But if you put a picture into peoples' heads, you give them an immediate handhold on the problem.
So you're saying that the point is, if one replaces the term "10 percent" with "10 per hundred," people would understand the question better?
Even better if you say it as "1 out of 10".
There is a certain (small) number of objects that people can sort of intuitively grasp. More than that, and it becomes an exercise in abstract thought, not concrete thought.
Above that small number, the numbers become symbols, and symbol manipulation capability is almost a synonym for IQ.
Sheesh, I hate Indian givers. "We're so great; we're making information freely available to the world! Oh, but not to you, big meany who makes more money than I do."
TAR.gz RPM Deb PPA flatpak Snap AUR ebuild tar.bz2. configure make make install. It's all fun in the Linux packaging factory.
Meh.
Windows:.zip,.exe,.msi, DLL hell,.ini files, registry, user profiles, "would you like that installed in this bizarrely named program pseudo-directory, or that one?", etc.
I think the biggest thing that makes it stupid/funny is that it's CVS... where everything is so expensive.
I mean let's face it, with most stores I'd love to get a bunch of good coupons on stuff thrown at me all the time.
But with CVS, even with a great coupon, an item might be... the same price as at another store. And I'm not going to carry around a wad of crinkly register coupons for that.
outside of linux distributions where libreoffice is currently the 'default', apache openoffice has more users... hell, even if you include those default installs, it still probably does.
Getting large swaths of people to agree on anything, much less actually changing their ways, isn’t going to happen, and any plan that relies on that will fail miserably and shouldn’t even be considered as a viable option.
What’s ultimately going to save us from climate change are advances in technology (green renewable energy, electric vehicles, carbon capture devices, etc) that will allow people to largely preserve their current way of lives. Our focus should be on advancing these technologies and breaking the barriers that are currently making them difficult or impossible to implement.
Precisely so.
And those are the only gains that have been made. There wasn't any mass movement to go back to stone age lives.
What stage is this again? We had denial, then we can't do anything about it anyway, then we can do something but China won't, and now it's down to wild conspiracy theories...
Is this the last step? I hope so.
Is it the stage where you finally admit that we aren't going to give up eating meat and all live on greens from our back yards? I hope so.
The problem is that anyone who's been awake in the last few years knows that not everything called racist actually is racist, in any meaningful way.
Who gets to decide? Well, in the past, you did (modulo a large bunch of publishers and broadcasters and libraries and such).
Now? Something gets "deplatformed" and you will never see it to decide for yourself. It's too easy now to just "disappear" people and ideas.
I have no problem with filters per se, as long as they are accessible - I generally have Google's safe search on, if using Google, for example. If Bing wants to have a "Filters" panel, and a checkbox that says "hide what Bing thinks is racist", great.
Nah, the editors don't have any good Trump stories in the queue today. I'd say the stock market taking a dump yesterday is more interesting than the length of paper receipts from an overpriced convenience store that also dispenses prescriptions.
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But if you put a picture into peoples' heads, you give them an immediate handhold on the problem.
So you're saying that the point is, if one replaces the term "10 percent" with "10 per hundred," people would understand the question better?
Even better if you say it as "1 out of 10".
There is a certain (small) number of objects that people can sort of intuitively grasp. More than that, and it becomes an exercise in abstract thought, not concrete thought.
Above that small number, the numbers become symbols, and symbol manipulation capability is almost a synonym for IQ.
...as an American citizen, I can be arrested for visiting Cuba, 90 miles away. Why? Something, something Communism.....
Um, yeah "something something communism". "something something brutal dictatorship". "something something gulags" "something something political prisoners" "something something political executions"
You do know that communist dictatorships are real, right?
You might want to learn something something about it, instead of trying so hard to pose as being cool.
If you mean more people should read Lord of the Flies - and see themselves in the kids - sure. Let me know when you get started on that.
If you mean we need more intersectional gender race studies with a side of kangaroo courts, um, no.
Instead of answering, a down mod? I was genuinely curious.
Ah, thanks anon!
BTW: the mounted archers and mounted spear riders of Rohan in the "Lord of the Rings" movie, that are mostly women.
You seriously used a LOTR refernce to prove some sort of point? You actually went there.
He did, lol!
Anyway, if we MUST go there ... that's the movies. In the books, Eowyn has to disguise her identity to go with the men to war, because she's a woman.
It's even a significant plot point; there is a prophecy that no man can defeat the baddie, but then, she is no man ...
I assume there is a fork I can switch to?
Pale Moon? Haven't tried RSS yet in that one. Try it and see.
Just tried it in Pale Moon, works in current version :)
No.
Thanks for asking though ...
Sheesh, I hate Indian givers. "We're so great; we're making information freely available to the world! Oh, but not to you, big meany who makes more money than I do."
I assume there is a fork I can switch to?
Pale Moon? Haven't tried RSS yet in that one. Try it and see.
... but most of them don't.
Blocking foreign IPs objectively reduces the amount of incoming attacks, hugely.
"Good", not "goo" ...
Just curious for those who have been using DuckDuckGo - how's the quality of the search results?
Overall quite goo.
I find that I usually only need to revert to Google for 1. really obscure technical searches (most are fine on DDG), and 2. super new stuff
So, not having followed this ... have lots of independent people actually seen this, or are there just videos?
TAR.gz RPM Deb PPA flatpak Snap AUR ebuild tar.bz2. configure make make install. It's all fun in the Linux packaging factory.
Meh.
Windows: .zip, .exe, .msi, DLL hell, .ini files, registry, user profiles, "would you like that installed in this bizarrely named program pseudo-directory, or that one?", etc.
I think the biggest thing that makes it stupid/funny is that it's CVS ... where everything is so expensive.
I mean let's face it, with most stores I'd love to get a bunch of good coupons on stuff thrown at me all the time.
But with CVS, even with a great coupon, an item might be ... the same price as at another store. And I'm not going to carry around a wad of crinkly register coupons for that.
Not mentioned in the synopsis is that Copyright and royalties are extended a ridiculous length of time beyond the life of the artist.
Which was already the case ... wasn't it?
Are they seriously saying that pre 1972 music was royalty free or something, before this bill?
Forks and derivative software Well that looks like a mess! At least the re-mergers keep it from being a 100% textbook case of the xkcd on standards? .
At this point it hardly even makes sense to refer to LibreOffice as a fork, except in the barest historical sense.
More like "OpenOffice is a primitive ancestor of LibreOffice" or something.
It's like insisting on always calling Joomla a "fork of Mambo" or something ...
Is this true? Wikipedia says that LibreOffice has ~120 million users, I can't find an estimate of AOO users.
Maybe he's going by "downloads" reported in the article ... who knows.
outside of linux distributions where libreoffice is currently the 'default', apache openoffice has more users... hell, even if you include those default installs, it still probably does.
And you know this how?
Getting large swaths of people to agree on anything, much less actually changing their ways, isn’t going to happen, and any plan that relies on that will fail miserably and shouldn’t even be considered as a viable option. What’s ultimately going to save us from climate change are advances in technology (green renewable energy, electric vehicles, carbon capture devices, etc) that will allow people to largely preserve their current way of lives. Our focus should be on advancing these technologies and breaking the barriers that are currently making them difficult or impossible to implement.
Precisely so.
And those are the only gains that have been made. There wasn't any mass movement to go back to stone age lives.
What stage is this again? We had denial, then we can't do anything about it anyway, then we can do something but China won't, and now it's down to wild conspiracy theories...
Is this the last step? I hope so.
Is it the stage where you finally admit that we aren't going to give up eating meat and all live on greens from our back yards? I hope so.
Good lord. You actually think that's clever.
For all the concern about AOO, no issues have been raised recently before the Apache Foundation board to suggest ongoing difficulties.
I think it would have to have some remaining users to have issues filed, wouldn't it?
The problem is that anyone who's been awake in the last few years knows that not everything called racist actually is racist, in any meaningful way.
Who gets to decide? Well, in the past, you did (modulo a large bunch of publishers and broadcasters and libraries and such).
Now? Something gets "deplatformed" and you will never see it to decide for yourself. It's too easy now to just "disappear" people and ideas.
I have no problem with filters per se, as long as they are accessible - I generally have Google's safe search on, if using Google, for example. If Bing wants to have a "Filters" panel, and a checkbox that says "hide what Bing thinks is racist", great.
Nah, the editors don't have any good Trump stories in the queue today. I'd say the stock market taking a dump yesterday is more interesting than the length of paper receipts from an overpriced convenience store that also dispenses prescriptions.
But ... but ... it's "funny"!
Didn't you see the Monty Python foot???????