You may hold that view right up until the day your favorite closed-source software gets end-of-lifed with major security bugs in it, so you have to buy it all over again. Of course that never happens.
Similar things also happen with open-source projects. They sometimes get abandoned or changed in horrible ways and you have to jump ship. You don't always find a good alternative. Over the years I've been screwed in this way by both free and non-free software. I find it somewhat surprising that I've been labelled a troll for pointing this out. I think many of us have experienced it with things like Gnome 3 and even the early KDE 4 releases.
If you become skilled at programming, you will come to notice how non-free programs, denying you the source code, restrict and oppress you.
What bollocks.
The last piece of productivity software I bought was Affinity Photo. I bought it because I prefer it to Photoshop or Gimp and it cost only forty bucks. Bargain. When bought it, I knew it was closed-source. I haven't been sold something under the impression that it was something else. Even if it was open-source, I wouldn't have the time to change it if it didn't do what I wanted. Closed or open, I'd still e-mail the developers for feature requests and bugs. For those reasons, I'm not restricted. I don't feel very "oppressed" either .
The only situation in which I can see myself being "restricted" by closed-source software is if I didn't trust the company, and the product was poorly supported. I have experienced this over the last year and my solution was to roll my own alternative. I am free to do that and the presence of bad commercial shit does not take away my freedoms.
Microwave and light wave are on the same spectrum so if you could see in microwave then it would just illuminate objects just like
regular light or ultraviolet light but with the awesome effect that it would actually penetrate some objects. A camera that shifted
microwave down to visible light would be really cool similar to how a ultraviolet camera lets you see ultraviolet light.
That's all true. And it is also a niche use case. Hence the dearth of phones that have removable batteries. It isn't a conspiracy; it is that more people would rather have a thinner phone (or a more solid feeling one) than would rather have a replaceable battery. It is the market working correctly.
I don't believe it's that hard to design an equally thin phone (or one that is trivially thicker) but with a user-replaceable battery. It just won't look as nice because it will have screws in the case.
Facts fight quacks, and you provided none, just ad-hominem attacks.
I don't think this is true. Or at least not as true as it should be. There is evidence to indicate that engaging these people in reasoned discussion boosts their standing because it makes the public think that they are saying something worth refuting. This is what they are craving, so ignoring or mocking them has its place.
Strange. How do you account for the rapid increase in autism? Your appeal to military alert systems is quaint, but irrelevant. Facts fight quacks, and you provided none, just ad-hominem attacks.
There are a bunch of possible explanations including changes in diagnostic criteria. It's not just mild behavioral cases being "upgraded" to autism. It's the other way too: I know someone who used to work in a an "autism" care home. The kids there were all diagnosed with autism but they were in reality much more disturbed than this. For example, one of the kids got angry one day so he pulled out his eyeball and threw it at a care worker. This wasn't a bad quality care home: these were kids from rich families.
Cyclists shouldn't be sharing the road with two ton steel boxes. Yeah yeah I know you have the same rights as cars but get real. From a physics standpoint you'll always lose. Cycling on roads is a death wish.
We may have gained some things with Gnome 3 and Plasma 5, but we lost a lot of good features too. TDE brings them back
I was a big fan of KDE 3, but it's been years since I used it and if you asked me now I couldn't tell you which were the features that have been lost. So which are they?
'Appropriately regulating businesses' is a concept diametrically opposed to the way capitalism works, though, and the organism of the genus capitalism,
Capitalism, like democracy, is not a single thing. There are different ways we can structure capitalism just like there are different ways we can structure democracies. The capitalism we have ended up with is is virulent, but it doesn't need to be that way. You don't need to resort to "communism" to achieve this. The cries of "communism" that we hear from right wingers is just a way of diverting the discussion.
So far, government imposed "solutions" such as carbon credits, shuttering nukes, and subsidy schemes, have accomplished little, or been counter-productive.
Exactly. Because they're for show, not real solutions.
Umm...more to the point in the United States at least the government doesn't have the right or the authority to "appropriately regulate business". At least not to the level you seem to want.
Of course it has the ability. There are countless things that businesses can not do because they are against the law. New laws can be passed to limit what business can do. Businesses may not like it, but it s possible. The Glass-Steagall act is an example of restrictions placed on large businesses. It's also an example of what goes wrong when you take away the restrictions and allow said large businesses police themselves using the power of the so-called free market.
Nobody cares about the climate, aside from the opportunities each disaster presents. In business, profit is the prime, if not the only, motive to be in business at all. Just make it more profitable to be clean.
This will only happen by appropriately regulating businesses. Unfortunately our governments at best don't have balls to do it and at worst are in the pockets of the businesses they're supposed to be regulating. So instead they give us bullshit arguments about how regulation hurts our freedoms and nothing is done.
Sending people to Mars is the kind of engineering challenge that is feasible now, just very expensive. It seems reasonable to expect that we could get people there intact on the first try. Successfully cloning a mammoth is not like that, however. As outlined http://www.theguardian.com/sci...">here there will inevitably be a lot of trial and error because we don't have an intact genome. We'd have to reconstruct an essentially error-free genome from fragments. That's like doing a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces cut up, no idea what the final thing should look like, and no guarantee that you have all the pieces. That's beyond and engineering challenge. Failure to produce a very high accuracy reproduction of the genome will result in aborted embryos, horrible deformations, etc. That's even if we get to that stage. So it will be a slow and unpleasant form of biological trial and error. I really don't see it happening.
That seems like a really bad idea for people who still need their visual cortex for vision. If you want to jack up the wiring in your brain, just abuse dangerous drugs. It'll save you a lot of time.
I don't know what you mean by "jack up the wiring" but mushrooms will probably get you there and they're not dangerous.
"This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda,
Same with Christians. They just attach themselves to the Old Testament in the belief that this enhances the legitimacy of the books they chose to call the New Testament (there are plenty of other books from that time hanging around the Vatican that they excluded). Never mind that the message in the Old Testament is often very different from the New. The Old Testament God was a real wanker much of the time.
I agree it's not obscure. However it's also very specialized. I think of it as a language to do statistics in. The thought of actually trying to program in it makes me shudder.
TLDR. Ultimately, the problem is language. We are trying to use one word "planet" to describe a variety of different bodies orbiting the sun: rocky inner planets, the asteroids (or at least their larger members), the gas giants, and now the trans-neptunian objects. There's going to be an arbitrary cut off at some point and people are going to disagree. The point is that we understand what these objects are, rather than worrying about a label.
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Dunning-Kruger is just another case of people thinking there is such a thing as an Average Human, which is provably false.
Doesn't have much going for it to be honest. It does at least have some studies behind it, but not even remotely enough to make it relevant, interesting, but not relevant.
The DK hypothesis seems very reasonable. It's really just saying that when you're not knowledgeable about a field, then you don't know what you don't know. So you over-rate your skills. When you become knowledgeable, you understand how your knowledge fits into the wider landscape and you see the limits of your knowledge.
I've often felt these effects in my own life, and this was before I heard of DK. e.g. I certainly felt less knowledgeable as I progressed through my undergraduate degree but I graduated at the top of the class. Another example: a year two after I started coding I became cocky about it. Now, years later when I know much more, I feel cautious even considering myself a coder as I see so much around me that I don't know or I haven't done.
Does anybody know how this compares to the hard sciences? How many published math papers turn out to be incorrect? How many physics experiments cannot be reproduced?
True, I guess it depends in what dimension you're defining "analog". With PWM it's really temporal, via the duty cycle. Once you've gone through a DAC, it's in the voltage domain. I was thinking of the voltage domain: the Teensy has a built-in DAQ so you have the option of an analog voltage.
If an Uno isn't fast enough, the Mega is twice as fast as the Uno
It is? They both run at 16 MHz according to the specs. The Mega gives more IO options and more storage and more hardware timers. I don't think you get more speed. For speed, I rather like the Teensy, which has true analog output too (not just PWM pins)
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You may hold that view right up until the day your favorite closed-source software gets end-of-lifed with major security bugs in it, so you have to buy it all over again. Of course that never happens.
Similar things also happen with open-source projects. They sometimes get abandoned or changed in horrible ways and you have to jump ship. You don't always find a good alternative. Over the years I've been screwed in this way by both free and non-free software. I find it somewhat surprising that I've been labelled a troll for pointing this out. I think many of us have experienced it with things like Gnome 3 and even the early KDE 4 releases.
If you become skilled at programming, you will come to notice how non-free programs, denying you the source code, restrict and oppress you.
What bollocks.
The last piece of productivity software I bought was Affinity Photo. I bought it because I prefer it to Photoshop or Gimp and it cost only forty bucks. Bargain. When bought it, I knew it was closed-source. I haven't been sold something under the impression that it was something else. Even if it was open-source, I wouldn't have the time to change it if it didn't do what I wanted. Closed or open, I'd still e-mail the developers for feature requests and bugs. For those reasons, I'm not restricted. I don't feel very "oppressed" either .
The only situation in which I can see myself being "restricted" by closed-source software is if I didn't trust the company, and the product was poorly supported. I have experienced this over the last year and my solution was to roll my own alternative. I am free to do that and the presence of bad commercial shit does not take away my freedoms.
Start migrating to Linux now and dual boot into Windows for games.
Microwave and light wave are on the same spectrum so if you could see in microwave then it would just illuminate objects just like regular light or ultraviolet light but with the awesome effect that it would actually penetrate some objects. A camera that shifted microwave down to visible light would be really cool similar to how a ultraviolet camera lets you see ultraviolet light.
Maybe a "pinhole" microwave camera is possible?
That's all true. And it is also a niche use case. Hence the dearth of phones that have removable batteries. It isn't a conspiracy; it is that more people would rather have a thinner phone (or a more solid feeling one) than would rather have a replaceable battery. It is the market working correctly.
I don't believe it's that hard to design an equally thin phone (or one that is trivially thicker) but with a user-replaceable battery. It just won't look as nice because it will have screws in the case.
I wouldn't like to clone my dog. It would be like Pet Cemetery: looks the same but isn't the same. Horrible.
Facts fight quacks, and you provided none, just ad-hominem attacks.
I don't think this is true. Or at least not as true as it should be. There is evidence to indicate that engaging these people in reasoned discussion boosts their standing because it makes the public think that they are saying something worth refuting. This is what they are craving, so ignoring or mocking them has its place.
Strange. How do you account for the rapid increase in autism? Your appeal to military alert systems is quaint, but irrelevant. Facts fight quacks, and you provided none, just ad-hominem attacks.
There are a bunch of possible explanations including changes in diagnostic criteria. It's not just mild behavioral cases being "upgraded" to autism. It's the other way too: I know someone who used to work in a an "autism" care home. The kids there were all diagnosed with autism but they were in reality much more disturbed than this. For example, one of the kids got angry one day so he pulled out his eyeball and threw it at a care worker. This wasn't a bad quality care home: these were kids from rich families.
Cyclists shouldn't be sharing the road with two ton steel boxes. Yeah yeah I know you have the same rights as cars but get real. From a physics standpoint you'll always lose. Cycling on roads is a death wish.
It's really not as dangerous as you seem to think.
We may have gained some things with Gnome 3 and Plasma 5, but we lost a lot of good features too. TDE brings them back
I was a big fan of KDE 3, but it's been years since I used it and if you asked me now I couldn't tell you which were the features that have been lost. So which are they?
I agree, the global nature of the problem makes it all the more intractable.
'Appropriately regulating businesses' is a concept diametrically opposed to the way capitalism works, though, and the organism of the genus capitalism,
Capitalism, like democracy, is not a single thing. There are different ways we can structure capitalism just like there are different ways we can structure democracies. The capitalism we have ended up with is is virulent, but it doesn't need to be that way. You don't need to resort to "communism" to achieve this. The cries of "communism" that we hear from right wingers is just a way of diverting the discussion.
So far, government imposed "solutions" such as carbon credits, shuttering nukes, and subsidy schemes, have accomplished little, or been counter-productive.
Exactly. Because they're for show, not real solutions.
Umm...more to the point in the United States at least the government doesn't have the right or the authority to "appropriately regulate business". At least not to the level you seem to want.
Of course it has the ability. There are countless things that businesses can not do because they are against the law. New laws can be passed to limit what business can do. Businesses may not like it, but it s possible. The Glass-Steagall act is an example of restrictions placed on large businesses. It's also an example of what goes wrong when you take away the restrictions and allow said large businesses police themselves using the power of the so-called free market.
Nobody cares about the climate, aside from the opportunities each disaster presents. In business, profit is the prime, if not the only, motive to be in business at all. Just make it more profitable to be clean.
This will only happen by appropriately regulating businesses. Unfortunately our governments at best don't have balls to do it and at worst are in the pockets of the businesses they're supposed to be regulating. So instead they give us bullshit arguments about how regulation hurts our freedoms and nothing is done.
Sending people to Mars is the kind of engineering challenge that is feasible now, just very expensive. It seems reasonable to expect that we could get people there intact on the first try. Successfully cloning a mammoth is not like that, however. As outlined http://www.theguardian.com/sci...">here there will inevitably be a lot of trial and error because we don't have an intact genome. We'd have to reconstruct an essentially error-free genome from fragments. That's like doing a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces cut up, no idea what the final thing should look like, and no guarantee that you have all the pieces. That's beyond and engineering challenge. Failure to produce a very high accuracy reproduction of the genome will result in aborted embryos, horrible deformations, etc. That's even if we get to that stage. So it will be a slow and unpleasant form of biological trial and error. I really don't see it happening.
here's a different perspective from someone who studies mammoths.
That seems like a really bad idea for people who still need their visual cortex for vision. If you want to jack up the wiring in your brain, just abuse dangerous drugs. It'll save you a lot of time.
I don't know what you mean by "jack up the wiring" but mushrooms will probably get you there and they're not dangerous.
"This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda,
Same with Christians. They just attach themselves to the Old Testament in the belief that this enhances the legitimacy of the books they chose to call the New Testament (there are plenty of other books from that time hanging around the Vatican that they excluded). Never mind that the message in the Old Testament is often very different from the New. The Old Testament God was a real wanker much of the time.
I agree it's not obscure. However it's also very specialized. I think of it as a language to do statistics in. The thought of actually trying to program in it makes me shudder.
TLDR. Ultimately, the problem is language. We are trying to use one word "planet" to describe a variety of different bodies orbiting the sun: rocky inner planets, the asteroids (or at least their larger members), the gas giants, and now the trans-neptunian objects. There's going to be an arbitrary cut off at some point and people are going to disagree. The point is that we understand what these objects are, rather than worrying about a label.
I Dunning-Kruger is just another case of people thinking there is such a thing as an Average Human, which is provably false. Doesn't have much going for it to be honest. It does at least have some studies behind it, but not even remotely enough to make it relevant, interesting, but not relevant.
The DK hypothesis seems very reasonable. It's really just saying that when you're not knowledgeable about a field, then you don't know what you don't know. So you over-rate your skills. When you become knowledgeable, you understand how your knowledge fits into the wider landscape and you see the limits of your knowledge.
I've often felt these effects in my own life, and this was before I heard of DK. e.g. I certainly felt less knowledgeable as I progressed through my undergraduate degree but I graduated at the top of the class. Another example: a year two after I started coding I became cocky about it. Now, years later when I know much more, I feel cautious even considering myself a coder as I see so much around me that I don't know or I haven't done.
Does anybody know how this compares to the hard sciences? How many published math papers turn out to be incorrect? How many physics experiments cannot be reproduced?
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True, I guess it depends in what dimension you're defining "analog". With PWM it's really temporal, via the duty cycle. Once you've gone through a DAC, it's in the voltage domain. I was thinking of the voltage domain: the Teensy has a built-in DAQ so you have the option of an analog voltage.
It is? They both run at 16 MHz according to the specs. The Mega gives more IO options and more storage and more hardware timers. I don't think you get more speed. For speed, I rather like the Teensy, which has true analog output too (not just PWM pins)