I don't see why it should be a reason to be "proud". Gay is the way he is rather than something he has chosen but it does not confer some form of superiority on him. If he was a paedeophile though, that definitely *would* be a reason to be "unproud".
Whatever, see if I care.
Some people are even proud to be American even though there are lots of heterosexual American paedophiles.
Intelligence is knowing that everyone around you is full of shit.
Wisdom is knowing you are, too.
The flip-side is imposter syndrome where you live in fear of being found out as an idiot. You wonder how long you can keep on winging it doing your well paid job when you know you're not really that good at it. So maybe if you feel that, you should be less hard on yourself. This, of course, does not apply to me as I'm actually brilliant.
When your legacy shell scripts start to get unwieldy, it's time to rewrite them in perl. It fills a similar niche but is more amenable to structured programming.
Despite being raised on a diet of inter-galactic sci-fi, I don't believe we will ever escape our gravity well in any numbers. There are only two things that get humans worked up - short term profit and religion. One won't motive space travel. And if the other does, bog help us.
We don't usually supply a proof of correctness with every program. The program itself must stand as an argument for its own correctness. Sometimes breaking it down into more verbose steps is a way to clarify to future maintainers what your intention was. Also densely packed code is much harder to modify later.
White countries are rich, because they have a large amount of social and cultural capital, which we maintain by having rules and norms that we enforce.
Third world countries are poor because of their lack of culture, lack of law and contract enforcement, lack of morals and respect at street level, and because of general filth, shittiness and decay.
Whitey didn't make you rape and rob each other, or throw rubbish in the streets, or rip each other off. This is readily apparent when you see the filth in Third World areas of major cities like London. The difference is like night and day.
Poor countries are poor _despite_ the influence of evil Whitey, not because of him.
White countries are rich because of geography. Try reading Guns, Germs and Steel.
Atheists will be in for a rude awakening when they die as they will realize that their belief was incomplete.
Religion is for those with weak minds who cannot cope with the finality of death. They seek comfort from fanciful notions of an afterlife. 'You'll get pie in the sky when you die' - that's a lie!
There's a difference between pedantry and the out-and-out bullying that makes subject-area experts give up on the whole WP experience. That's why so many articles remain half-baked stubs. I'm not surprised that women are put off even faster than men.
Heinlein's 1966 classic The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is wonderful and visionary on many levels but still tripped over some contemporary assumptions. Like one big computer ran everything, including the phone system. It could synthesize audio but it had to jump through fancy hoops to do video. I guess we all are stuck in our own time.
Option C : Mobile providers raise the standard charges more than necessary and justify the raise saying ordinary people need to pay for the yuppies who roam Europe in their sports cars while chatting on their phones
Or low paid workers going abroad to find work can afford to phone home. Or workers who commute across borders don't have to turn their phones off.
4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
The Bostrom paper explicitly refers to "posthumans" running ancestor simulations. If our sim has not yet reached the posthuman level, we will be at the bottom.
The best part about Slashdot for me was really the people who visit it. This site has had one of the most intelligent communities around.
Exactly. It is not a news site. It is a place where geeky folk discuss techie news items. That's why I've been visiting daily for over 15 years. I'll be sad to see it go. Why does everything turn to shite when the MBAs take over?
NPR (which I support) and the BBC were my primary net radio sources (and I listen to a lot of radio news) but the quality of the BBC reporting has dropped of, and gotten more conservative, pretty notably in just the last several months.
That's because the current Conservative government (and its right wing media friends) have been whipping up anti-BBC hysteria with a view to eventually privatising it. Sad thing is that they will eventually turn the public to their view and kill off a national treasure.
You may jest, but I sometimes wonder if the light speed limit and the lack of a grand unified theory is an artifact of our simulated universe. Maybe the one that the simulator sits in has a nice simple, satisfying theory of life, the universe and everything. Or maybe it's simulators all the way down.
Once a technology reaches that level of integration into society, it, or at least the core product benefit, will be with us forever.
Older peeps are on FB so they can see pix of their grandkids or keep an eye on what their kids are up to. Once the younger generation move on to something else, FB will die.
You know, its fiction and artifact. When actors want to simulate background hubbub they say "rhubarb, rhubarb". The code does not have to be real, really. Anymore than the spaceships or the latex makeup.
Maybe reductio ad absurdum, but once robots have taken all the jobs, who's going to have money to buy their products? Or will there just be a super-rich stratum of robot owners and the impoverished rest?
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I don't see why it should be a reason to be "proud". Gay is the way he is rather than something he has chosen but it does not confer some form of superiority on him. If he was a paedeophile though, that definitely *would* be a reason to be "unproud".
Whatever, see if I care.
Some people are even proud to be American even though there are lots of heterosexual American paedophiles.
Intelligence is knowing that everyone around you is full of shit. Wisdom is knowing you are, too.
The flip-side is imposter syndrome where you live in fear of being found out as an idiot. You wonder how long you can keep on winging it doing your well paid job when you know you're not really that good at it. So maybe if you feel that, you should be less hard on yourself. This, of course, does not apply to me as I'm actually brilliant.
+1 Who let this through?
"rrrybgdts" is a nursery rhyme. It doesn't even have to be written on a sticky.
And, of course, nobody would have Row Row Row your Boat as their password so the crackers are unlikely to try it.
When your legacy shell scripts start to get unwieldy, it's time to rewrite them in perl. It fills a similar niche but is more amenable to structured programming.
Are you of slavic origin? Bog means god in Bulgarian, and is similar in other languages in the family.
I was referencing The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress but actually only found out it was a Bulgarian word in Sophia earlier this year.
Despite being raised on a diet of inter-galactic sci-fi, I don't believe we will ever escape our gravity well in any numbers. There are only two things that get humans worked up - short term profit and religion. One won't motive space travel. And if the other does, bog help us.
The /. hatred for religion is well known.
Hatred and disdain are two different things.
We don't usually supply a proof of correctness with every program. The program itself must stand as an argument for its own correctness. Sometimes breaking it down into more verbose steps is a way to clarify to future maintainers what your intention was. Also densely packed code is much harder to modify later.
I love the quote from Kingsley Amis: “No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare”
Nice straw man.
White countries are rich, because they have a large amount of social and cultural capital, which we maintain by having rules and norms that we enforce.
Third world countries are poor because of their lack of culture, lack of law and contract enforcement, lack of morals and respect at street level, and because of general filth, shittiness and decay.
Whitey didn't make you rape and rob each other, or throw rubbish in the streets, or rip each other off. This is readily apparent when you see the filth in Third World areas of major cities like London. The difference is like night and day.
Poor countries are poor _despite_ the influence of evil Whitey, not because of him.
White countries are rich because of geography. Try reading Guns, Germs and Steel.
Atheists will be in for a rude awakening when they die as they will realize that their belief was incomplete.
Religion is for those with weak minds who cannot cope with the finality of death. They seek comfort from fanciful notions of an afterlife. 'You'll get pie in the sky when you die' - that's a lie!
There's a difference between pedantry and the out-and-out bullying that makes subject-area experts give up on the whole WP experience. That's why so many articles remain half-baked stubs. I'm not surprised that women are put off even faster than men.
Maybe the reason why off-shore IT is rubbish is because all the good techs are in the USA on immigrant visas.
Not with my knees.
Heinlein's 1966 classic The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is wonderful and visionary on many levels but still tripped over some contemporary assumptions. Like one big computer ran everything, including the phone system. It could synthesize audio but it had to jump through fancy hoops to do video. I guess we all are stuck in our own time.
Would you go to a tourist place where your internet that you intend to use to keep in touch with home sucks? Maybe you will, but how many like you?
I know this is /. but do you choose your holiday destination on the connectivity?
Option C : Mobile providers raise the standard charges more than necessary and justify the raise saying ordinary people need to pay for the yuppies who roam Europe in their sports cars while chatting on their phones
Or low paid workers going abroad to find work can afford to phone home. Or workers who commute across borders don't have to turn their phones off.
4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
The Bostrom paper explicitly refers to "posthumans" running ancestor simulations. If our sim has not yet reached the posthuman level, we will be at the bottom.
The best part about Slashdot for me was really the people who visit it. This site has had one of the most intelligent communities around.
Exactly. It is not a news site. It is a place where geeky folk discuss techie news items. That's why I've been visiting daily for over 15 years. I'll be sad to see it go. Why does everything turn to shite when the MBAs take over?
NPR (which I support) and the BBC were my primary net radio sources (and I listen to a lot of radio news) but the quality of the BBC reporting has dropped of, and gotten more conservative, pretty notably in just the last several months.
That's because the current Conservative government (and its right wing media friends) have been whipping up anti-BBC hysteria with a view to eventually privatising it. Sad thing is that they will eventually turn the public to their view and kill off a national treasure.
Does it exist or not?
You may jest, but I sometimes wonder if the light speed limit and the lack of a grand unified theory is an artifact of our simulated universe. Maybe the one that the simulator sits in has a nice simple, satisfying theory of life, the universe and everything. Or maybe it's simulators all the way down.
My 70 year old mother uses Facebook.
Once a technology reaches that level of integration into society, it, or at least the core product benefit, will be with us forever.
Older peeps are on FB so they can see pix of their grandkids or keep an eye on what their kids are up to. Once the younger generation move on to something else, FB will die.
You know, its fiction and artifact. When actors want to simulate background hubbub they say "rhubarb, rhubarb". The code does not have to be real, really. Anymore than the spaceships or the latex makeup.
Maybe reductio ad absurdum, but once robots have taken all the jobs, who's going to have money to buy their products? Or will there just be a super-rich stratum of robot owners and the impoverished rest?