Anyone who pays $1000 for a phone, I don't care if they get a deal or ripped off. You're still blowing a grand on something that will become less useful than a toaster in 5 years.
I cannot fathom--for the life of me--how people can convince themselves to spend a grand on something that sends text messages and snaps selfies. You can buy a fucking 4K TV >65" for a grand. I should know, I bought a Samsung 55" for ~$800.
A thousand bucks buys you an insanely good guitar, violin, or damn near anything else. You could buy a full VR setup. But somehow, for a phone that does what everyone else's does (but it loads Facebook 25% faster! omg!) and will become trash within 5 years... how... what... is EVERYONE RICHER THAN ME? Does no one have to make careful decisions about where to spend their money? I can live in my rental _house_ for two months (1/6th of the year!) for the price of one of those phones. I could build an amazing PC for a grand. I could buy a pretty damn good laptop for a grand and it would be USEFUL for at least ten years. My wife's old i5 laptop her grandparents bought her for school 6+ years ago is still fast enough to run 4K YouTube, games, and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience has completely replaced Talk Shows for me. He actually lets people speak, isn't condescending, and has actual experts on his show.
TV and traditional media killed itself. And it's nobody's fault but their own.
>It can help them develop better products, e.g. the recent story about facial recognition that doesn't work with dark skin.
Please explain EXACTLY how an algorithm failing to recognize darker skinned people would be DIRECTLY addressed by a Diversity Officer.
- Do they know every project in the company and would have raised the alarm?
- Would they require "prove you're not racist" reports from every project team?
- Are you assuming them sending everyone to "don't be racist" seminars would have automatically prevented this and are 100% fool-proof?
What's the solution? For all you know, they HAD a Diversity Officer.
So I'm honestly, and eagerly, wanting to know what clever trick you know about that would have preemptively prevented this (and not with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight). Because it really sounds like you're just (like most people in SV) saying what you think everyone wants you to say so you can get diversity brownie points for how noble and inclusive you are.
I'm 100% for diversity. But you gotta bring facts to back up your claims. Because simply having "good will" often leads to the opposite of progress.
Diversity jobs aren't about diversity. It's about profit. Maximizing public good will. It's PR. It's plausible deniability for a corporation to drop hundreds of grand to get you to give them the benefit of the doubt when a scandal comes out.
If diversity is "obvious" and we need "50-50" party and all that shit, and Salon et al minimum-wage journalists know what's best for us, then why do you need someone making over half-a-million a year just to tell you that? Is "not hiring black people = bad" something so profound you need a dedicated "scientist" to reveal that gem?
And if you ARE discriminating, congratulations, it's already illegal to discriminate based on age, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. So if your lawyers aren't stopping that, they should all be fired.
I mean, has anyone ever actually asked themselves what this person would DO on the job? Compute Maxwell equations? Run Monte Carlo simulations? Nah. You know exactly what it is. Talking out of your ass with feel good initiatives. Making people run through sexual harassment seminars, and inviting other feel good speakers that all help in the plausible "we take #OutrageFlavorOfTheWeek seriously."
>A cultural diversity practitioner has expertise in managing and leading programs designed to foster productive relationships among people of different cultures.
Meanwhile, notice a complete lack of any formulas, philosophies or anything you'd see from a real degree or position. Even business wikis list things like basic accounting formulas, and organizational management rules, and other "laws".
We might as well have a senior level job for "Chief Pizza Officer" for addressing serious concerns about whether people are eating enough quality food while they work. I'd love to see the college that gives *that* degree. I'd even get one--in spite of the inevitable intense rigor required to survive the class load.
CoC falls apart for one fundamental reason: You can't legislate people to RESPECT each other.
And that's what they're trying to codify. You can't make a legal document that solves disputes. For example, I have allergies and someone else in the office has a therapy dog. The RESPECTFUL thing to do, is to keep our offices as far apart as possible and both of US try to be accommodating to each other. But blanket statements of "disability person wins." only creates bitterness ("Why does that person always win?") and when you have a dispute between TWO disabled people, then you have to create a hierarchy of "who is a more disabled person?" (=more value).
None of this actually creates a better working environment. You can't replace respect for each other with a list of rules. It's just another feel good idea by another middle manager with no basis in science.
It'll only keep happening until a major group completely collapses until the weight of it's own virtue signalling.
Kind of like how neogaf was full SJW pandering and it turned out the owner of the forum was raping women. Oops.
FreeBSD will disappear from any significance it had left and people will learn from it as something to never do. History is already rerouting around social justice. The only people who don't realize this are the ones living in their bubbles.
Any ideology that allows you to oppress and bully people, but "For the greater good" eventually collapses because of all the pain it caused to innocents, and social justice is just another flawed attempt at creating a utopia that crushes innocent people. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Interesting how that phrase is over 800 years old, and yet, social justice is "new" and represents it perfectly.
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
That Twitter bots from Russia are some super effective way to change public opinion then:
1 - Why is the anti-gun lobby so powerful and loud?
2 - If they're so smart at brain washing us, how are we sure they're not intentionally leaking the "Russian" bots so that the gun CONTROL lobby will be the one effectively empowered?
I mean, if we're going to talk about one of the worlds (if not THE) most effective propaganda organization on the planet. We're just supposed to take them at "opposite" of their words? They're smart enough to brainwash us, but not smart enough to intentionally get us to react to the opposite?
Yeah, these seems 100% like a hardware survey and Canonical are idiots for not calling it that, and Slashdotters are idiots for not realizing that Canonical collecting the same data that Steam does, doesn't not magically turn Canonical into the NSA.
Hell, most of those statistics are logged every time you visit someone's website. And surely nobody sets their starting page to Google or Bing/Yahoo, right? RIGHT?!?! Because then they'd have our desktop depth too! (OMG 1984!)
Unlike Microsoft, Canonical has no actual market protection.
The second Ubuntu fucks over its users, they'll simply switch distros. Remember Linux Mint? It was Ubuntu without Canonical and it made them so made they disabled their repos for Mint users out of spite.
That sounds like something an FPGA could do from the very beginning.
The only new thing here would be possibly LARGER amounts of memory stored inbetween the fabric (reducing off-chip access, and increased number of LUTs not tied up as memory cells), and possibly like they said, combined "access and modify" operations.
But I think the article itself doesn't understand what it's talking about then.
And as general purpose as FPGA are in idea, they "custom adapted" to different tasks (and layout/fabric) since inception. So the question here is, are they talking about some kind of ASIC advancement that they didn't have before?
>The chip can thus calculate dot products for multiple nodes — 16 at a time, in the prototype — in a single step, instead of shuttling between a processor and memory for every computation.
This appears to be the only actual advancement/tech/change, being extruded out into an entire fluff article for college PR purposes.
Personally, I'm way more interested in getting my hands on an "FPGA in CPU" ever since back in college when Altera was bought by Intel. Imagine a CPU that can be told to add CUDA cores when you start a game, or SHA cores when you start a server. Altera specializes is live reconfigurable FPGAs. FPGA's that can be "flashed" in whole or in part while still running.
Women choose quality of life, over raw income. That's because only the male's income (as a number) is a signal of worth, whereas women don't have that requirement. Any man, will date any woman, no matter how crappy her job is. And women choose happiness over shitty hours. So men work more crap shifts to get more money... to demonstrate their value to society and potential mates.
And this isn't some new theory. It's been settled in the scientific community forever.
- My laptop is a chromebook switched to linux. From 2013.
- I've used it almost every day.
- My battery capacity reports: 45.3 Wh (design)
- It currently reports: 41.3 Wh (when full)
- Percent difference of ~9.24% over 5 years of constant use
So why the hell are cellphone batteries dying so much faster? Are they higher density for more initial capacity, at the cost of quicker wear and reduction of capacity? Because if you can lose over 20% of an iPhone battery in two years, that's a pretty stark difference to my laptop.
I had to replace my Wife's iPhone S5 battery (before this whole craziness) a 1 year ago or so.
You realize that there are like FIVE counties that control all of California, right? Hollywood and other big business control a hugely disproportionate amount of influence compared to public support. In the Bush/Gore election 41% of counties voted for Bush.
(And no, I'm not talking about red-vs-blue, I'm talking about majority vs minority.)
So yeah, you can support Comcast-style business-as-usual where a few keep the rest from innovating, you're welcome to it--but that doesn't mean everyone else is an idiot for fighting it.
>The ones flocking to bitcoin (besides the speculators who have no personal values, and the drug addicts) are the libertarians who object the government regulations and taxation and laws that limit the 1% to a mere 50% of the world's wealth.
HAAHAHHAHHA. That may be the most naive thing I've ever read here. Do NOT assume that just because "you and people you associate with" represent the population.
Bitcoins are extremely popular for drug dealers and human traffickers. Way nicer people than "evil gubnents!" I mean, do you think drug smugglers... people who are incredibly clever in getting through customs... would completely just ignore a way to traffick their money?
You're backing a currency that literally gets traded for human beings. Not so noble. But the dollar is too! Yeah, exactly. There's no difference. Except one is much harder to track and makes it easier to smuggle human beings without being caught.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone who pays $1000 for a phone, I don't care if they get a deal or ripped off. You're still blowing a grand on something that will become less useful than a toaster in 5 years.
I cannot fathom--for the life of me--how people can convince themselves to spend a grand on something that sends text messages and snaps selfies. You can buy a fucking 4K TV >65" for a grand. I should know, I bought a Samsung 55" for ~$800.
A thousand bucks buys you an insanely good guitar, violin, or damn near anything else. You could buy a full VR setup. But somehow, for a phone that does what everyone else's does (but it loads Facebook 25% faster! omg!) and will become trash within 5 years... how... what... is EVERYONE RICHER THAN ME? Does no one have to make careful decisions about where to spend their money? I can live in my rental _house_ for two months (1/6th of the year!) for the price of one of those phones. I could build an amazing PC for a grand. I could buy a pretty damn good laptop for a grand and it would be USEFUL for at least ten years. My wife's old i5 laptop her grandparents bought her for school 6+ years ago is still fast enough to run 4K YouTube, games, and more.
>Ross Ulbricht
You mean the guy they gave immunity to, or the guy they gave immunity to? You forgot the one important thing, none of them ever go to jail.
And if Hill-dog did nothing wrong (God, we're still talking about it...), why did everyone around her get immunity deals?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...
http://www.washingtonexaminer....
https://www.politico.com/story...
That's not "less accurate" so much as "intentionally removed results"
You can browse Google DMCAs online.
https://transparencyreport.goo...
3 BILLION URLS have been requested removed. You can be damn sure torrent sites are on that list.
The Joe Rogan Experience has completely replaced Talk Shows for me. He actually lets people speak, isn't condescending, and has actual experts on his show.
TV and traditional media killed itself. And it's nobody's fault but their own.
>It can help them develop better products, e.g. the recent story about facial recognition that doesn't work with dark skin.
Please explain EXACTLY how an algorithm failing to recognize darker skinned people would be DIRECTLY addressed by a Diversity Officer.
- Do they know every project in the company and would have raised the alarm?
- Would they require "prove you're not racist" reports from every project team?
- Are you assuming them sending everyone to "don't be racist" seminars would have automatically prevented this and are 100% fool-proof?
What's the solution? For all you know, they HAD a Diversity Officer.
So I'm honestly, and eagerly, wanting to know what clever trick you know about that would have preemptively prevented this (and not with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight). Because it really sounds like you're just (like most people in SV) saying what you think everyone wants you to say so you can get diversity brownie points for how noble and inclusive you are.
I'm 100% for diversity. But you gotta bring facts to back up your claims. Because simply having "good will" often leads to the opposite of progress.
"In God We Trust, all others present data."
Diversity jobs aren't about diversity. It's about profit. Maximizing public good will. It's PR. It's plausible deniability for a corporation to drop hundreds of grand to get you to give them the benefit of the doubt when a scandal comes out.
If diversity is "obvious" and we need "50-50" party and all that shit, and Salon et al minimum-wage journalists know what's best for us, then why do you need someone making over half-a-million a year just to tell you that? Is "not hiring black people = bad" something so profound you need a dedicated "scientist" to reveal that gem?
And if you ARE discriminating, congratulations, it's already illegal to discriminate based on age, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. So if your lawyers aren't stopping that, they should all be fired.
I mean, has anyone ever actually asked themselves what this person would DO on the job? Compute Maxwell equations? Run Monte Carlo simulations? Nah. You know exactly what it is. Talking out of your ass with feel good initiatives. Making people run through sexual harassment seminars, and inviting other feel good speakers that all help in the plausible "we take #OutrageFlavorOfTheWeek seriously."
Even the wikipedia says exactly what I'm saying:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>A cultural diversity practitioner has expertise in managing and leading programs designed to foster productive relationships among people of different cultures.
Meanwhile, notice a complete lack of any formulas, philosophies or anything you'd see from a real degree or position. Even business wikis list things like basic accounting formulas, and organizational management rules, and other "laws".
We might as well have a senior level job for "Chief Pizza Officer" for addressing serious concerns about whether people are eating enough quality food while they work. I'd love to see the college that gives *that* degree. I'd even get one--in spite of the inevitable intense rigor required to survive the class load.
CoC falls apart for one fundamental reason: You can't legislate people to RESPECT each other.
And that's what they're trying to codify. You can't make a legal document that solves disputes. For example, I have allergies and someone else in the office has a therapy dog. The RESPECTFUL thing to do, is to keep our offices as far apart as possible and both of US try to be accommodating to each other. But blanket statements of "disability person wins." only creates bitterness ("Why does that person always win?") and when you have a dispute between TWO disabled people, then you have to create a hierarchy of "who is a more disabled person?" (=more value).
None of this actually creates a better working environment. You can't replace respect for each other with a list of rules. It's just another feel good idea by another middle manager with no basis in science.
It'll only keep happening until a major group completely collapses until the weight of it's own virtue signalling.
Kind of like how neogaf was full SJW pandering and it turned out the owner of the forum was raping women. Oops.
FreeBSD will disappear from any significance it had left and people will learn from it as something to never do. History is already rerouting around social justice. The only people who don't realize this are the ones living in their bubbles.
Any ideology that allows you to oppress and bully people, but "For the greater good" eventually collapses because of all the pain it caused to innocents, and social justice is just another flawed attempt at creating a utopia that crushes innocent people. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Interesting how that phrase is over 800 years old, and yet, social justice is "new" and represents it perfectly.
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
"FreeBSD falling behind in 2018. Supporters are leaving. Is it because racists are threatened?"
Nothing gets you a bunch of free volunteer labor like a big ol' legal form that lists all the ways you could punish them!
That Twitter bots from Russia are some super effective way to change public opinion then:
1 - Why is the anti-gun lobby so powerful and loud?
2 - If they're so smart at brain washing us, how are we sure they're not intentionally leaking the "Russian" bots so that the gun CONTROL lobby will be the one effectively empowered?
I mean, if we're going to talk about one of the worlds (if not THE) most effective propaganda organization on the planet. We're just supposed to take them at "opposite" of their words? They're smart enough to brainwash us, but not smart enough to intentionally get us to react to the opposite?
Yeah, these seems 100% like a hardware survey and Canonical are idiots for not calling it that, and Slashdotters are idiots for not realizing that Canonical collecting the same data that Steam does, doesn't not magically turn Canonical into the NSA.
Hell, most of those statistics are logged every time you visit someone's website. And surely nobody sets their starting page to Google or Bing/Yahoo, right? RIGHT?!?! Because then they'd have our desktop depth too! (OMG 1984!)
Unlike Microsoft, Canonical has no actual market protection.
The second Ubuntu fucks over its users, they'll simply switch distros. Remember Linux Mint? It was Ubuntu without Canonical and it made them so made they disabled their repos for Mint users out of spite.
This is literally what Steam collects.
http://store.steampowered.com/...
I'm sure nobody here bitching runs Steam, right? Because that'd make you a complete hypocrite and we know nobody here is a massive raging hypocrite.
If Canonical wasn't run by complete morons, they would have called it a "Hardware Survey".
That sounds like something an FPGA could do from the very beginning.
The only new thing here would be possibly LARGER amounts of memory stored inbetween the fabric (reducing off-chip access, and increased number of LUTs not tied up as memory cells), and possibly like they said, combined "access and modify" operations.
But I think the article itself doesn't understand what it's talking about then.
And as general purpose as FPGA are in idea, they "custom adapted" to different tasks (and layout/fabric) since inception. So the question here is, are they talking about some kind of ASIC advancement that they didn't have before?
>The chip can thus calculate dot products for multiple nodes — 16 at a time, in the prototype — in a single step, instead of shuttling between a processor and memory for every computation.
This appears to be the only actual advancement/tech/change, being extruded out into an entire fluff article for college PR purposes.
Personally, I'm way more interested in getting my hands on an "FPGA in CPU" ever since back in college when Altera was bought by Intel. Imagine a CPU that can be told to add CUDA cores when you start a game, or SHA cores when you start a server. Altera specializes is live reconfigurable FPGAs. FPGA's that can be "flashed" in whole or in part while still running.
...Intel releases a fix to fix the fix that fixed what it was supposed to fix, but broke more stuff.
Is that right?
The personal choices are already known.
Women choose quality of life, over raw income. That's because only the male's income (as a number) is a signal of worth, whereas women don't have that requirement. Any man, will date any woman, no matter how crappy her job is. And women choose happiness over shitty hours. So men work more crap shifts to get more money... to demonstrate their value to society and potential mates.
And this isn't some new theory. It's been settled in the scientific community forever.
I think it's amazing how Apple can profit even when they fuck up and have essentially a recall.
That's like Honda killing people with faulty airbags, and charging you the bill to give you airbags that actually deploy.
Whoever runs their PR "spin" deserves a Nobel Prize.
For some perspective:
- My laptop is a chromebook switched to linux. From 2013.
- I've used it almost every day.
- My battery capacity reports: 45.3 Wh (design)
- It currently reports: 41.3 Wh (when full)
- Percent difference of ~9.24% over 5 years of constant use
So why the hell are cellphone batteries dying so much faster? Are they higher density for more initial capacity, at the cost of quicker wear and reduction of capacity? Because if you can lose over 20% of an iPhone battery in two years, that's a pretty stark difference to my laptop.
I had to replace my Wife's iPhone S5 battery (before this whole craziness) a 1 year ago or so.
how is this any worse... than the literally millions if not billions of pieces of junk already floating up there?
Were all of the soviet's space tests for a noble cause? Were any/all of the classified military satellites the USA put into space for a noble cause?
Who gives a shit if one piece of space junk floats up there... at least it's only ONE PIECE of space junk.
...we even have Wayland/Mir.
The X Server stack was fast enough back in the days of the FOUR-EIGHTY-SIX.
And almost all the implementations of the new system lack features that we already expect to work on x server without thinking about it.
But if we let people have private conversations without spying, NEO-NAZIS might communicate with each other! /actual_progressives_stance
#discord_did_nothing_wrong
Some? SOME disgruntled counties?
You realize that there are like FIVE counties that control all of California, right? Hollywood and other big business control a hugely disproportionate amount of influence compared to public support. In the Bush/Gore election 41% of counties voted for Bush.
(And no, I'm not talking about red-vs-blue, I'm talking about majority vs minority.)
So yeah, you can support Comcast-style business-as-usual where a few keep the rest from innovating, you're welcome to it--but that doesn't mean everyone else is an idiot for fighting it.
I wonder if you'd be okay with the government using tracking data to deport illegal immigrants.
- Tracking guns. GOOD
- Tracking data in general. GOOD.
- Government in general. GOOD.
- Enforcing laws related to immigration. OMFGLKEWRNGALKDSNDASLGKNG!~@!$!!@#!%!@#%!@#K%!@L%@LKBFDLlafd---eRRRORORRRRRRRRR
>The ones flocking to bitcoin (besides the speculators who have no personal values, and the drug addicts) are the libertarians who object the government regulations and taxation and laws that limit the 1% to a mere 50% of the world's wealth.
HAAHAHHAHHA. That may be the most naive thing I've ever read here. Do NOT assume that just because "you and people you associate with" represent the population.
Bitcoins are extremely popular for drug dealers and human traffickers. Way nicer people than "evil gubnents!" I mean, do you think drug smugglers... people who are incredibly clever in getting through customs... would completely just ignore a way to traffick their money?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://humantraffickingsearch....
http://bitcoinist.com/police-s...
You're backing a currency that literally gets traded for human beings. Not so noble. But the dollar is too! Yeah, exactly. There's no difference. Except one is much harder to track and makes it easier to smuggle human beings without being caught.
More like, shut off your bot.
I bet you money I could make a bot that writes text like that, in a weekend.