Seriously UI designers, stop color coding crap so much, especially in games. I had to give up my dream of 1CCing Raiden IV because I kept switching to the wrong powerup.
White UIs are the easiest to view/read when you're building everything with simple CSS. Companies like building everything with simple CSS because you can do an entire UI in text, no images. For a big company that's a lot of bandwidth.
and gets their twisted wood and sends it back. But a computer tells that contractor exactly how often "sometimes" really is. Occasionally they're off a bit in the wrong directly... and modern logistics gets him his shortage in a few days instead of weeks.
Folks really underestimate how tight the supply chain's gotten and what computers have made possible. I think we were expecting flying cars by now. What we got was cheap 2 day shipping. But if you're old enough to remember sending away for something and waiting 8 weeks you understand what a revolution that is...
There's a 3 part anime I wanted to buy (Kizumonogatari) and I had to wait an extra 3 weeks before parts 1 and 3 showed up in search results. I later found out if I'd drilled down into the categories they were there.
most of the cool stuff being done these days isn't consumer tech or code monkey level. That stuff has mostly settled down and standardized. There's plenty of tech out there but it's stuff like complex biotech research for a specific illness or figuring out how the next step to marginally cheaper 7nm tech. Complex and incremental and therefore poor fodder for a web forum.
To be fair streaming TV & Movies are pretty nerdie.
a movie is, it's a popularity contest. There's nothing wrong with that. If you're in the business of making moves you spend most of your time/money on figuring out what's going to be the most popular, not what's going to be the best artistically/thematically.
RT not so good for film historians but great for consumer trends. If you're trying to build a stable of content it's a decent enough barometer.
the world would step in. We're pretty desensitized but a mass genocide would get our attention. Go check the old Testament. There's no shortage of genocides there. And for good measure check just about any other Holy Book you care to name. Genocide has been the default for most of human history.
Palestinians hate Israel because they keep getting their land snatched and impoverished as a result. They're getting away with it because there's a significant portion of Christians (especially in America) who want to see Israel take the land because they believe that will bring the rapture. No joke. They're a significant and reliable voting block for the American Republican Party and that's one of the issues they hang their hat on.
Yes, lots of Palestinians do bad things. They also lack food and water security. People do bad things when you put them up against a wall. Meanwhile Israeli snipers are regularly shooting protestors with rock slings from half a mile away and the occasional children and there's hardly a peep. That's gonna get under some people's skin.
The US constantly destabilizing the region for the sake of oil profits caused the rise of ISIS. We put religious whack jobs in charge because they agreed to give us the oil in exchange for power. Iran was well on it's way to modernizing (there's pictures of girls in skirts from the 50s) until we put the Shah in power.
And before that the whole mess is because we drew up the borders with England & Russia post WWII without any regard to who lived where and whether they got along.
We're about to blow up Venezuela and we'll see a huge influx of refugees as a result. All we needed to do was skip the sanctions and put diplomatic pressure on them to modernize and keep their elections clean. But that would mean letting them keep their own oil.
These problems would go away if we'd stop screwing with countries.
Moreover if you've been paying any attention there's been massive productivity boosts in all those fields. My company is throwing up a new building for a little over 1000 employees in 10 months. When I was a kid that kind of thing took years. They've had these puppies for at least 10 years now. I'm sure you can find equivalent tech in plumbing if you know where to look.
As for carpentry, I know some blue collar guys pissed because they used to get free wood at job sites when the job was over. That's all stopped. They order exactly what they need and it comes pre cut. There's your automation. It happens at a factory and a computer automatically handles the logistics of getting it there. Before long you won't even need the drivers. Just a couple of day laborers to unload it all and hammer it together...
And if they do start piling up, who's to blame? Is it the small, impoverished third world nation that's been trying to modernize itself or the giant empire that's been throwing economic sanctions at them non stop?
Maybe Venezuela could have pulled out of their nose dive with a bit of international help. Maybe they could have had Democracy and permanent first world nation status with just a friendly push in the right direction. But we'll never know, because to be blunt somebody is after their oil and by God and Country they're gonna get it...
I don't expect to get much of anywhere with this line of thought and it frustrates me. The US has been fucking with the rest of the Americans non stop for over a century.
I know where not supposed to bitch about mods but come one. It's 2019. We have the internet. We're adults (mostly,/.'s readership is getting up there in years). We should be able to figure out the difference between socialism and using Karl Marx's rhetoric to get the rubes to buy in. We should be able to understand the difference between Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders when they both promise us Universal Healthcare. We shouldn't trust our gov't when it tells us Venezuela's bad when that same gov't supports the Saudi's who just murdered one of our journalists and got away with it. We should be able to see the pattern of destabilizing nations and then using the refuges as jingoistic props.
Go look up some of their interviews with AOC where they desperately try to get negative sound bites out of her. Go look up their coverage to the run up of the Iraq war. Go look up their coverage of the 2008 market crash and bail out.
MSNBC & CNN are left of center on social issues (Gay rights, Abortion, general civil rights, etc). They're that way because they're corporatists, and they go with whatever has the least controversy and generates the most money. Gays money spends well, so they're for Gay rights. 70% of americans support Abortion rights, so they're for Abortion rights.
But on anything economic they're right. Hard right. Go read or watch Norm Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". The mainstream media is _not_ on your side.
super cheap labor in China & India made automation pointless. Why buy a robot for $100k when you can have a Chinaman for $.30 cents an hour.
Well guess what, computers and robots are much, much cheaper now and that Chinaman wants a higher standard of living (he's been promised it since Mao and has broke his back for it). The rich don't wanna pay for all that increased standard of living though, so here comes automation.
the problem is that the jobs men traditionally do are most likely to be automated. That's it. That's all there is to it. You can't really automate watching kids, for example, because kids are emotional and except a parental figure to be near. So short of perfect androids that ain't happening. People want nurses still. And yes, they want doctors, but there are a lot more nurses than doctors.
Also, to be blunt, women do better academically than men. The reason's really simple: girls calm down and start studying and an earlier age than boys so they get an extra year or two of education.
Yes, this does mean we're going to eventually need to start shifting from helping girls catch up (necessary because they were discouraged from doing anything short of having babies for hundreds of years) to helping boys catch up.
The trick is doing this rationally and without it devolving into identity politics from both sides used to distract us all from economic issues. Right wing Dems like identity politics because it lets them pretend to be progressive while supporting the same supply side/trickle down economics as the GOP does. Meanwhile the subject is so emotionally charged it's easy to rile people up and point them at the polls to vote for whoever without considering the economic factors involved.
The solution is a) more education for everyone (if nothing else it'll help absorb some of the unnecessary workforce) and b) be wary of anyone who talks identity politics without also talking sound, demand side economics.
shenanigans. And I know this is whataboutism to an extent, but go look up US Voter Suppression sometime. There's tampering of some sort in most elections. That said I've yet to see any evidence that the Venezuela election was on par with what Putin does (where the opposition has to leave the country and go into hiding).
What I want to see is for us to stop fucking with the rest of the Americas. That'll stop the flood of refugees and stabilize their countries and ours. Then maybe we can calm the blue collar guys down, get them real jobs and get them to start pushing policies that benefit them, me and the whole country.
to the discussion. Venezuela's problems have more to do with the collapsing price of oil and the most powerful nation on earth cutting them out of the global banking network via sanctions.
Venezuela is a small island nation that only recently became a civilized place when their Dictator, for reasons of his own, decided to share some wealth with the general population. This was not OK. The powers that be do not want this. That oil was theirs. He can have his banana republic but they get the oil. That's how this works.
While we're talking about things our media never seems to say, how about we talk about where all those refugees that our president just shut down our government (to the tune of $11 billion in loses, $3 of which we'll never get back) came from?
You want more refugees? You want more folks streaming over the boarder taking your jobs? This is how you get that. You destabilize a country so rich people can step in and steal the oil. Then you impoverish a country for generations which means violence and folks desperate enough to cross an ocean on a raft.
But I haven't heard a bloody peep about that from the media. When it comes to war (and make no mistake, they're gearing up to put boots on the ground just like they did with Syria) the media never met one they didn't like. That more than anything tells you who's _really_ in charge of this country, and it sure as hell ain't you and me.
He's the democratically elected representative of the nation.
This is what happens when you boycott elections. Lefties in America stayed home because they didn't like Hilary and that got us Trump. Elections have consequences.
But it's more than that. I'm guessing the opposition party boycotted the election so they could de-legitimize Maduro in preparation for the US to help them over throw the government. Then they'll hand us the oil in exchange for power.
but I've read that Saudi Arabia (with our urging) kept oil prices artificially low to destabilize Venezuela for an eventual coup. I could believe it.
Venezuela was a third world hell hole that did the unthinkable: they took some of their oil money and used it to benefit the working class. That can't be sitting well with our ruling elites. I'm not saying everything they did was puppies and kittens fun. But given where they started and where they were (until the price of oil collapsed) and given that instead of helping them while encouraging democracy the United States put sanctions on them I think they've done alright.
Duterte is doing way, way worse things and we're buddy/buddy with him. But he's also serving our corporate interests unquestionably...
but he is the democratically elected representative of the nation. The opposition party decided to boycott the election. I haven't heard anyone say it was out of fear of reprisals either (ala Russia). The fact that there _is_ an opposition party indicates that Maduro isn't doing pogroms.
I think this is our CIA gearing up for more "liberation". Here's a series of clips of Donald Trump saying the quiet part out loud. e.g. we're going in to steal their oil. You can argue that Maduro was gonna steal it anyway, and maybe you're right. But that doesn't make us doing it right.
The part I really hate though is that the American war mongers start trouble south of the border and then use the refugees they created to frighten people into voting for them. That's where those "caravans" are coming from. That's just insane that it works...
Not trolling here, I say this on every thread. I don't trust nuclear for the United States.
I've yet to see a reactor that's cheaper to run safe than unsafe and that's the bar America needs. Americans like to privatize thing. A lot. We also have a strong distrust in government regulation.
What I see happening is the same thing that happened in Fukushima: Reactor gets built, 20-30 years later it's time to decommission it. It's been handed off to a private company that wants to keep making money off it. Cost of building a new reactor is X. Cost of buying off politician to weaken oversight it Y. If X - Y is positive you go with the bribes. Sooner or later there's a disaster, but you're the CEO. You don't live in the area, can blame the engineers, will tie everything up in court and you've got a PR firm that'll make it stick.
Maybe nukes work in Europe where folks don't distrust their government as much and/or are better educated and thus more capable of resisting calls to privatize things that should not be privatized. But not in America. Fix out social & political situation first.
that's what compulsory education is for. What's hard to immunize against is propaganda. There's a big anti-science movement in America being pushed by corporate interests that don't want to pay for things like public health.
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and the answer is none. None more black.
I'm red/green color blind.
Seriously UI designers, stop color coding crap so much, especially in games. I had to give up my dream of 1CCing Raiden IV because I kept switching to the wrong powerup.
White UIs are the easiest to view/read when you're building everything with simple CSS. Companies like building everything with simple CSS because you can do an entire UI in text, no images. For a big company that's a lot of bandwidth.
and gets their twisted wood and sends it back. But a computer tells that contractor exactly how often "sometimes" really is. Occasionally they're off a bit in the wrong directly... and modern logistics gets him his shortage in a few days instead of weeks.
Folks really underestimate how tight the supply chain's gotten and what computers have made possible. I think we were expecting flying cars by now. What we got was cheap 2 day shipping. But if you're old enough to remember sending away for something and waiting 8 weeks you understand what a revolution that is...
There's a 3 part anime I wanted to buy (Kizumonogatari) and I had to wait an extra 3 weeks before parts 1 and 3 showed up in search results. I later found out if I'd drilled down into the categories they were there.
most of the cool stuff being done these days isn't consumer tech or code monkey level. That stuff has mostly settled down and standardized. There's plenty of tech out there but it's stuff like complex biotech research for a specific illness or figuring out how the next step to marginally cheaper 7nm tech. Complex and incremental and therefore poor fodder for a web forum.
To be fair streaming TV & Movies are pretty nerdie.
a movie is, it's a popularity contest. There's nothing wrong with that. If you're in the business of making moves you spend most of your time/money on figuring out what's going to be the most popular, not what's going to be the best artistically/thematically.
RT not so good for film historians but great for consumer trends. If you're trying to build a stable of content it's a decent enough barometer.
the world would step in. We're pretty desensitized but a mass genocide would get our attention. Go check the old Testament. There's no shortage of genocides there. And for good measure check just about any other Holy Book you care to name. Genocide has been the default for most of human history.
Palestinians hate Israel because they keep getting their land snatched and impoverished as a result. They're getting away with it because there's a significant portion of Christians (especially in America) who want to see Israel take the land because they believe that will bring the rapture. No joke. They're a significant and reliable voting block for the American Republican Party and that's one of the issues they hang their hat on.
Yes, lots of Palestinians do bad things. They also lack food and water security. People do bad things when you put them up against a wall. Meanwhile Israeli snipers are regularly shooting protestors with rock slings from half a mile away and the occasional children and there's hardly a peep. That's gonna get under some people's skin.
The US constantly destabilizing the region for the sake of oil profits caused the rise of ISIS. We put religious whack jobs in charge because they agreed to give us the oil in exchange for power. Iran was well on it's way to modernizing (there's pictures of girls in skirts from the 50s) until we put the Shah in power. And before that the whole mess is because we drew up the borders with England & Russia post WWII without any regard to who lived where and whether they got along.
We're about to blow up Venezuela and we'll see a huge influx of refugees as a result. All we needed to do was skip the sanctions and put diplomatic pressure on them to modernize and keep their elections clean. But that would mean letting them keep their own oil.
These problems would go away if we'd stop screwing with countries.
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Moreover if you've been paying any attention there's been massive productivity boosts in all those fields. My company is throwing up a new building for a little over 1000 employees in 10 months. When I was a kid that kind of thing took years. They've had these puppies for at least 10 years now. I'm sure you can find equivalent tech in plumbing if you know where to look.
As for carpentry, I know some blue collar guys pissed because they used to get free wood at job sites when the job was over. That's all stopped. They order exactly what they need and it comes pre cut. There's your automation. It happens at a factory and a computer automatically handles the logistics of getting it there. Before long you won't even need the drivers. Just a couple of day laborers to unload it all and hammer it together...
no.
And if they do start piling up, who's to blame? Is it the small, impoverished third world nation that's been trying to modernize itself or the giant empire that's been throwing economic sanctions at them non stop?
/.'s readership is getting up there in years). We should be able to figure out the difference between socialism and using Karl Marx's rhetoric to get the rubes to buy in. We should be able to understand the difference between Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders when they both promise us Universal Healthcare. We shouldn't trust our gov't when it tells us Venezuela's bad when that same gov't supports the Saudi's who just murdered one of our journalists and got away with it. We should be able to see the pattern of destabilizing nations and then using the refuges as jingoistic props.
Maybe Venezuela could have pulled out of their nose dive with a bit of international help. Maybe they could have had Democracy and permanent first world nation status with just a friendly push in the right direction. But we'll never know, because to be blunt somebody is after their oil and by God and Country they're gonna get it...
I don't expect to get much of anywhere with this line of thought and it frustrates me. The US has been fucking with the rest of the Americans non stop for over a century.
I know where not supposed to bitch about mods but come one. It's 2019. We have the internet. We're adults (mostly,
Fuck. I mean, just fuck.
Go look up some of their interviews with AOC where they desperately try to get negative sound bites out of her. Go look up their coverage to the run up of the Iraq war. Go look up their coverage of the 2008 market crash and bail out.
MSNBC & CNN are left of center on social issues (Gay rights, Abortion, general civil rights, etc). They're that way because they're corporatists, and they go with whatever has the least controversy and generates the most money. Gays money spends well, so they're for Gay rights. 70% of americans support Abortion rights, so they're for Abortion rights.
But on anything economic they're right. Hard right. Go read or watch Norm Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". The mainstream media is _not_ on your side.
super cheap labor in China & India made automation pointless. Why buy a robot for $100k when you can have a Chinaman for $.30 cents an hour.
Well guess what, computers and robots are much, much cheaper now and that Chinaman wants a higher standard of living (he's been promised it since Mao and has broke his back for it). The rich don't wanna pay for all that increased standard of living though, so here comes automation.
the problem is that the jobs men traditionally do are most likely to be automated. That's it. That's all there is to it. You can't really automate watching kids, for example, because kids are emotional and except a parental figure to be near. So short of perfect androids that ain't happening. People want nurses still. And yes, they want doctors, but there are a lot more nurses than doctors.
Also, to be blunt, women do better academically than men. The reason's really simple: girls calm down and start studying and an earlier age than boys so they get an extra year or two of education.
Yes, this does mean we're going to eventually need to start shifting from helping girls catch up (necessary because they were discouraged from doing anything short of having babies for hundreds of years) to helping boys catch up.
The trick is doing this rationally and without it devolving into identity politics from both sides used to distract us all from economic issues. Right wing Dems like identity politics because it lets them pretend to be progressive while supporting the same supply side/trickle down economics as the GOP does. Meanwhile the subject is so emotionally charged it's easy to rile people up and point them at the polls to vote for whoever without considering the economic factors involved.
The solution is a) more education for everyone (if nothing else it'll help absorb some of the unnecessary workforce) and b) be wary of anyone who talks identity politics without also talking sound, demand side economics.
shenanigans. And I know this is whataboutism to an extent, but go look up US Voter Suppression sometime. There's tampering of some sort in most elections. That said I've yet to see any evidence that the Venezuela election was on par with what Putin does (where the opposition has to leave the country and go into hiding).
What I want to see is for us to stop fucking with the rest of the Americas. That'll stop the flood of refugees and stabilize their countries and ours. Then maybe we can calm the blue collar guys down, get them real jobs and get them to start pushing policies that benefit them, me and the whole country.
to the discussion. Venezuela's problems have more to do with the collapsing price of oil and the most powerful nation on earth cutting them out of the global banking network via sanctions.
Venezuela is a small island nation that only recently became a civilized place when their Dictator, for reasons of his own, decided to share some wealth with the general population. This was not OK. The powers that be do not want this. That oil was theirs. He can have his banana republic but they get the oil. That's how this works.
While we're talking about things our media never seems to say, how about we talk about where all those refugees that our president just shut down our government (to the tune of $11 billion in loses, $3 of which we'll never get back) came from?
You want more refugees? You want more folks streaming over the boarder taking your jobs? This is how you get that. You destabilize a country so rich people can step in and steal the oil. Then you impoverish a country for generations which means violence and folks desperate enough to cross an ocean on a raft.
But I haven't heard a bloody peep about that from the media. When it comes to war (and make no mistake, they're gearing up to put boots on the ground just like they did with Syria) the media never met one they didn't like. That more than anything tells you who's _really_ in charge of this country, and it sure as hell ain't you and me.
He's the democratically elected representative of the nation.
This is what happens when you boycott elections. Lefties in America stayed home because they didn't like Hilary and that got us Trump. Elections have consequences.
But it's more than that. I'm guessing the opposition party boycotted the election so they could de-legitimize Maduro in preparation for the US to help them over throw the government. Then they'll hand us the oil in exchange for power.
but I've read that Saudi Arabia (with our urging) kept oil prices artificially low to destabilize Venezuela for an eventual coup. I could believe it.
Venezuela was a third world hell hole that did the unthinkable: they took some of their oil money and used it to benefit the working class. That can't be sitting well with our ruling elites. I'm not saying everything they did was puppies and kittens fun. But given where they started and where they were (until the price of oil collapsed) and given that instead of helping them while encouraging democracy the United States put sanctions on them I think they've done alright.
Duterte is doing way, way worse things and we're buddy/buddy with him. But he's also serving our corporate interests unquestionably...
but he is the democratically elected representative of the nation. The opposition party decided to boycott the election. I haven't heard anyone say it was out of fear of reprisals either (ala Russia). The fact that there _is_ an opposition party indicates that Maduro isn't doing pogroms.
I think this is our CIA gearing up for more "liberation". Here's a series of clips of Donald Trump saying the quiet part out loud. e.g. we're going in to steal their oil. You can argue that Maduro was gonna steal it anyway, and maybe you're right. But that doesn't make us doing it right.
The part I really hate though is that the American war mongers start trouble south of the border and then use the refugees they created to frighten people into voting for them. That's where those "caravans" are coming from. That's just insane that it works...
or it could just be the LSD....
Not trolling here, I say this on every thread. I don't trust nuclear for the United States.
I've yet to see a reactor that's cheaper to run safe than unsafe and that's the bar America needs. Americans like to privatize thing. A lot. We also have a strong distrust in government regulation.
What I see happening is the same thing that happened in Fukushima: Reactor gets built, 20-30 years later it's time to decommission it. It's been handed off to a private company that wants to keep making money off it. Cost of building a new reactor is X. Cost of buying off politician to weaken oversight it Y. If X - Y is positive you go with the bribes. Sooner or later there's a disaster, but you're the CEO. You don't live in the area, can blame the engineers, will tie everything up in court and you've got a PR firm that'll make it stick.
Finally, I'll just leave this little gem right here.
Maybe nukes work in Europe where folks don't distrust their government as much and/or are better educated and thus more capable of resisting calls to privatize things that should not be privatized. But not in America. Fix out social & political situation first.
Also, each programmer will be given a parcel of ocean front property in Kansas.
that's what compulsory education is for. What's hard to immunize against is propaganda. There's a big anti-science movement in America being pushed by corporate interests that don't want to pay for things like public health.
here's a great video on the subject of police militarization.
TL;DW, the military has weapons meant for killing people and don't understand when/why not to use them.