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  1. The firehose isn't what it used to be. Our "editors" shove shit right down our throats with no regard to the firehose.

  2. No, you're wrong.

    Harassment is a pattern of unwanted behavior. For it to be harassment it has to happen more than once and the harasser generally has to be told it's unwanted or it's against policy, or it has so flagrant that no "reasonable person" would invite such behavior.

    Being a superior doesn't change that. HR may think otherwise, but they can't stop people from fucking whomever they want. At worst, you just have to inform HR of your relationship and they reassign managers/supervisors/whatever to avoid issues.

  3. Re:the court is wrong on Your Personal Facebook Live Videos Can Legally End Up on TV (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it is a newsworthy event

    How many humans have been born? I wouldn't call any birth newsworthy.

  4. Re:Not about the free market on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't bother. Today's "liberals" are fascists and want free speech destroyed so they can continue living in their echo chambers. They'll suck at the teat of any corporation that creates a safe space and defend it with tired shit about it not being censorship if it's not the government (which is completely incorrect). Yet if the corporation ends up doing something they don't like (but completely legal) the go running to the government to get them shut down.

  5. Re:scripting is incompatible with security on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't run code you don't trust.
    Javascript is code, no matter how much your browser tries to sandbox it or put shackles on it, it's going to be flying around in your CPU if you let it run.
    If you don't trust the Javascript, don't run it.

    There are 3 points to this problem:

    Shitty fucking developers write shitty fucking websites that NEED Javascript to function.
    Shitty fucking users like shiny, stupid shit and encourage that behavior.
    Shitty fucking browsers let it all run by default and focus on speed, not security to please the shitty fucking users.
    (And this loops back to shitty fucking developers seeing that they can bloat up their site even more because Chrome v8247 tweaked Javascript regex performance to be 2.8% faster.)

  6. Re:CPUs, not CPU architecture on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're confusing CPU architecture with instruction set architecture. They used to be the same (and in some cases still are) but most processors have a physical architecture that implements an ISA via microcode translation. With memory controllers (and a whole lot of other shit) on the same package. the term "architecture" has drifted even further from ISA and more toward the entire SoC.

  7. Re:Bubble on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    You bought at the peak of a massive bubble, and only a decade later we're at 80% of that bubble (using your anecdote) and you're claiming there's no bubble now.

  8. Re:Bubble on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    My mistake - I though that was a direct reply to me.

  9. Re:Bubble on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    In what way am I full of shit? Please read what I wrote again.

  10. Bubble on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're waiting for the bubble to burst again. Hopefully this time they don't bail out the banks and and the idiots who bought mcmansions. The bailouts (including "Keep Your Home California") prevented me, a responsible, financially stable adult, from owning a home. Prices are over double what they should be in my area.
    People don't have roommates, they have roomfamilies.

  11. Re:Supply and demand on The Man Who Broke Ticketmaster (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The scalpers ARE TicketMaster, most of the time. TicketMaster owns TicketsNow, which is basically eBay for scalpers. TicketMaster moves its own tickets to TicketsNow to charge obscene prices, preventing anyone from buying them on TicketMaster.

  12. Re:Put a captcha on on The Man Who Broke Ticketmaster (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    My hunch is that at least some of the bots are their's.

    Most are. In fact, TicketMaster skips the bots entirely.

    TicketMaster owns and operates TicketsNow, which is ticket scalping site.
    TicketMaster pinches off a chunk (often the bulk) of tickets and gives them to TicketsNow BEFORE they go on sale.
    If they don't sell on TicketsNow, TicketMaster takes some back and releases them on TicketMaster. This is why TicketMaster has the option to be alerted in case more tickets become available.

    TicketsNow (and they probably have other sites that are the same damned thing) is their primary business because it lets them get out of any pricing contracts. TicketMaster "sells" the tickets to TicketsNow in advance (or at T 0), and TicketsNow resells them at a much higher price.

  13. How is it complicated? If you're away from a charging pad, you can use any microwave to charge your device. Just make sure to use the defrost setting.

  14. Re:Twitter should just admit on Maybe It's Time For Jack Dorsey To Pick a Company (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    They tacitly admitted it when they established the "trust and safety council". Fucking thought police.

  15. You have no clue what you're talking about. While BB does sell some digital games, I'm referring to physical games. The GCU discount doesn't apply to digital games. Further, take a look at digital prices vs. physical prices a few months after launch. Physical prices are much lower for major titles. First party games are worse in this regard.

  16. Uh, video games have a fixed MSRP that's adhered to pretty strictly during launch.
    You can wait a few weeks to get a discount, or 2 months for a bigger discount. With Best Buy or Amazon Prime, I get 20% off on day one.

    Further, the discount applies to Nintendo games. Those things take forever to drop in price.

  17. Re:good for them on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Spelled like q-u-i-n-o-a.
    Sounds like keen-wah.
    Tastes like tiny cardboard balls.

  18. I get 20% off video games and most accessories there (similar to Amazon Prime, but it works for more accessories). I get rewards too, but I think that's a wash since I get extra rewards for using my Amazon card at Amazon.

    The benefit to Best Buy is that I can get release day pickup instead of using Amazon's release day delivery which may or may not happen. Even when it does happen, it's DHL throwing it at my door at 8 PM vs. me picking it up on my lunch break.

    In theory, my local Best Buy will be doing a midnight opening for the Switch as well. The store itself isn't great, but ordering online and then picking up in store is great.

  19. Re:They're everywhere because... on Police Arrest Five Men For Selling Kodi Boxes 'Fully Loaded' With Illegal Streaming Apps (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is how I know you're lying:

    I finally got DirecTV and it's been great ever since.

  20. Tell me the "normal math symbol" for concatenation. It must be distinct from / unambiguous considering string concatenation and set "concatenation" (really, joins/unions). I'll also need to "normal math symbol" that distinguishes/groups terms for evaluation vs. concatenation when it's ambiguous. (Where's your fucking escape character?) Oh, and it has to be valid for any base.

    Concatenation is not a mathematical operation it is a logical one that requires knowledge about how numbers how represented.

    Can you concatenate 0 and 1? 01 isn't a valid thing.
    Can you concatenate .1 and .2?
    Can you concatenate 7 and -3? Is it an expression? It sure isn't valid as a term on its own. What do you do when expressions are invalid? Do we throw out the entire output or do we throw out the concatenate call and keep the left hand side of the argument? Or the right hand side? Or maybe it's a divide by 0 error and we just shit the bed?
    Hell, when concatenate is unambiguous, is it left to right or right to left? What if shit is stored big endian or little endian? Do we have a concept of fundamental chunks of data (such bytes) and do we have to respect the byte order as well as endianness? How do you concatenate real numbers such as 1.111...? How do you concatenate a written expression read as "3 X over 4 plus X"? Do we just slam it on the end and leave the "over" line dangling?
    I've seen people post shit involving logs and ceils and addition to implement concatenation, but what I've seen was flawed (fails on 100, for example, they need to do floor + 1 not ceil). This doesn't work for unary. This assumes behavior of ceil (or floor) for positive and negative numbers. This assumes the input is a value you can run a log on (not 0 and not negative), etc. etc.

    Concatenation is not a "normal math symbol" (or "normal mathematical operation").

  21. No I didn't.
    I'm taking issue with calling "concatenation" a "normal math symbol". The concatenation they're referring to is string concatenation.
    I already know you don't need concatenation to generate any integer.

  22. Re:BS detector went off and is overheating on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd agree that arccos and similar are "circular" for getting to pi. But it's math (and pi) - isn't it all circular, by definition?

    -1 = e^(i pi)
    ln(-1) = i pi
    ln(-1) / i = pi
    ln(negate(4/4)) / sqrt(negate(4/4)) = pi

    If you don't like negate() you can just do unary -.
    ln(-(4/4)) / sqrt(-(4/4)) = pi

    Normally logarithmic function (including the natural logarithm) wouldn't be defined for negative inputs. But we're using the natural exponent's identity that relies on imaginary numbers anyway, so fuck it.

  23. Re:Even simpler on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll accept negate(x) or -(x) using unary -. Far more cromulent than concatenation.

  24. Re:any number? on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    -1 = e^(i pi)
    ln(-1) = i pi
    ln(-1) / i = pi
    ln(negate(4/4)) / sqrt(negate(4/4)) = pi

    If you don't like negate() you can just do unary -.
    ln(-(4/4)) / sqrt(-(4/4)) = pi

    Normally logarithmic function (including the natural logarithm) wouldn't be defined for negative inputs. But we're using the natural exponent's identity that relies on imaginary numbers anyway, so fuck it.

  25. Re:Even simpler on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 2

    Except negative numbers.

    You just have to wait for the Universe to roll over.