The Economist's 1843 magazine details one middle-aged writer's (Andrew Smith) quest to learn to cook for the first time, after becoming interested in the "alien" logic mechanisms that power completely new phenomena like oven cooking and effectively make the modern world function in the 21st Century. The writer discovers that there are over 1,700 actively used recipes to choose from, and that every chef that he asks "Where should someone like me start with cooking?" contradicts the next in his or her recommendation. One seasoned chef tells him that chefs discussing what recipe is best is the equivalent of watching "religious wars." The writer is stunned by how many of these recipes were created by unpaid individuals who often built them for "glory and the hell of it." He is also amazed by how many people help each other with cooking problems on the internet every day, and the kitchen chef culture that non-technical people are oblivious of.
Eventually the writer finds a chart of the most popular recipes online, and discovers that these are Beef,Chicken and Pork. The syntax of each of these recipes looks indecipherable to him. The writer, with some help from online tutorials, then learns how to cook a basic recipe that tastes a lot like orange hair marmalade with small hands. The article is interesting in that it shows what the "alien world of cooking" looks like to people who are not already kitchen nerds and in fact know very little about how the chemistry of cooking works. There are many interesting observations on cooking/chef culture in the article, seen through the lens of someone who is not a cooking nerd and who has not spent the last two decades hanging out on BigCookDot or Potoverflow.
Futures are used to manipulate the prices of commodities.... By not having to actually own the underlying commodity, the 'futures' contracts bought and sold create a artificial system which allows control over a resource. Unless the futures sellers are required to actually OWN the bitcoins they are selling 'in the future'...which gets real fuzzy, real fast.
Its not the feds/locals. Private companies use tech to do the monitoring, then sell the info to the feds. Feds never do it. Constitution is not violated.
Ok, if I were assigned the task to obtain your 'info', heres how it would go down.
First assume you encrypt everything, and use a vpn, and we've not been able to usb/social into your systems or hear/see you type your password(s)...and your info is time critical.
Either we'd detcord into a wall (never through the door), and grab everything and be out quick, grabbing YOU if your there and it can be arranged. Then, if your smart, you make sure your not there. If your not, and your dumb and we know who you are, we pick up your family/friends and let you know all is good if you turn over the info we need. If you ARE there, we get the info within the hour from you, no problem, if somehow your a 'strong' one, we pick up your loved ones and you get to decide when to give us the intel.
Just truecrypt your machine and use a vpn, then don't worry about the rest.... Keep it simple and hard to crack if they get everything, assume everything gets taken away, and make sure they can't do anything even then. Of course, thumb screws will make you give everything up....if they are used on the right person
Prefbar is awesome, you can with a single click enable/disable flash,javascript,cookies, you can click and clear you cache, or clear all...lots of options in a single bar, easy to enable disable each. There are sites I goto where I want javascript and images OFF...easy to do...
Write code in a way you'd like to read it, if you didn't write it and had to fix/extend it.
If you've been programming since the early 80's, you've probably had to go back to code you wrote 10+ years before on occasion. If its written well, (haha) with good comments and variable/function names, you'll spend almost no time getting it to work again. Clarity is key, avoiding writing code which makes debugging difficult, I often create a local var and pass it to a function when I could just put it in the function call. Why? Well, I can easily look at it in the debugger, the little extra effort of a local var gets optimized out anyway, and it makes debugging a LOT faster.
Great! Now if only I could resize a whole slew of windows....I know its new tech, and very hard to do, but pulling at the edges of a window SHOULD let you RESIZE IT... hold on to your gravy grandpa! Just the most relevant example, the path window itself in windows does NOT let you resize it, there are also several in visual studio which have huge lines in them, but nope, can't resize them, they are the perfect size!
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The Economist's 1843 magazine details one middle-aged writer's (Andrew Smith) quest to learn to cook for the first time, after becoming interested in the "alien" logic mechanisms that power completely new phenomena like oven cooking and effectively make the modern world function in the 21st Century. The writer discovers that there are over 1,700 actively used recipes to choose from, and that every chef that he asks "Where should someone like me start with cooking?" contradicts the next in his or her recommendation. One seasoned chef tells him that chefs discussing what recipe is best is the equivalent of watching "religious wars." The writer is stunned by how many of these recipes were created by unpaid individuals who often built them for "glory and the hell of it." He is also amazed by how many people help each other with cooking problems on the internet every day, and the kitchen chef culture that non-technical people are oblivious of.
Eventually the writer finds a chart of the most popular recipes online, and discovers that these are Beef,Chicken and Pork. The syntax of each of these recipes looks indecipherable to him. The writer, with some help from online tutorials, then learns how to cook a basic recipe that tastes a lot like orange hair marmalade with small hands. The article is interesting in that it shows what the "alien world of cooking" looks like to people who are not already kitchen nerds and in fact know very little about how the chemistry of cooking works. There are many interesting observations on cooking/chef culture in the article, seen through the lens of someone who is not a cooking nerd and who has not spent the last two decades hanging out on BigCookDot or Potoverflow.
Yes, 1843, that sounds about the right year for this article to have been written
Here in Canada as of last November you cannot sell any phone locked...its the law.
Futures are used to manipulate the prices of commodities....
By not having to actually own the underlying commodity, the 'futures' contracts bought and sold create a artificial system which allows control over a resource. Unless the futures sellers are required to actually OWN the bitcoins they are selling 'in the future'...which gets real fuzzy, real fast.
Do everyone a favor, just shut down.
The USA has NEVER been a Democracy, never. Thats just a fact, its a republic, theres a difference.
Forget Intel chips, use AMD
www.mycroft.ai, the only open source personal assistant I know of, support it and you'll always be in control!
Its simple https://mycroft.ai/
Keep your digital assistant open source and you never have to worry
This is simple unprofessional behavior, unacceptable, period.
If these children cannot act like adults they should be fired.
True.
thank goodness its april 1st, I was just heading back to soylentnews.org
Yay, right back at ya!
Reflective coatings...what then?
Its not the feds/locals.
Private companies use tech to do the monitoring, then sell the info to the feds.
Feds never do it. Constitution is not violated.
Ok, if I were assigned the task to obtain your 'info', heres how it would go down.
First assume you encrypt everything, and use a vpn, and we've not been able to usb/social into your systems or hear/see you type your password(s)...and your info is time critical.
Either we'd detcord into a wall (never through the door), and grab everything and be out quick, grabbing YOU if your there and it can be arranged.
Then, if your smart, you make sure your not there.
If your not, and your dumb and we know who you are, we pick up your family/friends and let you know all is good if you turn over the info we need.
If you ARE there, we get the info within the hour from you, no problem, if somehow your a 'strong' one, we pick up your loved ones and you get to decide when to give us the intel.
Just truecrypt your machine and use a vpn, then don't worry about the rest....
Keep it simple and hard to crack if they get everything, assume everything gets taken away, and make sure they can't do anything even then.
Of course, thumb screws will make you give everything up....if they are used on the right person
wire.com
telegram.org
open source, 'secure'...
How about Telegram? https://telegram.org/
or wire?
Prefbar is awesome, you can with a single click enable/disable flash,javascript,cookies, you can click and clear you cache, or clear all...lots of options in a single bar, easy to enable disable each.
There are sites I goto where I want javascript and images OFF...easy to do...
Write code in a way you'd like to read it, if you didn't write it and had to fix/extend it.
If you've been programming since the early 80's, you've probably had to go back to code you wrote 10+ years before on occasion.
If its written well, (haha) with good comments and variable/function names, you'll spend almost no time getting it to work again.
Clarity is key, avoiding writing code which makes debugging difficult, I often create a local var and pass it to a function when I could just put it in the function call. Why? Well, I can easily look at it in the debugger, the little extra effort of a local var gets optimized out anyway, and it makes debugging a LOT faster.
What if you could produce rocket fuel in outer space -- making it 83% cheaper?
Hey ULA, here's a unique idea for you, think how cheap space would be if you could reuse your rocket bits instead of burning them up!
Seriously, ULA is a big, overgrown fat, lazy organization....its days are numbered, trying to make headlines this way is a sign of its failure
They need to catch up with the competition before anyone will take their ideas seriously.
Great!
Now if only I could resize a whole slew of windows....I know its new tech, and very hard to do, but pulling at the edges of a window SHOULD let you RESIZE IT...
hold on to your gravy grandpa!
Just the most relevant example, the path window itself in windows does NOT let you resize it, there are also several in visual studio which have huge lines in them, but nope, can't resize them, they are the perfect size!
We need a Icon of Pants on Fire for posts like this one, which talk about imaginary things which do not exist.
Liar liar pants on fire, the raspberry PI is NOT for sale, the zero in the name is the number available for $5.00
Apple! Mwahahahahahahahahhaha
Wonder how much a Iphone with one of these will cost...
Everyone else can just buy one and slip it in their phone, not hAPPLEss users.