I used to do similar stuff when I played eve. I'd put up buy orders for stuff in dead market regions but drop a zero or two off the back. My best one was someone drunk selling me 2 hulks (mining ship worth a bit under ~200,000,000.00) for 200,000.00 each.
He actually sent me a message thinking it was a genuine mistake and that I'd give him his remaining 199,800,000
Now the common response is, "Okay, but for the most part, women/men are better at..."
That may be true or it may not be. But you're potentially discounting a fantastic candidate because "most women wouldn't be good at that..."
Do people actually mean that when they say what you're complaining about though? I always took it to mean that for a given set of people of profession, a higher percentage of women will gravitate towards specializing in x thing whereas a higher percentage of men will gravitate towards specializing in y thing due to whatever distribution of natural aptitudes. I've never taken it to mean that somehow, e.g. a female engineer will be inferior to a male engineer, or a male teacher will be inferior to a female teacher.
The amount of HP ink cartridges I received still baffles me. And whoever packed those water coolers for return that still had water in them, may your ancestors forever be cursed to torment in hell!
You buy a printer for $50, then notice that it's $65 for one set of cartridges or $80 for 2, so you buy the two pack. Except that the printer breaks 6 months later before you've been able to use all of the ink. You go to buy another one, but your model isn't available anymore, and none of the new ones support your current stock of ink cartridges. Since your unused cartridges are now basically really expensive paperweights, you return them.
And don't forget The Slingshot Channel, ZNA productions, and basically all of the popular gun channels. (Though KoR deserves every bit of punishment he gets imo)
Yep. I never got to the level of play where I felt the need for a PS/2 mouse, but definitely in my experience playing twitch fps games I valued consistency in framerates and ping over anything else. I'd rather have to lead a target twice as much every time than some smaller but random amount.
However, acupuncture is in a slightly different category in that it has been shown to relieve pain. That does not mean that it isn't still rife with quackery - the only thing that has been shown to my knowledge is pain relief - but it does suggest that there is some mechanism there which we do not yet fully understand.
The mechanism is fairly well understood, it's a placebo effect. Pain is one of those few things that really is all in your head, and therefore one of the few things that's probably treatable with snake oil and quackery (given that the treatment of the underlying causes of the pain aren't being ignored, assuming they actually are treatable).
Having the data easily accessible lowers the bar for what constitutes a "powerful enemy". Now if you want to ruin your life there's no need to piss off some state actor with government databases at their fingertips, you only have to piss off some random guy on a message board posting from his moms basement with access to google.
For example, with enough real details about you and sufficient motivation, I could create a fake social media presence in your name, get it all "verified", post a bunch of hate-filled rants about minorities, then report the fake you to your employer. Start a big social media shitstorm leveraging some groups of well meaning idiots, and suddenly you've lost your job (check out what happened to people who had photos of themselves at antifa/neonazi rallies and were targeted by the other side). Maybe you can get it sorted out in the end (or maybe not), but it's still a massive headache for you to clear up if it sticks even for just a few hours.
Well gosh, how did they ever cope with sending texts about landmarks they were visiting before GPS and keyboard apps intent on collecting their data to sell to 3rd parties?
The big thing that the "it's always been this way before" arguments miss, is that the pace at which AI is learning to do new tasks is shrinking in line with Moore's law.
Even Moore agrees that we're running into the limit of that law, and it will basically come to a full stop around 2020-2025.
That works if and only if two things are true: 1. you notice that autocorrect has mangled a given place name, and 2. you are certain of the correct spelling of each place name that you mention. Will both of these be true for the majority of users other than dpidcoe?
To answer that, I'll just quote myself from two posts ago and add some emphasis:
C. Why the fuck do I even need or want that functionality in a keyboard
Nope. That's why I was asking the question. Like you, I've come across plenty of now un-remembered abandoned open source projects that looked like they would be pretty cool, but most of them appeared to have been abandoned before they were "finished" i.e. they never got the the point of being widely used.
And yes, as an embedded developer myself I have that same trouble with large modern applications. I once tried to download and build a large project from source just for the sake of curiosity. 4 hours later I was still running into weird dependency issues and getting compile errors that weren't making any sense.
Or I could just.. you know... add the word to the dictionary myself the first time it tries to mangle it. Problem solved and I didn't even have to share my location info with a company trying to harvest my data.
The opposite. If you get an immunization for something you've already had (or you've already been immunized for), the immune system removes it pretty much instantly, and there's no effect at all.
It'll remove the virus fast, yes. But the virus contained in the vaccine is by definition basically harmless. I'm no expert, but I know that a lot of the symptoms from being sick (e.g. fever) aren't from the virus so much as side effects of your body attempting to fight the virus (e.g. white blood cells are significantly more efficient a few degrees past standard body temperature). With this logic, it would make sense that an immune system over-responding to an inert virus could make you feel "sick" for a few days.
This is a trend I have noticed for the last 10 years: Americans have become so ridiculously afraid of literally everything... Constantly on the edge, flipping by a hair trigger. Everything is OMG this, and creepy that, and don't dare or try anything that could even remotely make one imagine it might possibly cause dreams where one might dream of dreaming of imagining that there might be a chance it might be imaginable that there might be a risk.
Is it actual americans you're noticing, or american news reporting about americans?
Granted I may just live in a bubble, but with the exception of one guy who has a legitimate anxiety disorder everyone I know is generally the exact opposite of what you describe.
I think what you may be seeing is a combination of media reporting sensationalist headlines riling people up, then reporting on those riled up people in a sensationalist way. e.g. the media goes out and says "omg worst flu epidemic evar!!11one", then interviews someone (who has been watching the news) who says "I decided not to visit the doctor for this trivial thing because I could treat it at home and didn't to be exposed to sick people in the waiting room" and then reports that as "omg people are afraid to go to the doctor because of the flu epidemic!111oneone". If your only visibility into it is those two news reports, all you're going to see is this circlejerk of click-catching headlines. But if you talk to the actual people most of them aren't really accurately represented by that news cycle.
On the other hand, I think there may be a little bit of accuracy to what you see just due to the way our legal system is. The general perception is (possibly thanks to a hysterical media?) that if something that's not a slam dunk case goes to court, everyone but the lawyers lose. As a result, there's a tendency towards being safe rather than sorry, and taking actions such that liability is shifted onto someone else. e.g. in some safety training I had to go through for work, the catch-all for pretty much every scenario that came up was "alert your manager to the issue and they'll take care of it". I can only assume that in the managers version of the training it was also "contact your manager and they'll take care of it" all the way up to the president of the company, who probably has "contact HR about it". And then I'd expect that HR has "contact legal about it" and legal probably will get them a noncommittal answer in a few days time.
Yeah, I was really ok with TFA (besides the death star design, but whatever) up until all of that crap started showing up in the last third of the movie.It was all so nonsensical to the established star wars universe I don't know how it made it into the movie or how there aren't more people complaining about it.
I thought Force Awakens was a decent enough film and quite a nostalgic one. The problem with it was that I had already seen that film way back in 1977. It was in far too many ways nearly a shot for shot remake of A New Hope and not even subtly so.
The problem isn't necessarily that it's the same story again, it's that it's the same story again but somehow the previous story has been completely erased from the memories of the characters.
I was even willing to forgive most of the nonsense in the beginning (derivative plot, planets being visible in each others skies, FTL death star rays, etc.) up until the point where Finn was proposing that they sneak on board and blow up the 3rd death star from the inside as if it were this brilliant new idea. As the scene was unfolding I was shocked at first, then thought "oh ok, this is all a big joke, Han is going to sarcastically explain to him why that will never work a 3rd time". Had I not been there on opening night courtesy of some friends who bought me tickets, I'd have walked out as soon as the rest of the characters started falling over themselves at the brilliance of Finns apparently never-before-seen idea.
I do the same thing, although I'm registered. Most of the time, I make tiny edits to correct issues in technical articles. At one time, for example, there was a code example with a typo. It's awesome to be able to go in and fix little issues like this. So, I'm part of the vast 99% that makes very few edits.
I did that once after encountering an article that was in really bad shape. Among other things, it had pretty much every spelling variant possible of words that have multiple valid spellings (e.g. aluminum-aluminium, adaptor-adapter, etc.). I spent an hour or so cleaning up some atrocious sentence structures, and then looked up what spelling wikipedia used for a word in its corresponding page (e.g. "aluminum" redirects to "aluminium") and then standardized all of the variants based on that. I even left a fairly good log of all the changes I had made. The next day the changes had been reverted by the guy who had made a bunch of edits to it previously claiming that my edits were vandalism.
Wikipedia won't let you make error fixes based on firsthand knowledge? Even if supported by pictures, in this case?
Technically. However, there's nothing preventing you from creating a blog and posting the pictures with a little writeup, and then citing that as a source.
I've always had kind of the reverse experience. Diving by myself I don't notice much, but whenever I go with someone else we always find crazy stuff. I remember once with my old dive instructor he motioned everyone to a stop, then slowly started creeping along the bottom on his fingers. We all thought he was just showing off how good he was at controlling his buoyancy, but then he suddenly dug his fingers into the sand and scooped out an armload of stingray. He held it for a few seconds, then let it jet off a few meters away where it re-buried itself in the sand in a matter of seconds. The only thing visible were its eyes, which just looked like two very evenly spaced and uniform rocks.
I seem to recall hearing that prolonged exposure to such ery low-frequency tones at high volume can cause cardiovascular problems - which makes that completely irresponsible and borderline criminal.
Oh give me a break and quit your retarded hand-wringing. Prolonged exposure to a lot of things can cause all kinds of health issues. Under that way of thinking it's time to press charges against your neighbors for trying to kill you via increased cancer risk by lighting off a charcoal grill in their backyard.
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I used to do similar stuff when I played eve. I'd put up buy orders for stuff in dead market regions but drop a zero or two off the back. My best one was someone drunk selling me 2 hulks (mining ship worth a bit under ~200,000,000.00) for 200,000.00 each.
He actually sent me a message thinking it was a genuine mistake and that I'd give him his remaining 199,800,000
Being able to compare both the comments and the way the submission was worded was fascinating. Thanks for linking that.
Now the common response is, "Okay, but for the most part, women/men are better at..."
That may be true or it may not be. But you're potentially discounting a fantastic candidate because "most women wouldn't be good at that..."
Do people actually mean that when they say what you're complaining about though? I always took it to mean that for a given set of people of profession, a higher percentage of women will gravitate towards specializing in x thing whereas a higher percentage of men will gravitate towards specializing in y thing due to whatever distribution of natural aptitudes. I've never taken it to mean that somehow, e.g. a female engineer will be inferior to a male engineer, or a male teacher will be inferior to a female teacher.
The amount of HP ink cartridges I received still baffles me. And whoever packed those water coolers for return that still had water in them, may your ancestors forever be cursed to torment in hell!
You buy a printer for $50, then notice that it's $65 for one set of cartridges or $80 for 2, so you buy the two pack. Except that the printer breaks 6 months later before you've been able to use all of the ink. You go to buy another one, but your model isn't available anymore, and none of the new ones support your current stock of ink cartridges. Since your unused cartridges are now basically really expensive paperweights, you return them.
Can I dump lead batteries _near_ your property?
Did you miss the part where he said he's not saying they should be able to just dump that kind of stuff?
And don't forget The Slingshot Channel, ZNA productions, and basically all of the popular gun channels. (Though KoR deserves every bit of punishment he gets imo)
Yep. I never got to the level of play where I felt the need for a PS/2 mouse, but definitely in my experience playing twitch fps games I valued consistency in framerates and ping over anything else. I'd rather have to lead a target twice as much every time than some smaller but random amount.
However, acupuncture is in a slightly different category in that it has been shown to relieve pain. That does not mean that it isn't still rife with quackery - the only thing that has been shown to my knowledge is pain relief - but it does suggest that there is some mechanism there which we do not yet fully understand.
The mechanism is fairly well understood, it's a placebo effect. Pain is one of those few things that really is all in your head, and therefore one of the few things that's probably treatable with snake oil and quackery (given that the treatment of the underlying causes of the pain aren't being ignored, assuming they actually are treatable).
Having the data easily accessible lowers the bar for what constitutes a "powerful enemy". Now if you want to ruin your life there's no need to piss off some state actor with government databases at their fingertips, you only have to piss off some random guy on a message board posting from his moms basement with access to google.
For example, with enough real details about you and sufficient motivation, I could create a fake social media presence in your name, get it all "verified", post a bunch of hate-filled rants about minorities, then report the fake you to your employer. Start a big social media shitstorm leveraging some groups of well meaning idiots, and suddenly you've lost your job (check out what happened to people who had photos of themselves at antifa/neonazi rallies and were targeted by the other side). Maybe you can get it sorted out in the end (or maybe not), but it's still a massive headache for you to clear up if it sticks even for just a few hours.
Exactly how hard are these criminals?
The exact answer to that depends on whether or not they're snuggling their guns at the time.
Well gosh, how did they ever cope with sending texts about landmarks they were visiting before GPS and keyboard apps intent on collecting their data to sell to 3rd parties?
The big thing that the "it's always been this way before" arguments miss, is that the pace at which AI is learning to do new tasks is shrinking in line with Moore's law.
Even Moore agrees that we're running into the limit of that law, and it will basically come to a full stop around 2020-2025.
That works if and only if two things are true: 1. you notice that autocorrect has mangled a given place name, and 2. you are certain of the correct spelling of each place name that you mention. Will both of these be true for the majority of users other than dpidcoe?
To answer that, I'll just quote myself from two posts ago and add some emphasis:
C. Why the fuck do I even need or want that functionality in a keyboard
Thanks for playing.
Sorry. Don't keep a log. Do you?
Nope. That's why I was asking the question. Like you, I've come across plenty of now un-remembered abandoned open source projects that looked like they would be pretty cool, but most of them appeared to have been abandoned before they were "finished" i.e. they never got the the point of being widely used.
And yes, as an embedded developer myself I have that same trouble with large modern applications. I once tried to download and build a large project from source just for the sake of curiosity. 4 hours later I was still running into weird dependency issues and getting compile errors that weren't making any sense.
Or I could just.. you know... add the word to the dictionary myself the first time it tries to mangle it. Problem solved and I didn't even have to share my location info with a company trying to harvest my data.
C. Why the fuck do I even need or want that functionality in a keyboard
You're right. Open Source Projects just get abandoned.
Out of curiosity, are there any open source projects that immediately come to mind as having been abandoned despite being an invaluable tool?
The opposite. If you get an immunization for something you've already had (or you've already been immunized for), the immune system removes it pretty much instantly, and there's no effect at all.
It'll remove the virus fast, yes. But the virus contained in the vaccine is by definition basically harmless. I'm no expert, but I know that a lot of the symptoms from being sick (e.g. fever) aren't from the virus so much as side effects of your body attempting to fight the virus (e.g. white blood cells are significantly more efficient a few degrees past standard body temperature). With this logic, it would make sense that an immune system over-responding to an inert virus could make you feel "sick" for a few days.
This is a trend I have noticed for the last 10 years: Americans have become so ridiculously afraid of literally everything... Constantly on the edge, flipping by a hair trigger. Everything is OMG this, and creepy that, and don't dare or try anything that could even remotely make one imagine it might possibly cause dreams where one might dream of dreaming of imagining that there might be a chance it might be imaginable that there might be a risk.
Is it actual americans you're noticing, or american news reporting about americans?
Granted I may just live in a bubble, but with the exception of one guy who has a legitimate anxiety disorder everyone I know is generally the exact opposite of what you describe.
I think what you may be seeing is a combination of media reporting sensationalist headlines riling people up, then reporting on those riled up people in a sensationalist way. e.g. the media goes out and says "omg worst flu epidemic evar!!11one", then interviews someone (who has been watching the news) who says "I decided not to visit the doctor for this trivial thing because I could treat it at home and didn't to be exposed to sick people in the waiting room" and then reports that as "omg people are afraid to go to the doctor because of the flu epidemic!111oneone". If your only visibility into it is those two news reports, all you're going to see is this circlejerk of click-catching headlines. But if you talk to the actual people most of them aren't really accurately represented by that news cycle.
On the other hand, I think there may be a little bit of accuracy to what you see just due to the way our legal system is. The general perception is (possibly thanks to a hysterical media?) that if something that's not a slam dunk case goes to court, everyone but the lawyers lose. As a result, there's a tendency towards being safe rather than sorry, and taking actions such that liability is shifted onto someone else. e.g. in some safety training I had to go through for work, the catch-all for pretty much every scenario that came up was "alert your manager to the issue and they'll take care of it". I can only assume that in the managers version of the training it was also "contact your manager and they'll take care of it" all the way up to the president of the company, who probably has "contact HR about it". And then I'd expect that HR has "contact legal about it" and legal probably will get them a noncommittal answer in a few days time.
Yeah, I was really ok with TFA (besides the death star design, but whatever) up until all of that crap started showing up in the last third of the movie.It was all so nonsensical to the established star wars universe I don't know how it made it into the movie or how there aren't more people complaining about it.
I thought Force Awakens was a decent enough film and quite a nostalgic one. The problem with it was that I had already seen that film way back in 1977. It was in far too many ways nearly a shot for shot remake of A New Hope and not even subtly so.
The problem isn't necessarily that it's the same story again, it's that it's the same story again but somehow the previous story has been completely erased from the memories of the characters.
I was even willing to forgive most of the nonsense in the beginning (derivative plot, planets being visible in each others skies, FTL death star rays, etc.) up until the point where Finn was proposing that they sneak on board and blow up the 3rd death star from the inside as if it were this brilliant new idea. As the scene was unfolding I was shocked at first, then thought "oh ok, this is all a big joke, Han is going to sarcastically explain to him why that will never work a 3rd time". Had I not been there on opening night courtesy of some friends who bought me tickets, I'd have walked out as soon as the rest of the characters started falling over themselves at the brilliance of Finns apparently never-before-seen idea.
I do the same thing, although I'm registered. Most of the time, I make tiny edits to correct issues in technical articles. At one time, for example, there was a code example with a typo. It's awesome to be able to go in and fix little issues like this. So, I'm part of the vast 99% that makes very few edits.
I did that once after encountering an article that was in really bad shape. Among other things, it had pretty much every spelling variant possible of words that have multiple valid spellings (e.g. aluminum-aluminium, adaptor-adapter, etc.). I spent an hour or so cleaning up some atrocious sentence structures, and then looked up what spelling wikipedia used for a word in its corresponding page (e.g. "aluminum" redirects to "aluminium") and then standardized all of the variants based on that. I even left a fairly good log of all the changes I had made. The next day the changes had been reverted by the guy who had made a bunch of edits to it previously claiming that my edits were vandalism.
Wikipedia won't let you make error fixes based on firsthand knowledge? Even if supported by pictures, in this case?
Technically. However, there's nothing preventing you from creating a blog and posting the pictures with a little writeup, and then citing that as a source.
I've always had kind of the reverse experience. Diving by myself I don't notice much, but whenever I go with someone else we always find crazy stuff. I remember once with my old dive instructor he motioned everyone to a stop, then slowly started creeping along the bottom on his fingers. We all thought he was just showing off how good he was at controlling his buoyancy, but then he suddenly dug his fingers into the sand and scooped out an armload of stingray. He held it for a few seconds, then let it jet off a few meters away where it re-buried itself in the sand in a matter of seconds. The only thing visible were its eyes, which just looked like two very evenly spaced and uniform rocks.
I seem to recall hearing that prolonged exposure to such ery low-frequency tones at high volume can cause cardiovascular problems - which makes that completely irresponsible and borderline criminal.
Oh give me a break and quit your retarded hand-wringing. Prolonged exposure to a lot of things can cause all kinds of health issues. Under that way of thinking it's time to press charges against your neighbors for trying to kill you via increased cancer risk by lighting off a charcoal grill in their backyard.