I remember as a kid, maybe 6 or 7, I had this toy that was one of those flying contraptions where you pulled a string on a handle that spun the flying thing really fast and it flew (mostly) straight up.
On the handle bit where the string was and the flying thing attached to, there was a word and an arrow... WIND =>
Now, I remember this confusing me for a second, did it mean I should align the arrow with the direction the wind is blowing? Or did it mean that was the direction I should wind up the string so it spins in the right direction?
It took me a second, I was pretty young after all, but I ultimately decided that they meant *both*, even though the latter, I'm sure in hindsight, was the intentional meaning. In this case, basing my definition of WIND on context increased confusion .
You are simply not getting it. A space is always 1 space, you are correct about this, but why are you using spaces for indentation in the first place? Do you seriously hit space bar 12 or 16 times to indent a few columns? What do you do with deep HTML markup?
Besides, why are you even worried about having to backspace over a "random" number of tabs? Isn't that what Shift+Home is for? Shift+Delete (some editors)?
Are there any keys on your keyboard that you *do* use?
Assuming I am alone, there are emergency roadside phone every mile or so that I can use. Alternatively, I can use a normal landline or flag down a passing state trooper. I don't see this as an issue, as it will happen at most a handful of times in my life.
If I need a ride home after city buses have stopped, I can call a cab or I can stay the night. Again, is this really a problem? Did people never leave home before cell phones?
Why do you need to phone someone when you show up at their apartment? Why not use the buzzer or knock on the door? If this is a case where the apartment doesn't have doors or buzzers, I can send them a message when I leave home, "hey, I'll be there in 15 minutes."
You came up with three exceptionally weak circumstances where a cell phone might be a bit more convenient if you have managed to not plan anything you're doing.
Again, folks assuming that day-to-day life is impossible without a cell phone.
I would like to report that I have been free of a cell phone for approximately 3 years now and am still alive, happy, and savvy to the things happening in the world.
You don't need to have that thing attached to your face at all hours of the day.
I agree! I think we should go dig up all the dead criminals and stick their remains in a building with bars guarded by men with guns. That'll teach 'em!
Part of the college experience is maturing as an individual, which is made possible by interpersonal interactions that occur in a large community.
Or, for the folks who already did all the adolescent "maturing as an individual" stuff while in high school, the college experience instead becomes an expensive way to waste time for a few years.
When you have average talent, the draw of college is much greater as you want to set yourself apart in some way. Unfortunately, college is a really terrible way to do that, as you will still be average when you are done with college, just like everyone else that went. A society of people that think like you do are what create a world of people with average talent.
If you want to be above average, go do it differently, uniquely. Learn from your own experiences and share that knowledge with others who are average. They will look up to you, admire you, and want to work with you.
The only thing people learn by going to college is how to be just like everyone else.
... which included a suggestion that "students that have some CS background" should not be allowed to attend in-person intro CS courses.
This sounds completely backwards to me. The students who are already interested in the program are the ones who don't get to attend?
Are we still in a race to the bottom here? I thought society decided at some point that we should be encouraging our best and brightest... I see I am mistaken.
Also, other than the hail and possibility of a tornado, it's a damn fine place to grow nursery stock. A lot of nursery stock in Colorado comes from Oklahoma (and other nearby tough climates for growing, I'm sure, I can only speak for CO).
They will eventually, but in the amount of time it takes for them to regrow, drastic environmental impacts may happen which destroy their habitat and make it no longer a fit for that particular plant. A simple example would be mountain flooding after a wildfire. When conifers burn, they will leave a sheet of wax on top of the dirt. When snow runoff season begins (or there are heavy rains, as seen in Colorado in 2013) the ground is not as good at sponging up the moisture and releasing it slowly down-river over the course of the season. Instead it beads off the surface and heads straight to the bottom, causing runoff to be more violent and increasing the risk of flash-flood events.
With those increased events, the habitat can be altered dramatically, possibly to the point where the trees that loved living there no longer find it suitable. Willows, dogwoods, cottonwoods, etc will all suffer as they are plants that would have increased risk (since they like living right next to the river). To compound the issue, there might be other plants that are now able to grow in areas where they couldn't before. The result of that is increased monoculture of forest species, which of course leads to increased risk of disease.
Can you begin to see the feedback loop? Increased disease, increased fire risk, increased flood risk, increased environment destruction, increased monoculture, and repeat.
The problem with wildfires now is that too many years of fire suppression has led to these situations where instead of smaller fires burning and replenishing areas periodically, we have massive fires that destroy massive areas and make it more difficult, if not impossible, for the area to recover.
Some deforestation is replaced with new trees, but not all.
I'm not sure I understand their definition of "deforestation". Is that only man-made, or does it include the work of insects, blight, and other maladies that wipe out huge swaths of forest?
Pretty much any time nowadays someone wants you to panic
Do you think that might be related to the increasing number of things that are totally fucked on our planet? I totally understand that hyperbole and sensationalism sell and that we are fed a steady diet of both, but don't throw the baby out of a moving car with a glass of water... or whatever that saying is.
I don't understand how you can label Canada as losing all that forestation without mentioning MPB and other outbreaks which are on the rise.
Do they not realize that many of those forest fires wouldn't have happened outbreaks were less severe? This is ignoring the wildfire suppression that happened in the first place which contributed to the destruction being seen in the last few years.
Interesting to think that suppressing wildfires might actually contribute to climate change.
You know, if you keep doing ridiculous shit long enough (and getting away with it), eventually you can do something super ridiculous and send out the PR release on April 1. Everyone will think it's a joke.
What I find interesting is the opacity of this submission.
I read the summary, and based solely on how the summary is written, it comes off as a plausible story. I went to the comments and saw folks talking about AFD jokes, and then I thought, this was a joke? How is it funny?
Then, of course, I clicked a couple links and saw the reference and at this point... and here's the interesting bit... it actually got less funny.
I'm reading the description over and over, and I have absolutely no idea how this occurred. So there's an "autofill" check box that wasn't checked. How does this end up disclosing all of this information in the email?
I am forced to use Outlook for work and as a result I use it as minimally as possible. For some reason I still have to spend several seconds searching for the awkwardly placed "Send" button every time I need it. Forgive my lack of experience using an awful email client.
... but I'm not making the life choice for something that God has called an abomination in His eyes.
This is the fundamental issue I see with Christians and homosexuality. Christians make statements as you have, saying things like "hate the sin, love the sinner" to come across as less of an asshole. When it comes down to it, you view homosexuality as a life choice. Whether this is true or not is irrelevant to my point.
Because you view it as a life choice, the good Christian feels no guilt for calling someone an "abomination". It's their choice to be that way, you say, so it's their fault for being sinners.
At this point, I just can't see this as 100% true. I don't know what causes every homosexual to be a homosexual. I tangentially care about it, as I think it's an interesting subject from a biological standpoint, but what "caused" any given person to be homosexual is none of my fucking business just like what "caused" someone to have freckles and pale skin is none of my business. I am not here to play God or assume those powers. I am not here to evangelize my superiority over other people because they were born a certain way.
Christians need to accept that homosexuality isn't black and white a lifestyle choice and that the Bible's lessons on it are based on archaic knowledge of biological systems.
... unless he is retrained to do something completely different such as teacher or nurse...
So you're saying we will be come a more educated society as a result? I jest, of course, but it's an interesting thought. Forcing people to retrain to another field will certainly broaden their knowledge of the world, or at least motivate people to have that broad array of knowledge in the first place.
This is pretty much what I do. I personally don't like all the generic words, and instead use variations of a similar pattern. I have several main patterns that I can determine which one to use based on a rule I know that takes the site's name into account. This is my base password.
Then I take the site's name and apply another rule to it. This becomes my salt.
Together they become a very complex password that is unique for each site and yet very easy for me to remember. An example (of course not close to what I use, but you get the idea) for Slashdot would be:
Slashdot.org - TLD is org so we use Gro.dotSlash as the hash + 19 (slashdot begins w/S, the 19th letter) + someone I love's DOB 9-18-80, so the full password is Gro.dotSlash1991880?
These are pretty dangerous times we live in for many reasons. People believing they are smarter than billions of years of evolution gives me no assurance that these people have a clue...
And CERN? Doesn't it make sense that every black hole in the universe at one time was a really tiny black hole? Is it a good idea to just start making a bunch of those?
In fairness to the GP, high school biology is pretty much the worst fucking class ever.
We had to dissect a fucking shark. It was awful. I can still smell it. The poor souls at the bench next to us had a frozen cat in a bag whose face looked like Scratchy got a rear end stuffed full of cocaine.
I'll take my D+ and be on my merry way, thank you.
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I remember as a kid, maybe 6 or 7, I had this toy that was one of those flying contraptions where you pulled a string on a handle that spun the flying thing really fast and it flew (mostly) straight up.
On the handle bit where the string was and the flying thing attached to, there was a word and an arrow ... WIND =>
Now, I remember this confusing me for a second, did it mean I should align the arrow with the direction the wind is blowing? Or did it mean that was the direction I should wind up the string so it spins in the right direction?
It took me a second, I was pretty young after all, but I ultimately decided that they meant *both*, even though the latter, I'm sure in hindsight, was the intentional meaning. In this case, basing my definition of WIND on context increased confusion .
You are simply not getting it. A space is always 1 space, you are correct about this, but why are you using spaces for indentation in the first place? Do you seriously hit space bar 12 or 16 times to indent a few columns? What do you do with deep HTML markup?
Besides, why are you even worried about having to backspace over a "random" number of tabs? Isn't that what Shift+Home is for? Shift+Delete (some editors)?
Are there any keys on your keyboard that you *do* use?
git pull --rebase origin master
There might possibly be no other command in the history of software development that has saved more man-hours than this gem.
Assuming I am alone, there are emergency roadside phone every mile or so that I can use. Alternatively, I can use a normal landline or flag down a passing state trooper. I don't see this as an issue, as it will happen at most a handful of times in my life.
If I need a ride home after city buses have stopped, I can call a cab or I can stay the night. Again, is this really a problem? Did people never leave home before cell phones?
Why do you need to phone someone when you show up at their apartment? Why not use the buzzer or knock on the door? If this is a case where the apartment doesn't have doors or buzzers, I can send them a message when I leave home, "hey, I'll be there in 15 minutes."
You came up with three exceptionally weak circumstances where a cell phone might be a bit more convenient if you have managed to not plan anything you're doing.
Again, folks assuming that day-to-day life is impossible without a cell phone.
I would like to report that I have been free of a cell phone for approximately 3 years now and am still alive, happy, and savvy to the things happening in the world.
You don't need to have that thing attached to your face at all hours of the day.
I agree! I think we should go dig up all the dead criminals and stick their remains in a building with bars guarded by men with guns. That'll teach 'em!
2. disinfects - also mostly pointless in the backcountry
Dealing with infections while in the wilderness is pointless, huh? Holy shit are you ignorant.
Part of the college experience is maturing as an individual, which is made possible by interpersonal interactions that occur in a large community.
Or, for the folks who already did all the adolescent "maturing as an individual" stuff while in high school, the college experience instead becomes an expensive way to waste time for a few years.
When you have average talent, the draw of college is much greater as you want to set yourself apart in some way. Unfortunately, college is a really terrible way to do that, as you will still be average when you are done with college, just like everyone else that went. A society of people that think like you do are what create a world of people with average talent.
If you want to be above average, go do it differently, uniquely. Learn from your own experiences and share that knowledge with others who are average. They will look up to you, admire you, and want to work with you.
The only thing people learn by going to college is how to be just like everyone else.
... or just put on your resume that you have gone through all the free CS video lectures.
... which included a suggestion that "students that have some CS background" should not be allowed to attend in-person intro CS courses.
This sounds completely backwards to me. The students who are already interested in the program are the ones who don't get to attend?
Are we still in a race to the bottom here? I thought society decided at some point that we should be encouraging our best and brightest ... I see I am mistaken.
Also, other than the hail and possibility of a tornado, it's a damn fine place to grow nursery stock. A lot of nursery stock in Colorado comes from Oklahoma (and other nearby tough climates for growing, I'm sure, I can only speak for CO).
After wildfires, trees naturally re-grow.
They will eventually, but in the amount of time it takes for them to regrow, drastic environmental impacts may happen which destroy their habitat and make it no longer a fit for that particular plant. A simple example would be mountain flooding after a wildfire. When conifers burn, they will leave a sheet of wax on top of the dirt. When snow runoff season begins (or there are heavy rains, as seen in Colorado in 2013) the ground is not as good at sponging up the moisture and releasing it slowly down-river over the course of the season. Instead it beads off the surface and heads straight to the bottom, causing runoff to be more violent and increasing the risk of flash-flood events.
With those increased events, the habitat can be altered dramatically, possibly to the point where the trees that loved living there no longer find it suitable. Willows, dogwoods, cottonwoods, etc will all suffer as they are plants that would have increased risk (since they like living right next to the river). To compound the issue, there might be other plants that are now able to grow in areas where they couldn't before. The result of that is increased monoculture of forest species, which of course leads to increased risk of disease.
Can you begin to see the feedback loop? Increased disease, increased fire risk, increased flood risk, increased environment destruction, increased monoculture, and repeat.
The problem with wildfires now is that too many years of fire suppression has led to these situations where instead of smaller fires burning and replenishing areas periodically, we have massive fires that destroy massive areas and make it more difficult, if not impossible, for the area to recover.
Some deforestation is replaced with new trees, but not all.
I'm not sure I understand their definition of "deforestation". Is that only man-made, or does it include the work of insects, blight, and other maladies that wipe out huge swaths of forest?
Pretty much any time nowadays someone wants you to panic
Do you think that might be related to the increasing number of things that are totally fucked on our planet? I totally understand that hyperbole and sensationalism sell and that we are fed a steady diet of both, but don't throw the baby out of a moving car with a glass of water ... or whatever that saying is.
I don't understand how you can label Canada as losing all that forestation without mentioning MPB and other outbreaks which are on the rise.
Do they not realize that many of those forest fires wouldn't have happened outbreaks were less severe? This is ignoring the wildfire suppression that happened in the first place which contributed to the destruction being seen in the last few years.
Interesting to think that suppressing wildfires might actually contribute to climate change.
You know, if you keep doing ridiculous shit long enough (and getting away with it), eventually you can do something super ridiculous and send out the PR release on April 1. Everyone will think it's a joke.
What I find interesting is the opacity of this submission.
I read the summary, and based solely on how the summary is written, it comes off as a plausible story. I went to the comments and saw folks talking about AFD jokes, and then I thought, this was a joke? How is it funny?
Then, of course, I clicked a couple links and saw the reference and at this point ... and here's the interesting bit ... it actually got less funny.
Amazingly, when analyzed by an advanced comedic interpreter, this comment is scored as the funniest of the day.
Breakthrough? I remember using various commercial software that implemented python based scripting tools going back to the early-mid 90's.
I'm reading the description over and over, and I have absolutely no idea how this occurred. So there's an "autofill" check box that wasn't checked. How does this end up disclosing all of this information in the email?
I am forced to use Outlook for work and as a result I use it as minimally as possible. For some reason I still have to spend several seconds searching for the awkwardly placed "Send" button every time I need it. Forgive my lack of experience using an awful email client.
... but I'm not making the life choice for something that God has called an abomination in His eyes.
This is the fundamental issue I see with Christians and homosexuality. Christians make statements as you have, saying things like "hate the sin, love the sinner" to come across as less of an asshole. When it comes down to it, you view homosexuality as a life choice. Whether this is true or not is irrelevant to my point.
Because you view it as a life choice, the good Christian feels no guilt for calling someone an "abomination". It's their choice to be that way, you say, so it's their fault for being sinners.
At this point, I just can't see this as 100% true. I don't know what causes every homosexual to be a homosexual. I tangentially care about it, as I think it's an interesting subject from a biological standpoint, but what "caused" any given person to be homosexual is none of my fucking business just like what "caused" someone to have freckles and pale skin is none of my business. I am not here to play God or assume those powers. I am not here to evangelize my superiority over other people because they were born a certain way.
Christians need to accept that homosexuality isn't black and white a lifestyle choice and that the Bible's lessons on it are based on archaic knowledge of biological systems.
As Tom Waits wondered, what's he building in there?
You don't understand true depression.
The guy states an anecdote about what stopped him from committing suicide, and you say this in response?
You're a dick.
... unless he is retrained to do something completely different such as teacher or nurse ...
So you're saying we will be come a more educated society as a result? I jest, of course, but it's an interesting thought. Forcing people to retrain to another field will certainly broaden their knowledge of the world, or at least motivate people to have that broad array of knowledge in the first place.
This is pretty much what I do. I personally don't like all the generic words, and instead use variations of a similar pattern. I have several main patterns that I can determine which one to use based on a rule I know that takes the site's name into account. This is my base password.
Then I take the site's name and apply another rule to it. This becomes my salt.
Together they become a very complex password that is unique for each site and yet very easy for me to remember. An example (of course not close to what I use, but you get the idea) for Slashdot would be:
Slashdot.org - TLD is org so we use Gro.dotSlash as the hash + 19 (slashdot begins w/S, the 19th letter) + someone I love's DOB 9-18-80, so the full password is Gro.dotSlash1991880?
These are pretty dangerous times we live in for many reasons. People believing they are smarter than billions of years of evolution gives me no assurance that these people have a clue ...
And CERN? Doesn't it make sense that every black hole in the universe at one time was a really tiny black hole? Is it a good idea to just start making a bunch of those?
In fairness to the GP, high school biology is pretty much the worst fucking class ever.
We had to dissect a fucking shark. It was awful. I can still smell it. The poor souls at the bench next to us had a frozen cat in a bag whose face looked like Scratchy got a rear end stuffed full of cocaine.
I'll take my D+ and be on my merry way, thank you.