Acknowledging the consequences of gender is not sexist.
Yes, but calling for segregation is.
Then bathrooms and changing rooms are all sexist.
Segregation of sex is sometimes just the practical and appropriate choice, especially in cases of defining characteristics and basic interaction of sexes... Is segregation appropriate and necessary in this situation? that depends on whether less extreme options exist. In certain institutions rules for this kind of interaction between sexes (which tends to introduce extreme bias) calls for strict disciplinary action.
Suggesting segregation of gender to prevent inappropriate relations in a workplace is not "sexist", it doesn't mean it's not an extreme option either though.
...So is stating that women are not capable of handling criticism (unless you've got some objective evidence). He said both of those things.
You're right, he does say that, and that is out of line when taken literally... Honestly though first time i read it i took it based on context; which is a two way relationship... you can interpret the second part of that statement and i interpreted it to mean that both sexes can't take criticism very well from someone whom they are intimately involved with in "the lab", which seems quite likely.
Acknowledging the consequences of gender is not sexist.
Too many stupid people confuse issues that are intrinsic to gender with sexism... The fact that humans have gender creates problems, some are specific to one gender and some apply to both: Women need bras... that's not sexist, that is being a woman.
In this case; Straight people of opposite genders have higher probability of being attracted to each other, this creates issues in the workplace - not exactly shocking is it.
Feminazis what us to be asexual or something, i say go fuck yourselves, and i'll fuck someone else. good day.
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Will the batteries last longer for somebody who mainly does phone calls and texts?
Well, your browser has direct control of that stuff, so it can easily make it also click-to-play and other things.
The browser has direct control of globally determining what is allowed in that page. You cannot click to play HTML5 adverts because the whole point is that they are part of the page... there is no rule for determining how ads are embedded into a page, so there is no reliable objective way of telling if that content is an advert or not, for instance attempting to implement a generic-global click to play WebGL content is just as likely to target your primary content as it is an ad.
It's reasonable to argue however that flash "is not an ad" because using click to play on flash kills everything that is flash... It's not inconceivable that the canvas 2d and 3d contexts could be limited in some way, the problem is that a lot of use of those contexts are not only legitimate and widely used but are also lightly used and not CPU or GPU hungry. In which case there perhaps a "click to give full resources" as opposed to a "click to do anything at all" would be more appropriate.
HTML5 is not evil because it mixes in everything, but it's a good thing that your browser is in charge, not some 3rd party plugin that you can't control.
I'm not saying HTML5 is evil, i really like the web actively moving away from plugins and toward better more refined specifications to write content properly, i'm saying advertisers are evil, they fill pages we want to view with alien content that can eat up resources we don't want to give it... flash was actually a solution to isolate that (don't get me wrong i hate flash, but i was happy for content i hate to stay in flash).
I actually quite like that most of the highly animated CPU hogging adverts are written in flash, because i can easily disable all of them.
What concerns me is when those advertisers are finally forced to start writing them in javascript + Canvas / SVG / WebGL... yes it's possible to write efficient animated HTML5 content, request animation frame etc... but that's not forced, you think advertisers give a shit about that stuff? they will use everything at their disposal once flash is considered completely obsolete. Look forward to unsandboxed memory leaks and poorly optimised animation directly in your page... yay
Whether or not you like smart phones, there are plenty of attributes that give basic phones with no bells and whistles a clear advantage, making them suited to purposes smart phones fail miserably in:
Reliability
Durability
Simplicity
Power
Cost
It all hinges on simplicity - Good designs tend to have a single purpose which makes the design simple, and all of the above advantages are a results of that attribute. My one annoyance with basic phones today is that their OS (while small and simple) are extremely pretentious, because the marketers (who might as well be designing the OS) think that everyone wants a smart phone.
Nokia is currently as good as basic phones get, but there is plenty of room for a better basic phone that is true to it's purpose, i'm not sure Microsoft is up to that task as they would probably be more interested in using basic phones as tool to channel users into buying smart phones.
LoL... no i does work, photovoltaic and photoelectric are different effects of the same phenomenon right? i guess there is not simple closed form way to get those electrons back without getting all fusiony.
Yeah i read that bit too and i get it now... however doesn't that mean the effect also diminishes as the charge builds? eventually completely stopping.
Sounds like it basically need a battery, i wonder if that could be solved by coupling this with a photovoltaic material? Sorry my solid state physics kinda sucks:P
Not because of money, but the probability of you landing your preferred job first time around is unlikely...
There was an article kicking around somewhere which had a pretty good analogy with a peak finding algorithm: Imagine you are on a hilly terrain and you have a limited viewing distance, if you go to the tallest visible peak you will probably not find anything close to the tallest peak... but if you meander more randomly at first around the landscape (to learn about the landscape) and gradually have a more directed tendency toward the end of your "seeking period" then you have a much higher chance of finding one of the highest peaks.
For jobs one persons high peak can be another persons low, this isn't because company x is better than company y or job a is better than job b, it's just that everyone is different, so you have to do your own meandering.
1. Nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum.
2. Some things can travel faster than light in a medium (when it is always slower by some factor).
Unfortunately the later is just an exploration of a pedantic nature and would never lead to any meaningful definition of FTL travel. it's like saying an ant is faster than a car but only when the car is stationary or moving extremely slowly (duh).
What was interesting about the article however was the part about cosmic expansion, even though again it does not produce any meaningful FTL phenomenon, it outlines the fact that under the laws of relativity it's impossible to travel to anything further than 16 billion light years away, because that is essentially a moving target (moving away from you at the speed of light due to cosmic expansion).
I'm in the UK too, and as much as this ever steepening slippery slope has accelerated - i've passed through the phase of caring what ill conceived ideas politicians attempt to subject their corner of the internet to.
Instead i think we need to thank them in the same way that we thank malicious users for highlighting a poor design, the internet needs to be more decentralised (yes i know darknet etc, but it needs to be decentralised and un-cencorable for everyone, not just some obscure part of the web). Well established and stagnant technology tends to evolve when it needs to, and now it needs to - so here's me saying thanks Cameron... thanks for being a massive fucking dickhead, because sometimes the world needs dickheads like you to evolve.
On a more pragmatic note: route your internet somewhere else, buying a cheap chunk of cloud is just too easy these days, as for choices of technically how to route... you could either use the horrible TCP over TCP type old style VPN tech, or you could go spartan and ssh proxy individual ports (but it's a pain), or (i recommend) you use sshuttle which is as Spartan but more VPN-like without the TCP-over-TCP nastyness ++ for zero config on the server side too https://github.com/apenwarr/ss...
Just to clarify, that came out rather rhetorically, it's a genuine question, where does the parsing stop, how do you sanitise without having to protect the sanitising parser too?
And to sanitise the input what process would you need to perform on the input? is it called parsing? and would you need to sanitise the sanitisers parser...
This is all based on magnonics, which in short - is the use of magnetic spin for binary storage and or logic. This device focuses on the later...
It does this by constructing a matrix of magnetic nodes that are effectively interconnected to neighbours (moor?) via spatial magnetic-spin sensitivity, these interconnects form the dynamic logic processing ability of the matrix.
I think that this is somewhat like a (soft) convolutional artificial neural network for image recognition, these are constructed out of a 2d or 3d matrix of nodes with weighted interconnects in a moor-neighbourhood arrangement. The difference here i guess is that a) it's done with magnetic spin (i really have no idea why this is an advantage, maybe i'm all wrong about this) and b) being an application specific piece of hardware each node works in parallel (this is trumped as the primary reason for the speed potential in the article).
... Big disclaimer: I am massively speculating because the use case is not made super clear.
I am torn between admiration of the technical brilliance of building software like this and horror as to how it is being used.
The technical brilliance of voice recognition combined with data mining need not be met with horror... All the horror can be reserved for the separate issue of mass surveillance.
Chromium (which IS open source) apparently has build issues and isn't even in the normal Fedora repos.
Fedora's fault. In Xubuntu, a Debian derivative, all I have to do is sudo apt-get install chromium-browser.
There was a time not very long ago when Chromium was not available in ubuntu official repositories either, and you had to install it yourself or use a PPA... just like Ubuntu you can get chromium running on Fedora. The reason it's not in their official repositories is more an ideological one, supposedly the packaging of customised dependencies rather than integrating more naturally with the ecosystem goes against the ideals of whomever has authority over what does and does not go in the official list.
I like the chromium project and use it as my main browser, i like the developer community also who are super fast at fixing bugs, but i also understand that it's a very large and far from an ideally designed collection of code, modern browsers are hard and i guess the more pragmatic work-in-progress approach is a better fit for Ubuntu.
And the memory footprint of all browsers is crazy now.
Is this the fault of the browser or of the sites you visit? Back when sites weren't as image- and script-heavy, like Better MF Website, a graphical browser could actually fit on a 16 MB machine. Nowadays sites are covered with carousels full of high-DPI photos, plus developers think they still need jQuery and all its bloat just to get the site out the door faster.
Sure, but modern browsers are definitely memory hungry... i'm a chronic single tasker, i currently have one chrome tab open, the browser was started fresh and navigated to slashdot, summing up the memory footprint of chromium tasks it's taking up around half a GB to view this page, seems a little heavy, and i don't think i can blame all that on this one slashdot page.
The process of writing your own engine gives you both insight and more creative freedom... Most people aren't successful at writing their own, and even if they are of course it wont be as graphically impressive or comprehensive as the leading AAA engines - but it's the process that's important. There is more to writing games than just filling in story and content, i'm not saying that is worthless but it's only one of the many creative avenues to explore in games, the engine gives you ultimate control over mechanics, you are not bound by the laws defined someone else's physics engine, you can make something up that's out of this world.
Do you know this for a fact? I know that not all electric cars are created equal in much the same way that a tractor is not equal to a ferrari is not equal to a ford fiesta (or worse a "hybrid"), but when compared to an electric engine... my understanding was that generally an equivalent 3 phase electric motor should have better and flatter torque curve compared to combustion engine, hence the high potential for performance compared to combustion... it should also make it pretty good for hauling stuff in theory.
I think Mozilla have more relevance to web standards and technology now. As a web developer i have a slightly conflicted view of FireFox, i think Mozilla are great, because of MDN and the active community developing FireFox and fixing bugs... But unfortunately the browser just sucks in too many ways these days, there are fairly serious bugs that stay open for many years, they keep re-writing large chunks of the browser only to have it still act buggy and perform poorly, i have no idea why because their seem to be enough willing and skilled people working on the project.
IE11... while i hate it and want it to die, many parts of it perform significantly better than FireFox and are less buggy, but then it makes up for it by missing support for things that all other main browsers have and having an almost blanket ignore policy for bug reporting which is extremely frustrating...
MS have never once responded to any of my bug submissions. And I do not make vague bug submissions, i always give a detailed isolated examples. here's my experience among the leading browsers, basically reflects how i feel toward them too:
Chromium project responds frighteningly fast to bug reports and fixes fast, however they have a lot of regressions (especially since M39/40), probably a reflection of how fast moving it's development is.
FireFox responds fast to bug submission but usually fixes super slow, it's more likely with FireFox that a bug you discover will have already been submitted but have been open for years, i've discovered far fewer regression than chromium but some have been pretty stupid.
IE11/spartan/whatever MS rebrand their shit as Almost never responds to bug submissions or does and then closes and "will not fix", I've only found regressions between 11/10/9 but 11 feels almost completely stagnant, hardly feels like an evergreen browser at all.
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poor argument
Acknowledging the consequences of gender is not sexist.
Yes, but calling for segregation is.
Then bathrooms and changing rooms are all sexist.
Segregation of sex is sometimes just the practical and appropriate choice, especially in cases of defining characteristics and basic interaction of sexes... Is segregation appropriate and necessary in this situation? that depends on whether less extreme options exist. In certain institutions rules for this kind of interaction between sexes (which tends to introduce extreme bias) calls for strict disciplinary action.
Suggesting segregation of gender to prevent inappropriate relations in a workplace is not "sexist", it doesn't mean it's not an extreme option either though.
...So is stating that women are not capable of handling criticism (unless you've got some objective evidence). He said both of those things.
You're right, he does say that, and that is out of line when taken literally... Honestly though first time i read it i took it based on context; which is a two way relationship... you can interpret the second part of that statement and i interpreted it to mean that both sexes can't take criticism very well from someone whom they are intimately involved with in "the lab", which seems quite likely.
Acknowledging the consequences of gender is not sexist.
Too many stupid people confuse issues that are intrinsic to gender with sexism... The fact that humans have gender creates problems, some are specific to one gender and some apply to both: Women need bras... that's not sexist, that is being a woman.
In this case; Straight people of opposite genders have higher probability of being attracted to each other, this creates issues in the workplace - not exactly shocking is it.
Feminazis what us to be asexual or something, i say go fuck yourselves, and i'll fuck someone else. good day.
Will the batteries last longer for somebody who mainly does phone calls and texts?
... Why do you own an iPhone.
Well, your browser has direct control of that stuff, so it can easily make it also click-to-play and other things.
The browser has direct control of globally determining what is allowed in that page. You cannot click to play HTML5 adverts because the whole point is that they are part of the page... there is no rule for determining how ads are embedded into a page, so there is no reliable objective way of telling if that content is an advert or not, for instance attempting to implement a generic-global click to play WebGL content is just as likely to target your primary content as it is an ad.
It's reasonable to argue however that flash "is not an ad" because using click to play on flash kills everything that is flash... It's not inconceivable that the canvas 2d and 3d contexts could be limited in some way, the problem is that a lot of use of those contexts are not only legitimate and widely used but are also lightly used and not CPU or GPU hungry. In which case there perhaps a "click to give full resources" as opposed to a "click to do anything at all" would be more appropriate.
HTML5 is not evil because it mixes in everything, but it's a good thing that your browser is in charge, not some 3rd party plugin that you can't control.
I'm not saying HTML5 is evil, i really like the web actively moving away from plugins and toward better more refined specifications to write content properly, i'm saying advertisers are evil, they fill pages we want to view with alien content that can eat up resources we don't want to give it... flash was actually a solution to isolate that (don't get me wrong i hate flash, but i was happy for content i hate to stay in flash).
I actually quite like that most of the highly animated CPU hogging adverts are written in flash, because i can easily disable all of them.
What concerns me is when those advertisers are finally forced to start writing them in javascript + Canvas / SVG / WebGL... yes it's possible to write efficient animated HTML5 content, request animation frame etc... but that's not forced, you think advertisers give a shit about that stuff? they will use everything at their disposal once flash is considered completely obsolete. Look forward to unsandboxed memory leaks and poorly optimised animation directly in your page... yay
Whether or not you like smart phones, there are plenty of attributes that give basic phones with no bells and whistles a clear advantage, making them suited to purposes smart phones fail miserably in:
It all hinges on simplicity - Good designs tend to have a single purpose which makes the design simple, and all of the above advantages are a results of that attribute. My one annoyance with basic phones today is that their OS (while small and simple) are extremely pretentious, because the marketers (who might as well be designing the OS) think that everyone wants a smart phone.
Nokia is currently as good as basic phones get, but there is plenty of room for a better basic phone that is true to it's purpose, i'm not sure Microsoft is up to that task as they would probably be more interested in using basic phones as tool to channel users into buying smart phones.
LoL... no i does work, photovoltaic and photoelectric are different effects of the same phenomenon right? i guess there is not simple closed form way to get those electrons back without getting all fusiony.
Yeah i read that bit too and i get it now... however doesn't that mean the effect also diminishes as the charge builds? eventually completely stopping.
Sounds like it basically need a battery, i wonder if that could be solved by coupling this with a photovoltaic material? Sorry my solid state physics kinda sucks :P
Good explanation thanks.
Not because of money, but the probability of you landing your preferred job first time around is unlikely...
There was an article kicking around somewhere which had a pretty good analogy with a peak finding algorithm: Imagine you are on a hilly terrain and you have a limited viewing distance, if you go to the tallest visible peak you will probably not find anything close to the tallest peak... but if you meander more randomly at first around the landscape (to learn about the landscape) and gradually have a more directed tendency toward the end of your "seeking period" then you have a much higher chance of finding one of the highest peaks.
For jobs one persons high peak can be another persons low, this isn't because company x is better than company y or job a is better than job b, it's just that everyone is different, so you have to do your own meandering.
Where the heck those extra electrons came from?..."accumulating electrons" from nowhere and then emitting them in one direction...
Isn't that the opposite of what the phosphors used in a CRT do when hit by electrons? Is it too much to think the reverse is possible?
1. Nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum.
2. Some things can travel faster than light in a medium (when it is always slower by some factor).
Unfortunately the later is just an exploration of a pedantic nature and would never lead to any meaningful definition of FTL travel. it's like saying an ant is faster than a car but only when the car is stationary or moving extremely slowly (duh).
What was interesting about the article however was the part about cosmic expansion, even though again it does not produce any meaningful FTL phenomenon, it outlines the fact that under the laws of relativity it's impossible to travel to anything further than 16 billion light years away, because that is essentially a moving target (moving away from you at the speed of light due to cosmic expansion).
I'm in the UK too, and as much as this ever steepening slippery slope has accelerated - i've passed through the phase of caring what ill conceived ideas politicians attempt to subject their corner of the internet to.
Instead i think we need to thank them in the same way that we thank malicious users for highlighting a poor design, the internet needs to be more decentralised (yes i know darknet etc, but it needs to be decentralised and un-cencorable for everyone, not just some obscure part of the web). Well established and stagnant technology tends to evolve when it needs to, and now it needs to - so here's me saying thanks Cameron... thanks for being a massive fucking dickhead, because sometimes the world needs dickheads like you to evolve.
On a more pragmatic note: route your internet somewhere else, buying a cheap chunk of cloud is just too easy these days, as for choices of technically how to route... you could either use the horrible TCP over TCP type old style VPN tech, or you could go spartan and ssh proxy individual ports (but it's a pain), or (i recommend) you use sshuttle which is as Spartan but more VPN-like without the TCP-over-TCP nastyness ++ for zero config on the server side too https://github.com/apenwarr/ss...
Just to clarify, that came out rather rhetorically, it's a genuine question, where does the parsing stop, how do you sanitise without having to protect the sanitising parser too?
And to sanitise the input what process would you need to perform on the input? is it called parsing? and would you need to sanitise the sanitisers parser...
From what i can quickly gather from the article:
This is all based on magnonics, which in short - is the use of magnetic spin for binary storage and or logic. This device focuses on the later...
It does this by constructing a matrix of magnetic nodes that are effectively interconnected to neighbours (moor?) via spatial magnetic-spin sensitivity, these interconnects form the dynamic logic processing ability of the matrix.
I think that this is somewhat like a (soft) convolutional artificial neural network for image recognition, these are constructed out of a 2d or 3d matrix of nodes with weighted interconnects in a moor-neighbourhood arrangement. The difference here i guess is that a) it's done with magnetic spin (i really have no idea why this is an advantage, maybe i'm all wrong about this) and b) being an application specific piece of hardware each node works in parallel (this is trumped as the primary reason for the speed potential in the article).
... Big disclaimer: I am massively speculating because the use case is not made super clear.
I am torn between admiration of the technical brilliance of building software like this and horror as to how it is being used.
The technical brilliance of voice recognition combined with data mining need not be met with horror... All the horror can be reserved for the separate issue of mass surveillance.
Chromium (which IS open source) apparently has build issues and isn't even in the normal Fedora repos.
Fedora's fault. In Xubuntu, a Debian derivative, all I have to do is sudo apt-get install chromium-browser.
There was a time not very long ago when Chromium was not available in ubuntu official repositories either, and you had to install it yourself or use a PPA... just like Ubuntu you can get chromium running on Fedora. The reason it's not in their official repositories is more an ideological one, supposedly the packaging of customised dependencies rather than integrating more naturally with the ecosystem goes against the ideals of whomever has authority over what does and does not go in the official list.
I like the chromium project and use it as my main browser, i like the developer community also who are super fast at fixing bugs, but i also understand that it's a very large and far from an ideally designed collection of code, modern browsers are hard and i guess the more pragmatic work-in-progress approach is a better fit for Ubuntu.
And the memory footprint of all browsers is crazy now.
Is this the fault of the browser or of the sites you visit? Back when sites weren't as image- and script-heavy, like Better MF Website, a graphical browser could actually fit on a 16 MB machine. Nowadays sites are covered with carousels full of high-DPI photos, plus developers think they still need jQuery and all its bloat just to get the site out the door faster.
Sure, but modern browsers are definitely memory hungry... i'm a chronic single tasker, i currently have one chrome tab open, the browser was started fresh and navigated to slashdot, summing up the memory footprint of chromium tasks it's taking up around half a GB to view this page, seems a little heavy, and i don't think i can blame all that on this one slashdot page.
The process of writing your own engine gives you both insight and more creative freedom... Most people aren't successful at writing their own, and even if they are of course it wont be as graphically impressive or comprehensive as the leading AAA engines - but it's the process that's important. There is more to writing games than just filling in story and content, i'm not saying that is worthless but it's only one of the many creative avenues to explore in games, the engine gives you ultimate control over mechanics, you are not bound by the laws defined someone else's physics engine, you can make something up that's out of this world.
Does most of what i ever wanted jQuery for.
...or the inability to haul large items.
Do you know this for a fact? I know that not all electric cars are created equal in much the same way that a tractor is not equal to a ferrari is not equal to a ford fiesta (or worse a "hybrid"), but when compared to an electric engine... my understanding was that generally an equivalent 3 phase electric motor should have better and flatter torque curve compared to combustion engine, hence the high potential for performance compared to combustion... it should also make it pretty good for hauling stuff in theory.
I think Mozilla have more relevance to web standards and technology now. As a web developer i have a slightly conflicted view of FireFox, i think Mozilla are great, because of MDN and the active community developing FireFox and fixing bugs... But unfortunately the browser just sucks in too many ways these days, there are fairly serious bugs that stay open for many years, they keep re-writing large chunks of the browser only to have it still act buggy and perform poorly, i have no idea why because their seem to be enough willing and skilled people working on the project.
IE11 ... while i hate it and want it to die, many parts of it perform significantly better than FireFox and are less buggy, but then it makes up for it by missing support for things that all other main browsers have and having an almost blanket ignore policy for bug reporting which is extremely frustrating...
MS have never once responded to any of my bug submissions. And I do not make vague bug submissions, i always give a detailed isolated examples. here's my experience among the leading browsers, basically reflects how i feel toward them too:
Chromium project responds frighteningly fast to bug reports and fixes fast, however they have a lot of regressions (especially since M39/40), probably a reflection of how fast moving it's development is.
FireFox responds fast to bug submission but usually fixes super slow, it's more likely with FireFox that a bug you discover will have already been submitted but have been open for years, i've discovered far fewer regression than chromium but some have been pretty stupid.
IE11/spartan/whatever MS rebrand their shit as Almost never responds to bug submissions or does and then closes and "will not fix", I've only found regressions between 11/10/9 but 11 feels almost completely stagnant, hardly feels like an evergreen browser at all.