I'd more agree with linus actually, that there is so little emotion that comes across in an email. I have a board member that i have to deal with and he is a huge antagonist over email. LIke i think the guy is just pissed all the time and outraged about every little thing.
However when you talk to the guy in person, he never raises his voice, never yells, and is one of the most happy and compromising people that I have ever met.
I am sure everyone knows someone like that, completely different online and off. The problem i think is what linus describes, many people don't know how to communicate over text and can appear curt, or rude or worse, when really if you had the exact same conversation offline, they would be reasonable and understanding. It probably does have to do a lot with unconscious cues.
Considering how many people get doxxed or harrassed in real life for their online opinions, i am going to go with a big fat no on that.
The fact that every database will be hacked one day is another reason to not tie everything all together to a unique thing you cant change (like a real name or unique ID).
Maybe people have a work life and a home life and they done necessarily want those two to meet. Or even different groups of friends, maybe you have some good ole boys that you interact and spend time with one way, and some left wing hipsters that you interact and spend time with another way. Worlds would collide and maybe people think the worst of you in either world, when really you are somewhere in the middle (which is NOT ALLOWED anymore...)
And all that on top of the fact that the internet never forgets, where as peoples personal opinions change all the time. Do you really want the 16 year old version of your opinions haunting you for the rest of your life?
It has never been a good idea to post your real name online, and everything that has happened in the last 20 years has only re-enforced that fact, over and over again.
"Beat the kid with a belt, and make him/her chop wood for a week. that should solve it."
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you don't have any kids...
The more you punish kids, the worse they get. Do you like authoritarian micromanagement? no? so why would your kids? You have to be much craftier to be a parent now a days than back in whatever stone age you got your parenting knowledge from.
" Letting companies get sued into bankruptcy with the CEO's unemployable when they massively screw up is a much more compelling and reliable way to ensure corners aren't cut."
And that has happened when exactly? [citation needed]
Stop electing morons who defund your regulatory agencies. Stop cutting their budgets and ideologically opposing them and you might be able to save your sorry country from yourselves. You people that hate government are the exact god damnned problem.
Nuclear apologists seem pretty quiet in this thread today.
This is a perfect example of why nuclear power is a failure and should not be adopted over renewables.
we've had nuclear power for like 70 years and already had several accidents. Nuclear fuel does not degrade for tens of thousands of years. Its a waste problem far greater than c02, and is just as short sighted as the reliance on fossil fuels. Perhaps moreso.
Real world experience, and human nature, trumps engineers and designers perfect scenarios everytime.
corporate backed capitalistic dictatorship, vs communist dictatorship. At least china is focusing on the environmental issue which the usa clearly doesnt give a fuck about.
But to get right down to it, we all know the real reason for these moves is that the NSA wants its own spying gear in all these countries.
C02 is all gone from the atmosphere in roughly 1000 years. Nuclear waste on the otherhand sticks around for 100,000 years or more.
So you are doing exactly what people who had high hopes for oil are doing, ignoring the waste and externalities. I am not prepared to saddle the next 1000 generations with a waste problem because people don't like the very real solution of solar + hydro + wind + batteries.
It is most ironic, poeple who claim nuclear will solve all our problems with waste. That is the exact type of thinking that got us into this mess with carbon.
Considering that i dont carry a cel phone and manage fine you are 100% wrong mr addict.
i wish you could go back in time and see how ridiculous you sound.
Want to meet your friends and relatives somewhere? Arrange it. You have to anyways. If you are late, you are late. If you don't show because your car broke down, oh well. Maybe i am crazy, but i dont really care if friends or relatives don't know where i am every waking second..
Break down on the road? Well I live in the city, so i would hail a cab, take a bus, etc. Then bring the parts back and fix my car. Aint no way i am paying 100$ for a tow. And if I really had to call a tow truck, most businesses have a phone you can use. Same as it always was, except less payphones around.
"Those who have grown up with the freedom provided by cell phones have no idea how much extra effort it took to get around."
Are you kidding me? The extra effort of planning ahead and knowing how to use a fucking map???
This is exactly why i will never have a smartphone. People become so dependent on them they turn stupid. Your post exemplifies this.
Being present in the moment trumps ALL the truely trivial concerns you have raised. I am sure some people can use cel phones without it turning them into a zombie, but I haven't met that person yet.
Hopefully ads are banned as part of the push to spool down endless consumerism and growth that has doomed our world. It might be the next generation has much less of an appetite for endless consumerism when faced with total environmental collapse that has been directly caused by that consumerism.
Well one can dream right.. I know in my city they banned almost all junk mail advertising for environmental reasons last year. With a tick of the clock I suddenly didn't have to deal with flyers and other junk mail anymore. You don't really hear anyone complaining about this change either.
"malicious design to prevent repair" is a quite deliberate exaggeration
Please. The old imac screens were magnet'ed on. A simple suction cup and the glass is removed.
The parent is right, all new screens since around 2013 have been glued on. Why would they do this if not to prevent people upgrading their hardware or changing components?
Sure you can hopefully slice the screen off without damaging it, then buy a $15 kit of adhesive strips to reattach. And then you can pray you didnt fuck anything up, or have a spec of dust between the glass and the screen, causing you to disassemble once more.
I haven't personally had to do it yet (luckily professionally, most people dont use macs), but it seems like a nightmare. Especially if you compare it to the process that came before it.
"The guy got elected President. More than "some" actually voted for him."
Exactly. Americans are stupid, period. We all learned that when GW bush was RE-elected...(if people didnt know that before with reagan, and others before that)
The american "left" (really right wing by world standards) seems to think that america is schizophrenic, or that "good" americans are being manipulated by russia. When actually, no, the american public have been pretty much racist, classist, misogynistic, genocidal and ignorant since the countries founding. There is a reason that america has that reputation all over the world, and it wasnt started by trump. He is just the epitome of what the world already thinks most americans are like.
I am sure there are the occasional "good hombres" like noam chomsky, but their numbers are like one in a million.
How about like every kubrick film? very very few were made with profit in mind, i think only spartacus was. Something like interstellar which was written, directed and produced by christopher nolan, one person with a vision, could only be done as a labor of love.
Your comment is just wrong. The films that change peoples lives are never made with profit as the main motive. Superhero movies are not what I think anyone would consider "great" films. They are gods and monsters fighting for the masses. They don't make you think, they reinforce antiquated zoroastrianist duality structures and are generally a tired rehash of good vs evil.
I have started using usb-c for video and i can say that the aftermarket cable market is abysmal. You can buy a 30-40 dongle (usbc to hdmi for instance) that is garbage, or a $10 one that is amazing. There is zero correlation between quality and price. Just look at the reviews of apple usbc adaptors, most are garbage (with a high price tag). While ugreen, a no name chinese company is performing very well.
You have the newer apple laptops having multiple usb-c ports but one port is full power (next to the power plug), and another one is not, making things like powerpoint clickers have reduced range if plugged into a different port. How bullshit is that! They shouldn't be able to pick and choose what this or that port will support, can we have some standardization please? Was never a problem with usb 2 and usb 3....
Its a shitshow! There are no standards. I basically have to buy 3-4 adaptors and then just see which one lasts the longest or even works right. I had 3 different usb-c to vga adaptors before i found one that worked reliability without blanking the screen every hour or inducing some weird colours.
USB-C having used it for the last year, is NOT ready. there are major reliability and compatibility problems. Best bet is to read the amazon reviews before you purchase. I haven't dont anything with usb-c audio but i bet its a similar nightmare.
There already exists this market that people want for a "dumb" tv. A commercial or hospitality display, you can turn any feature you want completely off. They are of course, more expensive, but usually meant to be run 20 hours a day or more, so better components too.
And of course, nothing says you have to connect it to the network ever.
With SSD's being around $100 for a samsung 256gb drive, i doubt anyone is deploying less than 128 these days.
Who the hell would ship a computer with a 32gb ssd? windows itself needs that much to even install! much less run. 128gb has been too small for a few years now!
There are also some tricks you can use to free up space. One i learned recently will clean up the stupid windows installer directory pretty well. i personally freed up 40gb on my work machine.
Download the windows installer cleanup utility, then run MSIZAP.exe G! to clean the directory
If you get an error, delete all the registry keys under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData
Walls are pretty easy to get around / under / over / through. I am not sure that a wall will really solve all of americas immigration problems.
Luckily, the second aspect of trumps plan, making america a shitty place to live, is more likely to affect people choosing to move there. Mission accomplished i guess?
"What is the deal with all the Superhero movies? It is like everyone regressed to being a 12 year old boy."
I have a theory that it has to do with the death of god, and people inventing new modern age "gods" to fill that roll. You can see it in how people dress up as their "gods" for conventions, religiously skip work to attend first day showings of any new "chapter" in the odyssey, and discuss and debate the motivations of the characters as related to the cannon.
A set of metaphysical beings with "super" powers that they use to help or hurt humanity. Pretty much spot on analogous to polytheistic religions. Also explains why I hate the fakeness of superhero movies (and most religions).
Black panther was good though, just as a pure movie. Its the only super hero movie i have liked in recent memory. You didn't need to know all the backstory and depth of the universe to appreciate it.
Man 'sorry to bother you' was an amazing alternate reality that hit a bit too close to home if you have ever worked with a call centre.
Absolutely surreal and hilarious. The movie summed up many fears about the service based economy we are all one day expected to work in. Absurdist black scifi comedy, in both senses of the word "black". Get ready for a proper mind fucking! Just gets more surreal as the movie progresses to its logical conclusion. Reminds me of something like shaun of the dead, but more societal commentary and less violence.
"It's sad to see Slashdot taken over by anti-science scumbags"
Its not sad, its pretty normal. We have literally the best moderation system on the internet here. Avoiding the echochamber of reddit and the lowest common denominator of youtube comments. I would argue its the SOLE reason that this website still exists. That and people can post pretty much anything they like.
Its like flat earhers or any other wacky conspiracy that no one of consequence really believes. Its impossible to ignore the climate changing over the last 20 or 30 years. The willfully ignorant will always exist, I wouldn't let it bother you.
Its quaint that you think after all that has happened that the US will be any sort of player by the year 2100. Your nation was built with the free labour of slaves, and propped up mid century by being geographically isolated from europe during the second world war.
The new super power is quite obviously china. No surprise since you sold them and outsourced all your tech there.
"Let this nasty habit pick up steam, and a few years later you end up with someone dependent on fragile, unbacked-up Excel macros, and it all goes to shit when they leave or the spreadsheet gets corrupted. Or another version of Excel comes out. Or someone accidentally deletes the macro, or changes the structure of the spreadsheet."
Ok its very valid and I have personally had that happen multiple times, but your solution of "program in python or R" is laughable. Do you honestly think most offices have programmers on staff? Are you asking office workers to learn a programming language, what, in their spare time?
People use excel and VB macros because its easy to learn, its available in literally every office in the land, and there are many online resources available. And if you can write python code that needs no maintenance for 15 years i applaud you. I am not sure a "real" programming language would help the regular office worker at all. All code needs to be maintained, or its the exact same trap. And you think they will put their code in version control? Repeat after me, office workers are NOT programmers! They would have the exact same sloppy habits and zero documentation no matter what language they are using.
"Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Gen X. Successful, and their company is mostly considered decent"
You mean the people who founded an advertising company that now has tentacles and power over pretty much the entire internet?
Google is the exact opposite of "decent". They make microsoft look like the good guys.
Face it, anyone who makes it rich is tainted by that success. The only people who i can think of that have not sold out is craig from craigslist and steve wozniak.
Indeed! a friend of mine went on the price is right a few years ago. America and California together charge 33% + 7% tax on what you "win". So my friend won a trip and some electronics and ends up having to pay 2800 USD to claim it all.
Of course they are charging you full retail price on these items, which no one would ever pay... What a scam, i had no idea. In canada if you win the lotto there is no tax. The government already makes money as they are the ones who run the lotto (the house always wins).
Totally makes me rethink my childhood watching american game shows. I used to think these suckers were so lucky and dreamed of one day winning the showcase showdown.
Bullshit! i get sick within 20 seconds of putting on a htc VIVE. I am nauseous for about 4 hours afterwards, like i was just on a long sea voyage. I unfortunately have to support these things at work, but i cant wear them to support it. I just use a connected monitor.
This is not just me, i would say at least 10% of our staff have this reaction. Its a real issue and its 100% not solved. I also can't read while in vehicles in motion without getting the same sort of feeling, so i fully expect its something involved with my constitution. But i also fully expect its not something I am alone in experiencing.
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I'd more agree with linus actually, that there is so little emotion that comes across in an email. I have a board member that i have to deal with and he is a huge antagonist over email. LIke i think the guy is just pissed all the time and outraged about every little thing.
However when you talk to the guy in person, he never raises his voice, never yells, and is one of the most happy and compromising people that I have ever met.
I am sure everyone knows someone like that, completely different online and off. The problem i think is what linus describes, many people don't know how to communicate over text and can appear curt, or rude or worse, when really if you had the exact same conversation offline, they would be reasonable and understanding. It probably does have to do a lot with unconscious cues.
Considering how many people get doxxed or harrassed in real life for their online opinions, i am going to go with a big fat no on that.
The fact that every database will be hacked one day is another reason to not tie everything all together to a unique thing you cant change (like a real name or unique ID).
Maybe people have a work life and a home life and they done necessarily want those two to meet. Or even different groups of friends, maybe you have some good ole boys that you interact and spend time with one way, and some left wing hipsters that you interact and spend time with another way. Worlds would collide and maybe people think the worst of you in either world, when really you are somewhere in the middle (which is NOT ALLOWED anymore...)
And all that on top of the fact that the internet never forgets, where as peoples personal opinions change all the time. Do you really want the 16 year old version of your opinions haunting you for the rest of your life?
It has never been a good idea to post your real name online, and everything that has happened in the last 20 years has only re-enforced that fact, over and over again.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you don't have any kids...
The more you punish kids, the worse they get. Do you like authoritarian micromanagement? no? so why would your kids? You have to be much craftier to be a parent now a days than back in whatever stone age you got your parenting knowledge from.
And that has happened when exactly? [citation needed]
Stop electing morons who defund your regulatory agencies. Stop cutting their budgets and ideologically opposing them and you might be able to save your sorry country from yourselves. You people that hate government are the exact god damnned problem.
Nuclear apologists seem pretty quiet in this thread today.
This is a perfect example of why nuclear power is a failure and should not be adopted over renewables.
we've had nuclear power for like 70 years and already had several accidents. Nuclear fuel does not degrade for tens of thousands of years. Its a waste problem far greater than c02, and is just as short sighted as the reliance on fossil fuels. Perhaps moreso.
Real world experience, and human nature, trumps engineers and designers perfect scenarios everytime.
corporate backed capitalistic dictatorship, vs communist dictatorship. At least china is focusing on the environmental issue which the usa clearly doesnt give a fuck about.
But to get right down to it, we all know the real reason for these moves is that the NSA wants its own spying gear in all these countries.
I guess you are just ignoring nuclear waste?
C02 is all gone from the atmosphere in roughly 1000 years. Nuclear waste on the otherhand sticks around for 100,000 years or more.
So you are doing exactly what people who had high hopes for oil are doing, ignoring the waste and externalities. I am not prepared to saddle the next 1000 generations with a waste problem because people don't like the very real solution of solar + hydro + wind + batteries.
It is most ironic, poeple who claim nuclear will solve all our problems with waste. That is the exact type of thinking that got us into this mess with carbon.
Considering that i dont carry a cel phone and manage fine you are 100% wrong mr addict.
i wish you could go back in time and see how ridiculous you sound.
Want to meet your friends and relatives somewhere? Arrange it. You have to anyways. If you are late, you are late. If you don't show because your car broke down, oh well. Maybe i am crazy, but i dont really care if friends or relatives don't know where i am every waking second..
Break down on the road? Well I live in the city, so i would hail a cab, take a bus, etc. Then bring the parts back and fix my car. Aint no way i am paying 100$ for a tow. And if I really had to call a tow truck, most businesses have a phone you can use. Same as it always was, except less payphones around.
Are you kidding me? The extra effort of planning ahead and knowing how to use a fucking map???
This is exactly why i will never have a smartphone. People become so dependent on them they turn stupid. Your post exemplifies this.
Being present in the moment trumps ALL the truely trivial concerns you have raised. I am sure some people can use cel phones without it turning them into a zombie, but I haven't met that person yet.
Hopefully ads are banned as part of the push to spool down endless consumerism and growth that has doomed our world. It might be the next generation has much less of an appetite for endless consumerism when faced with total environmental collapse that has been directly caused by that consumerism.
Well one can dream right.. I know in my city they banned almost all junk mail advertising for environmental reasons last year. With a tick of the clock I suddenly didn't have to deal with flyers and other junk mail anymore. You don't really hear anyone complaining about this change either.
Please. The old imac screens were magnet'ed on. A simple suction cup and the glass is removed.
The parent is right, all new screens since around 2013 have been glued on. Why would they do this if not to prevent people upgrading their hardware or changing components?
Sure you can hopefully slice the screen off without damaging it, then buy a $15 kit of adhesive strips to reattach. And then you can pray you didnt fuck anything up, or have a spec of dust between the glass and the screen, causing you to disassemble once more.
I haven't personally had to do it yet (luckily professionally, most people dont use macs), but it seems like a nightmare. Especially if you compare it to the process that came before it.
Exactly. Americans are stupid, period. We all learned that when GW bush was RE-elected...(if people didnt know that before with reagan, and others before that)
The american "left" (really right wing by world standards) seems to think that america is schizophrenic, or that "good" americans are being manipulated by russia. When actually, no, the american public have been pretty much racist, classist, misogynistic, genocidal and ignorant since the countries founding. There is a reason that america has that reputation all over the world, and it wasnt started by trump. He is just the epitome of what the world already thinks most americans are like.
I am sure there are the occasional "good hombres" like noam chomsky, but their numbers are like one in a million.
How about like every kubrick film? very very few were made with profit in mind, i think only spartacus was. Something like interstellar which was written, directed and produced by christopher nolan, one person with a vision, could only be done as a labor of love.
Your comment is just wrong. The films that change peoples lives are never made with profit as the main motive. Superhero movies are not what I think anyone would consider "great" films. They are gods and monsters fighting for the masses. They don't make you think, they reinforce antiquated zoroastrianist duality structures and are generally a tired rehash of good vs evil.
I have started using usb-c for video and i can say that the aftermarket cable market is abysmal. You can buy a 30-40 dongle (usbc to hdmi for instance) that is garbage, or a $10 one that is amazing. There is zero correlation between quality and price. Just look at the reviews of apple usbc adaptors, most are garbage (with a high price tag). While ugreen, a no name chinese company is performing very well.
You have the newer apple laptops having multiple usb-c ports but one port is full power (next to the power plug), and another one is not, making things like powerpoint clickers have reduced range if plugged into a different port. How bullshit is that! They shouldn't be able to pick and choose what this or that port will support, can we have some standardization please? Was never a problem with usb 2 and usb 3....
Its a shitshow! There are no standards. I basically have to buy 3-4 adaptors and then just see which one lasts the longest or even works right. I had 3 different usb-c to vga adaptors before i found one that worked reliability without blanking the screen every hour or inducing some weird colours.
USB-C having used it for the last year, is NOT ready. there are major reliability and compatibility problems. Best bet is to read the amazon reviews before you purchase. I haven't dont anything with usb-c audio but i bet its a similar nightmare.
There already exists this market that people want for a "dumb" tv. A commercial or hospitality display, you can turn any feature you want completely off. They are of course, more expensive, but usually meant to be run 20 hours a day or more, so better components too.
And of course, nothing says you have to connect it to the network ever.
With SSD's being around $100 for a samsung 256gb drive, i doubt anyone is deploying less than 128 these days.
Who the hell would ship a computer with a 32gb ssd? windows itself needs that much to even install! much less run. 128gb has been too small for a few years now!
There are also some tricks you can use to free up space. One i learned recently will clean up the stupid windows installer directory pretty well. i personally freed up 40gb on my work machine.
Download the windows installer cleanup utility, then run MSIZAP.exe G! to clean the directory
If you get an error, delete all the registry keys under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData
reference: http://wyang0.blogspot.com/201...
Walls are pretty easy to get around / under / over / through. I am not sure that a wall will really solve all of americas immigration problems.
Luckily, the second aspect of trumps plan, making america a shitty place to live, is more likely to affect people choosing to move there. Mission accomplished i guess?
I have a theory that it has to do with the death of god, and people inventing new modern age "gods" to fill that roll. You can see it in how people dress up as their "gods" for conventions, religiously skip work to attend first day showings of any new "chapter" in the odyssey, and discuss and debate the motivations of the characters as related to the cannon.
A set of metaphysical beings with "super" powers that they use to help or hurt humanity. Pretty much spot on analogous to polytheistic religions. Also explains why I hate the fakeness of superhero movies (and most religions).
Black panther was good though, just as a pure movie. Its the only super hero movie i have liked in recent memory. You didn't need to know all the backstory and depth of the universe to appreciate it.
Man 'sorry to bother you' was an amazing alternate reality that hit a bit too close to home if you have ever worked with a call centre.
Absolutely surreal and hilarious. The movie summed up many fears about the service based economy we are all one day expected to work in. Absurdist black scifi comedy, in both senses of the word "black". Get ready for a proper mind fucking! Just gets more surreal as the movie progresses to its logical conclusion. Reminds me of something like shaun of the dead, but more societal commentary and less violence.
Its not sad, its pretty normal. We have literally the best moderation system on the internet here. Avoiding the echochamber of reddit and the lowest common denominator of youtube comments. I would argue its the SOLE reason that this website still exists. That and people can post pretty much anything they like.
Its like flat earhers or any other wacky conspiracy that no one of consequence really believes. Its impossible to ignore the climate changing over the last 20 or 30 years. The willfully ignorant will always exist, I wouldn't let it bother you.
Its quaint that you think after all that has happened that the US will be any sort of player by the year 2100. Your nation was built with the free labour of slaves, and propped up mid century by being geographically isolated from europe during the second world war.
The new super power is quite obviously china. No surprise since you sold them and outsourced all your tech there.
Ok its very valid and I have personally had that happen multiple times, but your solution of "program in python or R" is laughable. Do you honestly think most offices have programmers on staff? Are you asking office workers to learn a programming language, what, in their spare time?
People use excel and VB macros because its easy to learn, its available in literally every office in the land, and there are many online resources available. And if you can write python code that needs no maintenance for 15 years i applaud you. I am not sure a "real" programming language would help the regular office worker at all. All code needs to be maintained, or its the exact same trap. And you think they will put their code in version control? Repeat after me, office workers are NOT programmers! They would have the exact same sloppy habits and zero documentation no matter what language they are using.
You mean the people who founded an advertising company that now has tentacles and power over pretty much the entire internet?
Google is the exact opposite of "decent". They make microsoft look like the good guys.
Face it, anyone who makes it rich is tainted by that success. The only people who i can think of that have not sold out is craig from craigslist and steve wozniak.
Indeed! a friend of mine went on the price is right a few years ago. America and California together charge 33% + 7% tax on what you "win". So my friend won a trip and some electronics and ends up having to pay 2800 USD to claim it all.
Of course they are charging you full retail price on these items, which no one would ever pay... What a scam, i had no idea. In canada if you win the lotto there is no tax. The government already makes money as they are the ones who run the lotto (the house always wins).
Totally makes me rethink my childhood watching american game shows. I used to think these suckers were so lucky and dreamed of one day winning the showcase showdown.
film at 11.
Advertising causes need therapy therapy, advertising causes need.
Bullshit! i get sick within 20 seconds of putting on a htc VIVE. I am nauseous for about 4 hours afterwards, like i was just on a long sea voyage. I unfortunately have to support these things at work, but i cant wear them to support it. I just use a connected monitor.
This is not just me, i would say at least 10% of our staff have this reaction. Its a real issue and its 100% not solved. I also can't read while in vehicles in motion without getting the same sort of feeling, so i fully expect its something involved with my constitution. But i also fully expect its not something I am alone in experiencing.