I used Galeon way back in the day (2001/2002 I think). I really loved it back then. Great browser. I would check it out today, but I uninstalled most of the gnome packages on my desktop.:-P
He better have gotten a huge bug bounty for that. Remove code and auth changes via Cortana? That's gotta be worth at least the $10k PornHub paid for their PHP remote code execution (which wasn't even a PornHub bug, but a PHP one; so that company collected the PHP bounty on top of it as well).
Graphics tech hasn't really advanced enough for this to matter. It's the reason we're still on the PeeS4/exBox. The 4k/HDR upgrades were nice and a lot of games are taking advantage of them; but before we get a new generation of consoles, we need some major innovation in graphics. Like, uncanny divide breaking graphics. Like making you uncomfortable like you're controlling a movie graphics.
Trouble is, studies show customers do not like those styles of realistic graphics. They get creepy. So what's next? What's the next big innovation that will give us a newer console? Graphics? Sound? 8k resolution?
That's fucking awful. A console should last a decade, not 2 fucking years. The N64, SNES, NES.. they're all still classic devices we play and know as a discrete device.
Both the exBox and PS4 made a good move by simply adding 4k/HDR to an interum release (as graphic tech hasn't really changed enough for new consoles yet). Consoles should move up slowly. They shouldn't be on the planned obsolescent cellphone junk cycle.
You're assuming a lot about this particular situation. Maybe the kid and parents are both just pieces of shit. I mean you kinda have to be to get a court order to throw your kid out.
Someone recently posted the Facebook earnings figures and it showed the #deletefacebook campaign barely put in a dent. No one except celebrities left the platform en-mass. Look at the list of backers in this particular campaign. It tells us something. I wrote about it here:
I suspect Zuckerberg plan for a presidential run pissed off some of the old rich. He young, he's a new kid, and the gods of old media wanted to put him in his place. All the focus has been on Facebook, when Google, Apple, Amazon, Adobe and even Microsoft collect just as much data and do the same types of analytics.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see Facebook broken apart too; and same with Google. I doubt this campaign will go anywhere though. It's a rich man's pissing contest. We're seeing the top 500 companies fight over relevance, and if anything, Facebook won that last round if you go by influence numbers.
This is the reality for web browsers. This is why I hated Chrome when it came out. Google made a closed source browser based on open components in Webkit/Gecko (it has since been opened under Chromium, but it didn't start that way).
We're pretty much in the same browser world that we are with most of our other "free" as in beer products.
No you're not. Everything is either webkit, chromium or gecko based today (or Titan for people who hate themselves). Firefox quantum is far from the performance beast we were told it was going to be. I'm on Vivaldi right now, but it follows the Chromium rendering engine (which itself was split from a hybrid webkit/gecko source years ago).
Pretty soon we'll be out of options. Remember when Firefox was the scaled down, super fast version of Mozilla? Today a web browser is a bloated heavy weight operating system in and of itself. There's no going back.
and having men only position kinda pushes that agenda too. Look at the most recent study on Uber drivers and pay inequality. Men and women typically make different choices and that's reinforced by what we're told our roles are in society.
I have a feeling a lot more men would peruse art, journalism, music and culture, if it wasn't for the idea that they need to "provider for their families." No matter how much of a progressive ethos we try to push, those beliefs hold in place because in the end, we do all have to pay the mortgage and buy groceries.
Chinese may have discovered that men are more likely to do the long, grueling unsavory work than women, and thus you have these ads.
The problem here is way way deeper. It's very apparent in a society like China where every member of society is expected to produce. We have the same in western societies; we just don't recognize it as much today. Every leader, for company to government, only cares about production (bringing in the money), to keep their supporters (generals, board members, etc.) filled with benefit and supports.
Piled Higher Deeper is one of my favourite web comics. I read through the whole thing while I was working on my masters.
My last year and a half in the program, I'd go to work, then go to a coffee shop with my laptop, and either program and work on my thesis for a few hours, drink a beer, go home, sleep and repeat. When I was in embedded, I was there a lot of Saturdays too since most of the nice equipment was in the lab.
With all of that, I still prefer it to the "real world." I've been trying to get back in for a while to work on my PhD, but programs are getting more and more difficult to get into. I have a few publications now, so I should probably start visiting schools again.
But they already allow that. HTC, Samsung, etc. are just SoCs and memory slapped together with random chips connected to random pins. There are no standards for Google devices. They don't give a shit because it forces you to buy a new Google device ever two years in order to get upgrades.
At least Microsoft forced all their phones to support UEFI+ARM. Too bad their boot loaders are locked.
But Lycos, Hotbot, AltaVista, DogPile and all the alternative indexes are gone. We're a search mono-culture. I use DuckDuckGo personally, but a good 1/3 of my searchers I add a !g if I can't find the results I want. There are some things I can't even find at all, kept in my notes but no longer present on any major search provider.
The Internet simply isn't as searchable as it once was.
Isn't it 30% of blogs sites? (i.e Drupal, Blogger, Ghost, etc.) This type of statistic has come up before and it just doesn't really hold up. It just doesn't make any sense when you look at the sheer number of websites with custom content management engines or which use big commercial software like CQ, Teamsite, etc.
Are ambulances covered under NHS in the UK? I know in Australia they're not covered under Medicare (although doctors and the ER is covered). Its still way cheaper there ($300 ~ $500 depending on the city, compared to >$500 with insurance in the US), but it seems like this is something the State should cover. Emergency is an essential service.
..how you can impose platform censorship under the name of preventing sex trafficking. Let's ignore all the rich and/or shitheads that get away with fucking kids and teens without consequence (politicians, the Catholic church, people in Hollywood, etc.) and look at what Craigslist and Backpage provide: prostitution. Is there illegal trafficking? Quite possibly, but there is also prostitution which is legal in the UK, Australia, NZ, much of Europe and a couple of counties in Nevada.
How about just legalizing prostitution, taxing/regulating it, and then go after actual sex traffickers and pedos, without compromising freedom of speech or making it much more difficult for smaller players to enter the walled gardens of content hosting, media distribution and social networks.
Yea I found this summary pretty sensational. I've heard the term you used, "memristors," and how HP was working on them a few years back. I might have understood the concept wrong though. Typically memory is where you store data and registers are units on the processor that act on that data (add, subtract, bitshift, or more complex instructions).
As I understood it, memristors would allow instructions to operate directly on memory without having to load or store. If you had enough memristors to load your program into them, you'd effectively run everything incredibly fast in place. However this would change the entire way we write programs and compilers.
You'd probably no longer have a stack, the purpose of a program counter would change entirely, and you'd start to get into the very gritty details of immutability and self modifying code. Even concepts like branch prediction would have to be entirely rethought. It'd be a larger diversion than even VLIW (e.g. EPIC/Itanium).
It'd be like quantum computing; incredibly powerful but requiring entirely different computing processes and mechanics.
This is a meta-analysis. Back when I was in grad school, we'd throw these in the garbage. You cannot account for controls across tens of studies, much less hundreds of studies. Unless the authors legitimately did a replication study writing before the meta-analysis, they're next to useless.
Beware of things that say things are confirmed without a doubt. Doubt is essential in all things involving science and research. You must continually doubt your axioms and question things; replication the true you think you know to be true.
https://khanism.org/science/doubt/
I know for me personally, anti-depressants were awful. The side effects were bad and I never liked taking them. I feel like regular behavioral therapy and talking with a good psychologist who'd help me see my options and my negative ways of thinking helped significantly more than anything else.
That being said, I know they help some people too, either real of placebo, with major depression. Doctor's are afraid to try therapy without drugs because of the liability if the patient harms themselves. I think this is really sad and that these drugs are way over prescribed. It's a tough issue to balance, but claiming crap like this study does (which is probably funded by the industry anyway) just leads to more confirmation bias and less incentive to come up with more effective treatments.
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I used Galeon way back in the day (2001/2002 I think). I really loved it back then. Great browser. I would check it out today, but I uninstalled most of the gnome packages on my desktop. :-P
He better have gotten a huge bug bounty for that. Remove code and auth changes via Cortana? That's gotta be worth at least the $10k PornHub paid for their PHP remote code execution (which wasn't even a PornHub bug, but a PHP one; so that company collected the PHP bounty on top of it as well).
Graphics tech hasn't really advanced enough for this to matter. It's the reason we're still on the PeeS4/exBox. The 4k/HDR upgrades were nice and a lot of games are taking advantage of them; but before we get a new generation of consoles, we need some major innovation in graphics. Like, uncanny divide breaking graphics. Like making you uncomfortable like you're controlling a movie graphics.
Trouble is, studies show customers do not like those styles of realistic graphics. They get creepy. So what's next? What's the next big innovation that will give us a newer console? Graphics? Sound? 8k resolution?
That's fucking awful. A console should last a decade, not 2 fucking years. The N64, SNES, NES .. they're all still classic devices we play and know as a discrete device.
Both the exBox and PS4 made a good move by simply adding 4k/HDR to an interum release (as graphic tech hasn't really changed enough for new consoles yet). Consoles should move up slowly. They shouldn't be on the planned obsolescent cellphone junk cycle.
PostmarketOS.
You're assuming a lot about this particular situation. Maybe the kid and parents are both just pieces of shit. I mean you kinda have to be to get a court order to throw your kid out.
Someone recently posted the Facebook earnings figures and it showed the #deletefacebook campaign barely put in a dent. No one except celebrities left the platform en-mass. Look at the list of backers in this particular campaign. It tells us something. I wrote about it here:
https://fightthefuture.org/article/facebook-politics-and-orwells-24-7-hate/
I suspect Zuckerberg plan for a presidential run pissed off some of the old rich. He young, he's a new kid, and the gods of old media wanted to put him in his place. All the focus has been on Facebook, when Google, Apple, Amazon, Adobe and even Microsoft collect just as much data and do the same types of analytics.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see Facebook broken apart too; and same with Google. I doubt this campaign will go anywhere though. It's a rich man's pissing contest. We're seeing the top 500 companies fight over relevance, and if anything, Facebook won that last round if you go by influence numbers.
This is the reality for web browsers. This is why I hated Chrome when it came out. Google made a closed source browser based on open components in Webkit/Gecko (it has since been opened under Chromium, but it didn't start that way).
We're pretty much in the same browser world that we are with most of our other "free" as in beer products.
No you're not. Everything is either webkit, chromium or gecko based today (or Titan for people who hate themselves). Firefox quantum is far from the performance beast we were told it was going to be. I'm on Vivaldi right now, but it follows the Chromium rendering engine (which itself was split from a hybrid webkit/gecko source years ago).
Pretty soon we'll be out of options. Remember when Firefox was the scaled down, super fast version of Mozilla? Today a web browser is a bloated heavy weight operating system in and of itself. There's no going back.
and having men only position kinda pushes that agenda too. Look at the most recent study on Uber drivers and pay inequality. Men and women typically make different choices and that's reinforced by what we're told our roles are in society.
I have a feeling a lot more men would peruse art, journalism, music and culture, if it wasn't for the idea that they need to "provider for their families." No matter how much of a progressive ethos we try to push, those beliefs hold in place because in the end, we do all have to pay the mortgage and buy groceries.
Chinese may have discovered that men are more likely to do the long, grueling unsavory work than women, and thus you have these ads.
The problem here is way way deeper. It's very apparent in a society like China where every member of society is expected to produce. We have the same in western societies; we just don't recognize it as much today. Every leader, for company to government, only cares about production (bringing in the money), to keep their supporters (generals, board members, etc.) filled with benefit and supports.
They made it impossible for one website to function and led to their censorship, then later backpedaled and claimed it was a mistake:
https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-censorship/
They're the last company I'd trust to prevent censorship.
Piled Higher Deeper is one of my favourite web comics. I read through the whole thing while I was working on my masters.
My last year and a half in the program, I'd go to work, then go to a coffee shop with my laptop, and either program and work on my thesis for a few hours, drink a beer, go home, sleep and repeat. When I was in embedded, I was there a lot of Saturdays too since most of the nice equipment was in the lab.
With all of that, I still prefer it to the "real world." I've been trying to get back in for a while to work on my PhD, but programs are getting more and more difficult to get into. I have a few publications now, so I should probably start visiting schools again.
But they already allow that. HTC, Samsung, etc. are just SoCs and memory slapped together with random chips connected to random pins. There are no standards for Google devices. They don't give a shit because it forces you to buy a new Google device ever two years in order to get upgrades.
At least Microsoft forced all their phones to support UEFI+ARM. Too bad their boot loaders are locked.
Because it's very difficult to replace Google apps.
No you're suppose to run adb shell and get out the insanely long hex code and type it in by hand, cause Google says, "fuck you."
But Lycos, Hotbot, AltaVista, DogPile and all the alternative indexes are gone. We're a search mono-culture. I use DuckDuckGo personally, but a good 1/3 of my searchers I add a !g if I can't find the results I want. There are some things I can't even find at all, kept in my notes but no longer present on any major search provider.
The Internet simply isn't as searchable as it once was.
Isn't it 30% of blogs sites? (i.e Drupal, Blogger, Ghost, etc.) This type of statistic has come up before and it just doesn't really hold up. It just doesn't make any sense when you look at the sheer number of websites with custom content management engines or which use big commercial software like CQ, Teamsite, etc.
Are ambulances covered under NHS in the UK? I know in Australia they're not covered under Medicare (although doctors and the ER is covered). Its still way cheaper there ($300 ~ $500 depending on the city, compared to >$500 with insurance in the US), but it seems like this is something the State should cover. Emergency is an essential service.
..how you can impose platform censorship under the name of preventing sex trafficking. Let's ignore all the rich and/or shitheads that get away with fucking kids and teens without consequence (politicians, the Catholic church, people in Hollywood, etc.) and look at what Craigslist and Backpage provide: prostitution. Is there illegal trafficking? Quite possibly, but there is also prostitution which is legal in the UK, Australia, NZ, much of Europe and a couple of counties in Nevada.
How about just legalizing prostitution, taxing/regulating it, and then go after actual sex traffickers and pedos, without compromising freedom of speech or making it much more difficult for smaller players to enter the walled gardens of content hosting, media distribution and social networks.
Yea I found this summary pretty sensational. I've heard the term you used, "memristors," and how HP was working on them a few years back. I might have understood the concept wrong though. Typically memory is where you store data and registers are units on the processor that act on that data (add, subtract, bitshift, or more complex instructions).
As I understood it, memristors would allow instructions to operate directly on memory without having to load or store. If you had enough memristors to load your program into them, you'd effectively run everything incredibly fast in place. However this would change the entire way we write programs and compilers.
You'd probably no longer have a stack, the purpose of a program counter would change entirely, and you'd start to get into the very gritty details of immutability and self modifying code. Even concepts like branch prediction would have to be entirely rethought. It'd be a larger diversion than even VLIW (e.g. EPIC/Itanium).
It'd be like quantum computing; incredibly powerful but requiring entirely different computing processes and mechanics.
Only 2% of studies showing antidepressants aren't effective get published:
https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_know_about_the_drugs_they_prescribe
This is a meta-analysis. Back when I was in grad school, we'd throw these in the garbage. You cannot account for controls across tens of studies, much less hundreds of studies. Unless the authors legitimately did a replication study writing before the meta-analysis, they're next to useless.
Beware of things that say things are confirmed without a doubt. Doubt is essential in all things involving science and research. You must continually doubt your axioms and question things; replication the true you think you know to be true.
https://khanism.org/science/doubt/
I know for me personally, anti-depressants were awful. The side effects were bad and I never liked taking them. I feel like regular behavioral therapy and talking with a good psychologist who'd help me see my options and my negative ways of thinking helped significantly more than anything else.
That being said, I know they help some people too, either real of placebo, with major depression. Doctor's are afraid to try therapy without drugs because of the liability if the patient harms themselves. I think this is really sad and that these drugs are way over prescribed. It's a tough issue to balance, but claiming crap like this study does (which is probably funded by the industry anyway) just leads to more confirmation bias and less incentive to come up with more effective treatments.
Yea, they could use the version from 2008 .. and while we're at it, lets' go back to the gmail web app from 2005! The one that wasn't garbage.
Didn't IBM abandon their tech that projected stuff onto your eyeballs back in the 90s because it ended up damaging your eyes?
> jaywalking = death penalty
There was a Star Trek TNG where a civilization had that.
Source for those who want it:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/paul-allen-megayacht-destroyed-most-of-protected-coral-reef-officials-say/