It's not entrapment. Harvard made the big group for the students to share normal stuff. A subgroup of students made their own private group to share raunchy stuff, and to get in they decided you had to post rude crap in the official group.
Harvard had nothing to do with the second group, or it's rules about what you had to post.
68% have less than a thousand bucks saved. But according to the article most of them are good savers. They just save for short term things, instead of long term. Yet 80% say they want to buy a house.
Something seems off about the resolution comments in this post. 127,000 dots per square inch only works up to 356.37 dots per linear inch. Laser printers have had 300 dots per linear inch resolution since the late 1980s. Somebody tell me what I'm missing here... thanks!
Color laser printers tend to do worse than B&W ones for resolution.
So how huge is a printer like this. (yes, I know it's a prototype, but...) How thick are the pages with their tiny crystal towers? How much does it cost per page? Do the colors shift when you bend the page? Can you even bend the page? Is boosting the resolution by a factor of 2.5 in each direction even visible to the human eye?
It doesn't seem to matter if you're making suggestions for someone else to implement or offering to do the work yourself; some people seem just as likely to sling mud at you either way.
So, you're offering to: * Update the design specs * Contact customers to get their sign off on the changes * Update the developer documentation * Update the customer facing documentation * Translate that customer facing documentation (and any visible changes) into all supported languages * Certify that your changes do not break any regulatory/legal requirements in all jurisdictions where the code will be deployed * Develop all the changed code yourself * Handle any merge issues with coworkers who were already altering that body of code * Perform all QA regression testing to ensure your changes don't break any existing functionality * Distribute and install the newer versions at all customer sites (who are willing to adopt your new version) * Handle all incoming support calls for the customers who didn't actually understand/want your changes/that are having troubles with it * Deal with the increase in support overhead/bugfixes for managing two versions of the code (before your changes and after your changes) until everyone is cut over to the new version
Are you starting to understand why "offering to do the work" is still going to result in adding burden to others that they don't appreciate?
Mr Bundy was useless, but I can't really see him doing a worse job than the market right now. Despite his pitiful salary as a shoe salesman, he managed to keep his family housed, fed, and mostly clothed. That takes a degree of financial smarts that many don't have.
Oh, and while we are on the subject, as soon as you use And in a method name really try and split it into two seperate functions.
Change:
function doThisAndThat(...)
Into function doThis(...)
function doThat(...)
Even if both of those methods will always be called together one after the other for the rest of eternity that it still far than the alternative which is that some fool after wards comes along and changes it into: doThisAndThatAndTheOtherThing(...)
But I thought HaltAndCatchFire was supposed to be an atomic action. Now I need to code it as two separate functions?
So, we've decided to manually build the Borg, is that it? What about when the software decides that being able to be shut down is a bug, and auto patches that, then decides we're bugs too...
Are we creating Skynet, or the Borg, or some evil lovechild of the pair of them?
There was a home electronic game based on that exact scenario - "I took a lickin' from a chicken". Had a goofy looking robot chicken in a clear box, with inputs that would let it kick your ass a several games.
It does both, along with other heuristics. If it detects a normal delay in reaching the checkbox and normal mouse movements it will usually let you proceed. If it's suspicious, because the box was checked too quickly, or the mouse movements were unnatural (or the pointer jumped without following a patch)
So how does THAT work on touch screens? Delay might still be there, but I typically don't drag my finger over the screen to reach a checkbox.
I'd like to know why the goverments aren't investing in this high end automation.
What do the welfare people need? Shelter, food, maybe booze, TV/Internet.
Why doesn't the government build the robots to provide those things? With the output going to the people already demanding help?
Rather than demand the productive population work to care for the unproductive (whatever the reason) population, let the darn robots that want to take everyone's jobs do it.
Need to move them around? Free autodrive goverment uber access. Growing crops? There are already prototypes of fully automated mini farms. Build some robots to build those. This can't be an unsurmountable problem.
Heck, tell companies that if they want to replace jobs by automation, the will need to supply a fraction of their automation to the goverment to be used for this purpose.
Only having a 300 baund modem, with no auto answer made running a BBS a bit on the difficult side, but I managed.
When I got my own phone line put in, I had them put the demarc point inside my 2nd floor bedroom.
At the time, I had a Tandy Coco 3 running OS-9. I ran the phone lines through the cassette drive control port on the computer, then from their out to the modem.
my software would "pick up" the phone by toggling the cassette relay, listen for keystrokes, and if it got them, proceed with the BBS software I built. No keystrokes, would hang up, wait 5 seconds, and try again. All night long. "Click". pause. "Click"...
Apple is doing absolutely nothing to prevent you from buying any charger that you would like. Buy a Belkin, buy a whatever. As long as it puts out actual 5VDC and enough amps to activate the charging circuit, you'll be perfectly fine.
But if you buy some cheap piece of shit that spikes voltage and blows out your phone, Apple is going to say that you used a cheap piece of shit that voids your warranty, just like any other device manufacturer would, regardless of if it's a phone or not.
Oh, but it's Apple, so clearly they are monopolistic shitheads all of a sudden, even if this has been the case for literally decades of portable electronics.
Worse - they are being advertised as "genuine" Apple chargers
One of the nice things about preordering items, say from Amazon, is that you don't actually have your card charged until the time the item is ready to ship. So much for that under this system.
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It's not entrapment. Harvard made the big group for the students to share normal stuff. A subgroup of students made their own private group to share raunchy stuff, and to get in they decided you had to post rude crap in the official group.
Harvard had nothing to do with the second group, or it's rules about what you had to post.
68% have less than a thousand bucks saved. But according to the article most of them are good savers. They just save for short term things, instead of long term. Yet 80% say they want to buy a house.
Who the heck edits these dumb articles?
Something seems off about the resolution comments in this post. 127,000 dots per square inch only works up to 356.37 dots per linear inch. Laser printers have had 300 dots per linear inch resolution since the late 1980s. Somebody tell me what I'm missing here... thanks!
Color laser printers tend to do worse than B&W ones for resolution.
So how huge is a printer like this. (yes, I know it's a prototype, but...)
How thick are the pages with their tiny crystal towers?
How much does it cost per page?
Do the colors shift when you bend the page?
Can you even bend the page?
Is boosting the resolution by a factor of 2.5 in each direction even visible to the human eye?
It doesn't seem to matter if you're making suggestions for someone else to implement or offering to do the work yourself; some people seem just as likely to sling mud at you either way.
So, you're offering to:
* Update the design specs
* Contact customers to get their sign off on the changes
* Update the developer documentation
* Update the customer facing documentation
* Translate that customer facing documentation (and any visible changes) into all supported languages
* Certify that your changes do not break any regulatory/legal requirements in all jurisdictions where the code will be deployed
* Develop all the changed code yourself
* Handle any merge issues with coworkers who were already altering that body of code
* Perform all QA regression testing to ensure your changes don't break any existing functionality
* Distribute and install the newer versions at all customer sites (who are willing to adopt your new version)
* Handle all incoming support calls for the customers who didn't actually understand/want your changes/that are having troubles with it
* Deal with the increase in support overhead/bugfixes for managing two versions of the code (before your changes and after your changes) until everyone is cut over to the new version
Are you starting to understand why "offering to do the work" is still going to result in adding burden to others that they don't appreciate?
Mr Bundy was useless, but I can't really see him doing a worse job than the market right now. Despite his pitiful salary as a shoe salesman, he managed to keep his family housed, fed, and mostly clothed. That takes a degree of financial smarts that many don't have.
The historical way this problem has been solved has been for the larger people to simply take the surplus from the smaller people.
Isn't that part of the issue at hand? Overlapping into the smaller people's seat space?
Oh, and while we are on the subject, as soon as you use And in a method name really try and split it into two seperate functions.
Change:
function doThisAndThat(...)
Into
function doThis(...)
function doThat(...)
Even if both of those methods will always be called together one after the other for the rest of eternity that it still far than the alternative which is that some fool after wards comes along and changes it into: doThisAndThatAndTheOtherThing(...)
But I thought HaltAndCatchFire was supposed to be an atomic action. Now I need to code it as two separate functions?
Post ad with bluetooth crap in it.
Filter for the ones who have plenty of expensive toys.
Pillage.
Profit.
So, we've decided to manually build the Borg, is that it? What about when the software decides that being able to be shut down is a bug, and auto patches that, then decides we're bugs too...
Are we creating Skynet, or the Borg, or some evil lovechild of the pair of them?
According to this: https://www.df7cb.de/projects/..., it's Sept 8559, 1993 right now.
There was a home electronic game based on that exact scenario - "I took a lickin' from a chicken". Had a goofy looking robot chicken in a clear box, with inputs that would let it kick your ass a several games.
Gee, look at that...Nordstrom is selling a fucking rock for $85.
Just in time for the holidays...
Your local jewelry store will sell you rocks for vastly more than 85$.
It does both, along with other heuristics. If it detects a normal delay in reaching the checkbox and normal mouse movements it will usually let you proceed. If it's suspicious, because the box was checked too quickly, or the mouse movements were unnatural (or the pointer jumped without following a patch)
So how does THAT work on touch screens? Delay might still be there, but I typically don't drag my finger over the screen to reach a checkbox.
Well, the foxconn ex-workers displaced by robots have to do something to feed themselves right?
I'd like to know why the goverments aren't investing in this high end automation.
What do the welfare people need? Shelter, food, maybe booze, TV/Internet.
Why doesn't the government build the robots to provide those things? With the output going to the people already demanding help?
Rather than demand the productive population work to care for the unproductive (whatever the reason) population, let the darn robots that want to take everyone's jobs do it.
Need to move them around? Free autodrive goverment uber access. Growing crops? There are already prototypes of fully automated mini farms. Build some robots to build those. This can't be an unsurmountable problem.
Heck, tell companies that if they want to replace jobs by automation, the will need to supply a fraction of their automation to the goverment to be used for this purpose.
Only having a 300 baund modem, with no auto answer made running a BBS a bit on the difficult side, but I managed.
When I got my own phone line put in, I had them put the demarc point inside my 2nd floor bedroom.
At the time, I had a Tandy Coco 3 running OS-9. I ran the phone lines through the cassette drive control port on the computer, then from their out to the modem.
my software would "pick up" the phone by toggling the cassette relay, listen for keystrokes, and if it got them, proceed with the BBS software I built. No keystrokes, would hang up, wait 5 seconds, and try again. All night long. "Click". pause. "Click"...
Good times.
But how else will you power your roof mounted railguns?
It's sad that when i read that comment, I read it in a mix between Apu's and Ben Jabituya's voices.
Apple is doing absolutely nothing to prevent you from buying any charger that you would like. Buy a Belkin, buy a whatever. As long as it puts out actual 5VDC and enough amps to activate the charging circuit, you'll be perfectly fine.
But if you buy some cheap piece of shit that spikes voltage and blows out your phone, Apple is going to say that you used a cheap piece of shit that voids your warranty, just like any other device manufacturer would, regardless of if it's a phone or not.
Oh, but it's Apple, so clearly they are monopolistic shitheads all of a sudden, even if this has been the case for literally decades of portable electronics.
Worse - they are being advertised as "genuine" Apple chargers
That's called "Plankton".
Just get SpaceX to ship it to the far side of the moon. What could go wrong?
wait - there aren't enough female tyrants in the past? It seriously sounds like they are complaining that white male tyrants got all the good jobs.
Is the reason that they didn't get big enough kill streaks due to their being nicer, or just not enough opportunities to shine?
I eat foods with lots of preservatives so I can live longer. I expect to live to 150.
Twinkies - the key to immortality.
One of the nice things about preordering items, say from Amazon, is that you don't actually have your card charged until the time the item is ready to ship. So much for that under this system.