https://soylentnews.org is a place the cool kids are trying to build out into something that does the old fun and useful/. stuff. So far, it's tough going. Obviously, the more the merrier. Come over and have an effect on the culture.
My HS science teacher would race people with calculators and always win with his slide rule. When he was at his desk he'd move the thing back and forth really fast but when he was racing someone he always slid it along all even and slow and eyeballed them like they were trying to get him to believe a lie or something. It was really funny to watch.
Can I have a legible process tree with that magic, please? I like to actually know what's going on. I guess I can call systemd-analyze with whatever options look fun, ps with "matching options(?)" and then pipe those through a filter/formatter that gives me a static look.... Then run that on a loop to see a near real-time update.
And then there's doing something about it.... because if I find something that's not working for me I get to find something to replace that part of systemD, replace it (with whatever labor that takes) and recompile!!!
That's a fair amount of work for a system administrator to do compared to looking at their processes, finding what's causing a problem and replacing it with a better solution. It adds a layer of complexity.
AND, the dependencies of various applications will still be looking for systemD and expecting everything it does. So when I replace that thing, instead of knowing it's on a list of possible dependencies for a given app, I'm on my own.
SystemD adds opacity and what it gives back in exchange requires a sea-change in every corner of the *NIX ecosystem or the net benefit is negative.
And it makes it feel like your diddling a registry key whenever you touch it. It has that dirty, built broken, fuck you if you don't like it, we'll surprise you wherever the fuck we want signal built into using it. You feel like committing to learning it's intricacies is a boat ride with a psycho whose just going to change every time you think things will calm down. You can just tell by the releases it will NEVER settle into being one predictable, reliable thing. It's built to keep surprising us all. I used to work for a Microsoft Gold Partner and I know that feeling.
The public is cinical?! Hundreds of thousands of American's have died protecting the freedoms we hold dear; we defend the rights of disgusting jate groups and obviously violent criminals protecting freedom; we forgo the benefits of a smoother running government protecting freedom..... And WE'RE cynical because we demand that you accoplish your mission without sticking a microphone and camera up our asses?!
And your interpreting of us protecting our freedom is that we have contempt for you mission to protect us?! Please resign. You don't understand your job.
Since, unlike browsers, node.js doesn't have 2 decades of code demanding backward compatibility, why not use node.js to FIX JAVASCRIPT. The Node.js devs could write a pre-process that barfs up big, clear, helpful errors whenever it encounters the kind of risky code BS we all have come to despise.
Just think, you could feed the typical garbage to node.js and it could spit back things like:
ERROR: Potential scope conflicts on the following lines. Explicitly declare all variables using "var = ".
WARNING: Nested function limit exceeded. The following lines call to the global scope, not the enclosing function's scope. Add "fixNestedFunctions = true" to config/index.js or accept one of the weirdest, sickest sources of potential bugs the world has ever seen as the norm in you code.
You get the idea.... Use the enthusiasm to make a better world!
The package for selling a series typically consists of a treatment/pitch document, a pilot script and a story bible. The story bible typically contains the layout of the characters and main story lines for the first season and often has synopses of a;; the first season shows.
A series has a master producer called a Show Runner. If that guy or gal is concerned with continuity across episodes and seasons then continuity happens. If they are not then the only continuity you can count upon is adherence to the story bible and in-episode continuity which is handled by the script supervisor/continuity supervisor.
A good show runner keeps the story bible updated as things change and grow.
Get a copy of this book: Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams (Author), Joseph Bizup (Author). Read it and obey it.
It teaches the reader how to write and rewrite based on what cognitive science has discovered about reading comprehension and motivation.
Some of the important basics are - avoiding the passive voice (with WHY you should do so and a very compelling discussion about AGENCY); chaining ideas from one sentence to the next and one paragraph to the next so cause and effect tracks with attention; how to group information so the reader remembers it; how to reinforce an idea.... Every page is a revelation.
From my own experience, I find reasons connected to examples go VERY far. Using examples, even for very complex things, was something to which Richard Feynman credited much of his success. He believed that if you couldn't come up with an example that illustrated the problem then you didn't understand the problem.
Also, PLEASE lead with the one or two things you know someone needs. Handle the 80% who are there to set something up and leave. A good anti-pattern for this is the man page for ifconfig. As man pages go it's very good but it requires digging to construct the line in the shell one might need. People go to the man page for ifconfig to connect to a wired or wireless network and have the most challenges with wireless. The top of that page (and many other man pages) should read something like this: If you are connecting to a wired network, get THIS + EXAMPLE information by doing THIS + EXAMPLE and then use it to do THIS + EXAMPLE. If you are connecting to a wireless network, get THIS + EXAMPLE information by doing THIS + EXAMPLE and then use it to do THIS + EXAMPLE. After each THIS + EXAMPLE have a statement like, "you'll probably see something like THIS" with an explanation of how to use it. Then it should have a basic, advance and troubleshooting section followed at the end by a related concepts section that you can use to find other man pages that might be helpful.
Sorry dude, you're wrong on almost all of these counts and clearly don't understand the American system of government and law.
Number 1 is totally wrong. We don't derive our rights from being represented in congresses and George Carlin is funny but they aren't privileges.
Number 2 is totally wrong. Groups don't have rights. We recognize some groups as lacking sufficient majority to access their natural rights via the common channels of commerce, society and government so we make laws to reinforce their access to their rights.
Number 3 is not just wrong it's the definition of a totalitarian state - so please stop voting.
Number 4 is a problem. The only quote I see in the posts you might be referencing is quoting the Constitution, not "liberty and justice for all" from the Pledge of Allegiance. The Constitution can be found in the first section of the first chapter of the first book of US law.
Number 5 is wrong. It's like saying that the primary function of a company is being a company. Organizations exist to execute mandates not to be organized. Our government's purpose is specifically to, "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence (SP.), promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..." See the BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY part? Take a closer look.
Number 6 is a paraphrase from fucking MAO, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Here in the United States we believe that liberty comes from our creator (whoever we think that might be) and that it is protected by OUR continued maintenance of the capacity and right to use force. So, you're kind of right but if you elaborated I'm sure you'd show how wrong you can be about it.
Number 7 is a bizarre statement. Justice in the United States is about protecting people's rights to life, liberty and property. That's why it's POSSIBLE TO BE GUILTY OR INNOCENT. When someone deprives someone of their RIGHT to life, they are guilty of murder. GET IT?
The individual is the source of ALL RIGHTS, ALL RESPONSIBILITIES and ALL POWERS. The Declaration of Independence works like the givens for a geometric proof. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." There is no society contemplated here. Society is a collection of individuals that, JUST LIKE GOVERNMENT, is never presumed to have more rights than the individual.
Individuals have certain responsibilities that go along with those rights. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." We have a duty to correct or abolish our government if it fails to protect and serve our rights AS INDIVIDUALS.
The particular limits on government called out in the Bill of Rights is instructive here. They are the rights necessary to correct or abolish our government or to establish and run one.
1st Amendment - Free speech (exactly how does SOCIETY speak?) and free assembly (which can be two people or a million) - This is the right that we use freely AS INDIVIDUALS and that we grant to the government for the formation of courts, administration, departments, congresses, etc.
2nd Amendment - Right to keep and Bear Arms - This is a right we use AS INDIVIDUALS and a right we grant to local governments for policing and to our national government for FBI and military. Our individual right to bear arms is also what qualifies our courts as those belonging to a free people. WE THE PEOPLE are the convening authority of our courts. If only the police and military
It doesn't make sense for non-generating customers. It makes a ton of sense rolled into a solar or wind package. And, it makes sense of utilities continuing to support rebates instead of resisting them because it smooths out demand and enables buy-back at convenient times.
I worked for several years during and after college at The George Baker Workshop which was in the Art Barn in the center of Occidental College. It has since been returned to the building's original purpose - food service. We built kinetic sculptures driven by motors, wind and or water. George Baker also taught all the sculpture classes out of the building.
Since it was the only space on campus outside of the physical plant department where people could go to work with metal, plastic and wood it became what is now referred to as a maker-space.
This was in the late 80s and early 90s when a CNC mill would set you back many, many thousands of dollars. We had two drill presses, a band saw, a belt and radial sander, a table saw, two standard anvils and one custom metal shaping anvil that George Baker designed and several oxy acetylene setups with cutting and welding heads which were available to everyone. Along with a healthy collection of hand tools.
We had a 3 inch lathe, a 10 inch lathe, a 5 ft break, a pneumatic punch, a plasma cutter and a TIG welder with a full station (metal table, etc.) and a set of very nice hand power tools. These were only for the sculpture fabrication team but we were happy to to help people with small projects and teach people how to do things.
Here are a bunch of things that might not come to mind but are SUPER helpful.
At least two big heavy tables - 5ft x 10ft
At least four small heavy tables 4ft x 4ft with a decent vise on each
Tons of different sized and shaped clamps
Tons of movable lights on stands for getting enough light on your work - great light from above can work against you when you're were under the work
Several LARGE portable fans - melty fumes, smoke, glues, paints and solvent need their air to be blasted out of the space fast
A set of standard fasteners with their related drills, taps and dies - this was a godsend - I remember we used 8-32, 10-24 and 1/4-20 and two other ones. They were allen head bolts in various head styles - people break drills and taps constantly - trying to support a big variety of fasteners is hugely expensive - you end up buying whole sets and having a ton of odd sized shit.
Plenty of 5 gallon buckets - you dip hot things in water, you used them to organize things, you used them for trash when some idiot super loads all the trash in the workshop with chunks of unusable pallet wood or rat shit covered fun fur
A large area DESIGNED to hold scrap material - wall space with deep strong pegs at 2ft intervals, 4ft x 4ft x 3ft bins
PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED CLEANING SUPPLIES WITH LOTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO SWEEP YOUR OWN MESS -broom, mop, floor cleaner, rags (with a schedule for cleaning them), paper towels, dust pans, small brooms.
PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED AND AMPLY SUPPLIED SAFETY GEAR - gloves (tons of them), respirators, googles, leather aprons, hard hats, FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
That's all the time I got. Hope this helps.
I would also put up a big sign that says, "Trigger Warning - Cisgendered fasteners and the language necessary to discuss them are used in this space." I first thought of this as a joke and then realized that, sadly, it's not a joke.
The OP is critical of our giant Federal spending and doesn't like the ACA. The idea that somehow that correlates to racism is INSANE. Do you have anything better than some lame name-calling?
What you're supporting, just to be clear, is sanctioning someone's speech because a racist might share that particular view. Let's apply that logic to you. Let's see who believes in sanctioning free speech and guilt by association.... Brutal Dictators most of whom also are racists, violent to homosexuals and brutal towards women.
So, by your logic you're posts should be modded down as hate speech because they are advocating an action that is might also be used by brutal, racist, gay and women hating dictators.
I can agree with most of that. I think the first script and movie had pace and clarity on its side. And SiFi in the years leading up to 1977 was all about post apocalyptic earth or abstract freak outs. So, SW was a VERY welcome change from hand wringing and acid trips to an exciting, accessible story.
The two Lawrence Kasdan scripts are miracles. The first movie had complete closure. All the mythology about Lucas having a long term vision should be pretty much dead after seeing Episodes I-III. What a mess!! You can thank Lawrence Kasdan for SW being an exciting trilogy. The second and third movies were well written scripts. I promise you Ewoks and other blemishes are all Lucas.
And once you ask the question, "Who builds the Death Star twice?" you're on your way to the question -Who, given that they can build more than one Death Star, only builds one at a time?
If you're a bad actor or you are made to look like a bad actor by a bad script or director, your career will be hurt. The Star Wars franchise has had some good scripts and directors and some disasters.
Harrison Ford was a good actor - he got work. James Earl Jones got half the bad magic guy roles for the next 15 years. Billy Dee Williams did fine after being Lando Calrissian. Those were well written roles and the actors played them well. Luke, "But I want to go to Tashi station to get more power converters" Skywalker? You've got to be a STELLAR actor to make anything out of that role and Corvette Summer is all I have to say about Mark Hamill's acting chops. Admittedly Carrie Fisher is a bit of a mystery.
Episodes I-III were terribly written and directed as if the principal actors were on methadone. It didn't hurt Liam Neeson or Ewan Mcgregor because they were famously great actors with an established brand in England. Natalie Portman was a well loved indy actress. Only indy film people really knew she was a great actress. Natalie Portman should have walked off the set the first time George Lucas told her to act like a piece of wood. He wasted her talent.
That guy's chart is proof that html makes you fat. See that little downward tick around 2011 when everyone started abandoning the web for mobile apps. Then BOOM - Bootstrap brings him back to html pages. And that steep recent drop. He thinks it's from his diet and exercise but it's really because all the time he spends looking at his Fit Bit he's not on the web.
I hadn't touched the BSDs (with the exception of Mac) in nearly a decade but recently had reason to dig into FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I installed both, played around and dug into some work related to my goals. This will sound funny, but I almost wept. They were both so straight forward and HELPFUL!! The errors suggested paths for getting it right the next time. The documentation was up to date and made perfect sense. Everything was where and what the documentation said it would be and where I intuitively wanted to look for it. The config files had nice big comments and helpful examples you could uncomment and use. There was just no noise.
I ended up choosing FreeBSD for my project for convenience sake. Some packages I needed were being tested on FreeBSD. But OpenBSD is BEAUTIFUL. If security is your top concerns it's worth ANY hassle to run it.
I've administered Linux on servers and on desktops/laptops since 1998. I ran RedHat, Fedora and then Ubuntu on my laptop from 2000 till 2011 when I got a started using Mac a lot more.
I started out with Linux a little late. In 1996 I bought that Gray Box with the Red Hat on it when it started selling at Fry's. That box came with a book. I was a Windows admin at the time and the mix of dlls, config files and registry entries was just getting annoying. I was playing the the pre-release of NT 4.0 and worrying about all the shit they moved out of userland and into the kernel. I remember going through the Red Hat book that came with that box, reading man pages and falling in love. It made sense. I got excited about knowing where to look and having pretty much ONE set of things to know for all the configuration files and shell work. I felt like if I did my homework and took an action, it wouldn't betray me.
FreeBSD made me feel that way again but MORE. It's an operating system you can master with the necessary services to do anything.
As the opportunities arise I'll be switching to one of the BSDs. I'm already running some of my cloud services on FreeBSD 10.1. There are more services in the cloud for Linux but it's worth the extra bits of work to me. And I'm constantly pleasantly surprised that the work I prepare for has already been done somewhere or is easier than I thought it would be.
If you feel like Linux is getting too complex. There's and alternative *NIX out there worth a good hard look.
There seems to be a trend in our own civilization toward more and more experiences being constructed purely from information.
We are heading toward the capacity to transform ourselves into information when our bodies fail.
Information appears to be the only thing with any hope of overcoming the limits of the speed of light.
Our civilization is a few thousand years old. We dream of visiting other stars and we invest a little bit of our wealth in preparing to do so.
If spreading to other planets and stars is a common feature of civilizations and existing as information is the only way (or the most efficient way) to operate at interstellar scale, then a billions year old civilization would have transformed into either pure information or something close to it well over a billion years ago. Being made of a specific bundle of matter would just get in the way.
For all we know, the cosmic background radiation could be crowded with ancient civilizations "visiting" earth and a million other places simultaneously.
Yeah, it's regrettable that in pursuit of spying on your own citizens and other departments of your own govrrnment, you dropped all of our collective pants to a long list of potential attackers.
On second thought, maybe I'm overstating things. How many people who want to damage American interests can afford a room full of GPUs and some math Phds? It's all good. Let's just move along.
Google built an ad and PR platform that caters to early adopters with significant disposable income and when it doesn't show up at Walmart the next year this dude calls them stupid.
Oh, and the demand for a driverless car? How about one ofthe fastest growing demographics in the world - old people.
If you'received ever in the mood to sample willful ignorance talk to a journalist.
If "learning to code" include some careful, thorough attention to theory, algorithms, oop and patterns AND a deep, productive dive into building real functioning software, then, yes, it's beats the shit out of a BS from most colleges.
Languages and frameworks are essentially built environments. Theory and ease in learning core language features doesn't compare at all with extensive experience with a set of useful, well supported libraries and frameworks. Most wheels have been invented. Most problems require the applicarion of existing structures. Yes, there are important instances where extensive knowledge of theory matters but you can add a HELL of a lot of net value without deep theory that is impossible to add without specific knowledge of libraries and the application of patterns.
Dungeons and Dragons is a game of probability events and profiles that offset those probabilities. It's great training for decision-making under constraints. In the real world one seldom knows everything necessary to make the best decision. We're stuck using what information we can gather (and a model for best understanding) to take our best shot.
On the DM side, a good campaign is about balancing the probability of kicking your players asses too hard and giving them enough challenge to build skills and hit points. For instance, a campaign that is well matched to the players should kill them really fast if they were to (to be allowed to) try to play it backwards. The campaign should present opportunities to build the characters to face the later challenges the DM knows are coming. That's a hell of a lot like the long term management of a team.
Of a set of apps, that included Carnivor, that could listen to audio, transcribe it perfectly, uniquely identify the various speakers on the call, identify different discussions weaving through the conversation and summarize them.
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https://soylentnews.org is a place the cool kids are trying to build out into something that does the old fun and useful /. stuff. So far, it's tough going. Obviously, the more the merrier. Come over and have an effect on the culture.
My HS science teacher would race people with calculators and always win with his slide rule. When he was at his desk he'd move the thing back and forth really fast but when he was racing someone he always slid it along all even and slow and eyeballed them like they were trying to get him to believe a lie or something. It was really funny to watch.
Can I have a legible process tree with that magic, please? I like to actually know what's going on. I guess I can call systemd-analyze with whatever options look fun, ps with "matching options(?)" and then pipe those through a filter/formatter that gives me a static look.... Then run that on a loop to see a near real-time update.
And then there's doing something about it.... because if I find something that's not working for me I get to find something to replace that part of systemD, replace it (with whatever labor that takes) and recompile!!!
That's a fair amount of work for a system administrator to do compared to looking at their processes, finding what's causing a problem and replacing it with a better solution. It adds a layer of complexity.
AND, the dependencies of various applications will still be looking for systemD and expecting everything it does. So when I replace that thing, instead of knowing it's on a list of possible dependencies for a given app, I'm on my own.
SystemD adds opacity and what it gives back in exchange requires a sea-change in every corner of the *NIX ecosystem or the net benefit is negative.
And it makes it feel like your diddling a registry key whenever you touch it. It has that dirty, built broken, fuck you if you don't like it, we'll surprise you wherever the fuck we want signal built into using it. You feel like committing to learning it's intricacies is a boat ride with a psycho whose just going to change every time you think things will calm down. You can just tell by the releases it will NEVER settle into being one predictable, reliable thing. It's built to keep surprising us all. I used to work for a Microsoft Gold Partner and I know that feeling.
The public is cinical?! Hundreds of thousands of American's have died protecting the freedoms we hold dear; we defend the rights of disgusting jate groups and obviously violent criminals protecting freedom; we forgo the benefits of a smoother running government protecting freedom..... And WE'RE cynical because we demand that you accoplish your mission without sticking a microphone and camera up our asses?!
And your interpreting of us protecting our freedom is that we have contempt for you mission to protect us?! Please resign. You don't understand your job.
Here's a crazy idea.
Since, unlike browsers, node.js doesn't have 2 decades of code demanding backward compatibility, why not use node.js to FIX JAVASCRIPT. The Node.js devs could write a pre-process that barfs up big, clear, helpful errors whenever it encounters the kind of risky code BS we all have come to despise.
Just think, you could feed the typical garbage to node.js and it could spit back things like:
ERROR: Potential scope conflicts on the following lines. Explicitly declare all variables using "var = ".
WARNING: Nested function limit exceeded. The following lines call to the global scope, not the enclosing function's scope. Add "fixNestedFunctions = true" to config/index.js or accept one of the weirdest, sickest sources of potential bugs the world has ever seen as the norm in you code.
You get the idea.... Use the enthusiasm to make a better world!
The package for selling a series typically consists of a treatment/pitch document, a pilot script and a story bible. The story bible typically contains the layout of the characters and main story lines for the first season and often has synopses of a;; the first season shows.
A series has a master producer called a Show Runner. If that guy or gal is concerned with continuity across episodes and seasons then continuity happens. If they are not then the only continuity you can count upon is adherence to the story bible and in-episode continuity which is handled by the script supervisor/continuity supervisor.
A good show runner keeps the story bible updated as things change and grow.
I'm confused by this. I remember installing RedHat in 1996 using one floppy and a CD.
Get a copy of this book: Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams (Author), Joseph Bizup (Author). Read it and obey it.
It teaches the reader how to write and rewrite based on what cognitive science has discovered about reading comprehension and motivation.
Some of the important basics are - avoiding the passive voice (with WHY you should do so and a very compelling discussion about AGENCY); chaining ideas from one sentence to the next and one paragraph to the next so cause and effect tracks with attention; how to group information so the reader remembers it; how to reinforce an idea.... Every page is a revelation.
From my own experience, I find reasons connected to examples go VERY far. Using examples, even for very complex things, was something to which Richard Feynman credited much of his success. He believed that if you couldn't come up with an example that illustrated the problem then you didn't understand the problem.
Also, PLEASE lead with the one or two things you know someone needs. Handle the 80% who are there to set something up and leave. A good anti-pattern for this is the man page for ifconfig. As man pages go it's very good but it requires digging to construct the line in the shell one might need. People go to the man page for ifconfig to connect to a wired or wireless network and have the most challenges with wireless. The top of that page (and many other man pages) should read something like this: If you are connecting to a wired network, get THIS + EXAMPLE information by doing THIS + EXAMPLE and then use it to do THIS + EXAMPLE. If you are connecting to a wireless network, get THIS + EXAMPLE information by doing THIS + EXAMPLE and then use it to do THIS + EXAMPLE. After each THIS + EXAMPLE have a statement like, "you'll probably see something like THIS" with an explanation of how to use it. Then it should have a basic, advance and troubleshooting section followed at the end by a related concepts section that you can use to find other man pages that might be helpful.
Sorry dude, you're wrong on almost all of these counts and clearly don't understand the American system of government and law.
The individual is the source of ALL RIGHTS, ALL RESPONSIBILITIES and ALL POWERS. The Declaration of Independence works like the givens for a geometric proof. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." There is no society contemplated here. Society is a collection of individuals that, JUST LIKE GOVERNMENT, is never presumed to have more rights than the individual.
Individuals have certain responsibilities that go along with those rights. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." We have a duty to correct or abolish our government if it fails to protect and serve our rights AS INDIVIDUALS.
The particular limits on government called out in the Bill of Rights is instructive here. They are the rights necessary to correct or abolish our government or to establish and run one.
Somebody please +1 this guy informative. This was a perfect, simple explanation after a sea of gobbledygook
It doesn't make sense for non-generating customers. It makes a ton of sense rolled into a solar or wind package. And, it makes sense of utilities continuing to support rebates instead of resisting them because it smooths out demand and enables buy-back at convenient times.
I worked for several years during and after college at The George Baker Workshop which was in the Art Barn in the center of Occidental College. It has since been returned to the building's original purpose - food service. We built kinetic sculptures driven by motors, wind and or water. George Baker also taught all the sculpture classes out of the building.
Since it was the only space on campus outside of the physical plant department where people could go to work with metal, plastic and wood it became what is now referred to as a maker-space.
This was in the late 80s and early 90s when a CNC mill would set you back many, many thousands of dollars. We had two drill presses, a band saw, a belt and radial sander, a table saw, two standard anvils and one custom metal shaping anvil that George Baker designed and several oxy acetylene setups with cutting and welding heads which were available to everyone. Along with a healthy collection of hand tools.
We had a 3 inch lathe, a 10 inch lathe, a 5 ft break, a pneumatic punch, a plasma cutter and a TIG welder with a full station (metal table, etc.) and a set of very nice hand power tools. These were only for the sculpture fabrication team but we were happy to to help people with small projects and teach people how to do things.
Here are a bunch of things that might not come to mind but are SUPER helpful.
That's all the time I got. Hope this helps.
I would also put up a big sign that says, "Trigger Warning - Cisgendered fasteners and the language necessary to discuss them are used in this space." I first thought of this as a joke and then realized that, sadly, it's not a joke.
WTF? How is the OP being racist? Specifically?!
The OP is critical of our giant Federal spending and doesn't like the ACA. The idea that somehow that correlates to racism is INSANE. Do you have anything better than some lame name-calling?
What you're supporting, just to be clear, is sanctioning someone's speech because a racist might share that particular view. Let's apply that logic to you. Let's see who believes in sanctioning free speech and guilt by association.... Brutal Dictators most of whom also are racists, violent to homosexuals and brutal towards women.
So, by your logic you're posts should be modded down as hate speech because they are advocating an action that is might also be used by brutal, racist, gay and women hating dictators.
I carefully plan the length and timing of my phone calls so that if you graph them against each other it draws a picture of my junk.
I can agree with most of that. I think the first script and movie had pace and clarity on its side. And SiFi in the years leading up to 1977 was all about post apocalyptic earth or abstract freak outs. So, SW was a VERY welcome change from hand wringing and acid trips to an exciting, accessible story.
The two Lawrence Kasdan scripts are miracles. The first movie had complete closure. All the mythology about Lucas having a long term vision should be pretty much dead after seeing Episodes I-III. What a mess!! You can thank Lawrence Kasdan for SW being an exciting trilogy. The second and third movies were well written scripts. I promise you Ewoks and other blemishes are all Lucas.
And once you ask the question, "Who builds the Death Star twice?" you're on your way to the question -Who, given that they can build more than one Death Star, only builds one at a time?
If you're a bad actor or you are made to look like a bad actor by a bad script or director, your career will be hurt. The Star Wars franchise has had some good scripts and directors and some disasters.
Harrison Ford was a good actor - he got work. James Earl Jones got half the bad magic guy roles for the next 15 years. Billy Dee Williams did fine after being Lando Calrissian. Those were well written roles and the actors played them well. Luke, "But I want to go to Tashi station to get more power converters" Skywalker? You've got to be a STELLAR actor to make anything out of that role and Corvette Summer is all I have to say about Mark Hamill's acting chops. Admittedly Carrie Fisher is a bit of a mystery.
Episodes I-III were terribly written and directed as if the principal actors were on methadone. It didn't hurt Liam Neeson or Ewan Mcgregor because they were famously great actors with an established brand in England. Natalie Portman was a well loved indy actress. Only indy film people really knew she was a great actress. Natalie Portman should have walked off the set the first time George Lucas told her to act like a piece of wood. He wasted her talent.
That guy's chart is proof that html makes you fat. See that little downward tick around 2011 when everyone started abandoning the web for mobile apps. Then BOOM - Bootstrap brings him back to html pages. And that steep recent drop. He thinks it's from his diet and exercise but it's really because all the time he spends looking at his Fit Bit he's not on the web.
Or maybe that's scripting languages.... or maybe it's compilers.... or maybe it's HEX.
I hadn't touched the BSDs (with the exception of Mac) in nearly a decade but recently had reason to dig into FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I installed both, played around and dug into some work related to my goals. This will sound funny, but I almost wept. They were both so straight forward and HELPFUL!! The errors suggested paths for getting it right the next time. The documentation was up to date and made perfect sense. Everything was where and what the documentation said it would be and where I intuitively wanted to look for it. The config files had nice big comments and helpful examples you could uncomment and use. There was just no noise.
I ended up choosing FreeBSD for my project for convenience sake. Some packages I needed were being tested on FreeBSD. But OpenBSD is BEAUTIFUL. If security is your top concerns it's worth ANY hassle to run it.
I've administered Linux on servers and on desktops/laptops since 1998. I ran RedHat, Fedora and then Ubuntu on my laptop from 2000 till 2011 when I got a started using Mac a lot more.
I started out with Linux a little late. In 1996 I bought that Gray Box with the Red Hat on it when it started selling at Fry's. That box came with a book. I was a Windows admin at the time and the mix of dlls, config files and registry entries was just getting annoying. I was playing the the pre-release of NT 4.0 and worrying about all the shit they moved out of userland and into the kernel. I remember going through the Red Hat book that came with that box, reading man pages and falling in love. It made sense. I got excited about knowing where to look and having pretty much ONE set of things to know for all the configuration files and shell work. I felt like if I did my homework and took an action, it wouldn't betray me.
FreeBSD made me feel that way again but MORE. It's an operating system you can master with the necessary services to do anything.
As the opportunities arise I'll be switching to one of the BSDs. I'm already running some of my cloud services on FreeBSD 10.1. There are more services in the cloud for Linux but it's worth the extra bits of work to me. And I'm constantly pleasantly surprised that the work I prepare for has already been done somewhere or is easier than I thought it would be.
If you feel like Linux is getting too complex. There's and alternative *NIX out there worth a good hard look.
There seems to be a trend in our own civilization toward more and more experiences being constructed purely from information.
We are heading toward the capacity to transform ourselves into information when our bodies fail.
Information appears to be the only thing with any hope of overcoming the limits of the speed of light.
Our civilization is a few thousand years old. We dream of visiting other stars and we invest a little bit of our wealth in preparing to do so.
If spreading to other planets and stars is a common feature of civilizations and existing as information is the only way (or the most efficient way) to operate at interstellar scale, then a billions year old civilization would have transformed into either pure information or something close to it well over a billion years ago. Being made of a specific bundle of matter would just get in the way.
For all we know, the cosmic background radiation could be crowded with ancient civilizations "visiting" earth and a million other places simultaneously.
Yeah, it's regrettable that in pursuit of spying on your own citizens and other departments of your own govrrnment, you dropped all of our collective pants to a long list of potential attackers. On second thought, maybe I'm overstating things. How many people who want to damage American interests can afford a room full of GPUs and some math Phds? It's all good. Let's just move along.
Google built an ad and PR platform that caters to early adopters with significant disposable income and when it doesn't show up at Walmart the next year this dude calls them stupid.
Oh, and the demand for a driverless car? How about one ofthe fastest growing demographics in the world - old people.
If you'received ever in the mood to sample willful ignorance talk to a journalist.
If "learning to code" include some careful, thorough attention to theory, algorithms, oop and patterns AND a deep, productive dive into building real functioning software, then, yes, it's beats the shit out of a BS from most colleges. Languages and frameworks are essentially built environments. Theory and ease in learning core language features doesn't compare at all with extensive experience with a set of useful, well supported libraries and frameworks. Most wheels have been invented. Most problems require the applicarion of existing structures. Yes, there are important instances where extensive knowledge of theory matters but you can add a HELL of a lot of net value without deep theory that is impossible to add without specific knowledge of libraries and the application of patterns.
Dungeons and Dragons is a game of probability events and profiles that offset those probabilities. It's great training for decision-making under constraints. In the real world one seldom knows everything necessary to make the best decision. We're stuck using what information we can gather (and a model for best understanding) to take our best shot.
On the DM side, a good campaign is about balancing the probability of kicking your players asses too hard and giving them enough challenge to build skills and hit points. For instance, a campaign that is well matched to the players should kill them really fast if they were to (to be allowed to) try to play it backwards. The campaign should present opportunities to build the characters to face the later challenges the DM knows are coming. That's a hell of a lot like the long term management of a team.
Of a set of apps, that included Carnivor, that could listen to audio, transcribe it perfectly, uniquely identify the various speakers on the call, identify different discussions weaving through the conversation and summarize them.