motivation in my life.)
F.lux really does help with insomnia. I doubt it's the placebo effect since you set it up once and forget about it.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a free simple program that adjusts the colors of your monitor when the sun goes down in your area. http://stereopsis.com/flux/
Strength training with wrist problems will only aggravate your condition. Improving blood flow to the area seems to be the way to go. Although, I'm not sure what the best way is to do that.
(I have RSI's from typing/using the mouse. I haven't figured out how to fix them yet, but strength training did not help me.)
I don't have to manage my playlist or do anything extra to discover new music. The variety of stations available online means that I never have to listen to music that's stale. I can listen from any computer in the house. It costs nothing. The amount of commercials is tolerable.
The only downside is that I can't find any riaa-free stations. Does anyone know of any?
I don't understand what this accomplishes. What are they going to do? Look for bugs? They already know there are bugs. If it was sabotaged, they're not going to get the code that was used and will only find bugs.
This is like calling the fire department after the barn has already burned to the ground, except that the fire will likely be allowed to continue.
(b) organized health insurance industry propaganda campaign?
(c) It doesn't matter.
I think you are right to be skeptical of insurance companies because their greed causes a conflict of interest with their customers, but I think this research is good for exactly the same reason.
If you can be treated equally well with a cheap generic drug or an expensive newly patented drug, which drug are you going to receive? I'd hope the former, but from my experience with doctors, I really don't think the Hippocratic Oath applies to bank accounts.
This research aims to address that question of which drug is truly better for the public and to hopefully standardize the most effective practices. I think that's a good thing.
The insurance companies will most definitely try to use this research to increase their profit margins by saying things like, "the more expensive drug x is only marginally better than drug y, so we're not paying for it," but they already do that. It's really a separate battle.
I do think that battle deserves to be fought. I just don't think fighting it by knocking this research is the best way.
As a consumer, I am expected to vote with my feet. As an employee or business owner, I am expected to make money by satisfying consumers.
These are apart of the fundamentals that make capitalism work.
Personally, I think IBM is behaving as expected. I would prefer they and every other corporation vote with their feet than hire lobbyists to "work with the system."
I realize that's bad for us Americans in the short-term, but maybe then, we'll stop "voting for cruft."
before you die?
I started listening to Internet radio seven months ago. Since then, I haven't listened to my MP3 collection at all, or been on any file sharing networks to expand it.
I've been exposed to and promoted countless new bands that I never would have heard of on my own.
...and now they want me to go back to my MP3 collection? Surely, they're not dumb enough to believe that I'll go back to Clear Channel? Right?
Mogo is processing a few thousand moves per second. He doesn't care whether it is your second or his second, and the more moves he is able to calculate, the better his move should be.
In other words, the pro could have taken more time, but if he did, he'd be facing a stronger opponent.
I'm not familiar enough with mogo to comment on the trade off, but the pro not taking his time doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't take the match seriously.
The game was scored with the Chinese scoring system.
In Chinese scoring, you count the stones on the board + the territory on the board, and ignore any captured stones.
The margin would have been greater than that, but mogo likes to play a lot of unnecessary moves in his own territory "just to be sure." This is especially bad when it approaches the endgame, as mogo refuses to help fill dame (neutral points)(which are worth additional points) and continues to play in his own territory until his opponent passes.
So in the game, mogo threw away 4 or 5 points when he should have been filling dame.
the reasoning for the briefing is because the discovery of life on mars would be very controversial.
Certain religions have been founded on the belief that mankind, all life forms, and the earth were created in 7 days. Before Galileo, all Christans *knew* that the earth was the center of the universe, and it was quite damning for the church to be proven otherwise.
Right now, all Christan fundamentalists *know* that life only exists on earth. Granted, I have no doubt they'll be able to spin it, but the point is that the bible would lose even more credibility. In a country where you have to be Christan to be elected president, that is very significant.
An even more damning event would be to find a more advanced species that has never heard of God, or worse, follows a religion significantly different than Christianity. I again have little doubt that they wouldn't be able to spin it, but when your religion is based off a novel that is considered the word of god and that novel is consistently proven wrong, your religion is going to have problems.
I think the article has some valid points regarding the technical aspects of the Internet, but I don't understand why those aspects make net neutrality legislation a bad thing.
My understanding of net neutrality is that people want the Internet to remain neutral. They do not want providers to charge favorable rates to their friends and extortionist rates to their competitors. They do not want small ISPs forced out of the market. They do not want websites and users to be double-charged for the same use.
I don't see how any of these issues are technical. I don't see how legislation that would keep things fair also would eliminate an ISP's ability to improve the performance of jitter sensitive applications as well as jitter insensitive applications.
I mean you could argue that it'd be legislated wrong, and you'd probably be right. But from a technical standpoint, assuming it's legislated correctly, why is net neutrality technically impossible?
Or am I completely misunderstanding the net neutrality issue?
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I also cannot write functional code nearly as well as I can write procedural/oop code.
That said, how do you know imperative code isn't easier to maintain because you have more experience writing imperative code?
I know Microsoft has been shady as fuck pushing it, but since Microsoft seems to think it's the last operating system they'll be releasing, I'll likely be forced to upgrade eventually anyway. The last day to upgrade for free is July 29th. Should it be taken advantage of, or is windows 7 the Alamo until they stop releasing security patches for it?
I've recently toyed around with "Tilt Brush" in VR using a Vive, and while it might be not as boring as the "Job Simulator", it became pretty boring after 15 minutes or so. Doing "Tilt Brush" for 25 hours sounds dangerous to your mental health - not because of VR!
Tilt Brush is just a creative paint program. Plenty of people paint for hours for fun.
I more or less stopped reading Slashdot years ago because all of the news articles appear days behind when they first appeared on the front page of Hacker News. The discussions are much better here, but a slightly better discussion system doesn't justify rereading the same arguments.
Would you expand on this? It sounded like a reasonable assumption to me. If you're saying there are situations where it's not reasonable, it'd be nice to know what those situations are.
but why does Pocket matter?
When they first introduced it, I right clicked it and removed it from my toolbar. I haven't thought of it since, yet there are people threatening to boycott Firefox over it.
I've never about:config disabled it. Is it selling my privacy? Doubling firefox's memory usage? Supporting terrorism?
Why is it news worthy?
As interesting as it is to guess why another waterfall government IT project failed, I'd rather know why we aren't using wheelbarrows with wheels closer to the center. As a guy who has mostly used wheelbarrows for moving concrete, having the wheel support the majority of the load instead of half (or whatever) sounds like a huge advantage.
The Wikipedia article on wheelbarrows suggests "However, the lower carrying surface made the European wheelbarrow clearly more useful for short-haul work." Does that reason really pan out? Can anyone think of any other reasons?
http://catholicexchange.com/2011/06/14/154594/
For those that don't want to read it, this is the argument:
"If we adopt a law holding that a person has the right to kill himself, soon we will also adopt euthanasia; because if the individual has the right to say when his life is no longer worth living, soon society will claim this right as well."
The rest just bashes the media, liberalism, and socialism.
Are there any guesses on how fanboyism correlates with atheism?
It would be interesting to learn if atheists were more likely to fill their religious gap with consumer products or if atheists were also less likely to become fanboys.
Disclaimer: I'm an atheist that avoids apple.
Disclaimer: correlation != causation
I wasn't only talking about video games (although Starcraft 1 fits), but don't get caught up on the time frame.
Can you think of *any* competitive multiplayer game that isn't mostly balanced and skill dependent that has a thriving community?
If you look at all the games through history, how many multiplayer games can you name that people have played for more than 10 years that weren't competitive and balanced? I can think of 0.
I feel like this guy's idea of a "fun" unit is one that looks cool but is strictly worse than alternatives, and losing is NOT FUN. If his "fun" unit dominated the others, everyone would build the "fun" unit and the game would NOT BE FUN.
Magic the gathering has plenty of suboptimal cards, and I do enjoy trying to "break" them. However, I only usually try to break it once or twice. Then, it effectively goes in the waste bin.
Adding a lot of cruft units to Starcraft 2 for the sake of "fun" is just going to make the game more difficult to hotkey and more intimidating to new players.
Plenty of us enjoy games that take skill to play and time to master. You don't waste that sort of time on a game that isn't balanced.
is he the best teacher?
Put another way, if a motivated student wanted to become a top-notch programmer and cared only about his knowledge and not the bragging rights of being able to read Knuth's books to completion, would you still recommend this series or is there another resource that you would like to share that you think explains the concepts better?
Personally, whenever I pick up one of these books, I get turned off due to having to learn a trivial programming language just to understand the examples. (Not because I think learning it would be difficult but because it feels inefficient. I wouldn't be interested in computer science if efficiency wasn't a main motivation in my life.)
F.lux really does help with insomnia. I doubt it's the placebo effect since you set it up once and forget about it.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a free simple program that adjusts the colors of your monitor when the sun goes down in your area.
http://stereopsis.com/flux/
I credit F.lux with curing my insomnia.
(I'm in no way related to the project)
Someone mod this guy up.
Strength training with wrist problems will only aggravate your condition. Improving blood flow to the area seems to be the way to go. Although, I'm not sure what the best way is to do that.
(I have RSI's from typing/using the mouse. I haven't figured out how to fix them yet, but strength training did not help me.)
I don't have to manage my playlist or do anything extra to discover new music.
The variety of stations available online means that I never have to listen to music that's stale.
I can listen from any computer in the house.
It costs nothing.
The amount of commercials is tolerable.
The only downside is that I can't find any riaa-free stations. Does anyone know of any?
I don't understand what this accomplishes. What are they going to do? Look for bugs? They already know there are bugs. If it was sabotaged, they're not going to get the code that was used and will only find bugs.
This is like calling the fire department after the barn has already burned to the ground, except that the fire will likely be allowed to continue.
Re: A related article was just posted on nytimes If anyone is interested:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/health/02scans.html?hp=&pagewanted=print [nytimes.com]
(a) Coincidence or
(b) organized health insurance industry propaganda campaign?
(c) It doesn't matter.
I think you are right to be skeptical of insurance companies because their greed causes a conflict of interest with their customers, but I think this research is good for exactly the same reason.
We live in a society where doctors are actively marketed to and recruited by drug companies.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/21/ep.conflicts/index.html
If you can be treated equally well with a cheap generic drug or an expensive newly patented drug, which drug are you going to receive? I'd hope the former, but from my experience with doctors, I really don't think the Hippocratic Oath applies to bank accounts.
This research aims to address that question of which drug is truly better for the public and to hopefully standardize the most effective practices. I think that's a good thing.
The insurance companies will most definitely try to use this research to increase their profit margins by saying things like, "the more expensive drug x is only marginally better than drug y, so we're not paying for it," but they already do that. It's really a separate battle.
I do think that battle deserves to be fought. I just don't think fighting it by knocking this research is the best way.
If anyone is interested:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/health/02scans.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
What do you suggest?
As a consumer, I am expected to vote with my feet.
As an employee or business owner, I am expected to make money by satisfying consumers.
These are apart of the fundamentals that make capitalism work.
Personally, I think IBM is behaving as expected. I would prefer they and every other corporation vote with their feet than hire lobbyists to "work with the system."
I realize that's bad for us Americans in the short-term, but maybe then, we'll stop "voting for cruft."
before you die? I started listening to Internet radio seven months ago. Since then, I haven't listened to my MP3 collection at all, or been on any file sharing networks to expand it.
...and now they want me to go back to my MP3 collection? Surely, they're not dumb enough to believe that I'll go back to Clear Channel? Right?
I've been exposed to and promoted countless new bands that I never would have heard of on my own.
Mogo is processing a few thousand moves per second. He doesn't care whether it is your second or his second, and the more moves he is able to calculate, the better his move should be.
In other words, the pro could have taken more time, but if he did, he'd be facing a stronger opponent.
I'm not familiar enough with mogo to comment on the trade off, but the pro not taking his time doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't take the match seriously.
The game was scored with the Chinese scoring system.
In Chinese scoring, you count the stones on the board + the territory on the board, and ignore any captured stones.
The margin would have been greater than that, but mogo likes to play a lot of unnecessary moves in his own territory "just to be sure." This is especially bad when it approaches the endgame, as mogo refuses to help fill dame (neutral points)(which are worth additional points) and continues to play in his own territory until his opponent passes.
So in the game, mogo threw away 4 or 5 points when he should have been filling dame.
"The US Go Congress is the largest Go event of the year held in the United States."
There are other go congresses elsewhere in the world around this date as well.
I believe this is the official site: http://www.gocongress08.org/
the reasoning for the briefing is because the discovery of life on mars would be very controversial.
Certain religions have been founded on the belief that mankind, all life forms, and the earth were created in 7 days. Before Galileo, all Christans *knew* that the earth was the center of the universe, and it was quite damning for the church to be proven otherwise.
Right now, all Christan fundamentalists *know* that life only exists on earth. Granted, I have no doubt they'll be able to spin it, but the point is that the bible would lose even more credibility. In a country where you have to be Christan to be elected president, that is very significant.
An even more damning event would be to find a more advanced species that has never heard of God, or worse, follows a religion significantly different than Christianity. I again have little doubt that they wouldn't be able to spin it, but when your religion is based off a novel that is considered the word of god and that novel is consistently proven wrong, your religion is going to have problems.
I think the article has some valid points regarding the technical aspects of the Internet, but I don't understand why those aspects make net neutrality legislation a bad thing. My understanding of net neutrality is that people want the Internet to remain neutral. They do not want providers to charge favorable rates to their friends and extortionist rates to their competitors. They do not want small ISPs forced out of the market. They do not want websites and users to be double-charged for the same use. I don't see how any of these issues are technical. I don't see how legislation that would keep things fair also would eliminate an ISP's ability to improve the performance of jitter sensitive applications as well as jitter insensitive applications. I mean you could argue that it'd be legislated wrong, and you'd probably be right. But from a technical standpoint, assuming it's legislated correctly, why is net neutrality technically impossible? Or am I completely misunderstanding the net neutrality issue?