My buzzspeak is a little rusty, but this sounds suspiciously like "Beat monkeys to code faster, send code out the door without testing, and just let the users figure it out". Did something get lost in translation?
I'd exploit the "natural internal resonances of trees" by chopping them down, burning them in a furnace, boiling water to steam, and driving a turbogenerator with the steam. Then you're talking real power; none of this namby-pamby tiny artificial forest electron jiggling nonsense.
For that reason I find their ads incredibly annoying, and despite Zuckerberg going on about how they make them relevant, he would only be true if I was some kind of consumption machine that wonders around the internet like a virtual godzilla eating up every product that is shoved in my face.
I think this is the core problem; this is exactly what advertisers want their clients to believe - if they see it they will buy! EYEBALLS! MOAR EYEBALLS!
Uh, no...it doesn't work like that, it never worked like that. Yet the advertisers blindly press on with more and more aggressive attempts to force people to see things they do not want, and use eyeballs as a metric of their "success". Advertisers don't have to prove that their advertising actually works to increase sales - they generally just have to spin enough FUD to frighten their clients into believing that reducing advertising will reduce sales. If more advertising is correlated to increased sales, correlation == causality, the ads worked! If sales are dropping off, the remedy is automatically more advertising.
I'd be interested to see if any connection between adblocker use and sales has been or could be documented. My gut tells me that lost eyeballs does not equate to lost sales - people merely go Google to target what they are looking for, gather information, and buy what suits them. How many people are buying stuff based solely on ad exposure?
They were in the hyperloop industry before it was cool, or even a thing.
Pro-tip: You might want to let someone prototype and test the concept and see if it actually works before getting carried away about building the infrastructure for the hyperloop economy. Speculation is great until you fuck up and get it wrong and are left with a lot of pissed off investors and a hyperloop seat cushion factory that no one wants.
The Sabatier reaction is being used to convert exhaled CO2 and hydrogen produced by electrolytic decomposition of water into methane and water on the ISS. It is a means to produce fuel on the surface of Mars (copious amounts of CO2 and water ice, and solar power to run the cycle).
The fact that it is a net energy sink doesn't matter here - it saves having to haul a whole lot of fuel to Mars.
If some one could invent a cocktail machine, powered by wind and solar, that could take in atmospheric CO2 and spit out a daiquiri (no, wait, a Hurricane), how long would it take to get everyone behind the solution to global warming?
Do I have to come up with all the great ideas around here? Come on, let's get some people on this, stat!
I haven't had a landline in about 10 years, but I hand out my last landline phone number to anyone who asks for a phone number - let them waste time calling a dead line. Only real people that I know and trust get my cell number, and the are entered as contacts. Any call from someone in my address book pops up with their name, so I know it's safe to answer. If it is a call with no address in my phone, I don't answer. If they leave a message, I see if it is junk or if it is a legit communication. If legit, I add it as a contact and respond.
I very occasionally will get a robocall from a random dialer, but the above procedure kills the problem in the nest.
And 3.42 kW is 4.58 horsepower, so you won't be doing any meaningful car charging without a lot of these things.
This sounds more like solar power just for the building. Somebody saw "Porsche solar" and "Porsche electric car" and assumed one must be connected to the other without checking the math.
Something you may appreciate while reading this thread is that Slashdot users are very, very intolerant of advertising motivated-clickbait like this. We're here for, what was the phrase?..."News for Nerds"; thought-provoking science and technology discussions. We're not here to give our eyeballs all day to every website that paid you a few bucks to steer clicks to their new shiny product, though we realize bills need to be paid.
If you're looking for ad revenue, you need to be smarter and less obnoxious about it with this crowd. We have ad-blockers and hosts files and we know how to use them, and we will use them until you figure out a respectful, non-intrusive means to deliver it while presenting content that draws in the nerds. You can work with the community here to develop a reasonable arrangement, or you can work against us and we'll just block everything, pack up, and leave.
Dice went hard for clickbait at the expense of good content, and many left. Learn from their mistakes, please!
Yahoo is just now finally getting to the point they wanted to be in the late 90s. Things like their email mostly works now. It will always be my junk mail honeypot, but it does work.
But everything they are trying to fix and improve, someone else beat them to it years ago. They are trying to pry into a market they failed in.
All Mayer will be able to do at this point is try to wind everything down, fold up the chairs, and shut the lights off. The people with any brains have moved on to greener pastures and there is no way they are coming back, so trying to innovate a new business model is not going to happen.
Yahoo is dead, dead, dead. Pack the golden parachutes and jump!
This is my computer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My computer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My computer, without me, is useless. Without my computer, I am useless. I must comment my code in detail. I must hack truer than my enemy who is trying to pwn me. I must pwn him before he pwns me. I will...
My computer and I know that what counts in war is not the darkness of the cubicle, the temperature of the coffee, nor the dust of the Doritos. We know that it is the lines of code we commit. We will commit...
My computer is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its CPU and its memory. I will keep my computer patched and updated, even as I am patched and updated. We will become part of each other. We will...
Before God, I swear this creed. My computer and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace!
Forbes' bullshit website went in my hosts file when Slashdot started steering posts there. It's basically killed half of the posted content on Slashdot.
Way to step on your own dick Slashdot! If you actually worried about your viewership you wouldn't steer us to that crap.
The definition of a calorie as a unit of energy is fine.
The estimate of calories absorbed from different foods measured by Atwater is not fine. If a candy bar indicates 400 calories, you may actually get 700 calories or 200 calories or some other amount out of it depending on your particular ability to absorb nutrients. Different people, different absorption rates. Hell, people's absorption rates may change over the course of a day, week, month, year, lifetime.
Energy In - Energy Out = Energy Stored + Energy Expended
By burning all our foods in calorimeters we can measure Energy In. By burning all our poo in calorimeters we can get Energy Out. The problem is that the Atwater measurements are for a different person and it is assumed that the Energy In - Energy Out bit is the same for you as for them for a given food. Unless everyone wants to get in the habit of burning samples of their food and poo in calorimeters to calibrate their systems, getting accurate estimates of the Energy In - Energy Out bit will be very difficult.
Why don't we add an amendment to this law saying that anyone in violation will be considered to be a witch and burned at the stake accordingly.
This must be why Oklahoma is such an economic powerhouse. Oh wait, turns out they are the dead last state in GDP. I'm sure these progressive laws had nothing to do with that, not a thing.
The harder people push back against ads, the more arrogant and "Fuck You" the advertisers become. It's really getting to the point where finding information on the internet is looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack because of all the advertising pitfalls, page rank gaming, etc.. and the search engines simply aren't up to the task of sorting out what you need anymore. It's all noise.
My effective, useful Internet has shrunk to about five websites. Every time I open the door to another website it seems I spend about 5 minutes waiting for it to render, then I have to update AdBlock to block all the invasive advertising, because the advertisers are desperately trying to end run around blocking. Shutting down all JavaScript speeds things up, but breaks a lot of sites. And when I finally find the information, I find that it is incomplete, un-cited, low quality.
I'm really starting to wonder whether having internet is truly indispensable. I could text instead of email, go to the bank in person, get information out of dead tree books. I would miss Slashdot as it is an outlet for my snarkiness, but I could just be snarky to my wife (that's what they're for, right?).
For want of a better name [OK due to my mischievous nature] I called it the Planning Analysis Tool.
If yours is an international company, fitting the acronym to a derogatory word in one of the languages of one of your foreign offices can help slip this through radar. These are usually pronounceable words which is often the goal of acronyms. It livens up company meetings considerably.
So let me get this straight - Brave strips ads off of websites, replaces them with those of Eich's choosing? Ha ha, fuck no.
Aren't the advertisers going to be a little bit pissed about this? This is like renting a billboard to put up your advertising, then some other guy comes
down, tears down your ads and replaces them without paying.
Brave is a dumb, dumb idea. Hard to believe, but anybody looking to block advertising is not willing to replace it with other advertising. And advertisers would just need to count hits from Brave browsers to assess legal damages.
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My buzzspeak is a little rusty, but this sounds suspiciously like "Beat monkeys to code faster, send code out the door without testing, and just let the users figure it out". Did something get lost in translation?
I'd exploit the "natural internal resonances of trees" by chopping them down, burning them in a furnace, boiling water to steam, and driving a turbogenerator with the steam. Then you're talking real power; none of this namby-pamby tiny artificial forest electron jiggling nonsense.
For that reason I find their ads incredibly annoying, and despite Zuckerberg going on about how they make them relevant, he would only be true if I was some kind of consumption machine that wonders around the internet like a virtual godzilla eating up every product that is shoved in my face.
I think this is the core problem; this is exactly what advertisers want their clients to believe - if they see it they will buy! EYEBALLS! MOAR EYEBALLS!
Uh, no...it doesn't work like that, it never worked like that. Yet the advertisers blindly press on with more and more aggressive attempts to force people to see things they do not want, and use eyeballs as a metric of their "success". Advertisers don't have to prove that their advertising actually works to increase sales - they generally just have to spin enough FUD to frighten their clients into believing that reducing advertising will reduce sales. If more advertising is correlated to increased sales, correlation == causality, the ads worked! If sales are dropping off, the remedy is automatically more advertising.
I'd be interested to see if any connection between adblocker use and sales has been or could be documented. My gut tells me that lost eyeballs does not equate to lost sales - people merely go Google to target what they are looking for, gather information, and buy what suits them. How many people are buying stuff based solely on ad exposure?
He was busy training his replacement, yaelk.
They were in the hyperloop industry before it was cool, or even a thing.
Pro-tip: You might want to let someone prototype and test the concept and see if it actually works before getting carried away about building the infrastructure for the hyperloop economy. Speculation is great until you fuck up and get it wrong and are left with a lot of pissed off investors and a hyperloop seat cushion factory that no one wants.
The Sabatier reaction is being used to convert exhaled CO2 and hydrogen produced by electrolytic decomposition of water into methane and water on the ISS. It is a means to produce fuel on the surface of Mars (copious amounts of CO2 and water ice, and solar power to run the cycle).
The fact that it is a net energy sink doesn't matter here - it saves having to haul a whole lot of fuel to Mars.
If some one could invent a cocktail machine, powered by wind and solar, that could take in atmospheric CO2 and spit out a daiquiri (no, wait, a Hurricane), how long would it take to get everyone behind the solution to global warming?
Do I have to come up with all the great ideas around here? Come on, let's get some people on this, stat!
I haven't had a landline in about 10 years, but I hand out my last landline phone number to anyone who asks for a phone number - let them waste time calling a dead line. Only real people that I know and trust get my cell number, and the are entered as contacts. Any call from someone in my address book pops up with their name, so I know it's safe to answer. If it is a call with no address in my phone, I don't answer. If they leave a message, I see if it is junk or if it is a legit communication. If legit, I add it as a contact and respond.
I very occasionally will get a robocall from a random dialer, but the above procedure kills the problem in the nest.
And 3.42 kW is 4.58 horsepower, so you won't be doing any meaningful car charging without a lot of these things.
This sounds more like solar power just for the building. Somebody saw "Porsche solar" and "Porsche electric car" and assumed one must be connected to the other without checking the math.
"capable of generating up to 30,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year"
This is an average power of 3.42 kW for those who hate people who twist units to create big, impressive sounding metrics.
Something you may appreciate while reading this thread is that Slashdot users are very, very intolerant of advertising motivated-clickbait like this. We're here for, what was the phrase?..."News for Nerds"; thought-provoking science and technology discussions. We're not here to give our eyeballs all day to every website that paid you a few bucks to steer clicks to their new shiny product, though we realize bills need to be paid.
If you're looking for ad revenue, you need to be smarter and less obnoxious about it with this crowd. We have ad-blockers and hosts files and we know how to use them, and we will use them until you figure out a respectful, non-intrusive means to deliver it while presenting content that draws in the nerds. You can work with the community here to develop a reasonable arrangement, or you can work against us and we'll just block everything, pack up, and leave.
Dice went hard for clickbait at the expense of good content, and many left. Learn from their mistakes, please!
WTF is Scrapy?
Yahoo is just now finally getting to the point they wanted to be in the late 90s. Things like their email mostly works now. It will always be my junk mail honeypot, but it does work.
But everything they are trying to fix and improve, someone else beat them to it years ago. They are trying to pry into a market they failed in.
All Mayer will be able to do at this point is try to wind everything down, fold up the chairs, and shut the lights off. The people with any brains have moved on to greener pastures and there is no way they are coming back, so trying to innovate a new business model is not going to happen.
Yahoo is dead, dead, dead. Pack the golden parachutes and jump!
This is my computer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My computer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My computer, without me, is useless. Without my computer, I am useless. I must comment my code in detail. I must hack truer than my enemy who is trying to pwn me. I must pwn him before he pwns me. I will...
My computer and I know that what counts in war is not the darkness of the cubicle, the temperature of the coffee, nor the dust of the Doritos. We know that it is the lines of code we commit. We will commit...
My computer is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its CPU and its memory. I will keep my computer patched and updated, even as I am patched and updated. We will become part of each other. We will...
Before God, I swear this creed. My computer and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace!
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Many Happy
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Forbes' bullshit website went in my hosts file when Slashdot started steering posts there. It's basically killed half of the posted content on Slashdot.
Way to step on your own dick Slashdot! If you actually worried about your viewership you wouldn't steer us to that crap.
The definition of a calorie as a unit of energy is fine.
The estimate of calories absorbed from different foods measured by Atwater is not fine. If a candy bar indicates 400 calories, you may actually get 700 calories or 200 calories or some other amount out of it depending on your particular ability to absorb nutrients. Different people, different absorption rates. Hell, people's absorption rates may change over the course of a day, week, month, year, lifetime.
Energy In - Energy Out = Energy Stored + Energy Expended
By burning all our foods in calorimeters we can measure Energy In. By burning all our poo in calorimeters we can get Energy Out. The problem is that the Atwater measurements are for a different person and it is assumed that the Energy In - Energy Out bit is the same for you as for them for a given food. Unless everyone wants to get in the habit of burning samples of their food and poo in calorimeters to calibrate their systems, getting accurate estimates of the Energy In - Energy Out bit will be very difficult.
Why don't we add an amendment to this law saying that anyone in violation will be considered to be a witch and burned at the stake accordingly.
This must be why Oklahoma is such an economic powerhouse. Oh wait, turns out they are the dead last state in GDP. I'm sure these progressive laws had nothing to do with that, not a thing.
The harder people push back against ads, the more arrogant and "Fuck You" the advertisers become. It's really getting to the point where finding information on the internet is looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack because of all the advertising pitfalls, page rank gaming, etc.. and the search engines simply aren't up to the task of sorting out what you need anymore. It's all noise.
My effective, useful Internet has shrunk to about five websites. Every time I open the door to another website it seems I spend about 5 minutes waiting for it to render, then I have to update AdBlock to block all the invasive advertising, because the advertisers are desperately trying to end run around blocking. Shutting down all JavaScript speeds things up, but breaks a lot of sites. And when I finally find the information, I find that it is incomplete, un-cited, low quality.
I'm really starting to wonder whether having internet is truly indispensable. I could text instead of email, go to the bank in person, get information out of dead tree books. I would miss Slashdot as it is an outlet for my snarkiness, but I could just be snarky to my wife (that's what they're for, right?).
Are shock collars "pet wearables" now? Wow, Sparky is going to be so psyched that he had pet wearables before they were cool!
For want of a better name [OK due to my mischievous nature] I called it the Planning Analysis Tool.
If yours is an international company, fitting the acronym to a derogatory word in one of the languages of one of your foreign offices can help slip this through radar. These are usually pronounceable words which is often the goal of acronyms. It livens up company meetings considerably.
Don't be so negative - just think of all the money you are likely to make from fixing problems with these thingies going wrong.
*Reaches over to unplug power cord from router*
"Fixed! My consulting bill will be arriving in the mail soon, payable within 30 days. You're welcome!"
*Jumps into limo for next consulting appointment*
And they get a nice certificate "Introductory Diploma, Internet Of Things" that the can hang on their wall.
So let me get this straight - Brave strips ads off of websites, replaces them with those of Eich's choosing? Ha ha, fuck no.
Aren't the advertisers going to be a little bit pissed about this? This is like renting a billboard to put up your advertising, then some other guy comes down, tears down your ads and replaces them without paying.
Brave is a dumb, dumb idea. Hard to believe, but anybody looking to block advertising is not willing to replace it with other advertising. And advertisers would just need to count hits from Brave browsers to assess legal damages.
What use is a newborn baby?
They're a great reminder for guys to wear a condom.