This is insightful. It's very easy for a single person to just kind of figure out "good enough for now" and then leave it. On personal projects I'm often guilty of doing something half-assed. (I wouldn't do it in a business scenario, but the next guy might.)
Not the beliefs, but the actions they take based on those beliefs or the restrictions they place on your own life based on those beliefs most certainly can. An overused and cliche example, but if their beliefs say I need to be burned at the stake for being a heathen, I'm pretty sure that's going to make me miserable. Not terribly likely in the modern day, I admit, but there's plenty of things that do.
Only if a supernova threatens the entire galaxy, and a planet many minutes away at full warp can have Vulcan hovering in the sky above it, larger than a moon. In that case, yes, red matter is entirely plausible.
Any musician who molds their output completely around profits is NOT an artist by any stretch of the imagination; they are a corporate shill and a hack.
I'd argue that over the last few millennia, most art was done under contract and performed almost entirely for profits. The "money ruins art" concept is relatively recent.
No, *you* just don't find them funny. Humor is subjective, and anyone old enough to find slashdot interesting ought to be able to recognize this. The difference between "X just sucks" and "I don't like X" is a massive shift in perspective, but an important one in the process of maturing.
My five-month-old daughter burst out laughing the other day when my wife took off her scarf. We still don't quite understand that one, but it was clear the kiddo thought it was hilarious.
the interpretation of the fish joke where they're in a fish tank.
There's no humor in the idea that they're in a bowl. You can't drive a bowl.
Contrariwise, I happen to find the idea funny. One, how does the fish know about driving but not know what kinds of things can be driven, or not driven? Two, where would the fish need to drive to?
Sorry, but you can't be both religious and sane. The cognitive dissonance required to believe religious fairy tales and reconcile them with modern scientific reality is really mentally draining and is a form on mental illness.
You could say the same thing about a lot of other very common human things, though. Being in love, for instance, would be a lot like a mental illness if we didn't all fall for it. We're almost all subject to some superstitions. Most humor, and a lot of art. They're all at least a little bit not sane, but somehow most people find them worthwhile.
You don't even have to get that complicated. If someone's being so blind as to argue you can't go against entropy, ever, they're essentially arguing it's not possible to stack a pile of rocks (i.e., construct anything, which I agree definitely includes life itself).
That'd be really silly, though. Most antibiotics are incredibly cheap. The last batch we bought was $20, before insurance, and I think that brought it down to $15. I can see wanting to be sparing with lots of other expensive prescription drugs, but if for some reason I had extra antibiotics I'd throw them away before wasting the shelf space trying to keep them.
Seems a bit high. I'm in the process of replacing our system, and we'll manage for maybe $40k. That's a couple of servers, a couple of drives, software, and a big stack of tapes. Of course it depends on how big your operation is, but that'll cover ~30 servers for us.
One of my favorite moments of this was when my brother actually forgot my name. He chewed on it for a while, then finally decided he should give up and just ask. So he turned to me and said, "Ross, what's your name?" because even though he couldn't *think* of it, somehow reflexively he could just interject it into a sentence. It's a priceless memory we still joke about on occasion.
I can also think of several other really spectacular incidents that seemed life-altering in the moment, but which I'd soon forget for years, only to remember them out of the blue one day, or find them in an old journal entry, and wonder how it was possible to have gone that long without keeping that important experience in mind.
Or in other words, we have memories that we forgot we had?
Or is more like, we have the memories, but we forgot where we put them?
This is no surprise to me at all. Can't tell you how many times I've started out a conversation with "it's really fuzzy but here's this little thing I remember" and by the end of the discussion the whole thing has come back to me. In some cases it might be my brain filling in gaps by making things up, as people are definitely inclined to do, but I know there are plenty of cases where I can verify it's proper recall of real events/facts.
I talked to a girl once who described her photographic memory to me, and some of the problems it had caused. Especially when she ever head to repeat something, like rereading a book. She'd remember the original reading, plus the new reading, plus layer upon layer of thinking about each reading, plus other times when she'd remembered the readings, or thought about remembering, or remembered thinking about it, etc. Said it gave her serious headaches for a while before she learned how to deal with it.
I saw this in plain HTML back in '97. Look at one page, pick a card, click, look at the next page. I had to go back and forth about five times before I realized what was going on, and that "jack of clubs, queen of diamonds" had been replaced by "queen of clubs, jack of diamonds," etc., so there couldn't be a match.
If they mean 1/10th they should say 1/10, not ten times less. Its just plain syntactically incorrect. 10 times always implies multiplication.
In math class, yes. In common usage, no. Or do you go around telling everyone they're not allowed to use "momentum" unless they specifically mean mass times velocity? I'd go on about the use of "impulse" but I've forgotten the equation. Not to mention the discussion of people "multiplying" by having children, which is clearly an addition process.
I've never sold a game, but I do like to trade them with my brother now and then. It's disappointing when restrictions keep us from being able to do so.
Beyond that, it's unsafe to assume someone who is buying used would buy the same book new. I aggressively stock up when I can get my hands on cheap books, and I've got an entire bookshelf full of books I haven't read yet just waiting for me to get around to them, most of them bought at a discount. If books could only be acquired at full price, I'd have one or two extra books on hand, but not a bookshelf full.
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This is insightful. It's very easy for a single person to just kind of figure out "good enough for now" and then leave it. On personal projects I'm often guilty of doing something half-assed. (I wouldn't do it in a business scenario, but the next guy might.)
Not the beliefs, but the actions they take based on those beliefs or the restrictions they place on your own life based on those beliefs most certainly can. An overused and cliche example, but if their beliefs say I need to be burned at the stake for being a heathen, I'm pretty sure that's going to make me miserable. Not terribly likely in the modern day, I admit, but there's plenty of things that do.
What if it makes *YOU* miserable?
Only if a supernova threatens the entire galaxy, and a planet many minutes away at full warp can have Vulcan hovering in the sky above it, larger than a moon. In that case, yes, red matter is entirely plausible.
The only thing broken about TV is the massive proportion of it dedicated to advertising instead of actual content.
Any musician who molds their output completely around profits is NOT an artist by any stretch of the imagination; they are a corporate shill and a hack.
I'd argue that over the last few millennia, most art was done under contract and performed almost entirely for profits. The "money ruins art" concept is relatively recent.
When you can put a galaxy in the belt of Orion, a constellation, is it any wonder people are confused about terms these days?
No, *you* just don't find them funny. Humor is subjective, and anyone old enough to find slashdot interesting ought to be able to recognize this. The difference between "X just sucks" and "I don't like X" is a massive shift in perspective, but an important one in the process of maturing.
Shouldn't the 103rd word be "goose"?
My five-month-old daughter burst out laughing the other day when my wife took off her scarf. We still don't quite understand that one, but it was clear the kiddo thought it was hilarious.
There's no humor in the idea that they're in a bowl. You can't drive a bowl.
Contrariwise, I happen to find the idea funny. One, how does the fish know about driving but not know what kinds of things can be driven, or not driven? Two, where would the fish need to drive to?
Sorry, but you can't be both religious and sane. The cognitive dissonance required to believe religious fairy tales and reconcile them with modern scientific reality is really mentally draining and is a form on mental illness.
You could say the same thing about a lot of other very common human things, though. Being in love, for instance, would be a lot like a mental illness if we didn't all fall for it. We're almost all subject to some superstitions. Most humor, and a lot of art. They're all at least a little bit not sane, but somehow most people find them worthwhile.
You don't even have to get that complicated. If someone's being so blind as to argue you can't go against entropy, ever, they're essentially arguing it's not possible to stack a pile of rocks (i.e., construct anything, which I agree definitely includes life itself).
That'd be really silly, though. Most antibiotics are incredibly cheap. The last batch we bought was $20, before insurance, and I think that brought it down to $15. I can see wanting to be sparing with lots of other expensive prescription drugs, but if for some reason I had extra antibiotics I'd throw them away before wasting the shelf space trying to keep them.
Seems a bit high. I'm in the process of replacing our system, and we'll manage for maybe $40k. That's a couple of servers, a couple of drives, software, and a big stack of tapes. Of course it depends on how big your operation is, but that'll cover ~30 servers for us.
One of my favorite moments of this was when my brother actually forgot my name. He chewed on it for a while, then finally decided he should give up and just ask. So he turned to me and said, "Ross, what's your name?" because even though he couldn't *think* of it, somehow reflexively he could just interject it into a sentence. It's a priceless memory we still joke about on occasion.
I can also think of several other really spectacular incidents that seemed life-altering in the moment, but which I'd soon forget for years, only to remember them out of the blue one day, or find them in an old journal entry, and wonder how it was possible to have gone that long without keeping that important experience in mind.
Or in other words, we have memories that we forgot we had? Or is more like, we have the memories, but we forgot where we put them?
This is no surprise to me at all. Can't tell you how many times I've started out a conversation with "it's really fuzzy but here's this little thing I remember" and by the end of the discussion the whole thing has come back to me. In some cases it might be my brain filling in gaps by making things up, as people are definitely inclined to do, but I know there are plenty of cases where I can verify it's proper recall of real events/facts.
I talked to a girl once who described her photographic memory to me, and some of the problems it had caused. Especially when she ever head to repeat something, like rereading a book. She'd remember the original reading, plus the new reading, plus layer upon layer of thinking about each reading, plus other times when she'd remembered the readings, or thought about remembering, or remembered thinking about it, etc. Said it gave her serious headaches for a while before she learned how to deal with it.
I saw this in plain HTML back in '97. Look at one page, pick a card, click, look at the next page. I had to go back and forth about five times before I realized what was going on, and that "jack of clubs, queen of diamonds" had been replaced by "queen of clubs, jack of diamonds," etc., so there couldn't be a match.
No, but I can tell the time by the angle of the sun in the sky and don't need to dig out my phone. Does that count?
Also, I once discovered Amnesium, but then I forgot where.
If they mean 1/10th they should say 1/10, not ten times less. Its just plain syntactically incorrect. 10 times always implies multiplication.
In math class, yes. In common usage, no. Or do you go around telling everyone they're not allowed to use "momentum" unless they specifically mean mass times velocity? I'd go on about the use of "impulse" but I've forgotten the equation. Not to mention the discussion of people "multiplying" by having children, which is clearly an addition process.
I've never sold a game, but I do like to trade them with my brother now and then. It's disappointing when restrictions keep us from being able to do so.
Beyond that, it's unsafe to assume someone who is buying used would buy the same book new. I aggressively stock up when I can get my hands on cheap books, and I've got an entire bookshelf full of books I haven't read yet just waiting for me to get around to them, most of them bought at a discount. If books could only be acquired at full price, I'd have one or two extra books on hand, but not a bookshelf full.
I've got no mod points, but wanted to say you've got several interesting and well-written posts in this thread.