I guess "unapproved fun" is only important to me if I give a shit about the approval.
Yes, that is the winning move in the culture wars (... not to play). Sadly, it's a lot harder to make that move for struggling authors, indie game devs, and so on, reliant on social media and established forums to raise awareness of their existence.
And they aren't severing those economic ties. Nations can be sovereign and yet trade. Globalism benefits only the most rich, while trade between sovereign nations can benefit everyone.
Do you think the voters know more or less about Trump as a result of his twitter feed? Do you believe there will be any confusion about who Trump is come November 2020? I think Trump's Twitter feed is a historic landmark in the evolution of democracy.
Have "our betters" been barring open thought and fun? I missed that chapter.
Have you missed the entire culture war? Anita Sarkesian tells us were having wrongfun if we enjoy mainstream video games. The folks at WorldCon tell us we're having wrongfun if we enjoy good SF books without regard to the political leanings of the authors. Hell, wear the wrong shit when you celebrate landing a space ship on a comet, and you're having doubleplus wrongfun.
I can only hope there's a special Hell reserved for moral scolds.
Sure, there are cases where null is semantically valid - it's not an error, but nothing was found. But folks shouldn't use it unless it's correct, as there's always a better way to signal an error.
Trump used Twitter to bypass the media and avoid having his words scrutinised before they entered his supporter's brains.
How dare the president talk directly to the voters in a democracy! Well, I never! It's a scandal, not letting the press tell the peasants what they're supposed to think. This whole country is going to fail, given the way people are thinking unapproved thoughts and having unapproved fun. Why won't they just listen to their betters? It's for their own good!
Your code must have a uniform way to signal errors. In Java/C# this is done by throwing an exception, full stop.
You can use exceptions, but exceptions come with their own problems that are worse than NULL pointers in many cases.
Unless you're talking about the performance implications in C++, that debate was settled last century. Exceptions are the right way to signal errors, because the problem of forgetting to check for errors is endemic. Exceptions translate "I don't handle errors" to "abort", which is obviously the correct translation.
In C code, the return value is consumed by the error code, and any values have to be returned by output parameters. If done this way uniformly, you can at least try to catch the places where people forget to check in code review.
Just returning "null" because you don't have a standard convention for returning errors is the most wrong answer. Null for a potentially expected case is different (like an object not found in a map) - then it actually makes sense, rather than being a hack to avoid error handling.
There are plenty of places where a real estate bubble has pushed prices for buying up to nutty levels, while rents are low by comparison (but still high).
Basic rule of thumb: if you can buy for 100 months rent, that's a steal. If it's more than 200 month's rent, it's a rip-off (less than 200 if it's a condo with high fees). Somewhere in between is a matter of taste.
Maybe a circular runway would have new and different visual cues?
For night/low visibility, you need a line of very bright lights leading up to the runway along the approach path - basically a bright arrow pointing to the start of the runway. That's not going to work if you must land at some arbitrary and varying point around the circle.
NASA is a project management organization. They don't design rockets - they design requirements for rockets. The Major corporation that take NASA contracts design the rockets, from an engineering perspective.
This is really a comparison between having custom rockets farmed out to someone like Lockheed, vs just using "COTS" rockets from someone like SpaceX.
The proposal is for a 2-mile diameter circle, so the curvature per se won't be that strong. You effectively get to have a runway aligned in the direction ideal for conditions. But what's not clear is how the heck you'd ever line up properly if you had an instrument problem. None of the normal visual cues would be there. Seems like a non-starter if it's effectively impossible to land with an instrument malfunction.
Some better-quality anime has a formula that works quite well with a 10-13 hour series: the first third to half of the series is episodic, while they introduce the characters and establish what "normal" is - key in some SF or fantasy setting. The serialized story is then maybe 8 hours of content. That works well and doesn't get stale, and you know who the characters are and how the setting works before the real conflict begins.
I wish that formula would become more common - I really like it.
It isn't about BDSM. It's about his beliefs in the hierarchy of men and women - i.e., that men are evolutionarily superior and predisposed to lead; women are happiest as slaves or at least subjugated to men. Nobody cares less about the whips and chains, we've all tried spanking.... things...
Is this going to be the D&D moral panic all over again? One can roleplay things one does not actually believe. Heck, whoever invented the AD&D take on Drow was doing both sorts of roleplaying simultaneously - how's that for efficiency.
If this guy had been talking about transsexual/gay/bi-sexual BDSM
Apparently the BDSM rejects such labels as too narrow and arbitrary. LGBTBBQ stuuf doesn't even register on the BSDM weird-o-meter. This has actually caused some bad blood between the communities.
"Why can't you support the gay cause? Don't you know how much we suffer?" "Oh? You think you know suffering?"
Friend of mine saw the same thing first hand in Paris. But then, it wasn't the native population. In the US the same happens in some cities, but it's the homeless in our case.
Anyone who talks about subjects the MSM wants to suppress is now a troll.
Hey, Kunedog, if by MSM you mean folks like CNN and the NYT, please stop describing them that way. They've fallen out of the mainstream - they're the old-school media now. Top-tier YouTubers and bloggers have more sibscribers and more views than the biggest newspapers or CNN. MSNBC and most newspapers have less reach than hundreds of second-tier bloggers and YouTubers.
Newspapers and Cable news channels are quickly becoming "something old people pay attention to", and the balance of power has already shifted to new media. In a generation the old-school media will be a quaint curiosity, like printed books.
Wait, haven't you two had this exact same argument before here? Don't respond to AmiMoJo's trolling - he says the same shit every time the subject comes up, and somehow the trollbait always works.
While the first part is true what you omit is that if people can not monetize videos they won't make them
Not true, but it does create a barrier to entry. Two of my favorite YouTube channels are Patreon-funded, because they don't shy away from offending people. One is a political commenter, one is Jim Fucking Sterling, son (if you're going to make a game review video while waving a 3-foot long dildo sword, you're under no illusions about YouTube monetization). I have no idea how Red Letter Media wins vs the copyright trolls, but I have a feeling they'd be just fine if they lost their YT ad revenue.
But those are established names. Especially in political commentary, it would be very hard to "break out" if YouTube were demonetizing you from the start.
To see the difference between 4K and 8K, you have to have a screen so large or close that it exceeds your field of view, leaving you craning your neck around to see things, and with a flat screen getting a foreshortened picture anyhow.
Heck, to see the difference between 4K and 1080p requires you sit closer than most people do when watching TV - it's much more interesting for gaming than "lean back" TV watching. (You'll find TV showrooms set up where you stand very close to the TV when you evaluate 4K vs 1080p - it's a sales gimmick - but for gaming we sit much closer).
As a single player game - I found the original campaign to be a lot of fun, and every subsequent version less so. Admittedly, I gave up on SC2 before the expansions came out, as I found the campaign deadly dull. Still, if the single-player campaign is supported by the graphics pack, I'm up for it.
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I guess "unapproved fun" is only important to me if I give a shit about the approval.
Yes, that is the winning move in the culture wars (... not to play). Sadly, it's a lot harder to make that move for struggling authors, indie game devs, and so on, reliant on social media and established forums to raise awareness of their existence.
And they aren't severing those economic ties. Nations can be sovereign and yet trade. Globalism benefits only the most rich, while trade between sovereign nations can benefit everyone.
Do you think the voters know more or less about Trump as a result of his twitter feed? Do you believe there will be any confusion about who Trump is come November 2020? I think Trump's Twitter feed is a historic landmark in the evolution of democracy.
Have "our betters" been barring open thought and fun? I missed that chapter.
Have you missed the entire culture war? Anita Sarkesian tells us were having wrongfun if we enjoy mainstream video games. The folks at WorldCon tell us we're having wrongfun if we enjoy good SF books without regard to the political leanings of the authors. Hell, wear the wrong shit when you celebrate landing a space ship on a comet, and you're having doubleplus wrongfun.
I can only hope there's a special Hell reserved for moral scolds.
Sure, there are cases where null is semantically valid - it's not an error, but nothing was found. But folks shouldn't use it unless it's correct, as there's always a better way to signal an error.
Trump used Twitter to bypass the media and avoid having his words scrutinised before they entered his supporter's brains.
How dare the president talk directly to the voters in a democracy! Well, I never! It's a scandal, not letting the press tell the peasants what they're supposed to think. This whole country is going to fail, given the way people are thinking unapproved thoughts and having unapproved fun. Why won't they just listen to their betters? It's for their own good!
Your code must have a uniform way to signal errors. In Java/C# this is done by throwing an exception, full stop.
You can use exceptions, but exceptions come with their own problems that are worse than NULL pointers in many cases.
Unless you're talking about the performance implications in C++, that debate was settled last century. Exceptions are the right way to signal errors, because the problem of forgetting to check for errors is endemic. Exceptions translate "I don't handle errors" to "abort", which is obviously the correct translation.
In C code, the return value is consumed by the error code, and any values have to be returned by output parameters. If done this way uniformly, you can at least try to catch the places where people forget to check in code review.
Just returning "null" because you don't have a standard convention for returning errors is the most wrong answer. Null for a potentially expected case is different (like an object not found in a map) - then it actually makes sense, rather than being a hack to avoid error handling.
That tends to be true no matter where you are.
There are plenty of places where a real estate bubble has pushed prices for buying up to nutty levels, while rents are low by comparison (but still high).
Basic rule of thumb: if you can buy for 100 months rent, that's a steal. If it's more than 200 month's rent, it's a rip-off (less than 200 if it's a condo with high fees). Somewhere in between is a matter of taste.
Maybe a circular runway would have new and different visual cues?
For night/low visibility, you need a line of very bright lights leading up to the runway along the approach path - basically a bright arrow pointing to the start of the runway. That's not going to work if you must land at some arbitrary and varying point around the circle.
NASA is a project management organization. They don't design rockets - they design requirements for rockets. The Major corporation that take NASA contracts design the rockets, from an engineering perspective.
This is really a comparison between having custom rockets farmed out to someone like Lockheed, vs just using "COTS" rockets from someone like SpaceX.
The proposal is for a 2-mile diameter circle, so the curvature per se won't be that strong. You effectively get to have a runway aligned in the direction ideal for conditions. But what's not clear is how the heck you'd ever line up properly if you had an instrument problem. None of the normal visual cues would be there. Seems like a non-starter if it's effectively impossible to land with an instrument malfunction.
And you can keep being tolerant even so. Let the other guy be the blatant asshole, don't become him.
Dost thou "thou" me, thou dog?
Some better-quality anime has a formula that works quite well with a 10-13 hour series: the first third to half of the series is episodic, while they introduce the characters and establish what "normal" is - key in some SF or fantasy setting. The serialized story is then maybe 8 hours of content. That works well and doesn't get stale, and you know who the characters are and how the setting works before the real conflict begins.
I wish that formula would become more common - I really like it.
It isn't about BDSM. It's about his beliefs in the hierarchy of men and women - i.e., that men are evolutionarily superior and predisposed to lead; women are happiest as slaves or at least subjugated to men. Nobody cares less about the whips and chains, we've all tried spanking.... things...
Is this going to be the D&D moral panic all over again? One can roleplay things one does not actually believe. Heck, whoever invented the AD&D take on Drow was doing both sorts of roleplaying simultaneously - how's that for efficiency.
Well put. Tolerance is a lost art among those who speak most about it, it seems.
One wonders where one's language went.
Even if you did speak English properly, with whom would you speak it?
If this guy had been talking about transsexual/gay/bi-sexual BDSM
Apparently the BDSM rejects such labels as too narrow and arbitrary. LGBTBBQ stuuf doesn't even register on the BSDM weird-o-meter. This has actually caused some bad blood between the communities.
"Why can't you support the gay cause? Don't you know how much we suffer?"
"Oh? You think you know suffering?"
Dibs on the popcorn franchise.
Friend of mine saw the same thing first hand in Paris. But then, it wasn't the native population. In the US the same happens in some cities, but it's the homeless in our case.
Anyone who talks about subjects the MSM wants to suppress is now a troll.
Hey, Kunedog, if by MSM you mean folks like CNN and the NYT, please stop describing them that way. They've fallen out of the mainstream - they're the old-school media now. Top-tier YouTubers and bloggers have more sibscribers and more views than the biggest newspapers or CNN. MSNBC and most newspapers have less reach than hundreds of second-tier bloggers and YouTubers.
Newspapers and Cable news channels are quickly becoming "something old people pay attention to", and the balance of power has already shifted to new media. In a generation the old-school media will be a quaint curiosity, like printed books.
Wait, haven't you two had this exact same argument before here? Don't respond to AmiMoJo's trolling - he says the same shit every time the subject comes up, and somehow the trollbait always works.
While the first part is true what you omit is that if people can not monetize videos they won't make them
Not true, but it does create a barrier to entry. Two of my favorite YouTube channels are Patreon-funded, because they don't shy away from offending people. One is a political commenter, one is Jim Fucking Sterling, son (if you're going to make a game review video while waving a 3-foot long dildo sword, you're under no illusions about YouTube monetization). I have no idea how Red Letter Media wins vs the copyright trolls, but I have a feeling they'd be just fine if they lost their YT ad revenue.
But those are established names. Especially in political commentary, it would be very hard to "break out" if YouTube were demonetizing you from the start.
To see the difference between 4K and 8K, you have to have a screen so large or close that it exceeds your field of view, leaving you craning your neck around to see things, and with a flat screen getting a foreshortened picture anyhow.
Heck, to see the difference between 4K and 1080p requires you sit closer than most people do when watching TV - it's much more interesting for gaming than "lean back" TV watching. (You'll find TV showrooms set up where you stand very close to the TV when you evaluate 4K vs 1080p - it's a sales gimmick - but for gaming we sit much closer).
As a single player game - I found the original campaign to be a lot of fun, and every subsequent version less so. Admittedly, I gave up on SC2 before the expansions came out, as I found the campaign deadly dull. Still, if the single-player campaign is supported by the graphics pack, I'm up for it.
Who cares? If the net result is fewer deaths, then that's the net result. Your fear of the new and Luddite instincts don't factor in.
Automated cars will improve over time. You'll go the other way. The crossover point is only a matter of time.
Also, you're a terrible driver - just suck at it totally. Well, that's a safe assumption, given you're a human who think's he's good at driving.