I think the problem with being lazy but having an appetite for thought, is that many physical exercises are extremely tedious and repetitive. There are some sports that I think are more demanding of the mind, I know all competitive sports have a form of strategy, but the technical skill of sports vary greatly. Thinking "i'm lazy, I need to do exercise" and then going to the gym, is a recipe for failure... if you want to do it consistently then you need to enjoy it.
My sport is rock climbing, from an outside view I know people just think it's a purely physical thing, picturing Stallone using brute force to solo up something while unnecessarily carrying a bolt gun... but it is a very technical sport especially when you get into the upper grades, i would describe it as good combination of intuitive r-mode ability with a balanced thoughtful l-mode overseeing, modulating, strategising, then combine that with the physiological challenges of falling... It's a mentally demanding sport, and I thoroughly enjoy all of it's challenges.
But apparently the OP doesn't have to trust anyone... In which case I'm pretty sure that before using his computer he reads and comprehends every single one of the millions of lines of code that comprise his open source software stack before compiling and using it on his open source hardware which he has painstakingly verified with a TEM after going through the RTL source to make sure the fab wasn't trying to subvert his privacy.... All while being wrapped in a giant tinfoil snowball orbiting Pluto to keep away from those pesky TEMPEST spies.
I mean... yeah, you gotta trust someone when you use tech, whether or not it's open source you still have to trust people.
...And during all that time, the BT DNS service was not working, so I couldn't do any other work. #RANT# The BT-supplied router, the fornicating clunky useless and slow Home Hub 5, does not allow you to put in your own DNS servers...
1. Never rely on routers supplied by ISPs (especially BT), they reliably suck giant fucking donkey balls.
2. Your OS doesn't have to (and arguably shouldn't) use the DNS server address given by the DHCP (router).
Arguably you should specify the DNS on your OS for security purposes anyway (e.g a compromised router sending all your DNS requests to a malicious server and sending you off to some amazon.com impersonation... that's what you risk every time your computer connects to a public AP).
Another reason not to use ISP's DNS is they all poison it these days, I'm not on BT anymore but they used to redirect all missing DNS entries to their search page with loads of advertising... I can't begin to go into whats wrong with that because i'd take too long.
Just because large businesses in China are at the knees of government doesn't mean it's the same in other countries... In fact it appears to be the other way around in America.
She was elected to Parliament by the voters of Maidenhead and subsequently elected as party leader by the Conservatives. Under the Westminster system, that's as elected as it gets.
Great, so she was elected by 0.106% of the population, I hope they were representative of the views of the other 99%
...To put it another way, suppose the most recognizable element of music is the melody (as court rulings generally use to determine copyright infringement), and suppose just an average first phrase of 15 notes. That's enough (12^15) for every human who has ever lived to compose thousands and thousands of unique melodies. If the main constraint is 12 notes, there are a LOT of possibilities for "originality."
cmon... don't be so naive. It's not measured by absolute uniqueness, otherwise you can change one note, one pixel, one frame, one character in a line of code... Because that would allow arbitrary and intentionally minimaly modified versions of other artists work to not be covered by copyright infringement laws. That's why in court these types of cases are always evaluated on some arbitrary "similarity" basis, it's pure opinion, creativity just isn't objective enough to fit neatly into the constraints of the simplified logic of law.
...adding that one of his videos of a near-miss went viral.
Context mincing BS, the near miss was a truck haphazardly changing lanes without looking into the teslas lane... the tesla avoided the accident, but this is phrased to be intentionally interpreted as the exact opposite.
His other stupid video showing "reckless" driving is pretty stupid looking and cringeworthy but it's actually on a private road. I think the autopilot is actually pretty dangerous and incorrectly interpreted as "self driving" as others here have stated, but that's no reason for this crude BS article that reads like it's been paid for by the defence lawyers.
...In any case, it's nice to see GitHub being transparent. The DMCA requests themselves are pretty interesting, but since the vast majority of the targeted repos are no longer accessible, it's hard to gauge how justifiable most of the complains really were.
My thoughts exactly... when looking though that list, almost all of them can be normalised to be meaningless:
- Unspecified infringing content at URL which is no longer accessible
- Signed REDACTED
The only ones that you can glean any information from are where the file URLs have been given instead of entire repo URLs.
Film or a TV Show has the potential to allow breathing space and pace for the watcher to absorb the information, use other dimensions of creative output and provide a space for the watcher to use their own imagination to unravel and impart their meaning on the story
The need to fast forward is stupid videos that could have been transcribed to text... either that or shit entertainment that isn't worth watching anyway.
When scientists first started mucky around with electricity it had an affect that could be understood and felt. same goes for lasers, and everything else you use.
To detect TWO gravity waves we had to wait for TWO massive blackholes to combine. And space itself moved by a proton fraction.
Do you have any idea how tiny of fraction that is to be useful? Right about now earth is about the best space ship we can hope for. As it is the only way to get one gravity.
Your argument is selective at best, some of the most profound invention in history fell out of some obscure research that no one including the people researching them had ever imagined would be of practical use. Turing accidentally invented computer by investigating the nature of information, a fundamental property of the universe.
Put yourself in the position of those people, you are focusing on applications that you already know about - you can't think about the ones you don't know about unless you open your mind.
Microsoft's old business model doesn't work anymore... when that happens staying still === death, and trying new things costs money... however being Microsoft they have masses of capital to burn, so everything is worth the risk, so they do that (they try everything) this seems to have been their business strategy for the past decade... everything is worth the risk, they are basically too big to fail provided they keep trying things. It's almost like the random mutation component of evolution.
The massive downside to this unfocused approach is that they appear to be flippant, inconsistent and undedicated to anything new they do. So even setting aside the many other issues people have against Microsoft such as undertones of malice and exploitation towards users, world domination etc, it makes their products seem even more undesirable.
Black people make up 13% of the US population and 3% of the British population. That means there are far more white people in each population, which means far more companies potentially looking to buy images of smiling white teens. The demographic breakdown of society isn’t, in itself, racist. However, the fact that companies don’t think white people would buy their products if they had black models advertising them seems like a reflection of society’s prejudices.
Got it upside-down again... if 3% of the population are of one ethnic group how does it make sense that in a perfectly statistically representative world that more than 3% of them would take part in modelling for stock photos... I guess blaming the photographers and people buying photos makes better headlines, truth is that in terms of proportion of stock photos there is no one to blame because there's probably nothing wrong.
In other news photographers are not taking an equal number of photos of extremely rare birds compared to commonly available birds... why do so many people suck at basic statistic, it's just common sense.
Because back in the 1980s computers booted to the BASIC command line interpreter/REPL. Nowadays, there is, more or less, no such thing. Closest similar thing most non-geeks will get to is a browser console, and while that is reasonable debugging tool for pros, it's not a similarly friendly programming tool for beginners.
This does illustrate the difference in exposure and access the average computer user gets today. Perhaps a way to restore that exposure and access is to give the modern equivalent of a shell (for every computer user) programming capability, that would either be a search engine or omnibox type area.
Just to be clear, i'm not talking about dumping a javascript console in a search bar, but choosing a language that is very simple to use and makes sense in the context of a search engine so people might actually be tempted to use it.
An actually interesting way of utilising thunderbolt beyond a simple combination of display port and data bus. I wonder what other pcie devices could benefit from being externalised? It feels like this would actually reduce obsolescence (yeah I know it's Apple though).
Elon's mistake (among many others) is to assume an oversimplified exponential model of growth. This looks correct when studying a small enough period of time but there are serious issues with this assumption:
Technology as a whole is not one dimensional and can't be summed up by a one dimensional function.
Real systems are almost never infinitely exponential due to physical limits (e.g physical limit of nanoscale lithography).
I'm not saying that we are entirely limited by things like the limit of lithography and atomic width of interconnects, of course we will find ways around... however those breaking points in hardware development are where the growth model breaks, it's no longer continuously exponential, we have to switch to developing parts of the system that have different physical or practical limitations or even change the underlying physics of the technology entirely which will give us a varied and undulating history of growth over longer periods of time with stages of plateau when we exhaust one approach and switch to another.
...[Correct, detailed and insightful explanation]...
You know, that doesn't help a bit.
Helped me. Then again I have a physics degree:-)
This pretty much sums up the problem with many wikipedia pages on complex subjects... for outsiders they are man pages where even the syntax is esoteric... only useful when you want to remind yourself the details of something you already know quite well... If not then it's a difficult decoding exercise.
The "simple english" version isn't really a proper solution, it would be nice to be able to dynamically and automatically break down complex components for a better subjective understanding... in a similar kind of way to how Feynman could explain a complex concept to anyone by gradually building it up.
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I think the problem with being lazy but having an appetite for thought, is that many physical exercises are extremely tedious and repetitive. There are some sports that I think are more demanding of the mind, I know all competitive sports have a form of strategy, but the technical skill of sports vary greatly. Thinking "i'm lazy, I need to do exercise" and then going to the gym, is a recipe for failure... if you want to do it consistently then you need to enjoy it.
My sport is rock climbing, from an outside view I know people just think it's a purely physical thing, picturing Stallone using brute force to solo up something while unnecessarily carrying a bolt gun... but it is a very technical sport especially when you get into the upper grades, i would describe it as good combination of intuitive r-mode ability with a balanced thoughtful l-mode overseeing, modulating, strategising, then combine that with the physiological challenges of falling... It's a mentally demanding sport, and I thoroughly enjoy all of it's challenges.
Let me summarise:
Microsoft: Windows 10, WinDows 10! Windows 10!!!!!! WwInDows 10!!!!11! WIIINNDDOOOOWWWWSSS
Slashdot User: FUCK OFF!
"Trust" is subjective. I have to "Trust" someone.
But apparently the OP doesn't have to trust anyone... In which case I'm pretty sure that before using his computer he reads and comprehends every single one of the millions of lines of code that comprise his open source software stack before compiling and using it on his open source hardware which he has painstakingly verified with a TEM after going through the RTL source to make sure the fab wasn't trying to subvert his privacy.... All while being wrapped in a giant tinfoil snowball orbiting Pluto to keep away from those pesky TEMPEST spies.
I mean... yeah, you gotta trust someone when you use tech, whether or not it's open source you still have to trust people.
It's important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter
Well I guess someone has to see it into death :P
...And during all that time, the BT DNS service was not working, so I couldn't do any other work. #RANT# The BT-supplied router, the fornicating clunky useless and slow Home Hub 5, does not allow you to put in your own DNS servers...
1. Never rely on routers supplied by ISPs (especially BT), they reliably suck giant fucking donkey balls.
2. Your OS doesn't have to (and arguably shouldn't) use the DNS server address given by the DHCP (router).
Arguably you should specify the DNS on your OS for security purposes anyway (e.g a compromised router sending all your DNS requests to a malicious server and sending you off to some amazon.com impersonation... that's what you risk every time your computer connects to a public AP).
Another reason not to use ISP's DNS is they all poison it these days, I'm not on BT anymore but they used to redirect all missing DNS entries to their search page with loads of advertising... I can't begin to go into whats wrong with that because i'd take too long.
cos ad hominem always works.
He suggests instead focussing on the nerdiest people first, possibly by subsidizing jobs programs and making housing more affordable.
Just because large businesses in China are at the knees of government doesn't mean it's the same in other countries... In fact it appears to be the other way around in America.
Wrong.
She was elected to Parliament by the voters of Maidenhead and subsequently elected as party leader by the Conservatives. Under the Westminster system, that's as elected as it gets.
Great, so she was elected by 0.106% of the population, I hope they were representative of the views of the other 99%
"Pokemon Bug Removes $7.5B From Nintendo Market Val"
FTFY :P
...To put it another way, suppose the most recognizable element of music is the melody (as court rulings generally use to determine copyright infringement), and suppose just an average first phrase of 15 notes. That's enough (12^15) for every human who has ever lived to compose thousands and thousands of unique melodies. If the main constraint is 12 notes, there are a LOT of possibilities for "originality."
cmon... don't be so naive. It's not measured by absolute uniqueness, otherwise you can change one note, one pixel, one frame, one character in a line of code... Because that would allow arbitrary and intentionally minimaly modified versions of other artists work to not be covered by copyright infringement laws. That's why in court these types of cases are always evaluated on some arbitrary "similarity" basis, it's pure opinion, creativity just isn't objective enough to fit neatly into the constraints of the simplified logic of law.
What the shit... I think I made a mistake here, i'm from the UK so I automatically think of the right most lane being the outside (overtaking) lane.
However in my defence why the hell does that sliproad join the fast lane? it makes it look like a left side driving country
Go see the videos for yourself
...adding that one of his videos of a near-miss went viral.
Context mincing BS, the near miss was a truck haphazardly changing lanes without looking into the teslas lane... the tesla avoided the accident, but this is phrased to be intentionally interpreted as the exact opposite.
His other stupid video showing "reckless" driving is pretty stupid looking and cringeworthy but it's actually on a private road. I think the autopilot is actually pretty dangerous and incorrectly interpreted as "self driving" as others here have stated, but that's no reason for this crude BS article that reads like it's been paid for by the defence lawyers.
...In any case, it's nice to see GitHub being transparent. The DMCA requests themselves are pretty interesting, but since the vast majority of the targeted repos are no longer accessible, it's hard to gauge how justifiable most of the complains really were.
My thoughts exactly... when looking though that list, almost all of them can be normalised to be meaningless:
The only ones that you can glean any information from are where the file URLs have been given instead of entire repo URLs.
Film or a TV Show has the potential to allow breathing space and pace for the watcher to absorb the information, use other dimensions of creative output and provide a space for the watcher to use their own imagination to unravel and impart their meaning on the story
The need to fast forward is stupid videos that could have been transcribed to text... either that or shit entertainment that isn't worth watching anyway.
I guess you could view probation as a hypothetical jail sentence...
When scientists first started mucky around with electricity it had an affect that could be understood and felt. same goes for lasers, and everything else you use.
To detect TWO gravity waves we had to wait for TWO massive blackholes to combine. And space itself moved by a proton fraction.
Do you have any idea how tiny of fraction that is to be useful? Right about now earth is about the best space ship we can hope for. As it is the only way to get one gravity.
Your argument is selective at best, some of the most profound invention in history fell out of some obscure research that no one including the people researching them had ever imagined would be of practical use. Turing accidentally invented computer by investigating the nature of information, a fundamental property of the universe.
Put yourself in the position of those people, you are focusing on applications that you already know about - you can't think about the ones you don't know about unless you open your mind.
You do realise you are arguing directly against something i quoted and not my argument against it?
Microsoft's old business model doesn't work anymore... when that happens staying still === death, and trying new things costs money... however being Microsoft they have masses of capital to burn, so everything is worth the risk, so they do that (they try everything) this seems to have been their business strategy for the past decade... everything is worth the risk, they are basically too big to fail provided they keep trying things. It's almost like the random mutation component of evolution.
The massive downside to this unfocused approach is that they appear to be flippant, inconsistent and undedicated to anything new they do. So even setting aside the many other issues people have against Microsoft such as undertones of malice and exploitation towards users, world domination etc, it makes their products seem even more undesirable.
Black people make up 13% of the US population and 3% of the British population. That means there are far more white people in each population, which means far more companies potentially looking to buy images of smiling white teens. The demographic breakdown of society isn’t, in itself, racist. However, the fact that companies don’t think white people would buy their products if they had black models advertising them seems like a reflection of society’s prejudices.
Got it upside-down again... if 3% of the population are of one ethnic group how does it make sense that in a perfectly statistically representative world that more than 3% of them would take part in modelling for stock photos... I guess blaming the photographers and people buying photos makes better headlines, truth is that in terms of proportion of stock photos there is no one to blame because there's probably nothing wrong.
In other news photographers are not taking an equal number of photos of extremely rare birds compared to commonly available birds... why do so many people suck at basic statistic, it's just common sense.
Because back in the 1980s computers booted to the BASIC command line interpreter/REPL. Nowadays, there is, more or less, no such thing. Closest similar thing most non-geeks will get to is a browser console, and while that is reasonable debugging tool for pros, it's not a similarly friendly programming tool for beginners.
This does illustrate the difference in exposure and access the average computer user gets today. Perhaps a way to restore that exposure and access is to give the modern equivalent of a shell (for every computer user) programming capability, that would either be a search engine or omnibox type area.
Just to be clear, i'm not talking about dumping a javascript console in a search bar, but choosing a language that is very simple to use and makes sense in the context of a search engine so people might actually be tempted to use it.
An actually interesting way of utilising thunderbolt beyond a simple combination of display port and data bus. I wonder what other pcie devices could benefit from being externalised? It feels like this would actually reduce obsolescence (yeah I know it's Apple though).
Elon's mistake (among many others) is to assume an oversimplified exponential model of growth. This looks correct when studying a small enough period of time but there are serious issues with this assumption:
I'm not saying that we are entirely limited by things like the limit of lithography and atomic width of interconnects, of course we will find ways around... however those breaking points in hardware development are where the growth model breaks, it's no longer continuously exponential, we have to switch to developing parts of the system that have different physical or practical limitations or even change the underlying physics of the technology entirely which will give us a varied and undulating history of growth over longer periods of time with stages of plateau when we exhaust one approach and switch to another.
yet again arbitrarily celebrating base 10, i never get this.
...[Correct, detailed and insightful explanation]...
You know, that doesn't help a bit.
Helped me. Then again I have a physics degree :-)
This pretty much sums up the problem with many wikipedia pages on complex subjects... for outsiders they are man pages where even the syntax is esoteric... only useful when you want to remind yourself the details of something you already know quite well... If not then it's a difficult decoding exercise.
The "simple english" version isn't really a proper solution, it would be nice to be able to dynamically and automatically break down complex components for a better subjective understanding... in a similar kind of way to how Feynman could explain a complex concept to anyone by gradually building it up.