You claim to be a non-social networker, and yet you use GitHub the social network for social coders. You're a real piece of work, liar.
Ouch, that's like calling someone who uses mouthwash an alcoholic. GitHub's is not a true social network, it has messaging to facilitate issues and PRs and at the most "staring" projects, facebook on the other hand is messaging and following and posting self obsession for the pure sake of it.
Isn't this more a problem with social networks? I know browsing the web more generally can be addictive for some, but I feel like there is a distinction.
I don't do the normal social network, no facebook, no twitter etc, I went down that road for a very short time and found the overall effect fairly negative and attention graby many years before it became news. I don't find my life very distracted as a non-social networker, I don't have a smart phone, and the closest I get to distracted is emails or pull requests on GitHub (which are periodic, not continuous).
Does anyone have examples of "highly distracted" experiences outside of social networking on the web?
Needs debu..uhm deparasiting... we don't know where the parasites are: engineers brains, in the phone, in the users brains making (them click on everything like mad).
why doesn't Slashdot have [edit]... anyway, I thought it was interesting to bring up, not as an aside... but because many think that this property to reduce local entropy is inherent to the laws of reality and thus emergent, much like various CA rules... and even when looking at randomly initiated CAs (of the interesting class) initial chaos tends to settle into intricate local behaviour for some period, the global behaviour overall becomes less active over time until some sort of "heat death" if you like in almost all but contrived cases that we construct.
contradicts the idea of entropy as a rule that dictates all matter absolutely:
Life doesn't contradict any of the principles of entropy that govern all matter
I know this seems pedantic but: to be clear i did not say it contradicts the principle, but that it contradicts the notion that it dictates the behaviour of matter absolutely. The point being that entropy is simple a description of one if the behaviours of matter and energy, but matter an energy are not simple and so this behaviour can be manipulated through other characteristics. If you read the article which can probably explain the point far better than me, maxwells demon is only lacking in one detail to make it realistic, which is the cost of information. The demon must store information in order to rate a particle as hotter/colder faster/slower, and that is not free, there is a balance that can be achieved. DNA is pretty efficient but not free... you see where it's going, knowing certain chemical reactions give biology an edge over simple dumb matter, it can reduce entropy in terms of a local system. It doesn't contradict the macroscopic behaviour of entropy, but refines the variations at the medium and small scales.
(Not that it makes any difference to your argument), but when this particular embodiment of entropy comes up (inexorable fate of all matter) I can no longer help but can't help but think about the interesting fact that our existence (biology) contradicts the idea of entropy as a rule that dictates all matter absolutely: biology distils information; a book of tricks, to reduce entropy like Maxwell's demon. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/...
In full relevance to this exploration of CA: The article goes full circle at the realisation that biology is not unique in this aspect, and that this tendency to seek to reduce entropy actually emerges from the rules of the universe... as does CA.
I'd imagine it runs pretty slow considering just how large it would be, but I know some CA engines have some pretty good optimisations for hashing out (literally) redundancy that would be very applicable with all the likely repetitions that build up the logic.
Someone should write a compiler to run arbitrary software inside the automaton system.
That's exactly what they did do... built up layers of abstraction, it's an interesting project.
The building blocks of our logic gates (transistors) are a particular kind of abstraction that we don't usually have to delve into with electronics, and even than are logically simple and more statistically squishy inside... whereas with CA there is none of the same science, it's a strange logical challenge to built a transistor, a transistor might not even be a particularly productive abstraction to make - building the logic gates more directly might make better sense, i haven't read as far to see what they have done in this respect but look forward to finding out.
Did you get an orgasm from being this elitist? I hope so.
Did you get an orgasm from being this ignorant? I hope not.
Oh the frustration I get every time someone gives temperature in Fahrenheit, how elitist am I... Everyone in the world except north america uses C and K. Why did you guys stick with this arcane measurement for so long? inches and feet at least have useful divisibility and human relationships... Have you read the definition of Fahrenheit? it's absurd, it doesn't even bother to correctly scale it's unit to anything meaningful in base ten... i mean if your going to make a human based scale and unit why not do this, why 32, 96 and 212, and why fucking salty brine?? ooh that's so meaningful to me, 0!!! it's the temperature my salty brine is going to freeze ooh my.
According to the FBI, Lauri Love and his co-conspirators caused in excess of $5,000,000 in damages in the U.S.. Even allowing for likely exaggeration, that's more than several average people combined would earn in a lifetime.
Had Love acted with government sanction, what he did would be considered an act of war. It is not reasonable to have him protected from the consequences of his actions.
"According to the FBI"... so its true then, in America, an unnamed alleged offence is enough to be considered guilty of crimes against humanity, sounds like a country of witch hunting. Do you realise no evidence for any specific crime has been brought against him? of course you should always be able to just trust the goverment to randomly black hole people without trial right? because that would never massively corrupt any system.
Got any sources to Superfish being installed via firmware? Google doesn't know about it.
Need to search for BIOS specifically:
I had this happen to me a few weeks ago, on a new Lenovo laptop, doing a clean install with a new SSD, Win 8 DVD + wifi turned off. I couldn't understand how a Lenovo service was installed and running! Delete the file and it reappears on reboot.
Aha! You're right, "it's not 1999" any more (in 1999, Microsoft occupied only 4 of the top 10 spots).
So let's see now... if you add up all the CVEs for all Microsoft products in the top 10 (everyone else seems to want to pretend Windows 8.1 never existed, so let's go with that), Microsoft scores a dazzling 915 CVEs so far 2017.
You're missing the point, recent history or not... total CVEs discovered does not matter, all that matters is total number of unpatched, open source will always have more CVEs. This difference for once clearly stated in the headline. And the result is that if you want to use Microsoft products you are expected to use antivirus, because they would rather you keep bailing out water than bother pluging the holes, M$ most common answer is: "Wont Fix"
Am I the only one that immediately wipes/reloads a machine when buying it? Hell, I usually give away the drives that come with PCs and put cheap SSDs in them, so I'm always starting fresh... I'll take the hassle of a fresh install for the subsidy that companies pay to preinstall their crap.. Doesn't affect me one bit anyways.
You are probably the 100th person who commented this... Superfish self installed via firmware, if you used windows there was no escape no matter how many times you wiped your block device, it's installed prior to the OS booting.
You can't just install a new OS and expect to have complete control over your computer these days, hardware is the new attack vector for everything since it's become way more soft and full of large pieces of firmware, people have been trying to make lenovo EFI firmware replacements for some time, but when something like IME get's pwned or Intel A) go pure evil B) hand over their private keys to the highest bidder or C) are forced to by some three letter government agency... it's going to get way more fun, the 21st century security "duh" will be "what? didn't you buy open source hardware and verify the microcode and firmware?, well then you deserved to get hacked".
You joke... but there are still many people who don't know what a browser is, they go buy a cheap 100$ laptop preloaded with winbloat 10 avengers home business whatever edition it is now, pre-loaded with Edge+Bing by default, they probably end up searching for google in edge's omnibar every single time they want to go to google... Bing counts that as a search of course, not a domain autocorrect. You might even be able to roughly calculate this proportion if Google released their "Google.com via Bing.com" stats you could subtract it from M$ stats.
So you have on copy of unversioned files... you plonk them in a new VCS that you know nothing about, you try out commands of unknown purpose and you expect anyone to feel sorry for you?
Even if this was a decent VCS like git and you git inited a project and then proceeded to use the checkout command without understanding what it does you would have the same problem or git clean or git reset --hard etc etc... if you don't know what it does why are you operating on your only copy. If you haven't learned your lesson yet you are in for a whole life of pain.
I just started doing a WFH a bit and it's amazing, I used to wait till everyone left do work on complex or thoughtful tasks, now I can do it in the day:)
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You claim to be a non-social networker, and yet you use GitHub the social network for social coders. You're a real piece of work, liar.
Ouch, that's like calling someone who uses mouthwash an alcoholic. GitHub's is not a true social network, it has messaging to facilitate issues and PRs and at the most "staring" projects, facebook on the other hand is messaging and following and posting self obsession for the pure sake of it.
Isn't this more a problem with social networks? I know browsing the web more generally can be addictive for some, but I feel like there is a distinction.
I don't do the normal social network, no facebook, no twitter etc, I went down that road for a very short time and found the overall effect fairly negative and attention graby many years before it became news. I don't find my life very distracted as a non-social networker, I don't have a smart phone, and the closest I get to distracted is emails or pull requests on GitHub (which are periodic, not continuous).
Does anyone have examples of "highly distracted" experiences outside of social networking on the web?
Hah @ downvoting Apple fan boi's, no sense of humour when it comes to your holy objects.
Needs debu..uhm deparasiting... we don't know where the parasites are: engineers brains, in the phone, in the users brains making (them click on everything like mad).
why doesn't Slashdot have [edit]... anyway, I thought it was interesting to bring up, not as an aside... but because many think that this property to reduce local entropy is inherent to the laws of reality and thus emergent, much like various CA rules... and even when looking at randomly initiated CAs (of the interesting class) initial chaos tends to settle into intricate local behaviour for some period, the global behaviour overall becomes less active over time until some sort of "heat death" if you like in almost all but contrived cases that we construct.
contradicts the idea of entropy as a rule that dictates all matter absolutely:
Life doesn't contradict any of the principles of entropy that govern all matter
I know this seems pedantic but: to be clear i did not say it contradicts the principle, but that it contradicts the notion that it dictates the behaviour of matter absolutely. The point being that entropy is simple a description of one if the behaviours of matter and energy, but matter an energy are not simple and so this behaviour can be manipulated through other characteristics. If you read the article which can probably explain the point far better than me, maxwells demon is only lacking in one detail to make it realistic, which is the cost of information. The demon must store information in order to rate a particle as hotter/colder faster/slower, and that is not free, there is a balance that can be achieved. DNA is pretty efficient but not free... you see where it's going, knowing certain chemical reactions give biology an edge over simple dumb matter, it can reduce entropy in terms of a local system. It doesn't contradict the macroscopic behaviour of entropy, but refines the variations at the medium and small scales.
Eventually entropy will destroy the universe.
(Not that it makes any difference to your argument), but when this particular embodiment of entropy comes up (inexorable fate of all matter) I can no longer help but can't help but think about the interesting fact that our existence (biology) contradicts the idea of entropy as a rule that dictates all matter absolutely: biology distils information; a book of tricks, to reduce entropy like Maxwell's demon. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/...
In full relevance to this exploration of CA: The article goes full circle at the realisation that biology is not unique in this aspect, and that this tendency to seek to reduce entropy actually emerges from the rules of the universe... as does CA.
I'd imagine it runs pretty slow considering just how large it would be, but I know some CA engines have some pretty good optimisations for hashing out (literally) redundancy that would be very applicable with all the likely repetitions that build up the logic.
Someone should write a compiler to run arbitrary software inside the automaton system.
That's exactly what they did do... built up layers of abstraction, it's an interesting project.
The building blocks of our logic gates (transistors) are a particular kind of abstraction that we don't usually have to delve into with electronics, and even than are logically simple and more statistically squishy inside... whereas with CA there is none of the same science, it's a strange logical challenge to built a transistor, a transistor might not even be a particularly productive abstraction to make - building the logic gates more directly might make better sense, i haven't read as far to see what they have done in this respect but look forward to finding out.
Bee powered meshnet when?
Exactly my thoughts... I'm glad i'm not the only crazy one here :P
Did you get an orgasm from being this elitist? I hope so.
Did you get an orgasm from being this ignorant? I hope not.
Oh the frustration I get every time someone gives temperature in Fahrenheit, how elitist am I... Everyone in the world except north america uses C and K. Why did you guys stick with this arcane measurement for so long? inches and feet at least have useful divisibility and human relationships... Have you read the definition of Fahrenheit? it's absurd, it doesn't even bother to correctly scale it's unit to anything meaningful in base ten... i mean if your going to make a human based scale and unit why not do this, why 32, 96 and 212, and why fucking salty brine?? ooh that's so meaningful to me, 0!!! it's the temperature my salty brine is going to freeze ooh my.
There's also 44 frames of a PPT, in low resolution, with so much jpeg that you cannot read them properly.
Print those slides on a colour inket printer, then send those prints to me by fax.
Then take a picture of them on your phone in very low light at a strange angle
Finally send it through that newfangled AI super resolution interpolation algorithm
Output: doge... well it was trained on the internet
Ah ok... yes I couldn't find any stats about the state of open CVEs either, which is quite frustrating.
According to the FBI, Lauri Love and his co-conspirators caused in excess of $5,000,000 in damages in the U.S.. Even allowing for likely exaggeration, that's more than several average people combined would earn in a lifetime.
Had Love acted with government sanction, what he did would be considered an act of war. It is not reasonable to have him protected from the consequences of his actions.
"According to the FBI"... so its true then, in America, an unnamed alleged offence is enough to be considered guilty of crimes against humanity, sounds like a country of witch hunting. Do you realise no evidence for any specific crime has been brought against him? of course you should always be able to just trust the goverment to randomly black hole people without trial right? because that would never massively corrupt any system.
Got any sources to Superfish being installed via firmware? Google doesn't know about it.
Need to search for BIOS specifically:
I had this happen to me a few weeks ago, on a new Lenovo laptop, doing a clean install with a new SSD, Win 8 DVD + wifi turned off. I couldn't understand how a Lenovo service was installed and running! Delete the file and it reappears on reboot.
From: https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
Aha! You're right, "it's not 1999" any more (in 1999, Microsoft occupied only 4 of the top 10 spots).
So let's see now... if you add up all the CVEs for all Microsoft products in the top 10 (everyone else seems to want to pretend Windows 8.1 never existed, so let's go with that), Microsoft scores a dazzling 915 CVEs so far 2017.
You're missing the point, recent history or not... total CVEs discovered does not matter, all that matters is total number of unpatched, open source will always have more CVEs. This difference for once clearly stated in the headline. And the result is that if you want to use Microsoft products you are expected to use antivirus, because they would rather you keep bailing out water than bother pluging the holes, M$ most common answer is: "Wont Fix"
Am I the only one that immediately wipes/reloads a machine when buying it? Hell, I usually give away the drives that come with PCs and put cheap SSDs in them, so I'm always starting fresh... I'll take the hassle of a fresh install for the subsidy that companies pay to preinstall their crap.. Doesn't affect me one bit anyways.
You are probably the 100th person who commented this... Superfish self installed via firmware, if you used windows there was no escape no matter how many times you wiped your block device, it's installed prior to the OS booting.
You can't just install a new OS and expect to have complete control over your computer these days, hardware is the new attack vector for everything since it's become way more soft and full of large pieces of firmware, people have been trying to make lenovo EFI firmware replacements for some time, but when something like IME get's pwned or Intel A) go pure evil B) hand over their private keys to the highest bidder or C) are forced to by some three letter government agency... it's going to get way more fun, the 21st century security "duh" will be "what? didn't you buy open source hardware and verify the microcode and firmware?, well then you deserved to get hacked".
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All 1800Kg unexploded Blockbusters so far:
From a government who wants total control over all communication.
... I am waiting.
search Bing for whatever porn you want, let's say tentacle henai, then click on the "Video" tab. It will pull up lots of videos of tentacle hentai.
I really really hope Microsoft capitalise on this very insightful post and make a Bing tentical hentai tv commercial.
another one would be "google chrome or firefox installer for windows".
You joke... but there are still many people who don't know what a browser is, they go buy a cheap 100$ laptop preloaded with winbloat 10 avengers home business whatever edition it is now, pre-loaded with Edge+Bing by default, they probably end up searching for google in edge's omnibar every single time they want to go to google... Bing counts that as a search of course, not a domain autocorrect. You might even be able to roughly calculate this proportion if Google released their "Google.com via Bing.com" stats you could subtract it from M$ stats.
So you have on copy of unversioned files... you plonk them in a new VCS that you know nothing about, you try out commands of unknown purpose and you expect anyone to feel sorry for you?
Even if this was a decent VCS like git and you git inited a project and then proceeded to use the checkout command without understanding what it does you would have the same problem or git clean or git reset --hard etc etc... if you don't know what it does why are you operating on your only copy. If you haven't learned your lesson yet you are in for a whole life of pain.
I just started doing a WFH a bit and it's amazing, I used to wait till everyone left do work on complex or thoughtful tasks, now I can do it in the day :)