it's not ignoring it, per se. driving hard-working decent people to poverty and desperation is analogous to firebombing Dresden.
i.e., not really necessary for the primary objective (moving line X to ledger Y), but it's an impressive show of power and has some ancillary gains ("corrects" the cost of labor downward, far downward).
weird; i thought that your kind of gamer had moved on from video gaming to trolling feminists on the internet. it's a lot cheaper and more entertaining.
though, hey, if you're interested in applying that small amount of polish for me and accomplishing what Ubuntu cannot, i'd be very interested in ditching Apple's monopolistic business model.
saying "fuck you" to Apple would easily be worth, say, $500/year for me (for software alone); maybe even more if the UX is even close to as good as Mac OS. that's what i'd pay for an easy-to-use Linux. interested?
thanks for an actual answer, though nothing that would substantially improve my life (nor most people's lives, even on slashdot) the way that Mac OS X's "arguably" superior interface has.
i don't have time to apply a "comparatively small amount of polish" to every feature i might want to use (and compared to what exactly? building the OS from scratch?) i don't think the slivers of time i might gain from improved SSD caching would even come close to the time it would take to apply that small amount of polish.
if and when i do need one of these esoteric features i'll either rent time on a server or buy a box.
this is one of those "Windows is better because it runs $foo"-type arguments. fair enough, but it doesn't fair so well when people use it against linux, for some reason.
anyway, i'll happily concede that everyone doing embedded development is better off not using a Mac or Mac OS X for many good reasons.
homebrew has huge amounts of paranoid safety-checking and (so far) has not come crashing down in horribleness. it can even self-diagnose what's changed if something overwrites some of its installed files.
i haven't found anything i need that isn't in homebrew.
before that, i agree, it was pretty awful; macports sucks. however, you could build all of it yourself. i knew a very good developer who built a rock-solid GNU environment in OS X; took him a while though. i'll grant that linux is easier for getting up and running into dev without knowing/bothering with the setup.
so, the big problem with Mac OS is that you don't know the keyboard shortcuts. duly noted.
I also share them with people whose opinions I respect...
it's good that you've now explicitly admitted that you have contempt for your audience. this is something your critics have been saying for years. so, why not move on to a more suitable forum or, perhaps, a psychiatrist?
actually i was a bit vague with the order of the quantifiers. to clarify, there are some deck orderings where it will lose to itself and might lose to someone else (otherwise it would always win, which would be quite surprising). but at least if the deck is shuffled well, it cannot be strategized against except to break even at best.
No, no, no, no, NO! If you think that, you've completely missed the point.
There is no way to trick this strategy; it cannot be cajoled into a corner, because it knows all of them already. This strategy isn't optimal in the sense of being good, it's optimal in the sense that it cannot be tricked. Think instead of tic-tac-toe for a moment. Would you say that you could always beat someone at tic-tac-toe if you know their play-style? Of course not, because it's very easy to use a play-style wherein you can force a draw, always. Well, that's exactly what they've done here (with one important caveat, below). But what about randomness, you ask? That's why they need ~10^14 states! It doesn't care how the cards are shuffled, because it cannot be tricked on any ordering of the cards. It doesn't matter; the randomness of the deck just selects which one, but the strategy will work on whichever one is picked.
Now, the caveat comes in the form that the probability of winning is simply bounded below at 1/2. A slightly suboptimal player with 10x as much seed money will probably have an advantage just by being able to bankrupt this strategy. A mediocre player with 10000x as much money will also have a good chance of bankrupting this strategy before the guarantee kicks in. Think of having more money as a sort of "complexity measure"; this strategy forces an opponent to rely on having a greater investment just to have a chance, sort of like asymmetric crypto forces an opponent to have exponentially much compute power to read your messages.
This caveat is because they're sort of mashing up the techniques of deterministic game theory, with a probabilistic game. Nonetheless, the advantage is there. If you're playing a completely unknown adversary with equal funding, and you want to do your best, this is the way to go. End of story. Of course things get interesting in reality because no adversary is completely unknown; you can always try to Vizzini your way into the opponent's head but this is a dangerous move which can backfire drastically.
no, that makes no sense at all. if either of those two, they probably "should" get their subscription location content because that's the demographic they belong to and which the agreements and financial strategy are geared toward. if netflix could easily do it that way, they certainly would; it's just that this kind of auditing (done correctly) is harder than geolocation. end of story.
How can 16GB not be enough for apps? I'm really just wondering, not meaning to troll. I have more than I need in about 2GB: maps, facebook and a few other social networks, VNC, terminal emulator, some work apps like Trello, and a few toys. Do you need to have twenty variations of Angry Birds available at all times, or what?
Further down the tangent, I also don't have trouble keeping a good supply of music without using any cloud bullshit. It's not hard to set up syncing to rotate your music often enough to keep things interesting (while maintaining a core playlist of favorites). I guess if I had to go on a sudden multi-day hike through remote wilderness, I would run out of music, but that's not really a concern. I avoid cloud/streaming shit like the plague, and still consider the SD slot to be a negative; it takes up space, is failure-prone (in my experience at least), and contributes little.
On topic, I wouldn't mind if there were a notice like (*: Operating System occupies 3GB of space. Future updates may change this capacity, see inside for details), but I still think that this falls into the "common knowledge" side of things, like knowing that a 2x4 is measured in the unprocessed size, and in reality it'll be somewhere around 1.5"x3.5".
Yeah, they both have spatial components, but go is basically nothing else. There are no distinct pieces with special rules; practically all of the strategy is from spatial arrangements without obvious shortcut heuristics. Counting material doesn't work so well and neither does combinatorially forcing your opponent.
This isn't to say that go is better than chess, and i definitely think the left/right-brain distinction is overrated, but they are not "the same."
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it's not ignoring it, per se. driving hard-working decent people to poverty and desperation is analogous to firebombing Dresden.
i.e., not really necessary for the primary objective (moving line X to ledger Y), but it's an impressive show of power and has some ancillary gains ("corrects" the cost of labor downward, far downward).
weird; i thought that your kind of gamer had moved on from video gaming to trolling feminists on the internet. it's a lot cheaper and more entertaining.
though, hey, if you're interested in applying that small amount of polish for me and accomplishing what Ubuntu cannot, i'd be very interested in ditching Apple's monopolistic business model.
saying "fuck you" to Apple would easily be worth, say, $500/year for me (for software alone); maybe even more if the UX is even close to as good as Mac OS. that's what i'd pay for an easy-to-use Linux. interested?
thanks for an actual answer, though nothing that would substantially improve my life (nor most people's lives, even on slashdot) the way that Mac OS X's "arguably" superior interface has.
i don't have time to apply a "comparatively small amount of polish" to every feature i might want to use (and compared to what exactly? building the OS from scratch?) i don't think the slivers of time i might gain from improved SSD caching would even come close to the time it would take to apply that small amount of polish.
if and when i do need one of these esoteric features i'll either rent time on a server or buy a box.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
retchdog:~$ time brew install gcc /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/4.9.2_1: 1156 files, 203M
==> Installing dependencies for gcc: gmp, mpfr, libmpc, isl, cloog
[blah blah blah]
==> Installing gcc
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/proje...
==> Pouring gcc-4.9.2_1.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Summary
real 3m51.241s
4 minutes, and that was just because my wifi sucks.
O_o
why is a glorified build manager using kernel-specific features?
once again, science and technology triumph where religion has shown mixed results at best!
the previously legendary properties of the River Ganges are now firmly established! at least until the resistance evolves.
this is one of those "Windows is better because it runs $foo"-type arguments. fair enough, but it doesn't fair so well when people use it against linux, for some reason.
anyway, i'll happily concede that everyone doing embedded development is better off not using a Mac or Mac OS X for many good reasons.
well, iterm 2 is just awesome, even though i usually don't bother using it because the vanilla Terminal.app does everything i need. what am i missing?
yeah but macports is an unstable cluster fuck.
homebrew has huge amounts of paranoid safety-checking and (so far) has not come crashing down in horribleness. it can even self-diagnose what's changed if something overwrites some of its installed files.
i haven't found anything i need that isn't in homebrew.
before that, i agree, it was pretty awful; macports sucks. however, you could build all of it yourself. i knew a very good developer who built a rock-solid GNU environment in OS X; took him a while though. i'll grant that linux is easier for getting up and running into dev without knowing/bothering with the setup.
so, the big problem with Mac OS is that you don't know the keyboard shortcuts. duly noted.
perhaps, but what can linux do that OS X cannot?
uh, i was referring to the general utility of the OS. so, what would inspire me to consider putting up with that trade-off? what do i get in exchange?
what on earth could make Linux a more useful OS than Mac OS X?
Windows i get for specialty applications like gaming and such, but Linux?
I also share them with people whose opinions I respect...
it's good that you've now explicitly admitted that you have contempt for your audience. this is something your critics have been saying for years. so, why not move on to a more suitable forum or, perhaps, a psychiatrist?
yeah, like how in Soviet Russia you could also submit a vote for anyone.
when i read the waffling "i don't have any evidence, but it's a good bet that i know everything anyway!" bullshit in the lede.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
actually i was a bit vague with the order of the quantifiers. to clarify, there are some deck orderings where it will lose to itself and might lose to someone else (otherwise it would always win, which would be quite surprising). but at least if the deck is shuffled well, it cannot be strategized against except to break even at best.
No, no, no, no, NO! If you think that, you've completely missed the point.
There is no way to trick this strategy; it cannot be cajoled into a corner, because it knows all of them already. This strategy isn't optimal in the sense of being good, it's optimal in the sense that it cannot be tricked. Think instead of tic-tac-toe for a moment. Would you say that you could always beat someone at tic-tac-toe if you know their play-style? Of course not, because it's very easy to use a play-style wherein you can force a draw, always. Well, that's exactly what they've done here (with one important caveat, below). But what about randomness, you ask? That's why they need ~10^14 states! It doesn't care how the cards are shuffled, because it cannot be tricked on any ordering of the cards. It doesn't matter; the randomness of the deck just selects which one, but the strategy will work on whichever one is picked.
Now, the caveat comes in the form that the probability of winning is simply bounded below at 1/2. A slightly suboptimal player with 10x as much seed money will probably have an advantage just by being able to bankrupt this strategy. A mediocre player with 10000x as much money will also have a good chance of bankrupting this strategy before the guarantee kicks in. Think of having more money as a sort of "complexity measure"; this strategy forces an opponent to rely on having a greater investment just to have a chance, sort of like asymmetric crypto forces an opponent to have exponentially much compute power to read your messages.
This caveat is because they're sort of mashing up the techniques of deterministic game theory, with a probabilistic game. Nonetheless, the advantage is there. If you're playing a completely unknown adversary with equal funding, and you want to do your best, this is the way to go. End of story. Of course things get interesting in reality because no adversary is completely unknown; you can always try to Vizzini your way into the opponent's head but this is a dangerous move which can backfire drastically.
no, that makes no sense at all. if either of those two, they probably "should" get their subscription location content because that's the demographic they belong to and which the agreements and financial strategy are geared toward. if netflix could easily do it that way, they certainly would; it's just that this kind of auditing (done correctly) is harder than geolocation. end of story.
How can 16GB not be enough for apps? I'm really just wondering, not meaning to troll. I have more than I need in about 2GB: maps, facebook and a few other social networks, VNC, terminal emulator, some work apps like Trello, and a few toys. Do you need to have twenty variations of Angry Birds available at all times, or what?
Further down the tangent, I also don't have trouble keeping a good supply of music without using any cloud bullshit. It's not hard to set up syncing to rotate your music often enough to keep things interesting (while maintaining a core playlist of favorites). I guess if I had to go on a sudden multi-day hike through remote wilderness, I would run out of music, but that's not really a concern. I avoid cloud/streaming shit like the plague, and still consider the SD slot to be a negative; it takes up space, is failure-prone (in my experience at least), and contributes little.
On topic, I wouldn't mind if there were a notice like (*: Operating System occupies 3GB of space. Future updates may change this capacity, see inside for details), but I still think that this falls into the "common knowledge" side of things, like knowing that a 2x4 is measured in the unprocessed size, and in reality it'll be somewhere around 1.5"x3.5".
you either don't get it, or are being purposely obtuse. i have no patience either way.
well, yes, and so is all of life, if you want to think of it that way. what's your point?
Yeah, they both have spatial components, but go is basically nothing else. There are no distinct pieces with special rules; practically all of the strategy is from spatial arrangements without obvious shortcut heuristics. Counting material doesn't work so well and neither does combinatorially forcing your opponent.
This isn't to say that go is better than chess, and i definitely think the left/right-brain distinction is overrated, but they are not "the same."