Yup, they cut that off quick too. I guessed from the video - yeah, they cut out often, but this was immediately preceded with what looked like a big, fast risetime shock hitting the camera, not the usual shaking.
And they won't let him upload. Basic chemistry stuff - entertaining if you're into actually learning how things work. He does cater a bit to the younger crowd who like exciting stuff, or somewhat dangerous stuff, and it's a bubble-wrapped world guy, but this is insane. His latest strike was for a vid on how to make gunpowder - and not very good stuff - out of urine, which takes a very long time, huge effort and so on - compared to just buying the stuff legally at any gun shop and many mailorder places...
He's a white guy, as he says, swears less than his Mormon mon, so go figure, all you politically correct people who are probably the ones against just being correct.
Or is it more insidious - we don't want people learning actual facts about how things work, and being empowered to do what they can imagine? Most of his stuff has nothing to do with a very poor pyrotechnic substance.
Nope. Investors are "grandma's pension catfood fund" - she's innocent. And public servants don't want to work for their pay. So, it's both immoral (grandma doesn't get her cat food) and impractical. So it satisfies neither "should" or "will" tests on any level in the current system. Too bad the naive approaches won't work here, but it is what it is. No one's going to overhaul the whole system, sadly, till it gets burned down in anger...
Even if you limit losses to the few "whales" you really don't solve this one malefactor's issues. It's the incentives for the people in control of this and other major outfits that are hosed up - and those are the basis for the whole financial engineering system.
This shows a model of public corporations as primitive AI's just doing what they're incentivised to do and it's pretty close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Stocks are not a commodity! They are backed by nothing! When GM went bankrupt, I couldn't make them give me so much as a drill press for what was $50k of their stock. Well, others couldn't anyway. I shorted that much...
Never really had to cover - well, it was pennies at one point.
Thanks for a really cool Camaro, UAW - no one else held shares, no one would buy any, but that's just about the only place my broker could have borrowed any shares to short...
I think you have it completely wrong. As the Register said, the talking points game from the green party - eg the party of money. Wheeler got the same ones.
He turned on his masters. If you're going to be partisan at least understand that the R's and D's are both the big money party.
And the states are fighting back, and hopefully they win. This is really the citizens against the parasites, and making it R vs D makes it easier for the parasites to win. Please understand that even if you sum the R's half truths and the D's - you're still way short of the truth - light years short.
I know plenty of republicans and even actual conservatives, who are for net neutrality...Yes, Ajit isn't one of them, at least in public. But then he's not an elected politician either - he's a paid lobbyist...um...temporarily serving as a regulator. Like in all agencies - totally corrupt, and who's in there now has little to do with any one election. We call it "regulatory capture" and "revolving door regulation".
Of the two parties - and you should check what practically limits it to two - special laws etc - do you really think either is above this crap? The approval ratings of officials are well below what any party gets in elections, should give you a clue.
Agreed. We can tell Clem, though he probably already knows and agrees. This is just ignorant, but the bright side is it will drive more people to sensible things - like Mate, and off self-important bad design and change for its own sake (or more likely, for some ego's sake). Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Yeah, that site makes a lot of the above look like trolling...but this is slashdot, and even infinite mod points seem unable to drain the swamp - it's like trying to empty the ocean with a spoon. Either a higher fraction of the worst jerks have learned how to post online - or worse, the entire population has gained a higher proportion of such jerks. It makes me sad. From sour grapes, to extreme partisanship, to just dumb comments that it must be evil if they're not giving my favorite cause all their money...it's getting real old, people - especially to those of us who are educated, experienced, actually want to discuss with others of our type, and for crying out loud, know that loose is the opposite of tight, not win. It used to be obvious who never really learned to read from print media, from mistakes like that - but now they're so common that someone might have learned to read from the internet and it's the blind leading the deaf...gawd, it's nasty if you love our language.
Actually, because you commented, I RTFM on Lua and I'm gonna try it. I'm likely to keep using C++ for embedded and opsys uses, but for simple stuff, Lua looks great on the surface. Time, of course, will tell how handy it is on a PC. Where you've got resources, it's easy to be seduced by something with more features...nothing perfectly fits everything.
It's probably faster (based on what I know of the internals) but more/less bloated I haven't a clue. I admit I know diddly about lua and tons about perl.
The only place I've even seen lua so far is in an ESP8266, where I instantly erased it to put in C/C++ programs to fully use the chip and get my money's worth.
I doubt any scripting language would have let me do what I do in C++ re interrupts, real time, all kinds of cool multitasking and so forth - and still fit easily in cycles and memory.
Perl tends to be quicker than other scripting languages because of how the compiler/interpreter was done - the internals are pretty unique to the business. It tends to blow away interpreted byte code stuff which is what I was thinking about - the intermediate code in perl was designed along with and to support - perl.
Gm uses the phone they build into the car whether you like it or not, and whether you bought minutes or not. And if it can't find a cell tower, it goes satellite. Yup, more than one band is available.
I know this is true on my 2012 Volt - because I can still use the car phone in places where cell phones do not have any bars at all, and don't work. But it's expensive and I haven't bought any minutes in years.
Yes, there are endless descriptions on how to really disable these things. Sometimes you have to find and pull more than one fuse. In some vehicles, you basically have to remove the console electronics and short the Onstar stuff out at the antenna connector after cutting the wire to it - enough can just leak to still let them track you. And it's different on every model...so I hear.
If they want to track me and my Volt, they're going to be surprised how fast I make it go, but die of boredom otherwise.
Well, my Volt refuses to catch fire despite all the propaganda about that before they came out. Yeah, they totalled one, stuffed into a junkyard upside down, and 3 weeks later it caught fire - somehow I think if I were trapped in a totalled car upside down for 3 weeks, starvation would be more of an issue...and they do drain gas tanks of normal cars before crash testing them.
Yet all this crap came out....I put some flame decals on mine just for humors sake.
Um, isn't that the lashup where one guy pulled down his string padding code and broke most of the apps using it on the web? I'd consider utter dependency on a flaky source a VERY SERIOUS FLAW. No, make that fatal. No way I'm using that.
It's interesting how truly experienced people uniformly dislike Javascript. While I don't think python is the answer to everything without knowing the question - I can let that go - though I'd sure prefer something where whitespace wasn't part of the language in that way.
It's almost as if we old guys who've done this a lot might have learned something, and are trying to help by telling it to everyone. We can all disagree about the minor stuff and be fine, but a disaster is what it is and there seems to be little disagreement about that.
Yup, and for dynamic typing (if it doesn't grow hair on your palms), I've found perl faster than most anything else, but then I'm careful and know how scoping issues affect the invoking of its garbage collector. Most don't, but most thing perl is like selfgol from Damian Conway - which is explicitly an example of how to be bad and to "don't do it this way". Mine looks pretty clean.
Mod up. Damn, I used all my mod points on less worthy stuff. I speak most all of the languages (and asm for a 2 digit number of cpus), and quickly learn any new ones I'm interested in - the libraries might take longer.
For anything where scripting is the thing - perl's the #1 go to language, and is faster and less bloated than most. Due to CPAN, yeah, there's lots of stuff - but you only include what you want, cutting bloat and increasing speed quite a bit over most of the others (cleaner resulting namespace too).
If you like, you can use the Inline:: series of modules and include many other languages (python - which runs faster than native for me that way, and C at least work well, dunno about others) - these are pretty seamless and are compiled into a shared library (.so or.dll) for ya. Yeah, there's a thunk cost, but if you just want to nab some new device interface code from Adafruit or some other trendy python user, it's the ticket.
Now, for embedded...I'm C, C++, or ASM all the way. I like to produce the reaction in the customer "I didn't know that cheap chip could DO that!". If you're using scripting languages in an embedded project, someone's wasting the customer's money (and the manuf's profits) using much too capable a chip. You might disagree, but I got all those really nice paychecks working that way.
As for javascript...I happen to agree with Linus. What a horrible language. You clowns you think you can do validation on the user side...need to learn about security and other unpleasant realities. And quit wasting my cycles - I don't like free riding on my stuff.
To me, the point was, they made it soooo good it's a completely transparent tool now - no learning curve, it knows what you want and does it, or um "it just works", only Apple's been failing that one more and more seriously of late. Spinning that they've gotten better - the opposite of reality - ain't gonna fly in a time when a lot more people then usual are flat broke anyway and can't afford an Apple tax for something that's no longer even close to being superior.
Hubris and vanity is how I took it. And yes, annoying.
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^^^mod up, same here^^^
"I was only cutting onions, really!"
Yup, they cut that off quick too. I guessed from the video - yeah, they cut out often, but this was immediately preceded with what looked like a big, fast risetime shock hitting the camera, not the usual shaking.
He's a white guy, as he says, swears less than his Mormon mon, so go figure, all you politically correct people who are probably the ones against just being correct.
Or is it more insidious - we don't want people learning actual facts about how things work, and being empowered to do what they can imagine? Most of his stuff has nothing to do with a very poor pyrotechnic substance.
This shows a model of public corporations as primitive AI's just doing what they're incentivised to do and it's pretty close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Stocks are not a commodity! They are backed by nothing! When GM went bankrupt, I couldn't make them give me so much as a drill press for what was $50k of their stock. Well, others couldn't anyway. I shorted that much... Never really had to cover - well, it was pennies at one point. Thanks for a really cool Camaro, UAW - no one else held shares, no one would buy any, but that's just about the only place my broker could have borrowed any shares to short...
I think you have it completely wrong. As the Register said, the talking points game from the green party - eg the party of money. Wheeler got the same ones. He turned on his masters. If you're going to be partisan at least understand that the R's and D's are both the big money party. And the states are fighting back, and hopefully they win. This is really the citizens against the parasites, and making it R vs D makes it easier for the parasites to win. Please understand that even if you sum the R's half truths and the D's - you're still way short of the truth - light years short.
^^^^^^ truth, but mod up even though this is slashdot ^^^^^^
I know plenty of republicans and even actual conservatives, who are for net neutrality...Yes, Ajit isn't one of them, at least in public. But then he's not an elected politician either - he's a paid lobbyist ...um...temporarily serving as a regulator. Like in all agencies - totally corrupt, and who's in there now has little to do with any one election. We call it "regulatory capture" and "revolving door regulation".
Of the two parties - and you should check what practically limits it to two - special laws etc - do you really think either is above this crap? The approval ratings of officials are well below what any party gets in elections, should give you a clue.
I really miss PJ and Groklaw. This was almost fun when she was around, and that was a fantastic community of smart posters.
Agreed. We can tell Clem, though he probably already knows and agrees. This is just ignorant, but the bright side is it will drive more people to sensible things - like Mate, and off self-important bad design and change for its own sake (or more likely, for some ego's sake). Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Yeah, that site makes a lot of the above look like trolling...but this is slashdot, and even infinite mod points seem unable to drain the swamp - it's like trying to empty the ocean with a spoon. Either a higher fraction of the worst jerks have learned how to post online - or worse, the entire population has gained a higher proportion of such jerks. It makes me sad. From sour grapes, to extreme partisanship, to just dumb comments that it must be evil if they're not giving my favorite cause all their money...it's getting real old, people - especially to those of us who are educated, experienced, actually want to discuss with others of our type, and for crying out loud, know that loose is the opposite of tight, not win. It used to be obvious who never really learned to read from print media, from mistakes like that - but now they're so common that someone might have learned to read from the internet and it's the blind leading the deaf...gawd, it's nasty if you love our language.
Actually, because you commented, I RTFM on Lua and I'm gonna try it. I'm likely to keep using C++ for embedded and opsys uses, but for simple stuff, Lua looks great on the surface. Time, of course, will tell how handy it is on a PC. Where you've got resources, it's easy to be seduced by something with more features...nothing perfectly fits everything.
It's probably faster (based on what I know of the internals) but more/less bloated I haven't a clue. I admit I know diddly about lua and tons about perl. The only place I've even seen lua so far is in an ESP8266, where I instantly erased it to put in C/C++ programs to fully use the chip and get my money's worth.
I doubt any scripting language would have let me do what I do in C++ re interrupts, real time, all kinds of cool multitasking and so forth - and still fit easily in cycles and memory.
Perl tends to be quicker than other scripting languages because of how the compiler/interpreter was done - the internals are pretty unique to the business. It tends to blow away interpreted byte code stuff which is what I was thinking about - the intermediate code in perl was designed along with and to support - perl.
Gm uses the phone they build into the car whether you like it or not, and whether you bought minutes or not. And if it can't find a cell tower, it goes satellite. Yup, more than one band is available.
I know this is true on my 2012 Volt - because I can still use the car phone in places where cell phones do not have any bars at all, and don't work. But it's expensive and I haven't bought any minutes in years.
Yes, there are endless descriptions on how to really disable these things. Sometimes you have to find and pull more than one fuse. In some vehicles, you basically have to remove the console electronics and short the Onstar stuff out at the antenna connector after cutting the wire to it - enough can just leak to still let them track you. And it's different on every model...so I hear. If they want to track me and my Volt, they're going to be surprised how fast I make it go, but die of boredom otherwise.
Yet all this crap came out. ...I put some flame decals on mine just for humors sake.
Um, isn't that the lashup where one guy pulled down his string padding code and broke most of the apps using it on the web? I'd consider utter dependency on a flaky source a VERY SERIOUS FLAW. No, make that fatal. No way I'm using that.
It's interesting how truly experienced people uniformly dislike Javascript. While I don't think python is the answer to everything without knowing the question - I can let that go - though I'd sure prefer something where whitespace wasn't part of the language in that way.
It's almost as if we old guys who've done this a lot might have learned something, and are trying to help by telling it to everyone. We can all disagree about the minor stuff and be fine, but a disaster is what it is and there seems to be little disagreement about that.
Mod parent up. It's the programmer, stupid. You can be a shite-head in any language....or write good code in *some* of them.
Yup, and for dynamic typing (if it doesn't grow hair on your palms), I've found perl faster than most anything else, but then I'm careful and know how scoping issues affect the invoking of its garbage collector. Most don't, but most thing perl is like selfgol from Damian Conway - which is explicitly an example of how to be bad and to "don't do it this way". Mine looks pretty clean.
If you like, you can use the Inline:: series of modules and include many other languages (python - which runs faster than native for me that way, and C at least work well, dunno about others) - these are pretty seamless and are compiled into a shared library (.so or .dll) for ya. Yeah, there's a thunk cost, but if you just want to nab some new device interface code from Adafruit or some other trendy python user, it's the ticket.
Now, for embedded...I'm C, C++, or ASM all the way. I like to produce the reaction in the customer "I didn't know that cheap chip could DO that!". If you're using scripting languages in an embedded project, someone's wasting the customer's money (and the manuf's profits) using much too capable a chip. You might disagree, but I got all those really nice paychecks working that way.
As for javascript...I happen to agree with Linus. What a horrible language. You clowns you think you can do validation on the user side...need to learn about security and other unpleasant realities. And quit wasting my cycles - I don't like free riding on my stuff.
Because it's not quite as nice as Mint?
Have to agree. I've skipped giving servicscope + mods for that sig myself.
To me, the point was, they made it soooo good it's a completely transparent tool now - no learning curve, it knows what you want and does it, or um "it just works", only Apple's been failing that one more and more seriously of late. Spinning that they've gotten better - the opposite of reality - ain't gonna fly in a time when a lot more people then usual are flat broke anyway and can't afford an Apple tax for something that's no longer even close to being superior. Hubris and vanity is how I took it. And yes, annoying.