This reminds me of a passage I read recently... I think it was from Uncle Tom's Cabin. There's a slave, trying to get a third party to do something or other, and the slave tells the third party that they simply must do this thing, otherwise, the slaves master will beat him, and it will be the fault of the third party.
The people behind the propaganda embedded in these websites don't built houses, they don't plant food. They're middle men. Humanity has no need for them. It's been pretty clearly demonstrated that people in information technology are capable of putting middle men out of business. It's so easy we do it in our spare time.
You can see talent by watching children. They haven't had much time for skill to be a big factor, and raw talent wins the day. People naturally tend to enjoy things they're talented at, and become skilled at them, but when you throw money into the equation, you get people who aren't talented entering the field, and sometimes they become quite skilled and valuable. They are the ones that will act as a buffer against enthusiasts replacing perfectly good systems with something shiny and new for no particular reason. People you see here talking about being "lazy programmers" are probably skilled rather than talented... talented people tend to give you brilliance if you challenge them properly, but if you bore them too much you end up with a Rube Goldberg machine full of fun ways to use techniques they recently learned.
It would be nice to have a key piece of intellectual property that everyone needs, so I could enforce it in the most draconian way possible. Then I'd tell the public that I'm screwing them because they the people elect people who make the stupid laws that cause it to be possible, and offer to donate my wealth to their legal efforts to permanently stop people like me, if they get off their collective asses and mount such a legal effort.
This is a key part of permaculture, using plants that establish such relationships to build soil mass. Members of the legume family, peas and beans, already do this. So do trees like Russian Olive. These plants are capable of demonstrating "weedy" like behavior in that they can land in places that have nothing, establish a toe hold and grow and build soil as they die over generations. So, if you're an environmentalist who is horrified that "icky algae" is being displaced by something new, you might hate these types of plants, but really, they are pioneering plants that build fertility. I spent a lot of time researching what types of plants with these characteristics would grow in my local area because I'm interested in building a "Food Forest". Look up some of Geoff Lawton's videos on the subject, it's fascinating stuff.
The idea that something like this is a threat is kind of laughable. It would be an incredible boon. People are already purchasing bacteria and rubbing it into their seeds to give them a good start, but the bacteria only form the necessary symbiotic relationship on a small selection of plants.
I'll be sharing this with some of the folks at the local community farm I'm involved with who know more about the subject than I and see what they make of it, that's for sure...
How does monogamy change who is in competition with whom? There is no evolutionary mechanism to enforce monogamy. From a purely genetic standpoint there is no benefit to monogamy for a strong male.
Articles like this are just freeze dried beef pasta boiled up in 100 gallon vats and thrown to the neckbeards who gobble it up while slathering vaseline and yanking each other off.
Shit isn't even pretending to be science any more. It's just some asshole in a lab coat leading a revivial in a Kentucky tent.
The argument is that your statement about a strong male being better off without monogamy seems right but isn't, because if strong males fail to stick around and ensure the children they conceived survive to reach adulthood and carry on the cycle, it won't happen, and their "strong" genes will be wiped from the face of the earth.
The answer is, populations with the compulsion to sacrifice themselves on behalf of the group are more likely to reproduce themselves and abide, while populations without this compulsion are more likely to see their population decline and cease to exist.
The existence of human beings is a testament to this. We, ourselves, are a culture of cells that work together and sacrifice themselves for the good of the culture. When they stop doing so, the composite being that we are dies, and ALL the cells that make us up also die.
This device in particular only has 16 or 64 cores, but the Epiphany processor apparently scales up to 4,096 processors on a single chip. And, the board itself is open source.
So, if you developed software that needed more grunt than these boards provide, you could pay to get it made for you quite easily.
Uh, no. Laziness accounts for the wheel, fire, steel, assembly line, powered flight and every form of transportation ever, computers in general, all of robotics, electricity, gps and satellite communications, the internet - pretty much all inventions which increase efficiency of any kind.
People want to sit around doing nothing all day but stuff keeps getting in the way - we need food, shelter, protection from people more lazy than our selves (who want to steal our food and shelter) and we need to not die from illness or natural disaster. Add in the procreative urge and everything else falls out as a result of an fitness algorithm that has been running for hundreds of thousands of years now (at least with a modern human brain running it).
That's such utter bullshit. These brilliant inventions don't come from ordinary Joe's who want to sit around doing nothing. They come from visionary geniuses who are compulsively driven to bring those visions to reality.
I lay no claim to be a Tesla or an Einstein, but I've still created tools that have empowered mankind and transformed the lives of billions, and I didn't do it because I was lazy, and I didn't do it to get rich, and I didn't do it because I thought anyone was going to be grateful.
I did because I want to feel like Atlas. In my own small way, I am. And that'll do.
I have to say, I can understand how they would view the UN in such a way. The UN's policies are pretty firm in their pushing of dependence, which is unsurprising given the way the wealthier and more influential nations are able to control it.
If you don't give a shit, then why are you putting up a fuss about it?
Well, the government just passed "gender adjustment surgery" legislation last week around here. So, now my taxes are going to be used to pay to sexually mutilate the mentally ill. I'm kind of pissed off about it, frankly. So, I come to Slashdot looking for technical news, there's an article about how rotten I am because I don't build databases to cater to the sensibilities of these mentally ill people.
Why can't you freaks just quietly live out your strange little existence without making such an annoyance of yourselves? A decade ago, I used to say "they're not causing trouble, just leave them alone". Now, all I think to myself is "they're perverting our entire society, and driving me crazy with their constant drama, will someone please just shut them the fuck up".
How stupid to you have to be to think vanity has anything to do with it?
Vanity is the only thing it has to do with. Most people just don't want to fucking hear about it one way or the other. We've got our own shit to deal with. It's just toweringly arrogant to think that other people are meant to give a shit.
Maybe we should have 3 sexes... Man, Woman, and Uman. Him, Her, Hum.
Men have no mental or physical conditions that make them unable to impregnate women.
Women have no mental or physical conditions that make them unable to be impregnated by men.
Umen have mental or physical conditions that make them reproductively unviable.
Gender, as distinct from Sex, can just go the fuck away. How vain do you have to be to think other people are supposed to care about what you've "declared" your gender to be?
The latter is a more accurate description. There was a good Futurama episode that illustrated it well. But you and I and all mankind will be dead long enough before to make it rather academic.
I prefer to think that time is a spatial dimension, and that we all abide eternally as 4 dimensional objects, experiencing our own creation. No heaven, no hell, except inasmuch as the eternal form that I create each day is painful or joyful... but, no ending, either.
I think of the universe as an object of finite mass/energy whose least complex state is the singularity, the thing that banged big, and our universe is one of many possible permutations. There are some that erupt out briefly, simple, not formed to sustain much complexity, and others as complex as this, and more.
There are natural forces pushing us out, and others drawing us in, and their tension makes form possible.
We're alive. We're part of the natural forces creating complexity, and were not alone, life is in fact spontaneously created by the laws of the multiverse.
Thats where morality comes from, and beauty, and everything decent. Our push to make this universe as complex as we can, because its beautiful.
And people, in their teeming masses of billions, their 4d shapes spiraling around this stone like ribbons, are more beautiful than a sparsely populated stone.
Anyone who wants to cut that short is on the winning side in the end, but I want to try and set the stage for trillions someday, and fuck the opposed.
Selfishness? No, Selfishness is having too many kids, it's rather selfless to not reproduce.
Selfishness is not having kids but expecting that you're going to be cared for by other peoples kids. It's selfishness when it's done by the individual, and it's selfish when it's done as an "immigration" policy. Face it. We, as a culture, transformed sex into a sport, and now we survive by stealing other peoples children. It's worst in North America... this continent is where genetic material comes to die.
Eventually, the universe will reach heat death where all useful energy has been used.
That's not going to happen.
Also, technological advances are a CONSEQUENCE of large populations. Small populations huddle around fires. Large populations are in everyone's best interest.
Personally, I like games that are entirely abstracted down to strategic considerations. Art makes games worse. Chess doesn't need art. Go doesn't need art. Crap games need art.
your example is no more and no less applicable to imperial units. In each case, you get a third. How do you write a third of a cake? Maybe you take the perimeter or the area and divide by three. Suppose the perimeter is 11 inches. What's that divided by 3? 3.66666(...) inches. Since the inch is subdivided by powers of 2, you won't get a clean fraction.
So your example only highlights the inability to write down irrational numbers in either systems.
JigJag
Irrelevant. This is a VERY common use case. THIS use case, and other COMMON use cases, do not need to be so hard. Different choices would make them easier. That is all.
I taught myself to program on a VIC-20 when I was 7 years old by reading the manual. First program was a recipe database for my mom that saved its data on cassette tapes. She found 3x5 index cards more practical, so I switched to writing games. Taught myself assembler by reading Byte and Compute! and the like. Taught myself LOGO while visiting family one weekend when I was 8. Learned Pascal in computer camp as a pre-teen.
My parents had a system for hardware upgrades... if I got straight A's in school with no exceptions, they would pay for half of the next piece of hardware, as long as I worked my paper route and earned enough to pay for the other half myself. That's how I got my floppy drive, and man, did I ever appreciate that thing.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. You boast the 6 sub-division of base 12 (namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12) as being better because it's more than in base 10. You are mistaken however as in base 10, there are 10 sub-divisions. (.0,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.9) and each of those also have 10 sub-divisions, and each of those also have... you get the idea.
JigJag
Take 1 cake. Divide it evenly amongst 3 people. Represent the amount of cake each person gets in decimal. Sorry, you can't. It's impossible.
Can you honestly say you, alone or with a team, can write a 3000-page specifications or requirements document and still be sure there are no contradictions, omissions, or any defect?
Yes. I'm entirely capable of that. That is indeed what I'm saying.
Slashdot Mirror
"Google claims that one problem with our new app is that it doesn’t always serve ads based on conditions imposed by content creators."
Nothing more needed to be said. The rest of the article is manipulation.
C'mon dude. Drywolf said the effect is neglible. Why worry?
This reminds me of a passage I read recently... I think it was from Uncle Tom's Cabin. There's a slave, trying to get a third party to do something or other, and the slave tells the third party that they simply must do this thing, otherwise, the slaves master will beat him, and it will be the fault of the third party.
The people behind the propaganda embedded in these websites don't built houses, they don't plant food. They're middle men. Humanity has no need for them. It's been pretty clearly demonstrated that people in information technology are capable of putting middle men out of business. It's so easy we do it in our spare time.
You want reality? That's reality.
Great article!
You can see talent by watching children. They haven't had much time for skill to be a big factor, and raw talent wins the day. People naturally tend to enjoy things they're talented at, and become skilled at them, but when you throw money into the equation, you get people who aren't talented entering the field, and sometimes they become quite skilled and valuable. They are the ones that will act as a buffer against enthusiasts replacing perfectly good systems with something shiny and new for no particular reason. People you see here talking about being "lazy programmers" are probably skilled rather than talented... talented people tend to give you brilliance if you challenge them properly, but if you bore them too much you end up with a Rube Goldberg machine full of fun ways to use techniques they recently learned.
It would be nice to have a key piece of intellectual property that everyone needs, so I could enforce it in the most draconian way possible. Then I'd tell the public that I'm screwing them because they the people elect people who make the stupid laws that cause it to be possible, and offer to donate my wealth to their legal efforts to permanently stop people like me, if they get off their collective asses and mount such a legal effort.
This is a key part of permaculture, using plants that establish such relationships to build soil mass. Members of the legume family, peas and beans, already do this. So do trees like Russian Olive. These plants are capable of demonstrating "weedy" like behavior in that they can land in places that have nothing, establish a toe hold and grow and build soil as they die over generations. So, if you're an environmentalist who is horrified that "icky algae" is being displaced by something new, you might hate these types of plants, but really, they are pioneering plants that build fertility. I spent a lot of time researching what types of plants with these characteristics would grow in my local area because I'm interested in building a "Food Forest". Look up some of Geoff Lawton's videos on the subject, it's fascinating stuff.
The idea that something like this is a threat is kind of laughable. It would be an incredible boon. People are already purchasing bacteria and rubbing it into their seeds to give them a good start, but the bacteria only form the necessary symbiotic relationship on a small selection of plants.
I'll be sharing this with some of the folks at the local community farm I'm involved with who know more about the subject than I and see what they make of it, that's for sure...
How does monogamy change who is in competition with whom? There is no evolutionary mechanism to enforce monogamy. From a purely genetic standpoint there is no benefit to monogamy for a strong male.
Articles like this are just freeze dried beef pasta boiled up in 100 gallon vats and thrown to the neckbeards who gobble it up while slathering vaseline and yanking each other off.
Shit isn't even pretending to be science any more. It's just some asshole in a lab coat leading a revivial in a Kentucky tent.
The argument is that your statement about a strong male being better off without monogamy seems right but isn't, because if strong males fail to stick around and ensure the children they conceived survive to reach adulthood and carry on the cycle, it won't happen, and their "strong" genes will be wiped from the face of the earth.
The answer is, populations with the compulsion to sacrifice themselves on behalf of the group are more likely to reproduce themselves and abide, while populations without this compulsion are more likely to see their population decline and cease to exist.
The existence of human beings is a testament to this. We, ourselves, are a culture of cells that work together and sacrifice themselves for the good of the culture. When they stop doing so, the composite being that we are dies, and ALL the cells that make us up also die.
This device in particular only has 16 or 64 cores, but the Epiphany processor apparently scales up to 4,096 processors on a single chip. And, the board itself is open source.
So, if you developed software that needed more grunt than these boards provide, you could pay to get it made for you quite easily.
That's a big advantage right there.
Uh, no. Laziness accounts for the wheel, fire, steel, assembly line, powered flight and every form of transportation ever, computers in general, all of robotics, electricity, gps and satellite communications, the internet - pretty much all inventions which increase efficiency of any kind.
People want to sit around doing nothing all day but stuff keeps getting in the way - we need food, shelter, protection from people more lazy than our selves (who want to steal our food and shelter) and we need to not die from illness or natural disaster. Add in the procreative urge and everything else falls out as a result of an fitness algorithm that has been running for hundreds of thousands of years now (at least with a modern human brain running it).
That's such utter bullshit. These brilliant inventions don't come from ordinary Joe's who want to sit around doing nothing. They come from visionary geniuses who are compulsively driven to bring those visions to reality.
I lay no claim to be a Tesla or an Einstein, but I've still created tools that have empowered mankind and transformed the lives of billions, and I didn't do it because I was lazy, and I didn't do it to get rich, and I didn't do it because I thought anyone was going to be grateful.
I did because I want to feel like Atlas. In my own small way, I am. And that'll do.
You're failing to appreciate the contempt people have for copyright law. It's all just "blah blah blah".
I have to say, I can understand how they would view the UN in such a way. The UN's policies are pretty firm in their pushing of dependence, which is unsurprising given the way the wealthier and more influential nations are able to control it.
If I had Karma, you would have it all.
If you don't give a shit, then why are you putting up a fuss about it?
Well, the government just passed "gender adjustment surgery" legislation last week around here. So, now my taxes are going to be used to pay to sexually mutilate the mentally ill. I'm kind of pissed off about it, frankly. So, I come to Slashdot looking for technical news, there's an article about how rotten I am because I don't build databases to cater to the sensibilities of these mentally ill people.
Why can't you freaks just quietly live out your strange little existence without making such an annoyance of yourselves? A decade ago, I used to say "they're not causing trouble, just leave them alone". Now, all I think to myself is "they're perverting our entire society, and driving me crazy with their constant drama, will someone please just shut them the fuck up".
How stupid to you have to be to think vanity has anything to do with it?
Vanity is the only thing it has to do with. Most people just don't want to fucking hear about it one way or the other. We've got our own shit to deal with. It's just toweringly arrogant to think that other people are meant to give a shit.
Maybe we should have 3 sexes... Man, Woman, and Uman. Him, Her, Hum.
Men have no mental or physical conditions that make them unable to impregnate women.
Women have no mental or physical conditions that make them unable to be impregnated by men.
Umen have mental or physical conditions that make them reproductively unviable.
Gender, as distinct from Sex, can just go the fuck away. How vain do you have to be to think other people are supposed to care about what you've "declared" your gender to be?
The latter is a more accurate description. There was a good Futurama episode that illustrated it well. But you and I and all mankind will be dead long enough before to make it rather academic.
I prefer to think that time is a spatial dimension, and that we all abide eternally as 4 dimensional objects, experiencing our own creation. No heaven, no hell, except inasmuch as the eternal form that I create each day is painful or joyful... but, no ending, either.
I think of the universe as an object of finite mass/energy whose least complex state is the singularity, the thing that banged big, and our universe is one of many possible permutations. There are some that erupt out briefly, simple, not formed to sustain much complexity, and others as complex as this, and more.
There are natural forces pushing us out, and others drawing us in, and their tension makes form possible.
We're alive. We're part of the natural forces creating complexity, and were not alone, life is in fact spontaneously created by the laws of the multiverse.
Thats where morality comes from, and beauty, and everything decent. Our push to make this universe as complex as we can, because its beautiful.
And people, in their teeming masses of billions, their 4d shapes spiraling around this stone like ribbons, are more beautiful than a sparsely populated stone.
Anyone who wants to cut that short is on the winning side in the end, but I want to try and set the stage for trillions someday, and fuck the opposed.
Selfishness? No, Selfishness is having too many kids, it's rather selfless to not reproduce.
Selfishness is not having kids but expecting that you're going to be cared for by other peoples kids. It's selfishness when it's done by the individual, and it's selfish when it's done as an "immigration" policy. Face it. We, as a culture, transformed sex into a sport, and now we survive by stealing other peoples children. It's worst in North America... this continent is where genetic material comes to die.
Eventually, Malthus will be right.
Eventually, the universe will reach heat death where all useful energy has been used.
That's not going to happen.
Also, technological advances are a CONSEQUENCE of large populations. Small populations huddle around fires. Large populations are in everyone's best interest.
Personally, I like games that are entirely abstracted down to strategic considerations. Art makes games worse. Chess doesn't need art. Go doesn't need art. Crap games need art.
your example is no more and no less applicable to imperial units. In each case, you get a third. How do you write a third of a cake? Maybe you take the perimeter or the area and divide by three. Suppose the perimeter is 11 inches. What's that divided by 3? 3.66666(...) inches. Since the inch is subdivided by powers of 2, you won't get a clean fraction.
So your example only highlights the inability to write down irrational numbers in either systems.
JigJag
Irrelevant. This is a VERY common use case. THIS use case, and other COMMON use cases, do not need to be so hard. Different choices would make them easier. That is all.
I taught myself to program on a VIC-20 when I was 7 years old by reading the manual. First program was a recipe database for my mom that saved its data on cassette tapes. She found 3x5 index cards more practical, so I switched to writing games. Taught myself assembler by reading Byte and Compute! and the like. Taught myself LOGO while visiting family one weekend when I was 8. Learned Pascal in computer camp as a pre-teen.
My parents had a system for hardware upgrades... if I got straight A's in school with no exceptions, they would pay for half of the next piece of hardware, as long as I worked my paper route and earned enough to pay for the other half myself. That's how I got my floppy drive, and man, did I ever appreciate that thing.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. You boast the 6 sub-division of base 12 (namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12) as being better because it's more than in base 10. .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .9) and each of those also have 10 sub-divisions, and each of those also have ... you get the idea.
You are mistaken however as in base 10, there are 10 sub-divisions. (.0,
JigJag
Take 1 cake. Divide it evenly amongst 3 people. Represent the amount of cake each person gets in decimal. Sorry, you can't. It's impossible.
Get the idea?
Can you honestly say you, alone or with a team, can write a 3000-page specifications or requirements document and still be sure there are no contradictions, omissions, or any defect?
Yes. I'm entirely capable of that. That is indeed what I'm saying.
I just want to add...
Try writing a project that meets ISO specifications for medical use using the waterfall method.
People will die.