Engineers focus on the details of how. This requires a certain outlook that eschews emotional appeal. Reality doesn't care about what we want to work. In contrast, most people are so wrapped up in wanting what they want to have a shot at implementing it. Big dreamers can catalyze, but they often have trouble with details, especially technical ones. Rare is the person who can do both, but even then there are limits. Zuckerberg started the site, but he couldn't grow it to where it is now alone. Same thing with Gates and microsoft. When was the last time either of them touched code that went into a final product? I am not sure, but it was probably long ago.
There's a reason why few expected good temperament from engineers. Their minds were different, world focused rather than people focused. Often, this led them down paths of conforming reality to suit the emotional ideals of those in charge. It was hard, often stressful, work. This hasn't changed. The only difference is that the relatively recent cultural embrace of emotion over reason now expects engineers to be hypersocial, too. In my experience, the best engineers are NOT and I doubt this will change. The result is loss of engineering talent for the sake of feelings as these engineers are replaced with less able people who are more socially sensitive. Too bad. Society suffers every time someone is chosen (or not) because of irrelevant attributes.
Facebook is an example of appealing to and encouraging the sharp increase in narcissistic tendencies in the culture. I'll bet that the 'front end' developers at facebook likely don't give a shit beyond their large paychecks.
flight is actually a much simpler problem to solve for an AI than ground travel. Planes don't typically have to avoid unexpected obstacles because their vectors are carefully monitored and controlled by human pilots in the air and on the ground. So while the speeds and distances are much greater, the path to destination is much simpler (even if elliptical).
Machines are quicker, yes, but a lot dumber and lack situational awareness. A medical machine monitoring vitals can notice changes a lot more quickly and attentively than a human, but you still want a dr to monitor the patient's overall state and administer drugs manually. Also, overengineering leads to increased failure rates and expense, and a lot of tech today suffers from this to the point of being consumer hostile.
I thought that Slashdot had moved beyond the divisive, pandering submissions that were so common in earlier days.
Without division there isn't much to talk about.
If this submission had even some minor connection to technology, or science, or math, or computing, or software, or engineering it would be excusable. But there's absolutely nothing relevant at all about this particular submission. It's nothing but politics, and not even important politics.
It isn't all about you.
Controversial topics, of which politics is one of the main ones, tend to generate some of the shittiest and worst discussion around. The sheer volume of this shitty discussion makes it even worse.
Shoving controversy under the rug and hoping it'll go away is the problem. There are a lot of people like you who can't handle any conflict. That should not be everyone else's problem.
It's disappointing to see a submission like this wasting space on the front page. There could be a relevant story being shown instead in the space that this story is unnecessarily occupying.
Perhaps one of the politically curated discussion sites are better suited to your sensitive sensibilities. Hugboxes abound these days.
As opposed to the endless ideological newspeak 'compromise' and beating around the bush of modern day 'progressive' politics? It's a co-competing compromise that ends up sticking it to the demographics they claim to represent. Both parties figured out it's easier to compromise the interests of the constituents, who aren't present for the discussion, rather than on each other's for the constituents' benefit. Btw, the republicans are half this equation. They abandoned liberty focused, conservative principles long ago. They deserve trump as much as the left does. Politicians like trump happen when reality is collectively denied for too long. Why? because people get frustrated with this and will vote for anything that promises to break the wasteful/oppressive stalemate.
I guess it depends how you define 'progress.' Obama sold hope, which went down easily, but turned out false. Trump sells fear, which goes down harder, but may have more truth in it than some want to accept.
That's just it though. Bernie isn't anti-establishment at this point. He's pro establishment. He just represents a different portion. The establishment has long since grown to encompass the 'anti-establishment' left wing social polices of the 1960s and 70s as baby boomers moved into government. They are now integrated into state policy and are law. Of course, he wants to take it further, but I wouldn't call that anti-establishment at this point. It should be no surprise that they are being used to trample liberty in the same way taxation and inflation hobble middle and lower class wealth. Just more tools to use against the rest of us.
Compromise? That's all they do in washington now. Every time they 'compromise' and 'reach across the aisle', they're only agreeing on how much more liberty to take away and how much more money to borrow off our backs. They're going to compromise us all right off a cliff with what's really just rampant indecision. None of them have the balls to LEAD us somewhere new because they're all too afraid of being labeled as 'against' something, god forbid. This is probably a big reason why trump has appeal. Washington is run by spineless, passive aggressive twats.
Well of course it is. Everything is an 'offense' in hyper lefty countries. Such dainty peoples. Like almost anything else that involves bodily functions, typically, mothers here WANT privacy for that.
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Well, not quite.
Engineers focus on the details of how. This requires a certain outlook that eschews emotional appeal. Reality doesn't care about what we want to work. In contrast, most people are so wrapped up in wanting what they want to have a shot at implementing it. Big dreamers can catalyze, but they often have trouble with details, especially technical ones. Rare is the person who can do both, but even then there are limits. Zuckerberg started the site, but he couldn't grow it to where it is now alone. Same thing with Gates and microsoft. When was the last time either of them touched code that went into a final product? I am not sure, but it was probably long ago.
There's a reason why few expected good temperament from engineers. Their minds were different, world focused rather than people focused. Often, this led them down paths of conforming reality to suit the emotional ideals of those in charge. It was hard, often stressful, work. This hasn't changed. The only difference is that the relatively recent cultural embrace of emotion over reason now expects engineers to be hypersocial, too. In my experience, the best engineers are NOT and I doubt this will change. The result is loss of engineering talent for the sake of feelings as these engineers are replaced with less able people who are more socially sensitive. Too bad. Society suffers every time someone is chosen (or not) because of irrelevant attributes.
Facebook is an example of appealing to and encouraging the sharp increase in narcissistic tendencies in the culture. I'll bet that the 'front end' developers at facebook likely don't give a shit beyond their large paychecks.
Just because problems in one part of the world are less severe than in other parts does not invalidate them.
Why won't they check their fucking cis privilege? All they do is ruin the hugbox that is supposed to be the workplace.
That's true. The difference is that a half attentive human is still far more situationally aware than a computer.
flight is actually a much simpler problem to solve for an AI than ground travel. Planes don't typically have to avoid unexpected obstacles because their vectors are carefully monitored and controlled by human pilots in the air and on the ground. So while the speeds and distances are much greater, the path to destination is much simpler (even if elliptical).
Machines are quicker, yes, but a lot dumber and lack situational awareness. A medical machine monitoring vitals can notice changes a lot more quickly and attentively than a human, but you still want a dr to monitor the patient's overall state and administer drugs manually. Also, overengineering leads to increased failure rates and expense, and a lot of tech today suffers from this to the point of being consumer hostile.
Programmed in LOGO of course.
..and lots of them have been proven later to be unsafe anyway. The law cannot account for everything.
javascript of course.
Sometimes it's possible to use drivers from other versions of windows. It usually requires some inf hacking. Worth a shot.
Most bugs are not intra-arch specific.. They do crop up but they are rare. The real reason for this is to force upgrades.
Such text is unlikely to have high entropy.
I thought that Slashdot had moved beyond the divisive, pandering submissions that were so common in earlier days.
Without division there isn't much to talk about.
If this submission had even some minor connection to technology, or science, or math, or computing, or software, or engineering it would be excusable. But there's absolutely nothing relevant at all about this particular submission. It's nothing but politics, and not even important politics.
It isn't all about you.
Controversial topics, of which politics is one of the main ones, tend to generate some of the shittiest and worst discussion around. The sheer volume of this shitty discussion makes it even worse.
Shoving controversy under the rug and hoping it'll go away is the problem. There are a lot of people like you who can't handle any conflict. That should not be everyone else's problem.
It's disappointing to see a submission like this wasting space on the front page. There could be a relevant story being shown instead in the space that this story is unnecessarily occupying.
Perhaps one of the politically curated discussion sites are better suited to your sensitive sensibilities. Hugboxes abound these days.
Or the GOP for that matter. People need to quit making excuses for their parties. It's not a fucking football match.
Watching yours is what reminds us why we revolted.
Just sayin.
Just because congress doesn't march in lockstep with the president doesn't mean they aren't doing their jobs.
That doesn't make it ok.
As opposed to the endless ideological newspeak 'compromise' and beating around the bush of modern day 'progressive' politics? It's a co-competing compromise that ends up sticking it to the demographics they claim to represent. Both parties figured out it's easier to compromise the interests of the constituents, who aren't present for the discussion, rather than on each other's for the constituents' benefit. Btw, the republicans are half this equation. They abandoned liberty focused, conservative principles long ago. They deserve trump as much as the left does. Politicians like trump happen when reality is collectively denied for too long. Why? because people get frustrated with this and will vote for anything that promises to break the wasteful/oppressive stalemate.
I guess it depends how you define 'progress.' Obama sold hope, which went down easily, but turned out false. Trump sells fear, which goes down harder, but may have more truth in it than some want to accept.
That's just it though. Bernie isn't anti-establishment at this point. He's pro establishment. He just represents a different portion. The establishment has long since grown to encompass the 'anti-establishment' left wing social polices of the 1960s and 70s as baby boomers moved into government. They are now integrated into state policy and are law. Of course, he wants to take it further, but I wouldn't call that anti-establishment at this point. It should be no surprise that they are being used to trample liberty in the same way taxation and inflation hobble middle and lower class wealth. Just more tools to use against the rest of us.
Compromise? That's all they do in washington now. Every time they 'compromise' and 'reach across the aisle', they're only agreeing on how much more liberty to take away and how much more money to borrow off our backs. They're going to compromise us all right off a cliff with what's really just rampant indecision. None of them have the balls to LEAD us somewhere new because they're all too afraid of being labeled as 'against' something, god forbid. This is probably a big reason why trump has appeal. Washington is run by spineless, passive aggressive twats.
It's unlikely the craploads of malware currently in play would be able to target such an old kernel.
*woosh*
Because windows 8+ comes with tons of caveats users don't want to deal with?
You got 7 years of backported fixes for free. What are you bitching about? Commercial vendors demand payment for those services.
People who are better than you, better than me, better than all of us.
Well of course it is. Everything is an 'offense' in hyper lefty countries. Such dainty peoples. Like almost anything else that involves bodily functions, typically, mothers here WANT privacy for that.