Netflix is awesome for stirring up the system, but I don't get the hype about DareDevil... and i like a bit of action, I just thought it was overall shit, wouldn't watch any more even if it was free.
I can imagine it being popular with children, but then it is a comic book hero, maybe i shouldn't have expected more from a live action comic book hero... Or maybe i just wanted something original, dark and unusual with at least half decent acting like Dexter instead of rehashed shit.
Your "IT" sold their souls when they brought shitty VPN software that relied on Java... Sure almost all VPN software is sucky most of them completely ignoring issues regarding running TCP over TCP, but adding a steaming pile of shit to a steaming pile of shit is just asking for a massive steaming pile of shit. Almost no one misses that horrid vulnerability that chromium is actively trying to eliminate.... so yeah fuck your stupid "IT"
At some point it will cease to make sense to update your computer on a regular basis. I have a 10 year old one that is fine for internet browsing and word processing
Regular yes, heirloom no. The space between physical obsoleting to the point of uselessness has and will continue to increase, but it a whole generation through which zero innovation in computers happens? less a post-apocalyptic scenario, that's not going to happen.
...A nail clipper is extremely limited in it's purpose and possible number of designs, it has a very attainable optimal design after which no substantial improvement can be made. The current and most prevalent nail clipper design is extremely elegant, it is made from only three discrete pieces each very simple in shape. It has not changed in design for about 100 years and does not need to.
Not that you'd want to inherit a nail clipper but given that it's so limited we've only just managed to optimise it to the point where there is no substantial innovation to be done to the design for 100 years... Now how complex is computer hardware and what is the scope of it's purpose, it's application, it's potential? The time to fulfil all possible innovations may as well be infinite to us, it is at least of a universal scale.
The idea of an "heirloom laptop" may sound preposterous today, but someday we may perceive our computers as cherished and useful looms to hand down to our children, much as some people today regard wristwatches or antique furniture."
It is preposterous... Even if it were impossible to make computers faster in any way in the future (extremely unlikely given the countless avenues there are to explore in terms of speed), even then the inovation in computers i not and would not be limited to speed, so no computer heirlooms wont ever happen, stupid person.
Yes there's loads of good stuff about IoT in the correct context. I just don't get these people who are so obsessed with applying a technology to something that it clearly does not benefit enough for anyone to give a flying fuck "because it's cool", it only damages it...
It's like those amateur inventors who are so amazed by themselves actually coming up with a solution that they are blinded and cannot see it's utterly useless for what they are applying it to... it's the "It's such a neat solution it just has to be useful" plague.
Cmon people are not interested in "IOT" in their life, it's going to end up as a commercial tool where automation is needed, no one wants this shit in their home it doesn't improve anything substantially enough.
For desalinating i guess the main energy consumption is in pumping and the desalination itself...
Could a modified steam turbine concept be used that is driven directly by concentrated solar... that way the desalination mostly takes care of itself and the energy generated can be used for pumping... making it pretty much self sufficient.
...it could be that because China has their Internet so locked down for censorship, with their Great Firewall, that the ranges of discoverable IP addresses outside of it are manipulated causing it to look that way...I do find it hard to believe that a nation particularly one as large as China would bother with this kind of low level tomfoolery (i.e. It doesn't seem all that targeted)
Not sure what you mean by manipulated, but i can assure you it's intentional, i don't claim to know what their intention is... but you don't accidentally and repeatedly attempt to login to SSH. If you really want some hard evidence all you have to do is go spin up a standard ubuntu VPS and leave it in it's default configuration for a few days (in particular you leave SSH on the default port), then have a dig through it's logs and plot the SSH login attempt IP locations... you should find a hot spot in China, you will of course get the odd login attempt from other spots around the world but the last time i bothered analysing this before configuring SSH more rigorously i found an overwhelming chunk of attempts stood out in spot in China.
It's probably a combination, however i'm fairly convinced that it's more weighted on their government effort to gather as much low hanging fruit around the world as possible, because every time i've spun up a new server before i've locked it down all access attempts come from a more specific block range in China, not more randomly distributed IPs like you would expect from a normal botnet, a big chunk of their internet is dedicated to this.
So should someone who steals $2 million and a kid who steals a pencil sharpener both be given the same jail sentence?
This is the same. Never mind that what he did with his ILLEGAL access was completely harmless (the pencil sharpener would actually slightly damage the shop keepers income if only slightly).
Unless negotiation skills are relevant to the job then it's good (if idealistic) to not determine salary based upon that skill.
However Ellen Pao's reasoning is to make women and men equal... Please notice my wording here, not to treat men and women equally but to make them equal, an attempt to "correct" a statistical bias.
This is bad reasoning: if you take this concept and apply it more broadly it starts to look more absurd. There are large statistical differences between men and women in too many areas to count (in terms of both advantages and weaknesses), those statistics (and stereotypes) should not lead to discrimination when women and men are treated equally (we want to be treated based on our individual ability after all). However handicapping everyone to force equality is like forcing all Olympic athletes to not perform better than the average of whichever gender is statistically weaker... there would be little point in having an olympics other than to prove you can perform at the average of the weaker half of the population (but not better! that would be unequal).
It's so easy to learn, and there are plenty of activities (even simple "playing outside") where learning can happen. As a parent, all you need to do is encourage it. And also balance - it's completely normal to veg out and play video games as well - but only to end a day of exercising the body and the mind.
My point is not that learning is bad, it's that excessive and forceful directed learning is bad. Summer should not be the time you use to try and force more learning on your child, it should be the time when you let them learn the most important type of learning in life... self learning. Play is just that, the beginning of self learning.
Not to mention it's important for kids to actually have fun... Sure every kid is different and learn in different ways, however it's implicitly true that every kid will be happier and the learning will be more natural if it's through their own inquisitive nature and not because some horrible strict parent says you must be good at school or your'e in trouble.
Kids need time to be kids, and when they want help understanding something or are interested in something, that's what you are there for. Of course the same goes for not letting them veg out on modern technology, letting them have fun doesn't mean be a shitty parent at the other end of the spectrum.
...the nature of living language is that it changes, and many cromulent new words.
Do not twist my argument into one of pedantry, the semantic differences between "legal" and "moral" are not subtle, they are well defined concepts and not sensitive to the constant change that a language is subjected to. So let me be perfectly clear:
This is not someone misinterpreting a word, this is someone hiding behind the rules of others to avoid debating what is right and wrong. Rajesh De's argument is they had permission, the argument of the majority is their actions were wrong.
I challenge you to replace the words pertaining to legality in Rajesh De's quote and have it not sound like complete horse shit.
This. BASIC was the first language i learned, first on DOS then on an Atari ST... (I made the most of old computers when i was young when everything else was windows.)
All i can remember is having fun writing graphics stuff but hating the crudeness of the language, and i really didn't get very far. Picked up programming again so much later, maybe it was all BASICs fault... or maybe i just wasn't persistent enough, i duno. So i don't get what was good about BASIC either.
There was also a deep sense of hurt that a lot of what was in the media was not entirely accurate. Questioning the motives and legality of what NSA employees were being asked to do to keep Americans safe.
People who confuse or purposely use law as a synonym for morality are not to be trusted... The focus could not be more clearly on morality in this case.
... Such a waste... it's like a computer that has too many processes and spends all its CPU time doing context switching rather than actually processing meaningful work......If people were allowed to work on a small number at a time, knock them out, and then move to the next thing, I think they'd actually get more total projects done in a year than the "work on them all at once" method that seems way to common.
This! and context switching is the same analogy I use, i'm not sure it's even an analogy, you quite literally have to context switch in your head. I hate multitasking, It feels like this stupid buzzword that pretentious people like because it makes them look capable...
When it comes down to the task at hand it will be performed better in almost all respects if you give it your full attention. I'm a single tasker all the way and ultimately we all are, multitasking just means jumping in and out of tasks in quick succession and the reality is that even with the time lost for those context switches your brain is not a CPU and it will not full save the context and not fully restore it, instead your head stays filled with multiple projects and and your capacity to be thoughtful and careful with your code greatly decreases.
And the data would seem to actually support that. There's an increase in reported suicide attempts, but not in actual suicides. The two ways of explaining it that I can think of is that teens are trying to kill themselves more, but have become less competent at it, or that teens behave the same, but are more likely to get help.
This (with more modest reservations and only brief investigation) holds far more weight than her presumptions, and i don't even like smart phones.
'In the 1990s, I would have had one or two attempted suicides a year – mainly teenaged girls taking overdoses, the things that don't get reported. Now, I could have as many as four a month.'
It's not exactly thorough from a statistical point of view to jump to her conclusion. There could be all kinds of reasons, for her localised increase in cases, even if the change is national.
I could easily pull a counter argument from thin air if no one is going to bother doing studies... for instance phones and increased internet access could be making children more likely to reach out for help when they would not have before.
Placebos are just that, lies... so the question is what the net positive impact of a particular placebo is. I guess homoeopathy has a net negative impact for the world...
Placebos administered by a professional are the least adulterated form of lie, you are told it is real medicine and it is not (nothing more). The potential negative impact is loss of trust in the person or organisation who administered it.
Placebos from a pseudo-science background on the other hand have a greater potential for weighing on the harmful side because they come with a huge back story that attempts to create a false sense of trust in place of reality. This has the potential to greatly mislead and confuse people.
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Netflix is awesome for stirring up the system, but I don't get the hype about DareDevil... and i like a bit of action, I just thought it was overall shit, wouldn't watch any more even if it was free.
I can imagine it being popular with children, but then it is a comic book hero, maybe i shouldn't have expected more from a live action comic book hero... Or maybe i just wanted something original, dark and unusual with at least half decent acting like Dexter instead of rehashed shit.
Your "IT" sold their souls when they brought shitty VPN software that relied on Java... Sure almost all VPN software is sucky most of them completely ignoring issues regarding running TCP over TCP, but adding a steaming pile of shit to a steaming pile of shit is just asking for a massive steaming pile of shit. Almost no one misses that horrid vulnerability that chromium is actively trying to eliminate.... so yeah fuck your stupid "IT"
At some point it will cease to make sense to update your computer on a regular basis. I have a 10 year old one that is fine for internet browsing and word processing
Regular yes, heirloom no. The space between physical obsoleting to the point of uselessness has and will continue to increase, but it a whole generation through which zero innovation in computers happens? less a post-apocalyptic scenario, that's not going to happen.
...A nail clipper is extremely limited in it's purpose and possible number of designs, it has a very attainable optimal design after which no substantial improvement can be made. The current and most prevalent nail clipper design is extremely elegant, it is made from only three discrete pieces each very simple in shape. It has not changed in design for about 100 years and does not need to.
Not that you'd want to inherit a nail clipper but given that it's so limited we've only just managed to optimise it to the point where there is no substantial innovation to be done to the design for 100 years... Now how complex is computer hardware and what is the scope of it's purpose, it's application, it's potential? The time to fulfil all possible innovations may as well be infinite to us, it is at least of a universal scale.
The idea of an "heirloom laptop" may sound preposterous today, but someday we may perceive our computers as cherished and useful looms to hand down to our children, much as some people today regard wristwatches or antique furniture."
It is preposterous... Even if it were impossible to make computers faster in any way in the future (extremely unlikely given the countless avenues there are to explore in terms of speed), even then the inovation in computers i not and would not be limited to speed, so no computer heirlooms wont ever happen, stupid person.
Yes there's loads of good stuff about IoT in the correct context. I just don't get these people who are so obsessed with applying a technology to something that it clearly does not benefit enough for anyone to give a flying fuck "because it's cool", it only damages it...
It's like those amateur inventors who are so amazed by themselves actually coming up with a solution that they are blinded and cannot see it's utterly useless for what they are applying it to... it's the "It's such a neat solution it just has to be useful" plague.
Cmon people are not interested in "IOT" in their life, it's going to end up as a commercial tool where automation is needed, no one wants this shit in their home it doesn't improve anything substantially enough.
Not sure which provider your comment is aimed at but i use gandi and there are no cloud server options for the UK.
For desalinating i guess the main energy consumption is in pumping and the desalination itself...
Could a modified steam turbine concept be used that is driven directly by concentrated solar... that way the desalination mostly takes care of itself and the energy generated can be used for pumping... making it pretty much self sufficient.
its based on the chromium project it should have plugins... just annoying they go for windows first, it's chromium after all.
Was so looking forward to seeing this public beta, lame to be stuck on windows.
...it could be that because China has their Internet so locked down for censorship, with their Great Firewall, that the ranges of discoverable IP addresses outside of it are manipulated causing it to look that way...I do find it hard to believe that a nation particularly one as large as China would bother with this kind of low level tomfoolery (i.e. It doesn't seem all that targeted)
Not sure what you mean by manipulated, but i can assure you it's intentional, i don't claim to know what their intention is... but you don't accidentally and repeatedly attempt to login to SSH. If you really want some hard evidence all you have to do is go spin up a standard ubuntu VPS and leave it in it's default configuration for a few days (in particular you leave SSH on the default port), then have a dig through it's logs and plot the SSH login attempt IP locations... you should find a hot spot in China, you will of course get the odd login attempt from other spots around the world but the last time i bothered analysing this before configuring SSH more rigorously i found an overwhelming chunk of attempts stood out in spot in China.
++ yeaaah, streisand :P
It's probably a combination, however i'm fairly convinced that it's more weighted on their government effort to gather as much low hanging fruit around the world as possible, because every time i've spun up a new server before i've locked it down all access attempts come from a more specific block range in China, not more randomly distributed IPs like you would expect from a normal botnet, a big chunk of their internet is dedicated to this.
So should someone who steals $2 million and a kid who steals a pencil sharpener both be given the same jail sentence?
This is the same. Never mind that what he did with his ILLEGAL access was completely harmless (the pencil sharpener would actually slightly damage the shop keepers income if only slightly).
... absolutist
Unless negotiation skills are relevant to the job then it's good (if idealistic) to not determine salary based upon that skill.
However Ellen Pao's reasoning is to make women and men equal... Please notice my wording here, not to treat men and women equally but to make them equal, an attempt to "correct" a statistical bias.
This is bad reasoning: if you take this concept and apply it more broadly it starts to look more absurd. There are large statistical differences between men and women in too many areas to count (in terms of both advantages and weaknesses), those statistics (and stereotypes) should not lead to discrimination when women and men are treated equally (we want to be treated based on our individual ability after all). However handicapping everyone to force equality is like forcing all Olympic athletes to not perform better than the average of whichever gender is statistically weaker... there would be little point in having an olympics other than to prove you can perform at the average of the weaker half of the population (but not better! that would be unequal).
It's so easy to learn, and there are plenty of activities (even simple "playing outside") where learning can happen. As a parent, all you need to do is encourage it. And also balance - it's completely normal to veg out and play video games as well - but only to end a day of exercising the body and the mind.
My point is not that learning is bad, it's that excessive and forceful directed learning is bad. Summer should not be the time you use to try and force more learning on your child, it should be the time when you let them learn the most important type of learning in life... self learning. Play is just that, the beginning of self learning.
Not to mention it's important for kids to actually have fun... Sure every kid is different and learn in different ways, however it's implicitly true that every kid will be happier and the learning will be more natural if it's through their own inquisitive nature and not because some horrible strict parent says you must be good at school or your'e in trouble.
Kids need time to be kids, and when they want help understanding something or are interested in something, that's what you are there for. Of course the same goes for not letting them veg out on modern technology, letting them have fun doesn't mean be a shitty parent at the other end of the spectrum.
They would be going outside, having fun or doing whatever they like... because they are kids and summer should be theirs.
...the nature of living language is that it changes, and many cromulent new words.
Do not twist my argument into one of pedantry, the semantic differences between "legal" and "moral" are not subtle, they are well defined concepts and not sensitive to the constant change that a language is subjected to. So let me be perfectly clear:
This is not someone misinterpreting a word, this is someone hiding behind the rules of others to avoid debating what is right and wrong. Rajesh De's argument is they had permission, the argument of the majority is their actions were wrong.
I challenge you to replace the words pertaining to legality in Rajesh De's quote and have it not sound like complete horse shit.
This. BASIC was the first language i learned, first on DOS then on an Atari ST... (I made the most of old computers when i was young when everything else was windows.)
All i can remember is having fun writing graphics stuff but hating the crudeness of the language, and i really didn't get very far. Picked up programming again so much later, maybe it was all BASICs fault... or maybe i just wasn't persistent enough, i duno. So i don't get what was good about BASIC either.
There was also a deep sense of hurt that a lot of what was in the media was not entirely accurate. Questioning the motives and legality of what NSA employees were being asked to do to keep Americans safe.
People who confuse or purposely use law as a synonym for morality are not to be trusted... The focus could not be more clearly on morality in this case.
... Such a waste... it's like a computer that has too many processes and spends all its CPU time doing context switching rather than actually processing meaningful work... ...If people were allowed to work on a small number at a time, knock them out, and then move to the next thing, I think they'd actually get more total projects done in a year than the "work on them all at once" method that seems way to common.
This! and context switching is the same analogy I use, i'm not sure it's even an analogy, you quite literally have to context switch in your head. I hate multitasking, It feels like this stupid buzzword that pretentious people like because it makes them look capable...
When it comes down to the task at hand it will be performed better in almost all respects if you give it your full attention. I'm a single tasker all the way and ultimately we all are, multitasking just means jumping in and out of tasks in quick succession and the reality is that even with the time lost for those context switches your brain is not a CPU and it will not full save the context and not fully restore it, instead your head stays filled with multiple projects and and your capacity to be thoughtful and careful with your code greatly decreases.
But i guess that will only happen once it's obsolete and only of historical interest.
And the data would seem to actually support that. There's an increase in reported suicide attempts, but not in actual suicides. The two ways of explaining it that I can think of is that teens are trying to kill themselves more, but have become less competent at it, or that teens behave the same, but are more likely to get help.
This (with more modest reservations and only brief investigation) holds far more weight than her presumptions, and i don't even like smart phones.
'In the 1990s, I would have had one or two attempted suicides a year – mainly teenaged girls taking overdoses, the things that don't get reported. Now, I could have as many as four a month.'
It's not exactly thorough from a statistical point of view to jump to her conclusion. There could be all kinds of reasons, for her localised increase in cases, even if the change is national.
I could easily pull a counter argument from thin air if no one is going to bother doing studies... for instance phones and increased internet access could be making children more likely to reach out for help when they would not have before.
Placebos are just that, lies... so the question is what the net positive impact of a particular placebo is. I guess homoeopathy has a net negative impact for the world...
Placebos administered by a professional are the least adulterated form of lie, you are told it is real medicine and it is not (nothing more). The potential negative impact is loss of trust in the person or organisation who administered it.
Placebos from a pseudo-science background on the other hand have a greater potential for weighing on the harmful side because they come with a huge back story that attempts to create a false sense of trust in place of reality. This has the potential to greatly mislead and confuse people.