Been living in my house for over 4 years now, AT&T refuses to admit that what they are giving me (3Mbps down/1Mbps up for $55/month) is not broadband. Spectrum says AT&T will help so they refuse to talk. I do live in a "rural" area, but I have a friend less than a mile away getting 60Mbps from Spectrum for $35/month, the big Telco are too big, it would sure be nice to have more than a single option for wired internet... some small ISP's competing would do wonders... even if just two of the big ones were competing things would improve...
So how the hell do you know you broke out of the simulation, as opposed to just running a new scenario in the simulation? If you actually did break out, how do you know that the new level isn't a simulation?
You don't. It's simulations all the way up and turtles all the way down.
I would love it if AT&T would consider giving me 4Mbps, been stuck with 768kbps for a long time now with no hope from AT&T whatsoever, and no other options out there other than expensive high latency satellite.
Did anyone else read that as "Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic The Hedgehog Game" at first? I was trying to figure out how playing the Sega game would change shark fins into human limbs...
Hahaha. Yeah of course I could buy another dsl line. 80 bucks a month for 1.536Mbps. Still not fast enough. Plus, AT&T won't even bury the line they did put down. They won't even come out to check if we can get faster speeds. No way we'd ever actually get that second slow as hell line.
I don't think this has anything to do with caps. I have AT&T DSL and as I mentioned on a previous story today, all I can get out of them is 768kbps. I can *barely* stream SD netflix without too many buffering breaks, no way in hell I'm going to stream a 4k movie.
All these are great ideas, lol, technically would work; I'm an electrical engineer working in the wireless world so I am certain I could get it up and running. None of that helps when you aren't good friends with the neighbors.(-; I'd really rather just be able to purchase the bandwidth they obviously are able to provide.
I've been arguing with AT&T for nearly a year now about getting a faster connection to our house. We live in the "woods", but no more than 10 miles from places with enough people to provide them with pretty fast U-Verse speeds. All they can provide me is 768kbps, no amount of begging and pleading has ever even gotten a tech out to even *check* if they can give me more (our direct neighbor gets 6Mbps, still slow but nearly an order of magnitude higher than mine). They have though promised to send someone out a few times... just a technique to get you to shut up for a few weeks. We can't get cable, sat has way too high latency for what I need and cell service is shoddy at best. So, here I am paying AT&T 40 bucks a month for 768kps just to make sure I have a "reliable" connection; still goes out sometimes but way less than the cell connection. Sigh.
who are usually more concerned about giving policy recommendations than in making forecasts
What? Is this implying that they want to make suggestions about what to do in the present and future to change the future without being the least bit concerned with forecasting the future? I don't think I would listen to anyone who wants to make important changes/suggestions without them being very concerned with attempting to predict the future of the situation at hand.
Also,
the field of economics frequently uses math in an unhealthy way
As an EE having taken many econ classes, I can wholeheartedly agree with this statement.
I won't be impressed until I can take my "tablet" and crumple it up like a piece of paper to shove into my pocket. Maybe this is going in the right direction...
Regardless of where you're from: Either be open and honest with the person you're with, or accept that you're a total douchebag.
This. My partner and I are in an open relationship where we see other people. The only thing that has made what we do OK is the fact that we are very open and honest to each other about everything. In fact, the only real "rule" we have is to be honest with each other. There is nothing worse than sneaking around and lying to the person you are supposed to be the closest with.
Wrt why people get into poly-amorous* relationships in the first place, there are many reasons for different people. In our case I tend to want a full on relationship with the others and my partner tends to simply want more varied physically sexual experiences. It's all OK because we don't lie to each other.
*or poly-whatever, not big on putting labels on things like this.
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Normally I'm not into feeding the trolls... but I've started to look forward to the MOO cow posts, this one is a nice modification lol
I "corrected" myself (went into better detail in another reply) but I do agree with what you are saying here. I think my engineering brain just defaults to look at everything as if it were under a limit (-;
Exactly. Another reason to not have some dumb default value come up. Mathematically it isn't even infinity conclusively all the time. It is really undefined. Generally speaking it becomes either positive or negative infinity when the division is one which makes sense to evaluate under a limit. Just endless reasons to not do something as asinine as defaulting x/0 = 0
First issue, x/0 mathematically is infinity, not zero. Plus, you want the same exact result across all applications ever? There are certainly times where zero is appropriate, there are also many times when one would want to have some representation of infinity; yet others where this simply indicates an error of some other sort and zero is a valid result.
The only reason I ever signed up for twitter in the first place was that it was the easiest of the social networks to create a bot. I wanted to see how hard it would be to set up something like that... and twitter makes it super easy... 15 or 20 minutes and I set up @piDigits which is tweeting out 140 digits of Pi every hour... So simple, I did this with a few lines of code sitting on a Google spreadsheet doc and set a trigger to run the script in the doc once every hour. Completely legit free services + 30 minutes = your very own twitter bot, not tied to any of your own physical hardware. Makes me wonder if twitter really does like the bot idea... I think it helps the system as a whole, because people want some kinds of automated news, or whatever else can be automated... Plus, it's usually really really easy to spot the TRULY useless *FOLLOW ME FOLLOW MY FRIEND* bots.
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Been living in my house for over 4 years now, AT&T refuses to admit that what they are giving me (3Mbps down/1Mbps up for $55/month) is not broadband. Spectrum says AT&T will help so they refuse to talk. I do live in a "rural" area, but I have a friend less than a mile away getting 60Mbps from Spectrum for $35/month, the big Telco are too big, it would sure be nice to have more than a single option for wired internet... some small ISP's competing would do wonders... even if just two of the big ones were competing things would improve...
So how the hell do you know you broke out of the simulation, as opposed to just running a new scenario in the simulation? If you actually did break out, how do you know that the new level isn't a simulation?
You don't. It's simulations all the way up and turtles all the way down.
And the other relevant xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/1205/
He went way off this chart! lol
I would love it if AT&T would consider giving me 4Mbps, been stuck with 768kbps for a long time now with no hope from AT&T whatsoever, and no other options out there other than expensive high latency satellite.
Did anyone else read that as "Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic The Hedgehog Game" at first? I was trying to figure out how playing the Sega game would change shark fins into human limbs...
Hahaha. Yeah of course I could buy another dsl line. 80 bucks a month for 1.536Mbps. Still not fast enough. Plus, AT&T won't even bury the line they did put down. They won't even come out to check if we can get faster speeds. No way we'd ever actually get that second slow as hell line.
I don't think this has anything to do with caps. I have AT&T DSL and as I mentioned on a previous story today, all I can get out of them is 768kbps. I can *barely* stream SD netflix without too many buffering breaks, no way in hell I'm going to stream a 4k movie.
All these are great ideas, lol, technically would work; I'm an electrical engineer working in the wireless world so I am certain I could get it up and running. None of that helps when you aren't good friends with the neighbors.(-; I'd really rather just be able to purchase the bandwidth they obviously are able to provide.
Correct, too far for WiFi to be reasonable between properties.
I've been arguing with AT&T for nearly a year now about getting a faster connection to our house. We live in the "woods", but no more than 10 miles from places with enough people to provide them with pretty fast U-Verse speeds. All they can provide me is 768kbps, no amount of begging and pleading has ever even gotten a tech out to even *check* if they can give me more (our direct neighbor gets 6Mbps, still slow but nearly an order of magnitude higher than mine). They have though promised to send someone out a few times... just a technique to get you to shut up for a few weeks. We can't get cable, sat has way too high latency for what I need and cell service is shoddy at best. So, here I am paying AT&T 40 bucks a month for 768kps just to make sure I have a "reliable" connection; still goes out sometimes but way less than the cell connection.
Sigh.
http://xkcd.com/1581/
who are usually more concerned about giving policy recommendations than in making forecasts
What? Is this implying that they want to make suggestions about what to do in the present and future to change the future without being the least bit concerned with forecasting the future? I don't think I would listen to anyone who wants to make important changes/suggestions without them being very concerned with attempting to predict the future of the situation at hand.
Also,
the field of economics frequently uses math in an unhealthy way
As an EE having taken many econ classes, I can wholeheartedly agree with this statement.
This does seem pretty cool, but editing?
TFS:
Microsoft does not claim to release an app anytime sooner.
And TFA:
Currently, the app is not available for download - however the team is planning on launching it soon.
I bellyfeel your singlespeak.
I won't be impressed until I can take my "tablet" and crumple it up like a piece of paper to shove into my pocket. Maybe this is going in the right direction...
Regardless of where you're from: Either be open and honest with the person you're with, or accept that you're a total douchebag.
This. My partner and I are in an open relationship where we see other people. The only thing that has made what we do OK is the fact that we are very open and honest to each other about everything. In fact, the only real "rule" we have is to be honest with each other. There is nothing worse than sneaking around and lying to the person you are supposed to be the closest with.
Wrt why people get into poly-amorous* relationships in the first place, there are many reasons for different people. In our case I tend to want a full on relationship with the others and my partner tends to simply want more varied physically sexual experiences. It's all OK because we don't lie to each other.
*or poly-whatever, not big on putting labels on things like this.
Normally I'm not into feeding the trolls... but I've started to look forward to the MOO cow posts, this one is a nice modification lol
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I had to Google BANACH TARSKI because your sig intrigued me. Very clever (-;
I "corrected" myself (went into better detail in another reply) but I do agree with what you are saying here. I think my engineering brain just defaults to look at everything as if it were under a limit (-;
Exactly. Another reason to not have some dumb default value come up. Mathematically it isn't even infinity conclusively all the time. It is really undefined. Generally speaking it becomes either positive or negative infinity when the division is one which makes sense to evaluate under a limit. Just endless reasons to not do something as asinine as defaulting x/0 = 0
First issue, x/0 mathematically is infinity, not zero. Plus, you want the same exact result across all applications ever? There are certainly times where zero is appropriate, there are also many times when one would want to have some representation of infinity; yet others where this simply indicates an error of some other sort and zero is a valid result.
The only reason I ever signed up for twitter in the first place was that it was the easiest of the social networks to create a bot. I wanted to see how hard it would be to set up something like that... and twitter makes it super easy...
15 or 20 minutes and I set up @piDigits which is tweeting out 140 digits of Pi every hour...
So simple, I did this with a few lines of code sitting on a Google spreadsheet doc and set a trigger to run the script in the doc once every hour. Completely legit free services + 30 minutes = your very own twitter bot, not tied to any of your own physical hardware.
Makes me wonder if twitter really does like the bot idea... I think it helps the system as a whole, because people want some kinds of automated news, or whatever else can be automated... Plus, it's usually really really easy to spot the TRULY useless *FOLLOW ME FOLLOW MY FRIEND* bots.
Please mod this funny! This sentence is hilariously well made.
This.
I used to work there too, I can second this.
Wow, just looked at TFA to check out the pictures! Very pretty indeed.