> The supply of money has nothing to do with inflation;
That's not quite true.
In virtual gaming currencies, which are monotonically increasing, games such as Ultima Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, PoE, etc. which have infinite supply (for all practical purposes),have the cost of items goes down as more and more people become wealthier.
This is most evident in Path of Exile's temp leagues, where every new "season" the cost is exuberantly high and comes down from the stratosphere as the season progresses.
> even though there is absolutely zero evidence that stationary standing is better for you, standing desks are being pushed so hard.
False.
I switched to standing desk alternative between siting and standing. I most certainly do feel better as the constant switching every 15 mins or so breaks up the complete monotony and stress of siting all day.
My personal subjective experience over-rules your "data."
> I wonder how much a standing desk would really help.
I switched to one a few years back. I was extremely skeptical at first.
The first few days of usage was enough to convert me for life. Absolutely love it ! You sit for a while, stand for a while. It breaks up the monotony of not moving. Especially if you take a 5 min break every 45 - 55 mins.
> I would suspect just-standing as you would at a standing desk is better than sitting,
No, as that is too hard on the feet / soles.
> if only because of micro-movements involved in remaining standing.
Because shit designed languages, like PHP, Basic, and Javascriptteach and encourage all sorts of bad, sloppy, programming habits, and inhibit the programming from using _good_ design / architecture. i.e. Visual Basic didn't get inheritance _until_ VB.NET long after everyone suffered with VB6.
For professionals we want compile-time type checking to catch stupid mistakes of
- mis-spelt variables - using a variable with a mis-matched type.
Sure, for one-off's and throw away code VB6 was fine, but when you change the case of a variable, and the IDE changes ALL copies of it, or worse, lets you use a variable without declaring it earlier, you are shooting yourself in the foot with dumb mistakes that will waste your time tracking down subtle bugs.
> The verbose syntax of VB makes it easier for a broader range of abilities to be introduced to programming without all the symbology of C like languages getting in the way.
Nothing says a noob language like verbosity.
Why?
Verbosity is "noise" cluttering up the "signal" all in the name of a mythical "readability." Consider the enum in VB6:
Public Enum Flavor
flVanilla = 2
flChocolate = 4
flCoffee = 8
flStrawberry = 16 End Enum
Of course you have a choice -- if *you* won't respect your body and buy better equipment so it is healthier don't expect any one else too either.
Dual / triple monitors and a standing desk are the two *best* _investments_ for your body you can give it. Am ergonomic keyboard where your wrist isn't twisted is also great.
Maybe by being proactive and setting a positive exams your company will get on board by taking ergonomic health issue more seriously.
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
Complaining about it and doing _nothing_ is precisely part if the problem.
1. Your pharmacy isn't spamming thousands of people. Neither is your bank. 2. You _already_ have a business relationship with them. When some yahoo is mass robodialing that just wastes everyone's time.
Robocalls should be OPT IN, not this bullshit of "opt out."
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> just because a language doesn't function the way you are used to, does not mean that it is broken...
*whoosh*
PHP has a *ton* of hate because it does *dumb* things that only an amateur would do.
1. Copying the ternary operator ? : from C, then _reversing_ the order of precedence is idiotic. We have _standard_ _logical_ operations and consistent left-to-right parsing for a reason -- not let's-invent-whatever-shit-we-feel-like because we're too dumb to understand consistency.
And then you have dumb bugs like this memory leak.
2. Only a fanboy makes excuses for why they are too blind to see the many ways it is broken. PHP was designed and developed by a complete fucktard:
echo true . "\n"; echo false . "\n";// wat echo TRUE . "\n"; echo FALSE . "\n";// wat
// Note: The online manual is completely useless: // http://php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=true // http://php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=false // http://php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=TRUE // http://php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=FALSE
In what bizarro universe would this stupid shit make _any_ sense??
Gee, maybe if '==' is SO fundamentally broken, then you
a) actually _remove_ it from the language, OR gee, here's a idea... b) upgrade it to one that actually _works_.
Nah, let's just half-ass because we don't know what the fuck we're doing with types!
> OMG Look how crappy c++ is!
So because everybody else jumps off the bridge you do to ?
Make excusing for why a language sucks because (insert other) language X sucks too just make you look like a tool. Take responsibility for a fucked up design? LOL. The language might actually improve then. Nah, can't have that !
For the record, you won't get any arguments from me that C++ is a complete cluster-fuck of over-engineering. I've worked on a C++ compiler.
The C++ committee has their heads so far up their asses that they refuse to address *practical* matters:
- Standardized Name Mangling - or at least a standardized API for Name Mangling - Standardized pragma's - Forced inlining - Forced never inlining - Standardized error messages or at least error codes - Extend the grammar so that function prototypes (declarations) can be copy-pasted for function definitions - etc.
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That's a crap analogy.
The *silent majority* ARE part of the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
/Oblg.
http://www.blippitt.com/wp-con...
http://i244.photobucket.com/al...
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A CUDA core is basically an active hardware thread [pool.]
For example my GTX Titan has 2,688 CUDA Cores.
This number is derived from:
Streaming Multiprocessors: 14
* 192 Cores/SM
====
2,688 Cores
In practice that means you have 2,688 threads doing "real work" at any one time.
See this SO question/answer
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
Thanks for the posting that.
Sadly, Dogma is just as much present in Scientists as it is with Priests.
Exactly.
"One man's music is another man's noise."
Ironically it applies to everything that is not too common:
i.e. Harley Davidson motorcycles, "loud pipes save lives", Heavy Metal, etc.
Ack, 'struct' should obviously be 'enum':
Ignore the /* ... */ comments since /. formatting is broken.
She's had her 15 seconds of internet fame.
You forgot the excellent InkScape.
Gimp is a joke compared to Photoshop. "Good enough" for small stuff; completely lacking features for anything serious.
Zoe Quinn is the Kim Kardashian of gaming.
No one gives a fuck about that her.
Standing only.
The chair has extra long legs. It is a sit/stand type:
i.e.
http://www.uline.com/Product/D...
> The supply of money has nothing to do with inflation;
That's not quite true.
In virtual gaming currencies, which are monotonically increasing, games such as Ultima Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, PoE, etc. which have infinite supply (for all practical purposes),have the cost of items goes down as more and more people become wealthier.
This is most evident in Path of Exile's temp leagues, where every new "season" the cost is exuberantly high and comes down from the stratosphere as the season progresses.
UnkownSoldier /. logging me out
Stupid
> The overseers want to be able to look across the sea of cubes with low walls and see everyone's head bent down,
Uh, if everyone is standing, all that has changed is that everyone's head has move up 1 or 2 feet.
> The nail/person that stands up gets hammered down.
Nonsense. Find a better company that knows how to respect people and is willing to _invest_ in their employee's health.
Someone needs to mod parent up as +1 Informative.
Using PVC = brilliant.
> even though there is absolutely zero evidence that stationary standing is better for you, standing desks are being pushed so hard.
False.
I switched to standing desk alternative between siting and standing. I most certainly do feel better as the constant switching every 15 mins or so breaks up the complete monotony and stress of siting all day.
My personal subjective experience over-rules your "data."
/Oblg. /sarcasm In some religions they do :-)
> I wonder how much a standing desk would really help.
I switched to one a few years back. I was extremely skeptical at first.
The first few days of usage was enough to convert me for life. Absolutely love it ! You sit for a while, stand for a while. It breaks up the monotony of not moving. Especially if you take a 5 min break every 45 - 55 mins.
> I would suspect just-standing as you would at a standing desk is better than sitting,
No, as that is too hard on the feet / soles.
> if only because of micro-movements involved in remaining standing.
Correct.
> I've never understood the hate for VB.
Because shit designed languages, like PHP, Basic, and Javascript teach and encourage all sorts of bad, sloppy, programming habits, and inhibit the programming from using _good_ design / architecture. i.e. Visual Basic didn't get inheritance _until_ VB.NET long after everyone suffered with VB6.
For professionals we want compile-time type checking to catch stupid mistakes of
- mis-spelt variables
- using a variable with a mis-matched type.
Sure, for one-off's and throw away code VB6 was fine, but when you change the case of a variable, and the IDE changes ALL copies of it, or worse, lets you use a variable without declaring it earlier, you are shooting yourself in the foot with dumb mistakes that will waste your time tracking down subtle bugs.
> The verbose syntax of VB makes it easier for a broader range of abilities to be introduced to programming without all the symbology of C like languages getting in the way.
Nothing says a noob language like verbosity.
Why?
Verbosity is "noise" cluttering up the "signal" all in the name of a mythical "readability." Consider the enum in VB6:
C's enum gets rid off all the crap we don't need:
Note: The '=' equal sign is multi-column aligned, but /.'s formatting is retarded and strips contiguous whitespace.
In Mathematics we don't go:
We get rid of the superfluous crap and use symbols.
Verbosity is one of the reasons Pascal was a complete failure. It wasn't pragmatic and/or practical for SERIOUS coding.
What a smeggin cop out.
Of course you have a choice -- if *you* won't respect your body and buy better equipment so it is healthier don't expect any one else too either.
Dual / triple monitors and a standing desk are the two *best* _investments_ for your body you can give it. Am ergonomic keyboard where your wrist isn't twisted is also great.
Maybe by being proactive and setting a positive exams your company will get on board by taking ergonomic health issue more seriously.
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
Complaining about it and doing _nothing_ is precisely part if the problem.
/Oblg. The birth and death of JavaScript
https://www.destroyallsoftware...
That use case is different though.
1. Your pharmacy isn't spamming thousands of people. Neither is your bank.
2. You _already_ have a business relationship with them. When some yahoo is mass robodialing that just wastes everyone's time.
Robocalls should be OPT IN, not this bullshit of "opt out."
--
First Contact is coming 2022. Are you ready for a new perspective?
That's why I call it "Artificial Ignorance" -- it's a total joke compared to "actual intelligence".
> and will not be any time soon if ever (as long as we hold onto the archaic and fallacy of Materialism.)
FTFY.
/Oblg. Seinfeld clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
/. constantly fucks up ecode indenting ... blaming the author doesn't solve anything.
Any computer scientist worth their 2 bits can figure out the algorithm; being pedantic only make you look like an idiot.
> just because a language doesn't function the way you are used to, does not mean that it is broken...
*whoosh*
PHP has a *ton* of hate because it does *dumb* things that only an amateur would do.
1. Copying the ternary operator ? : from C, then _reversing_ the order of precedence is idiotic. We have _standard_ _logical_ operations and consistent left-to-right parsing for a reason -- not let's-invent-whatever-shit-we-feel-like because we're too dumb to understand consistency.
And then you have dumb bugs like this memory leak.
2. Only a fanboy makes excuses for why they are too blind to see the many ways it is broken. PHP was designed and developed by a complete fucktard:
In what bizarro universe would this stupid shit make _any_ sense??
Gee, maybe if '==' is SO fundamentally broken, then you
a) actually _remove_ it from the language, OR gee, here's a idea ...
b) upgrade it to one that actually _works_.
Nah, let's just half-ass because we don't know what the fuck we're doing with types!
> OMG Look how crappy c++ is!
So because everybody else jumps off the bridge you do to ?
Make excusing for why a language sucks because (insert other) language X sucks too just make you look like a tool. Take responsibility for a fucked up design? LOL. The language might actually improve then. Nah, can't have that !
For the record, you won't get any arguments from me that C++ is a complete cluster-fuck of over-engineering. I've worked on a C++ compiler.
The C++ committee has their heads so far up their asses that they refuse to address *practical* matters:
- Standardized Name Mangling
- or at least a standardized API for Name Mangling
- Standardized pragma's
- Forced inlining
- Forced never inlining
- Standardized error messages or at least error codes
- Extend the grammar so that function prototypes (declarations) can be copy-pasted for function definitions
- etc.
Javascript is one big hack.
"Javascript: designed in 10 days, frustrating users for 20 years."
http://www.computer.org/csdl/m...