Fanning the flames only makes it worse, is the thing. To most people, left and right, it simply doesn't matter. Let it be. Deny the stage those who want your gender or whatever the only thing that's important about you. End the conversation, deflate the energy, lets things that shouldn't matter lie there and not matter.
You've seen PAR files presumably? The same could easily be done on a filesystem-level basis (and I imagine, somewhere, already is for some specialist niche).
While all hard drives now do their own Hamming error correction (or something better), RAID2 is the same idea for "raw" storage that doesn't: you write explicit ECCs to redundant volumes to allow recovery from both drive loss and bad sectors.
RAID5 with modern drives gives all the same resiliency, as the drives do the block-level ECC themselves, so you never see RAID2. But for a pile of flash memory, that's the filesystem-level equivalent of PAR files.
Thanks - a real example! Wow, to me "300" does not sound like a large number for a computer. My mind boggles at how anyone could write code that bad - the AI must be written in some wildly inappropriate language? Or the developer just didn't care about perf and never got a bug assigned as they didn't QA at that scale? Nah, he got the bug and the game shipped with it, of course.
When I think "next gen games" I think games written for mobile platforms that look like flash games and would have run on my C64, What specifically did you have in mind?
Detroit failed because of those policies that drove the tax base away. Yes, that is entirely the city's fault. No one has any moral obligation whatsoever to live in any given place. Quite the reverse: it's the city leadership's job to make the city inviting. But Detroit chose a different path.
Tax laws are a big part of what makes both people and businesses want to come or go, balanced by the degree to which those tax dollars actually make the city a better place (the absence of corruption). A city seeking prosperity needs to remember that. You can tax all the things, and give all the money to your friends - but not forever.
With steam you gotta wait for steam itself to update, then mandatory updates to the game before first launch.
All of which you did when you downloaded the game in the first place.
Then every time you play you have to waaaait for steam to launch first.
Which is why I prefer GOG. But almost no one's willing to sell their games there, and Steam would be equally empty if it were the same as GOG. Steam does a great service in convincing many smaller studios that Steam is "enough DRM," no need for more. (EA can go fuck itself.) It's not like these guys would be on GOG if Steam vanished - they'd be a wilderness of homegrown distribution platforms with DRM licensed from one of the really evil companies.
..to do what? I've long stopped caring about this stuff. It seems to solve no real problems out there.
Well, I use my CPU to transcode media files, so I might get one. But for gaming? When will CPU ever matter for gaming, unless your running some terribly-written Java game?
Of course you have to be online the first time you launch it, just like you have to be online to download the game. That's not actually a burden.
Steam offline mode has had issues over the years, and I still don't trust it, but having to be online the first time you ever launch a game is the least annoying copy protection possible. There's a freaking checkbox in Steam to launch a game as soon as the download is complete, for goodness sake, so you don't even need to babysit it to do that first launch.
It sounds like you've memorized your multiplication tables, but are ardently proclaiming that you didn't. There are many different ways to commit something to memory, but one way or another you need to know what the product of any two 1-digit numbers is without reaching for a calculator, or spending any time thinking about it.
The government airbag mandate injured many and killed a few children and elderly. That's not at all unclear. Airbags became safe about the same time the car companies were originally intending to bring them to production. The government did only harm.
But I'm guessing that for you, safety is a smokescreen, that your actual agenda is "more government control is always good", and so my argument that "but it kills children" is irrelevant. It did in fact increase government control, so to you nothing else matters in counting it a victory, yes?
Not after I throw the bits of statue into the sea, then just to be safe throw the planet into the Sun, and then throw the Sun into a black hole. It's like you've never played D&D, or something..
If you go out without an umbrella, it serves little purpose to yell at the sky when you get wet. We live in an imperfect world. A rational person takes reasonable precautions against known and likely dangers. An irrational person makes excuses not make the effort.
Blame and responsibility are orthogonal concepts. You can be completely free of moral culpability, yet still be irresponsible. And responsibility distinguishes an adult from a child (and that message is one more men need to hear - for this problem and many, many others).
No, today we have ball-point pens - get back to your side of the pond, and take your Maths with you!:p
And of course computation isn't that relevant to professional mathematics, but it is a useful life skill to be able to do simple calculation in one's head (18% interest? 18% isn't a lot, right?). Totally agree with you about orders of magnitude - I believe one reason our national debt is so high is that people can't tell a million from a trillion (let alone the brits ruining the words billion and trillion in the first place). Plus, I think doing simple math in your head is key to understanding how much a hundred is.
That's an interesting assertion, but there's no evidence for it. Other scientists were publishing without being executed, and we have records some of Bruno's other writings, which included personal attacks on other mathematicians, and pseudo-religious/philisohophical/mystical mumbo-jumbo of exactly the sort that would get you attention in secular circles, but the wrong kind of attention from the inquisition. (And even so, had he not foolishly gone back to Italy, he probably would have been OK.)
Not quite the same time period, but there were letters from people pretty high up in the Catholic Hierarchy to Copernicus saying stuff like "I think your ideas are great, and I urge you to publish them formally." The evidence from that time is pretty clear.
With time urban legends become simply legends, but you shouldn't believe "history" simply because it makes a good story (e.g., the "Children's Crusade" that never happened)when even Wikipedia has enough to make things more clear.
But the only reason the Sun's core is that hot is that it's a nearly perfect insulator. Give a small heater enough time in a perfectly insulated room and it will eventually get quite hot. Matter gets quite odd when light pressure is the dominant force.
Another surprising fact about fusion in the Sun is that the fusion power generated is about 1.5 watts per ton of core. Even in conditions in the core of the sun, fusion is hard, and the particular reaction process just confirmed was at the end of a long chain of reasoning explaining what we do see. So I think this actually give evidence that a bunch of stuff in Wikipedia about processes in the Sun is also true. (If a different fusion process was found, then we'd likely be wrong about how much power is generated, and thus about the rate and manner that that power eventually makes it to the surface and gets radiated).
Airbags, when first mandated by government ahead of when manufacturers were prepared for roll-out, were in fact quite dangerous. Does your car have an airbag off switch for the front passenger seat, so a child can sit there? It took a while for people to catch on and socially impose a "no kids in the front seat" rule, after many unfortunate incidents involving children. It was an total fuck-up, a perfect example of government do-gooding directly injuring people - children and the elderly in this case. And it was years before the problem was properly addressed with weight-sensors in the seats.
There's a strong market for safety features in cars today. You really don't need ham-handed government applying force for adoption.
Self-discipline is, in fact, useful in life. I'm glad you learned to multiply in your head one way or another. I never thought of it as "memorizing a table", as that only took a day or two, I thought of it as a lot of boring drill repeating something I knew already. But, of course, I got faster the more I did it. The journey from "conscious competence" to "unconscious competence" is an important one.
I also spent a few idle hours once to memorize the simplest of logarithm tables - 10^0.1 to 10^0.9, two a couple significant digits, which has proven useful over the years in quick mental estimation of all sorts of financial calculations.
The more tools on has in one's mental toolbag, the better.
Can you really not tell the product of two single-digit numbers at a glance? I'm sorry for your innumeracy. It's really not hard to fix - like learning to read as an adult, it only takes a few weeks of evening study.
Giordano Bruno? He was politically active, and wrote on many topics, including personal attacks on other thinkers of the day. While only his scientific writings were of lasting interest, it was likely his other writings that got him in trouble. He didn't have a firm political backer, instead wandering from one place to another without gaining a patron. In that time, political writings or public personal attacks were often treated as a challenge between patrons - to do so with no patron yourself was a poor life strategy.
Name one scientist who lost his head for blasphemy?
The key during the time of the inquisition was to stay away from politics. Anything one wrote with consequences or religious overtones was sharply examined for orthodoxy, because of major ongoing conflicts over political power, disguised as arguments over theology.
Most scientific writing at the time had what can be seen as a "boilerplate legal disclaimer" up front, which in the context of the day simply said "any resemblance to a religious or political argument is unintentional". You said explicitly that your weren't taking sides in the politics of the day, and you got on with the content.
ID is not a falsifiable hypothesis. It could be proven true - the aliens who seeded Earth with genetically modified precursors could land in space ships and present us with solid evidence - but it can't be proven false.
I agree it could be a great discussion topic, but likely it won't be. A friend of mine from Georgia (the US state) described his high school biology lecture on evolution as "OK, today I'm legally required to tech evolution. We all believe in Jesus, right? OK, next topic."
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Fanning the flames only makes it worse, is the thing. To most people, left and right, it simply doesn't matter. Let it be. Deny the stage those who want your gender or whatever the only thing that's important about you. End the conversation, deflate the energy, lets things that shouldn't matter lie there and not matter.
You've seen PAR files presumably? The same could easily be done on a filesystem-level basis (and I imagine, somewhere, already is for some specialist niche).
While all hard drives now do their own Hamming error correction (or something better), RAID2 is the same idea for "raw" storage that doesn't: you write explicit ECCs to redundant volumes to allow recovery from both drive loss and bad sectors.
RAID5 with modern drives gives all the same resiliency, as the drives do the block-level ECC themselves, so you never see RAID2. But for a pile of flash memory, that's the filesystem-level equivalent of PAR files.
Thanks - a real example! Wow, to me "300" does not sound like a large number for a computer. My mind boggles at how anyone could write code that bad - the AI must be written in some wildly inappropriate language? Or the developer just didn't care about perf and never got a bug assigned as they didn't QA at that scale? Nah, he got the bug and the game shipped with it, of course.
I've never seen a gaming-related benchmark where the slowest new desktop CPU you could buy wasn't "enough".
Can you give me an example of a modern game (other than minecraft) where the difference between 2x2 GHz and 8x4 GHz CPUs would be human-noticeable?
When I think "next gen games" I think games written for mobile platforms that look like flash games and would have run on my C64, What specifically did you have in mind?
Detroit failed because of those policies that drove the tax base away. Yes, that is entirely the city's fault. No one has any moral obligation whatsoever to live in any given place. Quite the reverse: it's the city leadership's job to make the city inviting. But Detroit chose a different path.
Tax laws are a big part of what makes both people and businesses want to come or go, balanced by the degree to which those tax dollars actually make the city a better place (the absence of corruption). A city seeking prosperity needs to remember that. You can tax all the things, and give all the money to your friends - but not forever.
With steam you gotta wait for steam itself to update, then mandatory updates to the game before first launch.
All of which you did when you downloaded the game in the first place.
Then every time you play you have to waaaait for steam to launch first.
Which is why I prefer GOG. But almost no one's willing to sell their games there, and Steam would be equally empty if it were the same as GOG. Steam does a great service in convincing many smaller studios that Steam is "enough DRM," no need for more. (EA can go fuck itself.) It's not like these guys would be on GOG if Steam vanished - they'd be a wilderness of homegrown distribution platforms with DRM licensed from one of the really evil companies.
..to do what? I've long stopped caring about this stuff. It seems to solve no real problems out there.
Well, I use my CPU to transcode media files, so I might get one. But for gaming? When will CPU ever matter for gaming, unless your running some terribly-written Java game?
Of course you have to be online the first time you launch it, just like you have to be online to download the game. That's not actually a burden.
Steam offline mode has had issues over the years, and I still don't trust it, but having to be online the first time you ever launch a game is the least annoying copy protection possible. There's a freaking checkbox in Steam to launch a game as soon as the download is complete, for goodness sake, so you don't even need to babysit it to do that first launch.
He was laid off with all the QA guys. He got a nice severance package though.
It sounds like you've memorized your multiplication tables, but are ardently proclaiming that you didn't. There are many different ways to commit something to memory, but one way or another you need to know what the product of any two 1-digit numbers is without reaching for a calculator, or spending any time thinking about it.
The government airbag mandate injured many and killed a few children and elderly. That's not at all unclear. Airbags became safe about the same time the car companies were originally intending to bring them to production. The government did only harm.
But I'm guessing that for you, safety is a smokescreen, that your actual agenda is "more government control is always good", and so my argument that "but it kills children" is irrelevant. It did in fact increase government control, so to you nothing else matters in counting it a victory, yes?
Not after I throw the bits of statue into the sea, then just to be safe throw the planet into the Sun, and then throw the Sun into a black hole. It's like you've never played D&D, or something..
If you go out without an umbrella, it serves little purpose to yell at the sky when you get wet. We live in an imperfect world. A rational person takes reasonable precautions against known and likely dangers. An irrational person makes excuses not make the effort.
Blame and responsibility are orthogonal concepts. You can be completely free of moral culpability, yet still be irresponsible. And responsibility distinguishes an adult from a child (and that message is one more men need to hear - for this problem and many, many others).
No, today we have ball-point pens - get back to your side of the pond, and take your Maths with you! :p
And of course computation isn't that relevant to professional mathematics, but it is a useful life skill to be able to do simple calculation in one's head (18% interest? 18% isn't a lot, right?). Totally agree with you about orders of magnitude - I believe one reason our national debt is so high is that people can't tell a million from a trillion (let alone the brits ruining the words billion and trillion in the first place). Plus, I think doing simple math in your head is key to understanding how much a hundred is.
That's an interesting assertion, but there's no evidence for it. Other scientists were publishing without being executed, and we have records some of Bruno's other writings, which included personal attacks on other mathematicians, and pseudo-religious/philisohophical/mystical mumbo-jumbo of exactly the sort that would get you attention in secular circles, but the wrong kind of attention from the inquisition. (And even so, had he not foolishly gone back to Italy, he probably would have been OK.)
Not quite the same time period, but there were letters from people pretty high up in the Catholic Hierarchy to Copernicus saying stuff like "I think your ideas are great, and I urge you to publish them formally." The evidence from that time is pretty clear.
With time urban legends become simply legends, but you shouldn't believe "history" simply because it makes a good story (e.g., the "Children's Crusade" that never happened)when even Wikipedia has enough to make things more clear.
But the only reason the Sun's core is that hot is that it's a nearly perfect insulator. Give a small heater enough time in a perfectly insulated room and it will eventually get quite hot. Matter gets quite odd when light pressure is the dominant force.
Another surprising fact about fusion in the Sun is that the fusion power generated is about 1.5 watts per ton of core. Even in conditions in the core of the sun, fusion is hard, and the particular reaction process just confirmed was at the end of a long chain of reasoning explaining what we do see. So I think this actually give evidence that a bunch of stuff in Wikipedia about processes in the Sun is also true. (If a different fusion process was found, then we'd likely be wrong about how much power is generated, and thus about the rate and manner that that power eventually makes it to the surface and gets radiated).
Airbags, when first mandated by government ahead of when manufacturers were prepared for roll-out, were in fact quite dangerous. Does your car have an airbag off switch for the front passenger seat, so a child can sit there? It took a while for people to catch on and socially impose a "no kids in the front seat" rule, after many unfortunate incidents involving children. It was an total fuck-up, a perfect example of government do-gooding directly injuring people - children and the elderly in this case. And it was years before the problem was properly addressed with weight-sensors in the seats.
There's a strong market for safety features in cars today. You really don't need ham-handed government applying force for adoption.
Self-discipline is, in fact, useful in life. I'm glad you learned to multiply in your head one way or another. I never thought of it as "memorizing a table", as that only took a day or two, I thought of it as a lot of boring drill repeating something I knew already. But, of course, I got faster the more I did it. The journey from "conscious competence" to "unconscious competence" is an important one.
I also spent a few idle hours once to memorize the simplest of logarithm tables - 10^0.1 to 10^0.9, two a couple significant digits, which has proven useful over the years in quick mental estimation of all sorts of financial calculations.
The more tools on has in one's mental toolbag, the better.
I think throughout most of the south, the cities are very different places - was that your experience?
Can you really not tell the product of two single-digit numbers at a glance? I'm sorry for your innumeracy. It's really not hard to fix - like learning to read as an adult, it only takes a few weeks of evening study.
Giordano Bruno? He was politically active, and wrote on many topics, including personal attacks on other thinkers of the day. While only his scientific writings were of lasting interest, it was likely his other writings that got him in trouble. He didn't have a firm political backer, instead wandering from one place to another without gaining a patron. In that time, political writings or public personal attacks were often treated as a challenge between patrons - to do so with no patron yourself was a poor life strategy.
Name one scientist who lost his head for blasphemy?
The key during the time of the inquisition was to stay away from politics. Anything one wrote with consequences or religious overtones was sharply examined for orthodoxy, because of major ongoing conflicts over political power, disguised as arguments over theology.
Most scientific writing at the time had what can be seen as a "boilerplate legal disclaimer" up front, which in the context of the day simply said "any resemblance to a religious or political argument is unintentional". You said explicitly that your weren't taking sides in the politics of the day, and you got on with the content.
ID is not a falsifiable hypothesis. It could be proven true - the aliens who seeded Earth with genetically modified precursors could land in space ships and present us with solid evidence - but it can't be proven false.
I agree it could be a great discussion topic, but likely it won't be. A friend of mine from Georgia (the US state) described his high school biology lecture on evolution as "OK, today I'm legally required to tech evolution. We all believe in Jesus, right? OK, next topic."