Yeah, the states not actually being required to cast their electoral votes for the winner of the popular vote is a little unsettling. It's crazy how much how the government works now vs. how it was originally intended to work has diverged over time.
I would kind of like to see a slapfight break out over the NPVIC. I imagine if they get close to the necessary threshold things will get interesting.
Clinton winning huge margins in a few large states isn't enough to win the presidency and that has NEVER been the case in American history.
One only needs to carry 11 states and 27% of the popular vote to win the presidency (you could also do it with 23% but more states). So yeah, it kind of has been the case.
California 55 Texas 38 New York 29 Florida 29 Pennsylvania 20 Illinois 20 Ohio 18 Michigan 16 Georgia 16 North Carolina 15 New Jersey 14
Of course, you don't need huge margins in this scenario, but 11 isn't too far away from "a few" in this context, I would say.
Scientists, for at least half a century, were really big on social darwinism. That meant the scientific community would just assume black people were dumber, or Poles were naturally servile or whatever based on speculation. If there were any doubts, you could always cite some social scientist who did a study to 'prove' it
Well then that shows that the scientists in question were incompetent. It doesn't show that science itself supports bigotry.
It's almost as if there were a problem, like cancer or rapid computation, and the government saw some benefit in a solution and was willing to shoulder decades of failure because it was the only way to kickstart the few avenues of success that even private industry might take a decade to succeed at. Which, of course, does lead to a lot of graft, corruption, and wasted spending. So does capitalism. Really, so does just about any system*.
Put simply, you're a narrow minded, ungrateful moron who can't see the nuance of history nor do you have any consideration for even yourself for the unexpected events that will personally effect you. Thankfully, there are people who don't have their head so far up their ass to recognize that public (ie government) spending is necessary to fund big ideas (or subsidize less common ones), public (ie charity) is needed when government refuses to cover certain avenues, and private (ie commercial) is needed to handle the more routine stuff and better optimize actual delivery of goods/services. They're all necessary in the big picture.
Dude. He didn't say government funding was completely without merit. Leaky pipes will still supply some water to the destination.
Is your sample pool limited to Slashdot? Because if we do that it's easy to draw the conclusion that every single scientific study is bought by some corporation and full of shit.
Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm paranoid, or Slashdot is, or the whole world just blows.
Relatedly, the number of times I've been trying to resize a window and accidentally went two pixels too far to the southwest and closed the program (since it didn't have an exit sanity check) over the last couple years is a bit embarrassing. Mostly VLC and Chromium.
To be fair, Linux DEs had snap-to-edge for several years before Windows 7 came out. But yeah.
This situation requires both that A) DE developers limit drag sensitivity to pixel-perfect for some reason, and B) theme designers wanting the smallest possible border on all their windows (well, technically you can run entirely without a border but whatever). Back before Unity I knew how to tweak the Ubuntu/Compiz/whatever themes to fatten up the borders, but after GNOME got flushed, doing that in XFCE would've required digging into text files IIRC.
Windows 7 was the platonic ideal of Windows. After that it's just been an accelerating downhill slope.
I hate trying to resize windows with thin or non-existent borders and I'm not even old yet. Thank God for the Linux's resize shortcuts.
I don't know why Linux DEs have such a hard time with window borders and their damn single-pixel-across resize sweet spot. That's one thing Windows at least does right--the resize "grab range" is like 5-10 pixels across.
XFCE at least makes up for it with Alt+right click and drag anywhere in the window to resize. Not very discoverable though.
I don't want content adjusting itself as I scroll. My keyboard has Home and End buttons. If I want to see the stop of the 'page'
Silly user, finite pages are so 1998. Now we have pages that load in more crap as you scroll.
You should check out this page (not the article itself; it's depressing as fuck). It's like Medium cranked up to 11:
The header covers the entire screen, is an autoplaying video for no reason, and when you scroll down it fades into a picture and "sticks" for a couple scrolls until you can get past that. Then you scroll past that and it's the standard column of too-large fontsize text that only takes up the middle third of the screen with huge white stripes on the side. Then you find out later that horrid header thing is repeated for each of the seven or so mid-article chapter headings.
Unfortunately already commented in here; otherwise I'd mod you up.
Any halfway-complex piece of code will almost never be perfect the first time you write it. With programming assignments back in college occasionally I'd run a rough draft of it just to see how it failed and basically fall out of my chair in surprise when it worked the first time.
On the other hand, I'm sure you'd agree that raising the standards for men until the reject rate is equal for both genders will result in even better code quality overall right? See... we can frame it either way.
The obvious answer here is to anonymize the code review such that you don't know whose code you're reviewing.
Suppose you may still be able to tell from coding style and comments, but then you're just being a twat yourself, and there's only so much we can do about that.
The main problem with "Edgebook" is the lack of brand recognition for "Edge". Mind you, with Microsoft it can sometimes be a good thing that people don't associate a product with their existing stuff.
That's the computer put out by Edge, that guy in U2, right?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, the states not actually being required to cast their electoral votes for the winner of the popular vote is a little unsettling. It's crazy how much how the government works now vs. how it was originally intended to work has diverged over time.
I would kind of like to see a slapfight break out over the NPVIC. I imagine if they get close to the necessary threshold things will get interesting.
"Leaky pipe" implies that it's a minor problem.
False. The pipe can be riddled with holes but if you crank up the pressure high enough some minimal amount will still get through.
Anyway everything in moderation is my point I guess.
You, however, are the one whipping out all the personal insults and name-calling.
Saying that a government action would be too ridiculous to do with a straight face is hardly proof that they won't do it anyway these days.
Elective Monarchies are a transitory state
If 844 years is your idea of "transitory," sign me up! :-/
Clinton winning huge margins in a few large states isn't enough to win the presidency and that has NEVER been the case in American history.
One only needs to carry 11 states and 27% of the popular vote to win the presidency (you could also do it with 23% but more states). So yeah, it kind of has been the case.
California 55
Texas 38
New York 29
Florida 29
Pennsylvania 20
Illinois 20
Ohio 18
Michigan 16
Georgia 16
North Carolina 15
New Jersey 14
Of course, you don't need huge margins in this scenario, but 11 isn't too far away from "a few" in this context, I would say.
Scientists, for at least half a century, were really big on social darwinism. That meant the scientific community would just assume black people were dumber, or Poles were naturally servile or whatever based on speculation. If there were any doubts, you could always cite some social scientist who did a study to 'prove' it
Well then that shows that the scientists in question were incompetent. It doesn't show that science itself supports bigotry.
It's almost as if there were a problem, like cancer or rapid computation, and the government saw some benefit in a solution and was willing to shoulder decades of failure because it was the only way to kickstart the few avenues of success that even private industry might take a decade to succeed at. Which, of course, does lead to a lot of graft, corruption, and wasted spending. So does capitalism. Really, so does just about any system*.
Put simply, you're a narrow minded, ungrateful moron who can't see the nuance of history nor do you have any consideration for even yourself for the unexpected events that will personally effect you. Thankfully, there are people who don't have their head so far up their ass to recognize that public (ie government) spending is necessary to fund big ideas (or subsidize less common ones), public (ie charity) is needed when government refuses to cover certain avenues, and private (ie commercial) is needed to handle the more routine stuff and better optimize actual delivery of goods/services. They're all necessary in the big picture.
Dude. He didn't say government funding was completely without merit. Leaky pipes will still supply some water to the destination.
Take a chill pill.
Is your sample pool limited to Slashdot? Because if we do that it's easy to draw the conclusion that every single scientific study is bought by some corporation and full of shit.
Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm paranoid, or Slashdot is, or the whole world just blows.
Intersex conditions (of which chromosomal reversals are a type) are surprisingly common. For example, genital anomalies occur in 1 in 300 births
You have a very lenient definition of "common." 0.33% is not common.
No.
United States Senator
from Illinois
In office
January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008
Member of the Illinois Senate
from the 13th district
In office
January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004
Relatedly, the number of times I've been trying to resize a window and accidentally went two pixels too far to the southwest and closed the program (since it didn't have an exit sanity check) over the last couple years is a bit embarrassing. Mostly VLC and Chromium.
To be fair, Linux DEs had snap-to-edge for several years before Windows 7 came out. But yeah.
This situation requires both that A) DE developers limit drag sensitivity to pixel-perfect for some reason, and B) theme designers wanting the smallest possible border on all their windows (well, technically you can run entirely without a border but whatever). Back before Unity I knew how to tweak the Ubuntu/Compiz/whatever themes to fatten up the borders, but after GNOME got flushed, doing that in XFCE would've required digging into text files IIRC.
Windows 7 was the platonic ideal of Windows. After that it's just been an accelerating downhill slope.
"The" year? Microsoft has been doing that for decades.
Star Trek has a weird notion of what "manual" means. There was a scene in First Contact where they had to enable the manual release for a door.
The whole point of being manual is that you don't need to enable it if the automation fails! It still just works!
If you want to write software that attempts to read my mind, at least give me the option to turn that feature OFF and do it manually.
Imagine trying to use Swype on a phone without it giving you the list of possible completions.
I hate trying to resize windows with thin or non-existent borders and I'm not even old yet. Thank God for the Linux's resize shortcuts.
I don't know why Linux DEs have such a hard time with window borders and their damn single-pixel-across resize sweet spot. That's one thing Windows at least does right--the resize "grab range" is like 5-10 pixels across.
XFCE at least makes up for it with Alt+right click and drag anywhere in the window to resize. Not very discoverable though.
I don't want content adjusting itself as I scroll. My keyboard has Home and End buttons. If I want to see the stop of the 'page'
Silly user, finite pages are so 1998. Now we have pages that load in more crap as you scroll.
You should check out this page (not the article itself; it's depressing as fuck). It's like Medium cranked up to 11:
The header covers the entire screen, is an autoplaying video for no reason, and when you scroll down it fades into a picture and "sticks" for a couple scrolls until you can get past that.
Then you scroll past that and it's the standard column of too-large fontsize text that only takes up the middle third of the screen with huge white stripes on the side.
Then you find out later that horrid header thing is repeated for each of the seven or so mid-article chapter headings.
People picking other themes than The New Hotness makes them look bad, so obviously it had to go.
But there is no concept of hover.
I suppose you could repurpose long-press as "hover" but then you lose "right-click."
Unfortunately already commented in here; otherwise I'd mod you up.
Any halfway-complex piece of code will almost never be perfect the first time you write it. With programming assignments back in college occasionally I'd run a rough draft of it just to see how it failed and basically fall out of my chair in surprise when it worked the first time.
You don't need to know that during a code review, though.
On the other hand, I'm sure you'd agree that raising the standards for men until the reject rate is equal for both genders will result in even better code quality overall right? See... we can frame it either way.
The obvious answer here is to anonymize the code review such that you don't know whose code you're reviewing.
Suppose you may still be able to tell from coding style and comments, but then you're just being a twat yourself, and there's only so much we can do about that.
The main problem with "Edgebook" is the lack of brand recognition for "Edge". Mind you, with Microsoft it can sometimes be a good thing that people don't associate a product with their existing stuff.
That's the computer put out by Edge, that guy in U2, right?
I really don't know why it remains so popular.
It doesn't. Have you seen their user graph? They're hemorrhaging their userbase.