You've still misused the word. You mean "true". A tautology is a statement that is technically true but carries no information (usually because it is logically self-referential) - this is not what you're criticising Jefferson quoters of believing.
Your main point is well-taken. Why should we assume classic quotes are necessarily true? Why would it be impossible to achieve liberty without bloodshed?
Facebook has absolutely no right to know what I'm doing on sites
I'm sure you know this, but what's happening is that these sites you visit have an agreement with Facebook, and write/use code to share this information. They certainly have a right to do this (not that I like it, and in fact use an Adblock filter to strip Facebook from all non-Facebook sites).
Yes, if you make cycling into a hobby then the costs can skyrocket as you chase better and 'better' gear. That said I'm surprised one set of tyres could last so long. Riding ~40km per weekday I'll need to change tyres every 6 months, plus patch or replace tubes occasionally, brake pads, handlebar windings and every year or two put in a new chain and back sprocket.
Still cheaper than driving when you factor servicing in.
Not going to disagree, but in my experience C printfs and Fortran PRINT/WRITE statements have on occasion masked memory and stack corruption bugs. I have vague memories of a previous job where a PRINT was ultimately submitted (not by me) as the fix:)
It will be interesting to see how future games develop to keep them fun for humans in an AI-filled world.
Imagine your AI setup gets to the point where it truly has the same input, not needing to be directly fed the screenbuffer but can use a camera pointed at your monitor. Suddenly current anti-cheating technologies mean nothing, and enough people using these would quick ruin a game.
Deaths due to second hand smoke this week: 9,100 or 1,300 deaths every day (source)
That's the deaths from all smoking. According to your link the annual U.S. deaths from second-hand smoke totals 42,000, which is 115 per day.
More interesting is the comparison, that for every 10 deaths of smokers there is 1 death by second-hand smoke. That's higher than I would have thought.
Its an absolutely terrible idea that tries to make software work the way we think it should, not the way we think.
In some ways it is the opposite - OOP principles are designed to make software more closely resemble the user or business model, on the assumption that future changes will be easier and more natural.
I do get what you mean about the way we think. OOP can invert our procedural tendencies. Event-driven programming can similarly be a nightmare to debug or piece together as a whole.
I guess it takes brain muscle to learn something new
The purpose of learning is to be able to do. This is why children are amazing learners and adults become more set in their ways. If you feel like you are forever learning without being able to put into practice the previous learning, you become frustrated.
You've got +4 Funny, but I think you're serious and I agree with you, so maybe I'm a clown..
Analogies tend to make more sense to the person who actually understands the system in the first place. Rather than explaining the unknown system, an analogy creates a pattern link between two systems the alleged explainer already understands. Sometimes the best way to understand is to get in there. Showing them basic APIs is the way forward, then they can form their own analogies based on other systems they personally understand. Most of the presented analogies have an in-built bias anyway.
You've misread the point in two ways. First, GP was referring to wealth within a nation. Two of your points are comparing across nations, and the third point misses the mark - just because the richests 400 people hold more wealth than the poorest 150 million people doesn't say anything about the "general public" of, say 280 million people.
Second, GP agrees with you; saying the wealth of nation lies in the general public means the majority are the ones who produce the wealth, not that they currently hold the currency wealth.
lot more people die on the road each day, and nobody cares..
That's not correct - governments spend billions on policing, licensing, registering vehicles and drivers, installing traffic cameras, not to mention the army of public servants continuously reviewing safety standards, regulations and road black spots.
They appear to equate a download with a physcial sale; 10 song downloads (i.e. iTunes purchase) = 1 album sale
They also count 1500 song streams = 1 album sale, but that's a side issue if you count an illegal download as a download, not a stream (which does make sense on the surface), then 1 illegal download does equal 1 lost sale.
The moon landing and cancer-cure suppression would be actual conspiracies, but climate change and vaccine-caused autism are less thought to be malicious conspiracies and more incorrect group-think*. There is no spilling the beans to be done.
* Yes there are those who claim genuine conspiracies, but by far the vast majority of people who, say, believe climate change is not man-made nor catastrophic think it is incorrect science.
Agree, but removing the videos seems excessive. If they opt not to sign up for the Red model, they could just be moved into the same category as the average person's cat videos, where Google put their own ads around it and you get no cut.
However, I imagine this might be contractually difficult for the same reason they can't automatically put everyone on Red deals.
Daytime: I sit in front of a desktop with relatively unencumbered internet access.
Evenings: If I choose to use the internet (and I usually do), my desktop has full internet access.
Commute: I cycle to and from work, no chance to use the internet
My Nokia brick is on a pre-paid plan, mostly just texting my wife, costs about $5 per month. There is zero requirement for me to check work emails out of office hours, and anything other than a full keyboard drives me crazy. For my use case a smart phone and data plan would be redundant.
As in most western democracies, the Swedish PM cannot tell the courts what they will decide for any current or future case. It's not an assurance he had the power to give.
Which do you prefer? Freedom, Higher risks and higher reward? No risk, less freedom, but a lower standard of living?
It's a valid question and different societies prefer a different balance. Germany prefers the latter compared to the U.S., and in fact the U.S. has been steadily moving toward the same for decades.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
This quote has always struck me as asinine. "Essential liberty" is just begging the question - essential anything is essential and by definition should not be given up (those who give up essential safety to purchase temporary freedom...). Aside from that, the entire thing is an assertion and contains no logic or reasoning.
Liberty and safety are somewhat in conflict and a compromise needs to be found. Trumpeting only one of them is unbalanced, and why should someone lose their rights to both because they strike the balance at a different place to someone else? Is that really how rights work?
My preference is unsweetened cocoa powder, which may not really be chocolate, I've never been sure
It depends if you consider chocolate to be the finished product or the processed beans, but it's a sliding scale. You can get 99% chocolate that has no extra sugar or milk and it's still recognisable as chocolate.
You sound like you know all this, but the processed beans produce "cocoa mass" which is made up of two components;
- Cocoa butter (a pale yellow fat with little flavour) - Cocoa solids (a dark, strong powder, pretty much what you buy as cocoa powder)
White chocolate is only the butter with a bunch of milk, sugar and flavourings, and is often said to not be real chocolate because it doesn't contain solids. This is where I remain unsure also - is the determining factor the presence of solids, or the presence of both solids and butter? Personally I am happy to call it all chocolate.
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You've still misused the word. You mean "true". A tautology is a statement that is technically true but carries no information (usually because it is logically self-referential) - this is not what you're criticising Jefferson quoters of believing.
Your main point is well-taken. Why should we assume classic quotes are necessarily true? Why would it be impossible to achieve liberty without bloodshed?
Facebook has absolutely no right to know what I'm doing on sites
I'm sure you know this, but what's happening is that these sites you visit have an agreement with Facebook, and write/use code to share this information. They certainly have a right to do this (not that I like it, and in fact use an Adblock filter to strip Facebook from all non-Facebook sites).
Yes, if you make cycling into a hobby then the costs can skyrocket as you chase better and 'better' gear. That said I'm surprised one set of tyres could last so long. Riding ~40km per weekday I'll need to change tyres every 6 months, plus patch or replace tubes occasionally, brake pads, handlebar windings and every year or two put in a new chain and back sprocket.
Still cheaper than driving when you factor servicing in.
Which of the following is most likely to "damage political relations"?
1. Holding a public investigation into the spying activities of another country
2. Granting temporary immunity to a wanted witness so they can testify in said investigation
Not going to disagree, but in my experience C printfs and Fortran PRINT/WRITE statements have on occasion masked memory and stack corruption bugs. I have vague memories of a previous job where a PRINT was ultimately submitted (not by me) as the fix :)
It will be interesting to see how future games develop to keep them fun for humans in an AI-filled world.
Imagine your AI setup gets to the point where it truly has the same input, not needing to be directly fed the screenbuffer but can use a camera pointed at your monitor. Suddenly current anti-cheating technologies mean nothing, and enough people using these would quick ruin a game.
Deaths due to second hand smoke this week: 9,100 or 1,300 deaths every day (source)
That's the deaths from all smoking. According to your link the annual U.S. deaths from second-hand smoke totals 42,000, which is 115 per day.
More interesting is the comparison, that for every 10 deaths of smokers there is 1 death by second-hand smoke. That's higher than I would have thought.
Its an absolutely terrible idea that tries to make software work the way we think it should, not the way we think.
In some ways it is the opposite - OOP principles are designed to make software more closely resemble the user or business model, on the assumption that future changes will be easier and more natural.
I do get what you mean about the way we think. OOP can invert our procedural tendencies. Event-driven programming can similarly be a nightmare to debug or piece together as a whole.
Using Emacs instead of Vim, occasionally it actually is more productive.
I guess it takes brain muscle to learn something new
The purpose of learning is to be able to do. This is why children are amazing learners and adults become more set in their ways. If you feel like you are forever learning without being able to put into practice the previous learning, you become frustrated.
To be as charitable as possible, it could be correct English in the sense of Windows-owned Subsystem for Linux purposes
No, metal these days is all pop-infused 'core' bands singing about how someone hurt their feelings. Rarely do I see heads bitten off chickens anymore.
You've got +4 Funny, but I think you're serious and I agree with you, so maybe I'm a clown..
Analogies tend to make more sense to the person who actually understands the system in the first place. Rather than explaining the unknown system, an analogy creates a pattern link between two systems the alleged explainer already understands. Sometimes the best way to understand is to get in there. Showing them basic APIs is the way forward, then they can form their own analogies based on other systems they personally understand. Most of the presented analogies have an in-built bias anyway.
You've misread the point in two ways. First, GP was referring to wealth within a nation. Two of your points are comparing across nations, and the third point misses the mark - just because the richests 400 people hold more wealth than the poorest 150 million people doesn't say anything about the "general public" of, say 280 million people.
Second, GP agrees with you; saying the wealth of nation lies in the general public means the majority are the ones who produce the wealth, not that they currently hold the currency wealth.
lot more people die on the road each day, and nobody cares..
That's not correct - governments spend billions on policing, licensing, registering vehicles and drivers, installing traffic cameras, not to mention the army of public servants continuously reviewing safety standards, regulations and road black spots.
Well it seems to, because stream != download.
They appear to equate a download with a physcial sale; 10 song downloads (i.e. iTunes purchase) = 1 album sale
They also count 1500 song streams = 1 album sale, but that's a side issue if you count an illegal download as a download, not a stream (which does make sense on the surface), then 1 illegal download does equal 1 lost sale.
The moon landing and cancer-cure suppression would be actual conspiracies, but climate change and vaccine-caused autism are less thought to be malicious conspiracies and more incorrect group-think*. There is no spilling the beans to be done.
* Yes there are those who claim genuine conspiracies, but by far the vast majority of people who, say, believe climate change is not man-made nor catastrophic think it is incorrect science.
It's partially a zero-sum game. If everyone worked as many "lot of hours" as you, then chances are you wouldn't have been able to retire at 55.
Well known fact in Sweden since we celebrate his death every year om the 6th of November
Wow you guys must really hate him! Let it go, he lived four centuries ago.
Agree, but removing the videos seems excessive. If they opt not to sign up for the Red model, they could just be moved into the same category as the average person's cat videos, where Google put their own ads around it and you get no cut.
However, I imagine this might be contractually difficult for the same reason they can't automatically put everyone on Red deals.
Me also.
Daytime: I sit in front of a desktop with relatively unencumbered internet access.
Evenings: If I choose to use the internet (and I usually do), my desktop has full internet access.
Commute: I cycle to and from work, no chance to use the internet
My Nokia brick is on a pre-paid plan, mostly just texting my wife, costs about $5 per month. There is zero requirement for me to check work emails out of office hours, and anything other than a full keyboard drives me crazy. For my use case a smart phone and data plan would be redundant.
Alogorithms aren't racist
FacialRegion *face = DetectFace(bmp);
if (face != nullptr)
{
if (face->avg_col.r < 10 && face->avg_col.g < 10 && face->avg_col.b < 10)
{
/ / Be racist
result->order = ordPrimate;
result->genus = genGorilla;
}
else
{
/ / Be homophobic
result->order = ordPrimate;
result->genus = genHomo;
}
As in most western democracies, the Swedish PM cannot tell the courts what they will decide for any current or future case. It's not an assurance he had the power to give.
Which do you prefer? Freedom, Higher risks and higher reward? No risk, less freedom, but a lower standard of living?
It's a valid question and different societies prefer a different balance. Germany prefers the latter compared to the U.S., and in fact the U.S. has been steadily moving toward the same for decades.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
This quote has always struck me as asinine. "Essential liberty" is just begging the question - essential anything is essential and by definition should not be given up (those who give up essential safety to purchase temporary freedom...). Aside from that, the entire thing is an assertion and contains no logic or reasoning.
Liberty and safety are somewhat in conflict and a compromise needs to be found. Trumpeting only one of them is unbalanced, and why should someone lose their rights to both because they strike the balance at a different place to someone else? Is that really how rights work?
My preference is unsweetened cocoa powder, which may not really be chocolate, I've never been sure
It depends if you consider chocolate to be the finished product or the processed beans, but it's a sliding scale. You can get 99% chocolate that has no extra sugar or milk and it's still recognisable as chocolate.
You sound like you know all this, but the processed beans produce "cocoa mass" which is made up of two components;
- Cocoa butter (a pale yellow fat with little flavour)
- Cocoa solids (a dark, strong powder, pretty much what you buy as cocoa powder)
White chocolate is only the butter with a bunch of milk, sugar and flavourings, and is often said to not be real chocolate because it doesn't contain solids. This is where I remain unsure also - is the determining factor the presence of solids, or the presence of both solids and butter? Personally I am happy to call it all chocolate.