Vulnerabilities and bullshit. Don't forget the bullshit.
Like faster internet speeds? WTF? Only this year did my internet get fast enough to exceed the capabilities of 802.11 b. I've got a decent connecting which can't quite saturate the upper end of g never mind n. So yeah unless Intel magically installs fiber all the way to my front door, I doubt I'll be getting substantially faster internet.
Look how many Linux distros are dropping 32bit support for example.
This is one of those things that qualifies as "not even wrong".
Firstly 32 bit hardware is getting increasingly rare, and for general desktop, laptop and server use the 32 bit processors were discontinued way way before 2013.
Secondly, unbuntu no longer provides a desktop 32 bit x86 image for ubuntu 18.04, though you can install it. So your 32 bit processor will be supported through t0 2023 for that OS.
Arch has discontinued 32 bit x86 support, but because it's OSS, the Arch32 project lives on.
Fedora has no 32 bit server images, but they're a business oriented distro and I doubt you'll find anyone running 32 bit x86 servers. It's a financially bad idea.
Quite. This laptop is from 2010. It's previous OSs (ubuntu 9.04 then 12.04) have been EOL'd and I'll reinstall when this OS reaches EOL id the laptop survives that long. It probably will.
fifth or sixth time you steal a pickup truck and have to listen to some country crap
The Ballad of Chapped Lips Calhoon you mean? mmm mm menfolk found their women scary mmm mm mmm m
Well that was so darn good I reckon I'll play it again.
I mean sure, there was a limited range, but for 1997 it was incredible, a techincal and artistic masterpiece. I mean CDs only held what 70 minutes of music? And it ran on machines that were barely able to decode MP3s realtime as their only task. And there was a game to play and fit on that disc I remember just nicking cars to listen to the different stations.
That is the bad engineering found everywhere in the Raspberry Pi. The competition has native Ethernet or native GbE.
Great! If I ever need more than 300mb/s of bandwidth, I'll be sure to check out the competition. In the mean time, the Pi has proven more than powerful enough for every task I've used it for. In the mean time I'll stick to the Pi because it's well engineered enough, cheap enough, has a long product life and involves zero fucking around.
The whole point of the Pi project was to make a learning tool for students as cheaply as possible.
They've also been *incredibly* popular in industry. It's pretty common to need a SBC to do some shit and it's not performance sensitive. The fact there are cheaper and more powerful ones doesn't really matter: the Pi is well understood, easy to source next day, and well documented and available for long periods of time. Saving a few bucks is nothing compared to the engineer time not spent messing around.
Likewise the Arduino has revoloutionised vendor devkits.
Weirdly these threads seem to be full of people basically complaining you don't get a fast desktop for 25 dollars.
The actual crisis is in the rush of modern society has to use scientific results as the basis of decision making.
I don't really see the problem with that. The thing is, you're presenting it as a bad option, but you're failing to account for the other option, which is making the decision on even less information. That's even worse.
Science is the best tool we have. Sometimes it's wrong, but it's more likely to be right than whatever other criteria you could use for making a decision.
Great place. Good thing they banned guns. Keep up the good work, Hugo!
USA: Safer than Venezuela!
I love how you compare the USA to poor conutries with massive problems (as opposed to dirst world nations) then conclude that the main cause for difference is the laws on guns.
As opposed to you know the massive piles of everything else.
What next? The US has way fewer people murdered by the state than North Korea. Must be because NK has strict gun control. I can't see any oter reason and if you ban guns you'll be just like NK.
Seriously though if you actually like your conutry can you please raise the bar a little higher than you currently have it?
Be it as it may, but in the end, who do you think brings in the money? People that watch a movie once, or the ones that watch it 20+ times?
per person ot total? For the total amount, which is the only thing that count it's the first category plus the people that then buy merch for their kids.
I'm not trying to "sell" the U.S. I'm trying to demonstrate that strict gun control can, in fact, aggravate the problem rather than decrease it.
Not really. Brazil is very much a "developing country" with a much lower GPD per capita, huge corruption problems and so on and so forth. And there's no indication that it's the feared (and incredibly ineffective) gun control rather tha nthe massive amounts of crime, corruption and drug money.
If you comapre the US to a first world country, your comparisons don't hold up.
In close quarters, that would actually be a disadvantage.
Sure, you're every bit as dead if you get shot in the head with a 9mm slug versus a 40mm HE shell, but you can't deny that the Bofors has that intimidation factor as well as the retro-cool if you go for the L/60 model.
But anyway it's just in case. You have a pistol. You back off and level your carbine at him. He backs off further and levels his AR-50. You back off yet further and level your Bofors. At this point it's a fairly safe bet he doesn't have a 155mm down his cargo shorts otherwise you'd need to whip out your BL14/45 Mark VIIs at which point it's really got silly.
You see a good guy with a gun can only reliably stop a bad guy with a gun if the good guy has greater range.
Not to mention the high risk of scratching your paint while getting in and out of your car.
Go for a towed mount. Then, if you have a really persistent tailgaiter, you can get your passenger to hop out of the cab, over the tailgate and level it at the asshole behind you.
Not especially. You do seem like a real special snowflake, too delicate for this world. Now on to your links:
1. Daily wire.
That's that conservatice rag which regularly engages in climate change denialism. So we already know they're not so hot on facts. And the sole source for that is Project Veritas. That's the conservative place that tried to incite a riot at the Trump inaugration, presumably to blame the left.
So, yes I'll take everything from there as "not credible unless verified elsewhere" because it's clear they're out to decieve.
2. That cites 1. Which cites Project Veritas. So far all you have provided evidence of is a conservative echochamber of paranoid snowflakes. I then looked up the first provided handle on that shadowban site. Turns out it wasn't shadow banned.
So yeah, 2 is a really dodgy as well.
3 That article seems to be saying conservatives are people who say asshleish things on twitter. Like inciting harassment, suggesting drivers run protestors down, and so on. Is that a definition of conservative you agree with?
Attempting to disarm the public means discarding the natural advantage of good people outnumbering bad people.
But it also discards the natural disadvantage of stupid people naturally outumbering everyone else. If absolutely everyone was packing, you'd get a bunch of ewll-meaning dumbasses engaging in spray and pray trying to hit the bad guy and making things much worse.
If you don't think that will happen then you have much higher faith in humanity than I do.
It also means that you disarm law-abiding citizens, while criminals can go right ahead and arm themselves (Anders Brevik, for example).
So how come you also get mass shootings in Texas?
I sincerely hope that if your life is ever in danger, that there is someone equipped and prepared to defend you
Likewise if your life is in danger, I scincerely hope it's not ended rather abruptly ya a well meaning memver of the militia playing at Rambo.
For me anyways. Games today are like superhero, action, and even drama movies-it's the same concept rehashed over and over again. I've little enthusiasm to start playing something I've seen 30 times already, let alone finish it.
This is just a natural consequence of having observed an artform for quite a while. If you see enough of aything you realise that 90% of it is crap, and a huge amount of that is just rehashed minor variations on a theme. Lots of people think its because stuff was better then but is crap now but then it was all new to you so decently executed rehashes were fresh to your eyes.
Now they are changing history in games to appease the insane SJW crowd,
Yeah because games have always been so historically accurate otherwise.:eyeroll:
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Blehhhhh.
Firstly, it's not just men who game, mmmkay?
Seocndly, certain companies, e.g. King do in fact employ people who's job it t ofigure out psychological tricks to maximise the literal addictiveness.
Third, no one ever gets all defensive about hipsters, just gamers. Wearing a massive beard, donning skinny tweeds and aiming for a calling making artesanal breads while living is a cheap area of Portland is *precisely* choosing to live life by different rules rather than do the whole career, slighly unaffordable car, mc mansion with 2 kids driven to the local school etc etc. Onnly enough one hears little but scorn for such people.
I'll believe the defense when I hear it about people in general choosing to live a different life. Until that time it edges rather close to "oh young male gamers are so oppressed".
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Vulnerabilities and bullshit. Don't forget the bullshit.
Like faster internet speeds? WTF? Only this year did my internet get fast enough to exceed the capabilities of 802.11 b. I've got a decent connecting which can't quite saturate the upper end of g never mind n. So yeah unless Intel magically installs fiber all the way to my front door, I doubt I'll be getting substantially faster internet.
Open source not much better
No, Open Source really is much better.
Look how many Linux distros are dropping 32bit support for example.
This is one of those things that qualifies as "not even wrong".
Firstly 32 bit hardware is getting increasingly rare, and for general desktop, laptop and server use the 32 bit processors were discontinued way way before 2013.
Secondly, unbuntu no longer provides a desktop 32 bit x86 image for ubuntu 18.04, though you can install it. So your 32 bit processor will be supported through t0 2023 for that OS.
Arch has discontinued 32 bit x86 support, but because it's OSS, the Arch32 project lives on.
Fedora has no 32 bit server images, but they're a business oriented distro and I doubt you'll find anyone running 32 bit x86 servers. It's a financially bad idea.
Debian still support it with no plans for EOL.
And a whole bunch of more obscure ones.
And 32 bit ARM continues to be supported too.
Time to put something useful on it, like Linux
Quite. This laptop is from 2010. It's previous OSs (ubuntu 9.04 then 12.04) have been EOL'd and I'll reinstall when this OS reaches EOL id the laptop survives that long. It probably will.
You really need to get your news from a service that makes its living off of being accurate.
Your post link exactly the same: the murder rate in London is way lower than new york.
and car fires in France
Car fires in France? That just means it's a day ending in "y". And it's mostly due to it being France.
(Unlike strikes. Strikes seem to be some sort of national sport in France,
Along with car fires during a strike.
What's more the fact that london now has a higher crime rate and murder than NYC is further proof you are wrong.
Fucking moron.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...
It was slightly above in Febuary and less every other month this year and the yearly rate is well under half.
. Instead, they'd rather be spiteful shitheels doing shit like using NoSql databases." What would you think of him?
I'd think he was wrong. NoSQL is webscale.
fifth or sixth time you steal a pickup truck and have to listen to some country crap
The Ballad of Chapped Lips Calhoon you mean? mmm mm menfolk found their women scary mmm mm mmm m
Well that was so darn good I reckon I'll play it again.
I mean sure, there was a limited range, but for 1997 it was incredible, a techincal and artistic masterpiece. I mean CDs only held what 70 minutes of music? And it ran on machines that were barely able to decode MP3s realtime as their only task. And there was a game to play and fit on that disc I remember just nicking cars to listen to the different stations.
It was game changing. And the music was amazing.
Fun fact even 10BaseT works fairly well. Many would dream of symmetric 10/10 low latency Internet.
That is a very good point.
That is the bad engineering found everywhere in the Raspberry Pi. The competition has native Ethernet or native GbE.
Great! If I ever need more than 300mb/s of bandwidth, I'll be sure to check out the competition. In the mean time, the Pi has proven more than powerful enough for every task I've used it for. In the mean time I'll stick to the Pi because it's well engineered enough, cheap enough, has a long product life and involves zero fucking around.
The whole point of the Pi project was to make a learning tool for students as cheaply as possible.
They've also been *incredibly* popular in industry. It's pretty common to need a SBC to do some shit and it's not performance sensitive. The fact there are cheaper and more powerful ones doesn't really matter: the Pi is well understood, easy to source next day, and well documented and available for long periods of time. Saving a few bucks is nothing compared to the engineer time not spent messing around.
Likewise the Arduino has revoloutionised vendor devkits.
Weirdly these threads seem to be full of people basically complaining you don't get a fast desktop for 25 dollars.
The actual crisis is in the rush of modern society has to use scientific results as the basis of decision making.
I don't really see the problem with that. The thing is, you're presenting it as a bad option, but you're failing to account for the other option, which is making the decision on even less information. That's even worse.
Science is the best tool we have. Sometimes it's wrong, but it's more likely to be right than whatever other criteria you could use for making a decision.
Great place. Good thing they banned guns. Keep up the good work, Hugo!
USA: Safer than Venezuela!
I love how you compare the USA to poor conutries with massive problems (as opposed to dirst world nations) then conclude that the main cause for difference is the laws on guns.
As opposed to you know the massive piles of everything else.
What next? The US has way fewer people murdered by the state than North Korea. Must be because NK has strict gun control. I can't see any oter reason and if you ban guns you'll be just like NK.
Seriously though if you actually like your conutry can you please raise the bar a little higher than you currently have it?
Be it as it may, but in the end, who do you think brings in the money? People that watch a movie once, or the ones that watch it 20+ times?
per person ot total? For the total amount, which is the only thing that count it's the first category plus the people that then buy merch for their kids.
I'm not trying to "sell" the U.S. I'm trying to demonstrate that strict gun control can, in fact, aggravate the problem rather than decrease it.
Not really. Brazil is very much a "developing country" with a much lower GPD per capita, huge corruption problems and so on and so forth. And there's no indication that it's the feared (and incredibly ineffective) gun control rather tha nthe massive amounts of crime, corruption and drug money.
If you comapre the US to a first world country, your comparisons don't hold up.
Then why is the murder rate in Brazil ten times that of the U.S.,
You're really selling the US here. Less murderous than Brazil. Freer than North Korea. Better landscapes than Belgium.
Okay, I'll bite, how would giving the shooter better aim help reduce how many he killed, you moron?
Think of it like XML circa the mid 2000s. If it's not really doing a good job, you're not using enough.
Cities can't even ban guns from government offices and children's playgrounds.
Quite right. Those little shits can really bite.
In close quarters, that would actually be a disadvantage.
Sure, you're every bit as dead if you get shot in the head with a 9mm slug versus a 40mm HE shell, but you can't deny that the Bofors has that intimidation factor as well as the retro-cool if you go for the L/60 model.
But anyway it's just in case. You have a pistol. You back off and level your carbine at him. He backs off further and levels his AR-50. You back off yet further and level your Bofors. At this point it's a fairly safe bet he doesn't have a 155mm down his cargo shorts otherwise you'd need to whip out your BL14/45 Mark VIIs at which point it's really got silly.
You see a good guy with a gun can only reliably stop a bad guy with a gun if the good guy has greater range.
Not to mention the high risk of scratching your paint while getting in and out of your car.
Go for a towed mount. Then, if you have a really persistent tailgaiter, you can get your passenger to hop out of the cab, over the tailgate and level it at the asshole behind you.
Did you think that was clever?
Not especially. You do seem like a real special snowflake, too delicate for this world. Now on to your links:
1. Daily wire.
That's that conservatice rag which regularly engages in climate change denialism. So we already know they're not so hot on facts. And the sole source for that is Project Veritas. That's the conservative place that tried to incite a riot at the Trump inaugration, presumably to blame the left.
So, yes I'll take everything from there as "not credible unless verified elsewhere" because it's clear they're out to decieve.
2. That cites 1. Which cites Project Veritas. So far all you have provided evidence of is a conservative echochamber of paranoid snowflakes. I then looked up the first provided handle on that shadowban site. Turns out it wasn't shadow banned.
So yeah, 2 is a really dodgy as well.
3 That article seems to be saying conservatives are people who say asshleish things on twitter. Like inciting harassment, suggesting drivers run protestors down, and so on. Is that a definition of conservative you agree with?
4 Is basically just an accusation.
So yeah you seem to be a wingnut echo chamber.
Doesn't mean the attacker won't be armed. It just means that you won't be armed while the attacker will be.
By that logic everyone should be carting round a Bofors L/70 since otherwise you might encounter an attacker who's better armed than you.
Attempting to disarm the public means discarding the natural advantage of good people outnumbering bad people.
But it also discards the natural disadvantage of stupid people naturally outumbering everyone else. If absolutely everyone was packing, you'd get a bunch of ewll-meaning dumbasses engaging in spray and pray trying to hit the bad guy and making things much worse.
If you don't think that will happen then you have much higher faith in humanity than I do.
It also means that you disarm law-abiding citizens, while criminals can go right ahead and arm themselves (Anders Brevik, for example).
So how come you also get mass shootings in Texas?
I sincerely hope that if your life is ever in danger, that there is someone equipped and prepared to defend you
Likewise if your life is in danger, I scincerely hope it's not ended rather abruptly ya a well meaning memver of the militia playing at Rambo.
For me anyways. Games today are like superhero, action, and even drama movies-it's the same concept rehashed over and over again. I've little enthusiasm to start playing something I've seen 30 times already, let alone finish it.
This is just a natural consequence of having observed an artform for quite a while. If you see enough of aything you realise that 90% of it is crap, and a huge amount of that is just rehashed minor variations on a theme. Lots of people think its because stuff was better then but is crap now but then it was all new to you so decently executed rehashes were fresh to your eyes.
Now they are changing history in games to appease the insane SJW crowd,
Yeah because games have always been so historically accurate otherwise. :eyeroll:
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Blehhhhh.
Firstly, it's not just men who game, mmmkay?
Seocndly, certain companies, e.g. King do in fact employ people who's job it t ofigure out psychological tricks to maximise the literal addictiveness.
Third, no one ever gets all defensive about hipsters, just gamers. Wearing a massive beard, donning skinny tweeds and aiming for a calling making artesanal breads while living is a cheap area of Portland is *precisely* choosing to live life by different rules rather than do the whole career, slighly unaffordable car, mc mansion with 2 kids driven to the local school etc etc. Onnly enough one hears little but scorn for such people.
I'll believe the defense when I hear it about people in general choosing to live a different life. Until that time it edges rather close to "oh young male gamers are so oppressed".
Perhaps then, they have a bigger axe to grind with pronhub.
There are many times I've ground my axe with pornhub. Sure I like to think it's bigger but no such claim would be credible on the internet.