The thing that absolutely drives people apeshit about me is that I don't ever deal in absolutes.
"Will this work?" "Probably." "Probably? Probably? I need a yes or no!" *shrugs* "Jesus. How much more time do you need?" "I don't know how to make it any more done than it is." "...Wait what? I thought you said it'd only probably work?!" "Right."
In my world, there are always a billion things to go wrong. If you flipped a light switch up and down 1000 times, and then asked me if the lights would come on if you flipped it one more time, I'd say "Probably" if they'd come on 1000 times in a row, and "Probably not" if they'd never come on.
Intelligence is only a survival advantage to a certain point...Once you're smart enough to out-think the predators, find the good woman, and get the high status position, all the rest of your brain power is effectively geared toward stuff that's not relevant for survival.
Look at words that commonly get linked to genius: evil, mad, tortured, insanity (as in "There is a fine line between...". Ever see "happy genius"? "Well adjusted genius"? Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's the exception.
I've seen studies and philosophies that talk about "abnormally" high intelligence as disruptive to society, and talk about it as self-limiting (e.g. smart people prune themselves by not breeding and/or killing themselves).
So yea, don't think of it as a "more is better" situation. The sweet spot of intelligence in society is probably in the 130's...Too much above that and alienation starts kicking in.
This is exactly what I came in here to say. Your concrete isn't some magical source of coolness: it obeys the laws of thermodynamics just like everything else. And a mere 6 meters of pipe means that that warm water is going to circulate frequently, warming up the concrete and making your computer overheat.
Putting the pipe in the slab won't have any effect on the slab or the resale of the house, but it probably won't have any effect on your computer either.
If you want to try some kind of fan-free passive cooling, you'd be better off putting in a swimming pool, and running some radiant pipe in the deep end...Fractionally heat your pool, and significantly cool your computer (unless you live in a really hot area).
I don't consider that to be multitasking; your brain has a limited attention span, and even if you're capable of focusing for hours on end, your productivity goes down.
If you take a quick break every hour/half-hour, you can keep your brain functioning at a higher level.
No, they haven't. You can't have 2 of the same keys online at the same time, but you can log into your own "account" from someone elses computer, with someone elses key.
Agreed, though the addition of repeatable daily faction quests and tabards and crap dropped that to a more bearable level.
The end game is where you get to stop pretending that casual gamers have a role in the game at all...Grinding faction is about the only way to get gear for the casuals, but it takes so much time, only hardcore people do it.
Coupled with the whole "Path 'o Titans" thing, I imagine the levels will be different from your standard "1 more level, 1 more talent point thing."
There are a lot of things you can do with leveling outside the standard "grind xp until you puke" methodology...Maybe they're experimenting in that direction.
Adding to that: the summary contains forty-five words, three sentences, one typo, and one misspelling.
Surely the submission approval process is not so strained that three sentences is too much to proofread?
All the extra "and" is a style issue more than a grammar issue. Same with 45 vs forty-five. Use numbers all the way through, or use words. The ":" is the correct punctuation there, because it's introducing a list. Proofread is one word.
I'm sure I missed something but, unlike the gp, I don't think I'm better at grammar than anyone else.
Sure...On the desktop. That's why we still get viruses from people clicking on bad webpages, etc.
But there is nothing going around (that anyone has identified) that will blow through firewall after firewall and install it self across locked down subnets.
I can't even remember the last time I saw an infection that wasn't caused by a user doing something silly, and the only time it "spreads" is when the user tells other users about the stupid site they went to and they go too.
There is no excuse not to have tight firewalls, hardcore email virus scanning/.exe filtering, etc, etc. All that stuff can be done with OSS and freeware. If people are infecting office PCs without the user being present, that's a HUGE problem.
Both of you need to chill. Embedded linux is practically the standard for networking and routing devices...If they'd used anything else it would have been weird and worth of comment.
Using something else would have been like having something other than an RJ45 port on it.
One of the reasons I don't turn off my office computer at night is because, if some pathetic script kiddie walks on water all the way through thousands of hours of preventative labour and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of top tier hardware all the way down to my desktop windows PC, I want to see it first thing, so I won't have had my coffee before I stab myself through the eyeball with a ballpoint.
Seriously? You think you're safer by having it off 16 hours a day? Moreover, your tech people think that it's acceptable to have an environment where the security precaution is to turn off your computer when you're not using it?
I'm a reasonably fast and accurate typist, but I can still write acceptably in cursive and regular print. I have a tendency to use notebooks (the kind made out of dead trees) to scratch down ideas and brainstorm, which is all the practice I really need to keep functional.
I don't frankly care one way or the other whether people can type or write well. People who obsess over the decline of handwriting are generally pretentious wankers, who are probably also obsessing over the fact that no one wants to read Ulysses anymore either.
But I think the reason people tend to make tons of spelling errors and have slop handwriting is because they don't bother to work at it. Even when I'm typing, I'll go back and fix typo's and correct words if I notice one is spelled incorrectly.
It's not because I'm anal. It's because I'm bothering to write this shit down! This is ten minutes of my fucking life here! There will be a day when I'd happily kill a fucking puppy for 10 more minutes, and I'll think back and think, "Well I sure wasted a fucking ton of time on Slashdot, but at least I didn't look like an illiterate 12 year old girl!"
The same is true of my handwriting. It's legible, it's got personality. I try not to misspell words. It's because I don't want some superficial prick to dismiss everything I've bothered to write down because it's straggly and shaky, and looks like something a kid wrote. I want them to look at it and say, "Jesus, not only is he brilliant and sexy, his handwriting is fucking exceptional! It's not straggly or shaky, it's legible, and it's got personality! If he spent that much time on his handwriting he must speak 12 languages, and play an instrument too!"
Perl is weakly typed on a lot of things, but it's static for data structures and subroutines.
So you can have a hash of hashes, or an array of arrays, but you can't get arrays in your hashes or vice versa.
Php gets around that by having only one datastructure that tries to pretend to be other types of data structures, just without, you know, doing it very well.
I actually really like dynamic/strong languages (like, for example, Python). It allows you the security and readability of a strongly typed language, without all the whiny syntax of a statically typed language.
Java cured me of ever liking static typing...Seems like I spend half my time in java dealing with weird casting issues.
FTFA: Benjamin was arrested and charged with assault.
But prosecutors offered to dismiss the case if Benjamin agreed to stay out of trouble for six months -- despite assuring Isakson there would be no deal, Isakson alleged.
I'm thinking that Isakson is some kinda world class prick if, after talking to him for a while, they turned to the guy who beat him up and said, "Ahhhhh, don't do it again."
What are you kidding? Getting the crap beat out of you vs dealing with Comcast? I'll take the beating any day.
The real pisser is, the guy probably deserved it, but other people at Verizon are going to have to fricking kiss his feet every time he needs something just because one tech lost his temper.
Life forms on planet. Planet hits other planet. Building blocks of life fly off in a zillion directions. It's a rough neighborhood out there. How stuff that was on planets made it into space is not difficult to imagine.
Jumping straight from "amino's exist in space" to supernatural abiogenesis is pretty weak.
They should be completely dispassionate about your data. If they can recover it, they should do that. If they can preserve it, they should do that. But they shouldn't get emotionally invested. That leads to all kinds of weird situations.
What you want is someone who cares about the job that they do, has professional pride, and a good work ethic.
Absolutely. The sales people have an existing relationship with your customer; knows the guy by name, knows about his kids, his dog, his business needs. They will turn that around on you in a fricking heartbeat.
Sales is a mercenary business. Your competitor offers more money, they'll take it.
Obviously you want to find someone reputable, and bonded, but you're never going to get to a point where you can have a network infrastructure that is secure from the people who do your network infrastructure.
I've had enough experience with paranoid managers who hysterically insist that I'm reading their email, or their online banking passwords and crap like that. You think that some schmuck who is working fixing problems remotely really gives a crap about the plans for your Facebook-killer? Think that they care about your boring ass emails? You think they care about your customers??!? Are you kidding? You obviously don't sell networking, so what would be in it for them? Selling a customer list is like selling a used phone book.
No outsourced company is going to send a person to your building every time there is an issue, and frankly, you don't want them to because they'll charge you out the ass for that sort of service. Even if you did decide to pay the price for in-person service, anyone who is out to screw you will be able to screw you while you're watching them over your shoulder, because you won't know what to look for.
If it's really that important to you, bring it in house. And, word of advice, if you do bring it in house, don't treat the guy like a criminal or he's going to start reading your email.
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The thing that absolutely drives people apeshit about me is that I don't ever deal in absolutes.
"Will this work?"
"Probably."
"Probably? Probably? I need a yes or no!"
*shrugs*
"Jesus. How much more time do you need?"
"I don't know how to make it any more done than it is."
"...Wait what? I thought you said it'd only probably work?!"
"Right."
In my world, there are always a billion things to go wrong. If you flipped a light switch up and down 1000 times, and then asked me if the lights would come on if you flipped it one more time, I'd say "Probably" if they'd come on 1000 times in a row, and "Probably not" if they'd never come on.
Intelligence is only a survival advantage to a certain point...Once you're smart enough to out-think the predators, find the good woman, and get the high status position, all the rest of your brain power is effectively geared toward stuff that's not relevant for survival.
Look at words that commonly get linked to genius: evil, mad, tortured, insanity (as in "There is a fine line between...". Ever see "happy genius"? "Well adjusted genius"? Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's the exception.
I've seen studies and philosophies that talk about "abnormally" high intelligence as disruptive to society, and talk about it as self-limiting (e.g. smart people prune themselves by not breeding and/or killing themselves).
So yea, don't think of it as a "more is better" situation. The sweet spot of intelligence in society is probably in the 130's...Too much above that and alienation starts kicking in.
I would have modded it +1 Suicidal
This is exactly what I came in here to say. Your concrete isn't some magical source of coolness: it obeys the laws of thermodynamics just like everything else. And a mere 6 meters of pipe means that that warm water is going to circulate frequently, warming up the concrete and making your computer overheat.
Putting the pipe in the slab won't have any effect on the slab or the resale of the house, but it probably won't have any effect on your computer either.
If you want to try some kind of fan-free passive cooling, you'd be better off putting in a swimming pool, and running some radiant pipe in the deep end...Fractionally heat your pool, and significantly cool your computer (unless you live in a really hot area).
I don't consider that to be multitasking; your brain has a limited attention span, and even if you're capable of focusing for hours on end, your productivity goes down.
If you take a quick break every hour/half-hour, you can keep your brain functioning at a higher level.
No, they haven't. You can't have 2 of the same keys online at the same time, but you can log into your own "account" from someone elses computer, with someone elses key.
This is wholly different. One account, one key.
Agreed, though the addition of repeatable daily faction quests and tabards and crap dropped that to a more bearable level.
The end game is where you get to stop pretending that casual gamers have a role in the game at all...Grinding faction is about the only way to get gear for the casuals, but it takes so much time, only hardcore people do it.
Coupled with the whole "Path 'o Titans" thing, I imagine the levels will be different from your standard "1 more level, 1 more talent point thing."
There are a lot of things you can do with leveling outside the standard "grind xp until you puke" methodology...Maybe they're experimenting in that direction.
Reminded me of John Scalzi...Old Man's War etc.
I'll give it a shot:
Adding to that: the summary contains forty-five words, three sentences, one typo, and one misspelling.
Surely the submission approval process is not so strained that three sentences is too much to proofread?
All the extra "and" is a style issue more than a grammar issue. Same with 45 vs forty-five. Use numbers all the way through, or use words. The ":" is the correct punctuation there, because it's introducing a list. Proofread is one word.
I'm sure I missed something but, unlike the gp, I don't think I'm better at grammar than anyone else.
Sure...On the desktop. That's why we still get viruses from people clicking on bad webpages, etc.
But there is nothing going around (that anyone has identified) that will blow through firewall after firewall and install it self across locked down subnets.
I can't even remember the last time I saw an infection that wasn't caused by a user doing something silly, and the only time it "spreads" is when the user tells other users about the stupid site they went to and they go too.
There is no excuse not to have tight firewalls, hardcore email virus scanning/.exe filtering, etc, etc. All that stuff can be done with OSS and freeware. If people are infecting office PCs without the user being present, that's a HUGE problem.
Both of you need to chill. Embedded linux is practically the standard for networking and routing devices...If they'd used anything else it would have been weird and worth of comment.
Using something else would have been like having something other than an RJ45 port on it.
One of the reasons I don't turn off my office computer at night is because, if some pathetic script kiddie walks on water all the way through thousands of hours of preventative labour and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of top tier hardware all the way down to my desktop windows PC, I want to see it first thing, so I won't have had my coffee before I stab myself through the eyeball with a ballpoint.
Seriously? You think you're safer by having it off 16 hours a day? Moreover, your tech people think that it's acceptable to have an environment where the security precaution is to turn off your computer when you're not using it?
Wow. Just...Wow...
I'm a reasonably fast and accurate typist, but I can still write acceptably in cursive and regular print. I have a tendency to use notebooks (the kind made out of dead trees) to scratch down ideas and brainstorm, which is all the practice I really need to keep functional.
I don't frankly care one way or the other whether people can type or write well. People who obsess over the decline of handwriting are generally pretentious wankers, who are probably also obsessing over the fact that no one wants to read Ulysses anymore either.
But I think the reason people tend to make tons of spelling errors and have slop handwriting is because they don't bother to work at it. Even when I'm typing, I'll go back and fix typo's and correct words if I notice one is spelled incorrectly.
It's not because I'm anal. It's because I'm bothering to write this shit down! This is ten minutes of my fucking life here! There will be a day when I'd happily kill a fucking puppy for 10 more minutes, and I'll think back and think, "Well I sure wasted a fucking ton of time on Slashdot, but at least I didn't look like an illiterate 12 year old girl!"
The same is true of my handwriting. It's legible, it's got personality. I try not to misspell words. It's because I don't want some superficial prick to dismiss everything I've bothered to write down because it's straggly and shaky, and looks like something a kid wrote. I want them to look at it and say, "Jesus, not only is he brilliant and sexy, his handwriting is fucking exceptional! It's not straggly or shaky, it's legible, and it's got personality! If he spent that much time on his handwriting he must speak 12 languages, and play an instrument too!"
It depends on which language you use. A lot of people blame Twitters early problems on Rails, which has notorious scaling issues.
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Perl is weakly typed on a lot of things, but it's static for data structures and subroutines.
So you can have a hash of hashes, or an array of arrays, but you can't get arrays in your hashes or vice versa.
Php gets around that by having only one datastructure that tries to pretend to be other types of data structures, just without, you know, doing it very well.
I actually really like dynamic/strong languages (like, for example, Python). It allows you the security and readability of a strongly typed language, without all the whiny syntax of a statically typed language.
Java cured me of ever liking static typing...Seems like I spend half my time in java dealing with weird casting issues.
FTFA: Benjamin was arrested and charged with assault.
But prosecutors offered to dismiss the case if Benjamin agreed to stay out of trouble for six months -- despite assuring Isakson there would be no deal, Isakson alleged.
I'm thinking that Isakson is some kinda world class prick if, after talking to him for a while, they turned to the guy who beat him up and said, "Ahhhhh, don't do it again."
What are you kidding? Getting the crap beat out of you vs dealing with Comcast? I'll take the beating any day.
The real pisser is, the guy probably deserved it, but other people at Verizon are going to have to fricking kiss his feet every time he needs something just because one tech lost his temper.
Disagree. If you have enough stress in your life, having someone be an asshole to you could make you snap and beat the shit out of them.
In a nutshell, the cause of this guys rage may have absolutely nothing to do with the customer.
Life forms on planet. Planet hits other planet. Building blocks of life fly off in a zillion directions. It's a rough neighborhood out there. How stuff that was on planets made it into space is not difficult to imagine.
Jumping straight from "amino's exist in space" to supernatural abiogenesis is pretty weak.
Who knew Twitter had a use?!?!
Why?
They should be completely dispassionate about your data. If they can recover it, they should do that. If they can preserve it, they should do that. But they shouldn't get emotionally invested. That leads to all kinds of weird situations.
What you want is someone who cares about the job that they do, has professional pride, and a good work ethic.
Absolutely. The sales people have an existing relationship with your customer; knows the guy by name, knows about his kids, his dog, his business needs. They will turn that around on you in a fricking heartbeat.
Sales is a mercenary business. Your competitor offers more money, they'll take it.
Either that, or learn to do it your damn self.
Obviously you want to find someone reputable, and bonded, but you're never going to get to a point where you can have a network infrastructure that is secure from the people who do your network infrastructure.
I've had enough experience with paranoid managers who hysterically insist that I'm reading their email, or their online banking passwords and crap like that. You think that some schmuck who is working fixing problems remotely really gives a crap about the plans for your Facebook-killer? Think that they care about your boring ass emails? You think they care about your customers??!? Are you kidding? You obviously don't sell networking, so what would be in it for them? Selling a customer list is like selling a used phone book.
No outsourced company is going to send a person to your building every time there is an issue, and frankly, you don't want them to because they'll charge you out the ass for that sort of service. Even if you did decide to pay the price for in-person service, anyone who is out to screw you will be able to screw you while you're watching them over your shoulder, because you won't know what to look for.
If it's really that important to you, bring it in house. And, word of advice, if you do bring it in house, don't treat the guy like a criminal or he's going to start reading your email.