Netflix is a company built around disrupting the market, showing that the old distribution model is dying, and now showing that the old guard production companies are unneeded parasites.
So why the FUCK are they wasting time and money chasing the baubles and trinkets of those dinosaurs? They're chasing film festivals and the Academy Awards like a social outcast seeking the approval of the popular high school kids, but 20 years after high school when they're all aging and failing.
It's peppered with shit like "increasingly everywhere", "the most brilliant people in the world", and the fucking closer " the tech industry has grown in stature to become the most important from a fiscal perspective and arguably from a cultural perspective as well.".
This person is just now waking up to the fact that their own farts stink. Silicon Valley has been like this for well over a decade. I'm glad people are realizing it, but to say that this is just starting or increasing is bullshit. We've been at peak Silicon Valley Douchebag for the past couple of years. To pin it to CA is ridiculous. To claim that these clowns are the most brilliant people in the world is insulting. As is claiming the tech industry is the most important industry.
The person writing this is fully in the Silicon Valley bubble of bullshit.
It's not about diplomas or lack of diplomas. It's about jobs, stupid. If everyone has a high school diploma due to no child left behind, then you've got more competition. Better get that 4.0 GPA to get a good job to differentiate yourself from the people who would have otherwise flunked out. If everyone has good grades due to grade inflation, then you've got more competition. Better get a 5.0 GPA instead to differentiate yourself from the people who benefited from grade inflation.... Better get a college degree to separate yourself from the "basic" losers who only graduated high school.... Better make sure it's from a $$$ 4-year "institution", not your perfectly respectable state/city/vocational college because that's worthless now too.... Ivy league or bust.... You're 28 and aren't yet working on your post doctoral research projects!?! How are you going to move out of your square foot studio???
Employers simply see a wider market - of dumb and complacent fools. A bigger stone to wring more blood out of.
Eventually society pays the price as we realize that churning out degrees for the sake of churning out degrees devalues the degrees, results in stupid people being in the same group as competent people, and ultimately gives oligarchs more control over everyone. Education is fine and dandy, but requiring people to take 4 years of a foreign language, 2 years of performance arts, etc. to get a basic job is absurd. As is making them spend 4 years of their life taking on debt and learning pretty much nothing applicable to the bleak job market they'll enter 4 years later into life than they need to.
Higher education is marketed as a path upward. But for the vast majority of people, it's simply a path downward into debt and shitty job prospects. Most people would be better served entering the job market earlier and skipping the cost of college, or by joining the military, or by learning a trade (such as plumbing, carpentry, welding, etc.).
I'm not a faggot. I didn't cry as Trump was imprisoned.
- Trump isn't imprisoned.
- I wouldn't cry about it if it were to happen. News of Trump being imprisoned wouldn't wait until 11.
- My crying about it (which wouldn't happen) wouldn't be newsworthy.
- - If it somehow did make the nightly news, my local market (most likely to air my crying / not crying) runs nightly news at 10 PM.
No child left behind? Grade inflation? People with 4 year of even graduate degrees being stuck slinging swill at Starbucks? An entire generation mired in debt that prevents them from owning property or maintaining any sort of savings? In a competitive market/society, this shit doesn't make sense and it doesn't work.
Realizing that the "value" of the education from these institutions is bullshit?
The ivy league is about already being connected, and nothing else. The rest of the big players are all about selling the lie that college is for everyone and college guarantees success. More and more people are realizing that's bullshit. So higher education is increasingly being marketed to the dumb and poor as a path to financial success. It's about as truthful as marketing cigarettes and beer to the poor as a path to social status.
In an architectural drafting class I actually had the instructor tell me carpenters can get a house square to a 1/16th inch. I argued with him briefly and put him in my list of someone to never take advice from.
Perfect example of those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.
You're damn lucky if a house's variances are within 2%.
Because outsourcing manufacturing is cheaper. And when the quality goes down and you can't fix it because the 2nd world country you outsourced to doesn't give a fuck, you outsource again to a third world country and throw quality out the window in the race to the bottom.
People have varying abilities. When I was young, I could hear to about 27 kHz, and some stores with "ultrasonic" burglar detection were painful to enter.
No they don't. And what you're referring to was not ultrasonic. Human hearing range is very well modeled. You're not special. No audiophile is special. You're just delusional.
Prove it with ABX testing or shut up. Your claims are on the level of homeopathy.
You get 128 total, and you're using 64 on PCIe slots, 16 on M.2, 12 on TB3 (Intel bottlenecks their shit by using only 2 lanes per port), and 4 on networking.
You've got 32 left over, man. How about we just give you a couple dozen USB 3 ports and if you want SATA/SCSI/Floppy/Whatever you just buy some adapters?
Similar SACD. The SACD versions of old classics owe their sound to the remastering and sound identical whether you play the DSD bitstream perfectly though a quality DAC or you downsample to 44.1khz
Don't forget to convert from 1 bit to 16 bit. If you just switch from 2.8224 MHz to 44.1 kHz but stay at 1 bit, you're fucked.
Or they possibly have a better system than you do. I'm recording vinyl at 192/96 and I can tell you unequivocally that the quality, depth, and detail far surpass CDs and rival DVD-A. People who say vinyl is no better are typically listening to it on a cheap USB turntable running through their onboard sound card. And in that scenario, yes of course it's going to sound like shit. Go spend a few grand on a descent setup though and the difference is night and day.
Bullshit.
You can't hear past ~20 KHz. You will never need more than ~40 KHz to accurately sample anything you can hear. The common 44.1 KHz covers all of human hearing perfectly.
Time and time again blind testing has proven this to be true. And no, 16 bit samples aren't a limitation either.
Prove me wrong. Show me a controlled test where any human can hear the difference.
CDs have 2 layers of error correction. There's the underlying 8 to 14 encoding (plus 3) for the physical structure, meaning 17 physical bits gets you 8 bits of data, then there's CIRC on top of that for redbook audio.
The whole thing is nonsense. To get it even close to being workable google would have to remove pop3, imap and smtp support from gmail to start. Then it would have to eliminate every other worldwide email provider. Even then, unless you are on a chromebook or stupid enough to use the gmail app on iOS or Android there is still no way to enforce it.
But but but snapchat; all the left wing brain dead kids cry. Yes because nobody ever took a screenshot of a naked snap and posted it to the inter webs did they...
Nah.
If recipient address ends with @gmail.com or any other @domain.tld that Gmail manages, they get the email with the new bullshit. Otherwise, they get an email with a link to a copy of the actual email in Google Docs. The link expires at a certain time.
In both instances, the page is riddled with Javascript cancer to prevent copying and pasting. Anyone with a brain will still be able to retain/copy/share it, of course.
"Statistically random" means that numbers are not evenly distributed.
Wrong. Absolutely 100% incorrect.
Every statistical test for randomness looks for uniform distribution across the range of possible values. If RAND(0,1) favors numbers A series that has too few long sequences of one bit will be rejected by good randomness tests.
"Long" is relative to the sample size. If you encounter a "long" sequence, most tests reject the generator. What your threshold is depends on what you're doing.
A bias is not an indicator for things not being truly random.
Yes, it is. Absolutely. If you reject something as non-random because it doesn't pass your statistical test despite there being a non-zero chance of a true random generator giving you that result, you're an idiot.
If you want pseudo random numbers, talk about that. When talking about randomness, you don't get to pick and choose your results, or reject sources based on the results. You only get to reject sources based on CAUSE. Random means without CAUSE.
You can't know that. Random means without cause, not with a uniform result.
7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7 could be random for all you know. Rejecting it as non random based on it being non-uniformly distributed is inherently wrong and counter to the concept of selecting random numbers.
If you want PSEUDO random numbers (homogenous, uniform numbers), then ask for that. If you want RANDOM numbers you take what you get.
Slashdot Mirror
Netflix is a company built around disrupting the market, showing that the old distribution model is dying, and now showing that the old guard production companies are unneeded parasites.
So why the FUCK are they wasting time and money chasing the baubles and trinkets of those dinosaurs? They're chasing film festivals and the Academy Awards like a social outcast seeking the approval of the popular high school kids, but 20 years after high school when they're all aging and failing.
States shouldn't have secrets from their citizens.
Yup, 100% correct.
It's peppered with shit like "increasingly everywhere", "the most brilliant people in the world", and the fucking closer " the tech industry has grown in stature to become the most important from a fiscal perspective and arguably from a cultural perspective as well.".
This person is just now waking up to the fact that their own farts stink. Silicon Valley has been like this for well over a decade. I'm glad people are realizing it, but to say that this is just starting or increasing is bullshit. We've been at peak Silicon Valley Douchebag for the past couple of years. To pin it to CA is ridiculous. To claim that these clowns are the most brilliant people in the world is insulting. As is claiming the tech industry is the most important industry.
The person writing this is fully in the Silicon Valley bubble of bullshit.
You're a clown.
It's not about diplomas or lack of diplomas. It's about jobs, stupid. ... Better get a college degree to separate yourself from the "basic" losers who only graduated high school. ... Better make sure it's from a $$$ 4-year "institution", not your perfectly respectable state/city/vocational college because that's worthless now too. ... Ivy league or bust. ... You're 28 and aren't yet working on your post doctoral research projects!?! How are you going to move out of your square foot studio???
If everyone has a high school diploma due to no child left behind, then you've got more competition. Better get that 4.0 GPA to get a good job to differentiate yourself from the people who would have otherwise flunked out.
If everyone has good grades due to grade inflation, then you've got more competition. Better get a 5.0 GPA instead to differentiate yourself from the people who benefited from grade inflation.
Employers simply see a wider market - of dumb and complacent fools. A bigger stone to wring more blood out of.
Eventually society pays the price as we realize that churning out degrees for the sake of churning out degrees devalues the degrees, results in stupid people being in the same group as competent people, and ultimately gives oligarchs more control over everyone. Education is fine and dandy, but requiring people to take 4 years of a foreign language, 2 years of performance arts, etc. to get a basic job is absurd. As is making them spend 4 years of their life taking on debt and learning pretty much nothing applicable to the bleak job market they'll enter 4 years later into life than they need to.
Higher education is marketed as a path upward. But for the vast majority of people, it's simply a path downward into debt and shitty job prospects. Most people would be better served entering the job market earlier and skipping the cost of college, or by joining the military, or by learning a trade (such as plumbing, carpentry, welding, etc.).
There are at least 7 things wrong with that.
I'm not a faggot.
I didn't cry as Trump was imprisoned.
- Trump isn't imprisoned.
- I wouldn't cry about it if it were to happen.
News of Trump being imprisoned wouldn't wait until 11.
- My crying about it (which wouldn't happen) wouldn't be newsworthy.
- - If it somehow did make the nightly news, my local market (most likely to air my crying / not crying) runs nightly news at 10 PM.
Slashdot Poster Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse
It's a warehouse.
It's not a zero-sum game.
Yes it is. Everything is.
No child left behind? Grade inflation? People with 4 year of even graduate degrees being stuck slinging swill at Starbucks? An entire generation mired in debt that prevents them from owning property or maintaining any sort of savings? In a competitive market/society, this shit doesn't make sense and it doesn't work.
Realizing that the "value" of the education from these institutions is bullshit?
The ivy league is about already being connected, and nothing else. The rest of the big players are all about selling the lie that college is for everyone and college guarantees success. More and more people are realizing that's bullshit. So higher education is increasingly being marketed to the dumb and poor as a path to financial success. It's about as truthful as marketing cigarettes and beer to the poor as a path to social status.
Seen it. It's great.
In an architectural drafting class I actually had the instructor tell me carpenters can get a house square to a 1/16th inch. I argued with him briefly and put him in my list of someone to never take advice from.
Perfect example of those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.
You're damn lucky if a house's variances are within 2%.
Because outsourcing manufacturing is cheaper. And when the quality goes down and you can't fix it because the 2nd world country you outsourced to doesn't give a fuck, you outsource again to a third world country and throw quality out the window in the race to the bottom.
I've been driving BMW's for decades
There's your problem.
they are excellent vehicles.
Nope.
Q did not post either of those things.
I had this checked. It's true. WTF Amex?
What is the security saying about having physical access to a machine to plug in a USB dongle?
"Physical access is no access to remote resources when you still have to validate against a different remote server."
That ol' chestnut?
People have varying abilities. When I was young, I could hear to about 27 kHz, and some stores with "ultrasonic" burglar detection were painful to enter.
No they don't. And what you're referring to was not ultrasonic. Human hearing range is very well modeled. You're not special. No audiophile is special. You're just delusional.
Prove it with ABX testing or shut up. Your claims are on the level of homeopathy.
But what will you do with the extra lanes?
You get 128 total, and you're using 64 on PCIe slots, 16 on M.2, 12 on TB3 (Intel bottlenecks their shit by using only 2 lanes per port), and 4 on networking.
You've got 32 left over, man.
How about we just give you a couple dozen USB 3 ports and if you want SATA/SCSI/Floppy/Whatever you just buy some adapters?
Similar SACD. The SACD versions of old classics owe their sound to the remastering and sound identical whether you play the DSD bitstream perfectly though a quality DAC or you downsample to 44.1khz
Don't forget to convert from 1 bit to 16 bit.
If you just switch from 2.8224 MHz to 44.1 kHz but stay at 1 bit, you're fucked.
Or they possibly have a better system than you do. I'm recording vinyl at 192/96 and I can tell you unequivocally that the quality, depth, and detail far surpass CDs and rival DVD-A. People who say vinyl is no better are typically listening to it on a cheap USB turntable running through their onboard sound card. And in that scenario, yes of course it's going to sound like shit. Go spend a few grand on a descent setup though and the difference is night and day.
Bullshit.
You can't hear past ~20 KHz.
You will never need more than ~40 KHz to accurately sample anything you can hear.
The common 44.1 KHz covers all of human hearing perfectly.
Time and time again blind testing has proven this to be true.
And no, 16 bit samples aren't a limitation either.
Prove me wrong. Show me a controlled test where any human can hear the difference.
CDs have 2 layers of error correction.
There's the underlying 8 to 14 encoding (plus 3) for the physical structure, meaning 17 physical bits gets you 8 bits of data, then there's CIRC on top of that for redbook audio.
If you're using Gmail you'll see it.
Otherwise you'll get an email with a link. The link takes you to Google Docs to view the shit.
The whole thing is nonsense. To get it even close to being workable google would have to remove pop3, imap and smtp support from gmail to start. Then it would have to eliminate every other worldwide email provider. Even then, unless you are on a chromebook or stupid enough to use the gmail app on iOS or Android there is still no way to enforce it.
But but but snapchat; all the left wing brain dead kids cry. Yes because nobody ever took a screenshot of a naked snap and posted it to the inter webs did they...
Nah.
If recipient address ends with @gmail.com or any other @domain.tld that Gmail manages, they get the email with the new bullshit.
Otherwise, they get an email with a link to a copy of the actual email in Google Docs. The link expires at a certain time.
In both instances, the page is riddled with Javascript cancer to prevent copying and pasting. Anyone with a brain will still be able to retain/copy/share it, of course.
"Statistically random" means that numbers are not evenly distributed.
Wrong. Absolutely 100% incorrect.
Every statistical test for randomness looks for uniform distribution across the range of possible values. If RAND(0,1) favors numbers A series that has too few long sequences of one bit will be rejected by good randomness tests.
"Long" is relative to the sample size. If you encounter a "long" sequence, most tests reject the generator. What your threshold is depends on what you're doing.
A bias is not an indicator for things not being truly random.
Yes, it is. Absolutely. If you reject something as non-random because it doesn't pass your statistical test despite there being a non-zero chance of a true random generator giving you that result, you're an idiot.
If you want pseudo random numbers, talk about that. When talking about randomness, you don't get to pick and choose your results, or reject sources based on the results. You only get to reject sources based on CAUSE. Random means without CAUSE.
You can't know that.
Random means without cause, not with a uniform result.
7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7 could be random for all you know.
Rejecting it as non random based on it being non-uniformly distributed is inherently wrong and counter to the concept of selecting random numbers.
If you want PSEUDO random numbers (homogenous, uniform numbers), then ask for that.
If you want RANDOM numbers you take what you get.