I use a laptop with an i3 and 4 GB of RAM, wih old Nvidia graphics. But what I wanted to say that I learned from comments seems blindingly obvious but I never considered how important it is: having tons of RAM is great because then your OS is not constantly overwriting data you might use again. I am definitely going to use waaay more RAM in the future (64+ GB). coooool
How are bicycles going to be registered? If it's going to be a placard on the frame, what if I switch all the parts to a new frame? Some people do this all the time. Maybe after TPP is law, and people aren't allowed to work on their bikes any more, we can ban all of the cyclists who don't have new bikes that they have to take to the Schwinn Center to change an inner tube. Or maybe we should make every cyclist wear a number on their back, because there's nothing dystopian about that. Frankly riding bikes has made me into much more of a libertarian (but NOT a US Libertarian).
Snow is fine; I like riding in the snow. Ice can be bad though. I have slipped on ice, and I have ridden thousands of miles just in the last few years. However, most people are completely deterred by even a little rain, especially if it's cold out.
What I don't get is how the "turn into an evil corporate lackey" button hidden on Ron Wyden never got punched before. I guess they were saving it for a really special occasion.
The idea that a recording is worth money has been around for ~100 years. Why is an audio recording worth money? Well, the pressing, the artwork, the liner notes, are all cool things to have, but paying someone money for a copy of them playing...? It's kinda silly. Musicians make money from performing, educating, and from patronage. But patronage via records almost never primarily brings money to the artists; it's mostly going to record labels. Copies of music, I don't care where they come from. OTOH, if a DJ is playing other people's music for gain and not crediting them, well, that is just weak. If musicians can sell their artwork or collaborate with artists and make beautiful things to own that include copies of the music, I'm happy to pick them up sometimes for $1-30 depending.mostly on new versus used. But I hope the major labels choke and die.
In point of fact, the market is extremely driven by the exact potential of methamphetamine. I know this because methcathinone (cat) is another powerful drug that can be prepared from pseudoephedrine even more easily than meth. It also has extreme abuse potential. But it never took off because it is not quite as pleasant for addicts as methamphetamine. So in this sense we have a luxury market where meth rules even though the feds track iodine purchases etc (cat doesn't require iodine to cook, or anything else that is normally tracked). Amphetamine a.k.a. Adderall actually has decent abuse potential (though not near meth or cat) but addicts have the luxury of passing it over for meth.
In my opinion amphetamine is about 1 inch above caffeine in addictiveness, and I know that I go about 1 day max w/out caffeine.
I know what works! Evidence! Maybe if we stop repeating that it doesn't work, it'll start working! Why do you write the exact posts that you expect to read? I'm very happy for evidence, even if it ony helps convert a tiny number of people! I wish it worked better, but.. YAY!
Here's a class of drugs you've never heard of before, called amphetamines. Here's a photo of what you look like if you take them a lot:
those awful before-and-after photos
Now go take some Adderal. It's the same, just weaker. You'll be fine. Go make a little more money. Fuck sleep and living well.
We should be paying more for water! And food! And especially especially gasoline! It's ABSURD that gas is subsidized, although I understand that stable prices are important.
They are just going to outlaw being poor. Seattle is at the forefront of this trend.
Ironically, Seattle is big in this outlaw-being-poor trend precisely because so many people in the PNW are nice and tolerant to poor people!
Seattle is facing this argument because it's a good place to find large vocal groups on both sides of the issue. Really, the leaders on the forefront of this trend are smaller cities with wealthy white populations e.g. Ft. Lauderdale, where it's now illegal to share food on the sidewalk, it's basically against the law to not sleep under a roof there. http://homelesshatelaws.blogsp...
For chipping away at this pernicious BS. Thanks to everyone who yet again steps up to slowly and patiently demonstrate that, yes, AGW is real, yes, vaccines are fine.
It has been clear skies for over a week. At this time of year, this is, I think, totally without precedent. I've only been here for 5 years but it feels completely unnatural. Even when I first moved here it rained basically without ceasing from November until almost June. There's been comparatively almost no rain this winter. The climate is fucked!
We can do a tremendous variety of things with our hands. Witness my typing for an example of the incredibly sophisticated and dextrous manipulation of my physical environment that I can effect with training and practice (especially considering how crappy the keyboard on my laptop is). I think that having a large terminal bundle of neurons is great, but you have to be able to do a lot of different things with it in order to learn to be a good learner.
One thing I have spent some time pondering: creatures that have stepped up to higher cognitive plateaus live in more 3-dimensional environments. For instance, horses and cows basically live on surfaces that we can hike, whereas our ancestors lived in forest canopies. Dolphins live in several different levels of aquatic environments. Birds get full overhead space, but they are hampered by weight considerations.
I am not much of a programmer (I'm learning math), but if they put code in GPG to give themselves keys, and nobody else in the world would fix it, I'd learn C and do it myself. 1000X FUCK OFF
This is a pretty positive thread, but I just want to speak on this one real quick. My brother is autistic, like he talks, graduated high school, but is a ward of the state and kind-of far from functional. At school I've heard CS students saying stuff like "No I wouldn't build a red-brick calculator in Minecraft, I'm not autistic." This kind of talk makes me really upset. I'm not even exactly sure why, but I don't like it. I guess, I watched pretty closely as my brother struggled and struggled through life, to still end up in a very marginalized position. I think this had as much to do with poverty and my parent's religious practices as his condition. But I got really upset about this the other day, and I want to encourage you all to be really nice, and refrain from making fun of people with behavioral difficulties. I'm not pointing my finger at anyone specifically as much as just feeling that this is somewht of a problem in the tech community, and we can be nicer. This might be somewhat off-topic.
I used to have thoughts like this, but it's not a good idea to build malicious intent into a system. If the phone pushed out a message about it's GPS location before it died, it might be handy. There would be some serious privacy concerns about such a mechanism.
allow semi-autonomous machines to devise and enact a "Plan B."
Actually Haskell would make this otherwise almost impossible plan easy with the "Either a or b" datatype! Thanks functional programming for making AI easy!
This is all very northern-hemisphere-centric reasoning. Some day South Africa will be running the show, and you can bet that the moon will revolve clockwise.
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I use a laptop with an i3 and 4 GB of RAM, wih old Nvidia graphics. But what I wanted to say that I learned from comments seems blindingly obvious but I never considered how important it is: having tons of RAM is great because then your OS is not constantly overwriting data you might use again. I am definitely going to use waaay more RAM in the future (64+ GB). coooool
How are bicycles going to be registered? If it's going to be a placard on the frame, what if I switch all the parts to a new frame? Some people do this all the time. Maybe after TPP is law, and people aren't allowed to work on their bikes any more, we can ban all of the cyclists who don't have new bikes that they have to take to the Schwinn Center to change an inner tube. Or maybe we should make every cyclist wear a number on their back, because there's nothing dystopian about that. Frankly riding bikes has made me into much more of a libertarian (but NOT a US Libertarian).
Snow is fine; I like riding in the snow. Ice can be bad though. I have slipped on ice, and I have ridden thousands of miles just in the last few years. However, most people are completely deterred by even a little rain, especially if it's cold out.
What I don't get is how the "turn into an evil corporate lackey" button hidden on Ron Wyden never got punched before. I guess they were saving it for a really special occasion.
I cannot bring myself to laugh at this. The thought that this was written and could be taken seriously is way too sobering.
Quote about filters in Java from this link:
Filter in place or into another collection?
Haskell programmers are crying.
covet your neighbor's wife
Specifically, her ass
The idea that a recording is worth money has been around for ~100 years. Why is an audio recording worth money? Well, the pressing, the artwork, the liner notes, are all cool things to have, but paying someone money for a copy of them playing...? It's kinda silly. Musicians make money from performing, educating, and from patronage. But patronage via records almost never primarily brings money to the artists; it's mostly going to record labels. Copies of music, I don't care where they come from. OTOH, if a DJ is playing other people's music for gain and not crediting them, well, that is just weak. If musicians can sell their artwork or collaborate with artists and make beautiful things to own that include copies of the music, I'm happy to pick them up sometimes for $1-30 depending.mostly on new versus used. But I hope the major labels choke and die.
In point of fact, the market is extremely driven by the exact potential of methamphetamine. I know this because methcathinone (cat) is another powerful drug that can be prepared from pseudoephedrine even more easily than meth. It also has extreme abuse potential. But it never took off because it is not quite as pleasant for addicts as methamphetamine. So in this sense we have a luxury market where meth rules even though the feds track iodine purchases etc (cat doesn't require iodine to cook, or anything else that is normally tracked). Amphetamine a.k.a. Adderall actually has decent abuse potential (though not near meth or cat) but addicts have the luxury of passing it over for meth. In my opinion amphetamine is about 1 inch above caffeine in addictiveness, and I know that I go about 1 day max w/out caffeine.
I know what works! Evidence! Maybe if we stop repeating that it doesn't work, it'll start working! Why do you write the exact posts that you expect to read? I'm very happy for evidence, even if it ony helps convert a tiny number of people! I wish it worked better, but.. YAY!
Here's a class of drugs you've never heard of before, called amphetamines. Here's a photo of what you look like if you take them a lot: those awful before-and-after photos
Now go take some Adderal. It's the same, just weaker. You'll be fine. Go make a little more money. Fuck sleep and living well.
We should be paying more for water! And food! And especially especially gasoline! It's ABSURD that gas is subsidized, although I understand that stable prices are important.
They are just going to outlaw being poor. Seattle is at the forefront of this trend.
Ironically, Seattle is big in this outlaw-being-poor trend precisely because so many people in the PNW are nice and tolerant to poor people!
Seattle is facing this argument because it's a good place to find large vocal groups on both sides of the issue. Really, the leaders on the forefront of this trend are smaller cities with wealthy white populations e.g. Ft. Lauderdale, where it's now illegal to share food on the sidewalk, it's basically against the law to not sleep under a roof there. http://homelesshatelaws.blogsp...
There is no point in building large cities on the moon. Seriously, why? If you want to live underground, do it on Earth.
I want to be the founder of Moriah.
You cannot implicitly denounce invasive intelligence while enjoying its ill-gotten fruits.
This is obviously not true.
For chipping away at this pernicious BS. Thanks to everyone who yet again steps up to slowly and patiently demonstrate that, yes, AGW is real, yes, vaccines are fine.
It has been clear skies for over a week. At this time of year, this is, I think, totally without precedent. I've only been here for 5 years but it feels completely unnatural. Even when I first moved here it rained basically without ceasing from November until almost June. There's been comparatively almost no rain this winter. The climate is fucked!
and liked the new star trek movies
Laughed the whole time. Best satire of American Jingoism and Hollywood ridiculousness in years and years. I love that movie.
We can do a tremendous variety of things with our hands. Witness my typing for an example of the incredibly sophisticated and dextrous manipulation of my physical environment that I can effect with training and practice (especially considering how crappy the keyboard on my laptop is). I think that having a large terminal bundle of neurons is great, but you have to be able to do a lot of different things with it in order to learn to be a good learner.
One thing I have spent some time pondering: creatures that have stepped up to higher cognitive plateaus live in more 3-dimensional environments. For instance, horses and cows basically live on surfaces that we can hike, whereas our ancestors lived in forest canopies. Dolphins live in several different levels of aquatic environments. Birds get full overhead space, but they are hampered by weight considerations.
FUCK YOU!
I am not much of a programmer (I'm learning math), but if they put code in GPG to give themselves keys, and nobody else in the world would fix it, I'd learn C and do it myself.
1000X FUCK OFF
This is a pretty positive thread, but I just want to speak on this one real quick. My brother is autistic, like he talks, graduated high school, but is a ward of the state and kind-of far from functional. At school I've heard CS students saying stuff like "No I wouldn't build a red-brick calculator in Minecraft, I'm not autistic." This kind of talk makes me really upset. I'm not even exactly sure why, but I don't like it. I guess, I watched pretty closely as my brother struggled and struggled through life, to still end up in a very marginalized position. I think this had as much to do with poverty and my parent's religious practices as his condition. But I got really upset about this the other day, and I want to encourage you all to be really nice, and refrain from making fun of people with behavioral difficulties. I'm not pointing my finger at anyone specifically as much as just feeling that this is somewht of a problem in the tech community, and we can be nicer. This might be somewhat off-topic.
I used to have thoughts like this, but it's not a good idea to build malicious intent into a system. If the phone pushed out a message about it's GPS location before it died, it might be handy. There would be some serious privacy concerns about such a mechanism.
allow semi-autonomous machines to devise and enact a "Plan B."
Actually Haskell would make this otherwise almost impossible plan easy with the "Either a or b" datatype! Thanks functional programming for making AI easy!
This is all very northern-hemisphere-centric reasoning. Some day South Africa will be running the show, and you can bet that the moon will revolve clockwise.