* Spending $3K on a hobby -- when you don't even know if you will even LIKE it -- is dumb. It is FAR more prudent to spend $500 ~ $750 and get a decent starter bike and THEN decide if spending more money on your hobby is worth it.
> you might actually meet a girl
You are assuming:
* everyone has this goal. Yet another money + time sink to keep us away from our hobbies. Plus, hairy palms is FAR cheaper in the long run, and one never has to worry about being betrayed, or catching something. Also saves times from all the stupid arguments and whining over "Why won't you waste money buying me an over priced rock that has ZERO resell value?". Engagement Rings Are a Scam - Adam Ruins Everything * everyone is straight.
A compiler has one job -- translate code. It shouldn't matter if there is EXTRA (leading) whitespace for operations.
There are times where placing multiple operations on one line make the code MORE readable; so yeah, having a statement separator is a big deal. It isn't 1970 anymore where we have to place 1 operation on 1 line. Some of us have evolved to writing code two dimensionally WHERE it makes sense too.
Python, started off with the noble idea "We'll dictate indentation to solve readability". In theory this sounds good -- expect it practice this is fucking retarded. Python was designed by an idiot who didn't understand the difference between form and function.
Guess what -- you can write shitty code in ANY language -- indentation is only PART of the problem. Worse, the author didn't have a clue about multi-column-alignment. If I want to indent code more, or less, AND preserve the SAME block scope, I can do that in C / C++ / JS. In Python I can't.
Python cripples everybody else to handle the moron who doesn't understand block scope in the name of "safety."
> our understanding of the laws of physics... you have absolutely no basis for believing them to be wrong in such a way. Nobody does.
Typical male ego arrogance of "I don't know this, so no one else can't either."
You _don't_ know what other people know. Hell, you _don't_ know what is even knowable, let alone un-knowable.
Stop assuming what other people know -- because you don't have a fucking clue.
You haven't had my experience; ergo you don't know what I know. And yes, the current understanding of Science is horribly incomplete. The 1st flaw is assuming consciousness arises out of (inorganic) matter. This is completely backwards. Consciousness is THE foundation of reality. Go back to your QM classes until you learn that "Mind Over Matter" aka The Observer Paradox IS the new basis -- and just what that implies. More so, if you actually had a shared OBE you could _begin_ to understand this, and work with this. Lastly, wake me up when Physics begins to includes Consciousness in its equations because they will never reach a greater level of understanding while locked in a myopic physical-only view of reality. I would say "Reductionism/Materialism is for Retards" but that would offend the retards with that level of stupidity.
> Nobody does. There is no evidence for it.
Incorrect. YOU have no evidence for it -- and that's OK. But you DON'T speak for everyone.
What you _should_ be saying is "I find no evidence for it -- at this time"
> not even in a THEORY of FTL travel (or hell, slower than light travel that doesn't require the combined GDP of the entire world to be spent for several decades to send a single tiny ship that might arrive at the NEAREST star in a time frame of centuries)
You keep assuming money will solve your problems of ignorance. Your linear thinking is limiting you. You would have greater success if you learnt how to think non-linear. GR already proved that the concept of absolute space-time to be false.
Ergo,
* Space is Relative, and thus teleportation is possible, * Time is Relative, and thus time travel is possible.
But keep pretending a theory of FTL is impossible simply because you can't understand how --/sarcasm because your knowledge determines how physics works, right?
> As for the movie -- ROTFL. Seriously?
/sarcasm Let's throw the ENTIRE baby out with the bath water because NASA's footage isn't credible due to the producers spicing up the rest of the video. Because ALL of NASA's footage is obviously faked. Riiight.
> add up all of the assumptions required to believe that space aliens are hanging out in orbit all of the time
Experiences trump assumptions. After my wife and I having met an alien 14 years I no longer am interested in other people's assumptions that "__x__ is impossible." I used to be ignorant like you -- but time and time again she has demonstrated to me that very assumption we make about X not being impossible is just that. An assumption based on incomplete data.
> where miraculously NOBODY IN THE KNOW has ever outed it
Incorrect. The Disclosure Project back in 2001 tried to get people to listen -- but the time was not (yet) right for man to be allowed to know it. For one thing, you just can't tell a primitive society, such as humans, the truth about cosmic life without causing widespread panic. You must introduce the concept, slowly, over time, in order not to fry the weak-minded that their POV of Reality just snapped. If you want to see the future in 20 - 40 years, the classic barometer are movies -- because they prepare people to accept a new reality "safely."
Robert, as I alluded to, what you are COMPLETELY failing to under
Only an idiot throws out the baby with the bathwater.
They have _actual_ footage from the Space Shuttle mission STS-75 if you would pull your head out of your ass and stop assuming. i.e. NASA UFOs: STS-75 The Tether Incident
> But Bayesian assessments of stacked arguments of this sort are never very convincing.
You are making a LOT of assumptions there using faulty human logic.
> Our governments -- all of them -- have to be members of a global conspiracy to hide "area 51" evidence. You DO realize that there are _several_ clearance layers ABOVE then what the President has access to, right?
> The alien stealth has to be almost perfect You are assuming their technology would be "visible" compared to our primitive tech. You really think someone who has the technology to travel around the galaxy would be detectable by us???
> AND we need psychotic aliens because REAL aliens intent on invasion would have crafted a killer virus Why would you contaminate a world only to be forced to clean it up afterwards? Britain didn't do this with her colonies. There is no way in hell they would contaminate one of their colonies' "cosmic liquid gold" aka water.
> and REAL aliens interested in making friend would have made friends long ago. You are assuming they are _allowed_ to. The problem isn't with them -- it is with us. We haven't unilaterally collectively decided we WANT to meet our cosmic neighbors -- so they are respecting our opinion until we change our mind. When your society has been around for a few billion years you'll have a different perspective on primitive life forms.
> AND a credible, evidence supported explanation) is all too rare. Rare, yes, but it is still there. Hell, consider NASA's own footage:
> Wouldn't the ability to process incoming information in a thoughtful, rational way trump the effects of social media's dark side?
1. You're assuming most people can even process information in a critical, thoughtful way.
2. That would involve actual work -- it is far easier to bitch about everything then to do anything about it. Much of social media is a knee-jerk reaction because people precisely DON'T want to think.
Buy an that recognizes multi-media and re-direct sale to iTunes. This isn't exactly rocket science. I'm kind of surprised Apple didn't buy Shazaam years ago.
What's kind of puzzling is that you can already do some of this with Siri:
> As pretty much everyone already knows many people use YouTube to play music in the background while doing various things. Yup, everyone knows that except these schmucks (suits) trying to monetize every last nickel and dime from every music video which is going to end up destroying what made it great in the first place.
People freely share music is a cornerstone of society. Hell, that's part of the reason YT exists -- convenience of free music. There is literally no where else to go that has the same breadth and depth of music -- copyright be damned as it holds culture hostage.
If we actually had a secure, viable micro-transaction currency system where the over-head was a few dollars per YEAR instead of the overhead of every transaction cost, I'm willing to bet more people would chip in $0.0001 to their favorite artists.
> to small independent musicians As long as we have custom playlists I don't think this will kill the music indie scene... yet.
> and people that do remixes of other works. Now _that_ might -- as blatant DMCA trolling will probably increase.
The only real, long term, solution is to stop listening to main-stream crap who sues the fuck out of everyone and support the indie musicians who don't treat their fans likes thieves -- because they understand free music is one of the best forms of advertising.
Is there a way to tell "YouTube Red" the 1st choice?
* (x) Stop fucking pestering me. I didn't sign up for your free trial last month, and I don't want to EVER sign up for it. * ( ) No Thanks * ( ) 1 month Free Trial
I caught that too. nVidia, in traditional fashion, is "going narrow and deep", while Google is "going wide but shallow".
You bring up an excellent point. Things are about to get REAL interesting in the ML space. It will be very exciting to see what/where each respective card excels at (pardon the pun) along with the benchmarks.
Before we get the deluge of "What's this used for?" we need to take a look at the specs.
Float64 performance is only 1/2 of float32 -- WOW! This thing is built for number crunching! (The original Titan has 1/3 float64 performance. Gamers screamed bloody murder when it sold at $1,000 but they weren't the target audience.)
Bandwidth has been neutered at only 653 GB/sec due to the 3,072 bit Memory Bus Width compared to 900 GB/sec of the Tesla V100.
Compared to spending to $10,000 at $3,000 this is basically the "poor man's" Tesla V100 specifically designed for AI. I see the full 640 Tensor Cores.
TL:DR; If you are doing number crunching (C's "double"), or AI / ML (machine learning) this might be a bargain GPU. Otherwise, it has almost zero practical value from a Gamer's POV.
What you are describing is NOT Christianity, nor Islam.
> excuse that our actions have no consequences,
The Bible teaches The Law of Karma:
* Matthew 7:12 "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets." * Matthew 26:52 "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." * Galatians 6:7-9 shares, "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap" * 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
> that a savior will come save us,
Irrelevant.
> and we can pollute all we want and it doesn't matter.
They are _completely_ twisting Genesis 1:26 "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
The second chapter of Genesis commands man to be a "good steward" of the earth.
* Genesis 2:15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
The Mosaic Law teaches the same thing.
* Numbers 35:33 You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Peter says the same thing
* 1 Peter 4:10 - As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
The Bible _ends_ with the same message:
* Revelation 11:18 "The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Next time, try READING the Bible, you might actually learn something.
/sarcasm Because _only_ religious people have to deal with abuse, addictions, communication problems, financial problems, intimacy, sexual problems, etc.
Religion is NOT the _only_ thing ministers deal with dumbass.
But let's keep blaming an inanimate object, Religion, for all of the world's problem.
Slashdot Mirror
> I can see perhaps for Netflix or Amazon but is anyone really sharing their cable account password?
Yes. ALL the cable companies track a metric called "Out of Home" -- due to licensing issues.
They know exactly when you are consuming content at your house vs outside the house.
Charging a modest fee per device (or connection) would solve the problem for everyone.
Yup, this is the perfect solution for "low volume" I've done this for a "few" books.
Also, _why_ print when I have a 3840 x 2160 monitor in Portrait mode for reading (PDFs) ?
I only do hard-copy for the really important stuff.
> better off spending $3000 on a decent bike
* Walking is still free.
* Spending $3K on a hobby -- when you don't even know if you will even LIKE it -- is dumb. It is FAR more prudent to spend $500 ~ $750 and get a decent starter bike and THEN decide if spending more money on your hobby is worth it.
> you might actually meet a girl
You are assuming:
* everyone has this goal. Yet another money + time sink to keep us away from our hobbies. Plus, hairy palms is FAR cheaper in the long run, and one never has to worry about being betrayed, or catching something. Also saves times from all the stupid arguments and whining over "Why won't you waste money buying me an over priced rock that has ZERO resell value?". Engagement Rings Are a Scam - Adam Ruins Everything
* everyone is straight.
> The idit is you.
*irony* Failed spell checking when name calling *facepalm*
You are _completely_ missing the point.
Form should NOT matter for function.
A compiler has one job -- translate code. It shouldn't matter if there is EXTRA (leading) whitespace for operations.
There are times where placing multiple operations on one line make the code MORE readable; so yeah, having a statement separator is a big deal. It isn't 1970 anymore where we have to place 1 operation on 1 line. Some of us have evolved to writing code two dimensionally WHERE it makes sense too.
Python, started off with the noble idea "We'll dictate indentation to solve readability". In theory this sounds good -- expect it practice this is fucking retarded. Python was designed by an idiot who didn't understand the difference between form and function.
Guess what -- you can write shitty code in ANY language -- indentation is only PART of the problem. Worse, the author didn't have a clue about multi-column-alignment. If I want to indent code more, or less, AND preserve the SAME block scope, I can do that in C / C++ / JS. In Python I can't.
Python cripples everybody else to handle the moron who doesn't understand block scope in the name of "safety."
> welcome to the world of paying for multiple streaming providers
People bitched about wanting TV a la carte.
This is exactly what it looks like -- instead of having 1 over-priced subscription you'll have / want / need 5+ overpriced ones now.
You DO realize that money is completely artificial, right?
/Oblg. My doctor says "I can only have 1 wine glass a day. I can live with that." joke
> our understanding of the laws of physics ... you have absolutely no basis for believing them to be wrong in such a way. Nobody does.
Typical male ego arrogance of "I don't know this, so no one else can't either."
You _don't_ know what other people know. Hell, you _don't_ know what is even knowable, let alone un-knowable.
Stop assuming what other people know -- because you don't have a fucking clue.
You haven't had my experience; ergo you don't know what I know. And yes, the current understanding of Science is horribly incomplete. The 1st flaw is assuming consciousness arises out of (inorganic) matter. This is completely backwards. Consciousness is THE foundation of reality. Go back to your QM classes until you learn that "Mind Over Matter" aka The Observer Paradox IS the new basis -- and just what that implies. More so, if you actually had a shared OBE you could _begin_ to understand this, and work with this. Lastly, wake me up when Physics begins to includes Consciousness in its equations because they will never reach a greater level of understanding while locked in a myopic physical-only view of reality. I would say "Reductionism/Materialism is for Retards" but that would offend the retards with that level of stupidity.
> Nobody does. There is no evidence for it.
Incorrect. YOU have no evidence for it -- and that's OK. But you DON'T speak for everyone.
What you _should_ be saying is "I find no evidence for it -- at this time"
> not even in a THEORY of FTL travel (or hell, slower than light travel that doesn't require the combined GDP of the entire world to be spent for several decades to send a single tiny ship that might arrive at the NEAREST star in a time frame of centuries)
You keep assuming money will solve your problems of ignorance. Your linear thinking is limiting you. You would have greater success if you learnt how to think non-linear. GR already proved that the concept of absolute space-time to be false.
Ergo,
* Space is Relative, and thus teleportation is possible,
* Time is Relative, and thus time travel is possible.
But keep pretending a theory of FTL is impossible simply because you can't understand how -- /sarcasm because your knowledge determines how physics works, right?
> As for the movie -- ROTFL. Seriously?
> add up all of the assumptions required to believe that space aliens are hanging out in orbit all of the time
Experiences trump assumptions. After my wife and I having met an alien 14 years I no longer am interested in other people's assumptions that "__x__ is impossible." I used to be ignorant like you -- but time and time again she has demonstrated to me that very assumption we make about X not being impossible is just that. An assumption based on incomplete data.
> where miraculously NOBODY IN THE KNOW has ever outed it
Incorrect. The Disclosure Project back in 2001 tried to get people to listen -- but the time was not (yet) right for man to be allowed to know it. For one thing, you just can't tell a primitive society, such as humans, the truth about cosmic life without causing widespread panic. You must introduce the concept, slowly, over time, in order not to fry the weak-minded that their POV of Reality just snapped. If you want to see the future in 20 - 40 years, the classic barometer are movies -- because they prepare people to accept a new reality "safely."
Robert, as I alluded to, what you are COMPLETELY failing to under
Only an idiot throws out the baby with the bathwater.
They have _actual_ footage from the Space Shuttle mission STS-75 if you would pull your head out of your ass and stop assuming.
i.e.
NASA UFOs: STS-75 The Tether Incident
> But Bayesian assessments of stacked arguments of this sort are never very convincing.
You are making a LOT of assumptions there using faulty human logic.
> Our governments -- all of them -- have to be members of a global conspiracy to hide "area 51" evidence.
You DO realize that there are _several_ clearance layers ABOVE then what the President has access to, right?
> The alien stealth has to be almost perfect
You are assuming their technology would be "visible" compared to our primitive tech. You really think someone who has the technology to travel around the galaxy would be detectable by us???
> AND we need psychotic aliens because REAL aliens intent on invasion would have crafted a killer virus
Why would you contaminate a world only to be forced to clean it up afterwards? Britain didn't do this with her colonies. There is no way in hell they would contaminate one of their colonies' "cosmic liquid gold" aka water.
> and REAL aliens interested in making friend would have made friends long ago.
You are assuming they are _allowed_ to. The problem isn't with them -- it is with us. We haven't unilaterally collectively decided we WANT to meet our cosmic neighbors -- so they are respecting our opinion until we change our mind. When your society has been around for a few billion years you'll have a different perspective on primitive life forms.
> AND a credible, evidence supported explanation) is all too rare.
Rare, yes, but it is still there. Hell, consider NASA's own footage:
* Evidence: The Case For NASA UFOs - Part.1 (2004)
* Evidence: The Case For NASA UFOs - Part.2 (2004)
--
First Contact is tentatively scheduled for ~2024. Assuming the USA doesn't nuke N. Korea off the face of the earth.
> the complete and utter lack of physical evidence
NASA's own video footage disagrees with you.
Evidence: The Case For NASA UFOs - Part.1 (2004)
Evidence: The Case For NASA UFOs - Part.2 (2004)
--
First Contact is tentatively "scheduled" for ~2024.
/oblg. You misspelt fapnewsfornerds ...
*ba dum tsh*
> Wouldn't the ability to process incoming information in a thoughtful, rational way trump the effects of social media's dark side?
1. You're assuming most people can even process information in a critical, thoughtful way.
2. That would involve actual work -- it is far easier to bitch about everything then to do anything about it. Much of social media is a knee-jerk reaction because people precisely DON'T want to think.
Buy an that recognizes multi-media and re-direct sale to iTunes. This isn't exactly rocket science. I'm kind of surprised Apple didn't buy Shazaam years ago.
What's kind of puzzling is that you can already do some of this with Siri:
Maybe they are looking to do deeper integration ?
/Oblg. in B4 YT music apocalypse ...
> As pretty much everyone already knows many people use YouTube to play music in the background while doing various things.
Yup, everyone knows that except these schmucks (suits) trying to monetize every last nickel and dime from every music video which is going to end up destroying what made it great in the first place.
People freely share music is a cornerstone of society. Hell, that's part of the reason YT exists -- convenience of free music. There is literally no where else to go that has the same breadth and depth of music -- copyright be damned as it holds culture hostage.
If we actually had a secure, viable micro-transaction currency system where the over-head was a few dollars per YEAR instead of the overhead of every transaction cost, I'm willing to bet more people would chip in $0.0001 to their favorite artists.
> to small independent musicians ... yet.
As long as we have custom playlists I don't think this will kill the music indie scene
> and people that do remixes of other works.
Now _that_ might -- as blatant DMCA trolling will probably increase.
The only real, long term, solution is to stop listening to main-stream crap who sues the fuck out of everyone and support the indie musicians who don't treat their fans likes thieves -- because they understand free music is one of the best forms of advertising.
Is there a way to tell "YouTube Red" the 1st choice?
* (x) Stop fucking pestering me. I didn't sign up for your free trial last month, and I don't want to EVER sign up for it.
* ( ) No Thanks
* ( ) 1 month Free Trial
We were tired of them when it was only once a week, aka Bitcoin Tuesday.
Every bloody day is nauseating.
I caught that too. nVidia, in traditional fashion, is "going narrow and deep", while Google is "going wide but shallow".
You bring up an excellent point. Things are about to get REAL interesting in the ML space. It will be very exciting to see what/where each respective card excels at (pardon the pun) along with the benchmarks.
Before we get the deluge of "What's this used for?" we need to take a look at the specs.
Float64 performance is only 1/2 of float32 -- WOW! This thing is built for number crunching! (The original Titan has 1/3 float64 performance. Gamers screamed bloody murder when it sold at $1,000 but they weren't the target audience.)
Bandwidth has been neutered at only 653 GB/sec due to the 3,072 bit Memory Bus Width compared to 900 GB/sec of the Tesla V100.
Compared to spending to $10,000 at $3,000 this is basically the "poor man's" Tesla V100 specifically designed for AI. I see the full 640 Tensor Cores.
TL:DR; If you are doing number crunching (C's "double"), or AI / ML (machine learning) this might be a bargain GPU. Otherwise, it has almost zero practical value from a Gamer's POV.
What you are describing is NOT Christianity, nor Islam.
> excuse that our actions have no consequences,
The Bible teaches The Law of Karma:
* Matthew 7:12 "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."
* Matthew 26:52 "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."
* Galatians 6:7-9 shares, "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap"
* 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
> that a savior will come save us,
Irrelevant.
> and we can pollute all we want and it doesn't matter.
They are _completely_ twisting Genesis 1:26 "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
The second chapter of Genesis commands man to be a "good steward" of the earth.
The Mosaic Law teaches the same thing.
Peter says the same thing
The Bible _ends_ with the same message:
Next time, try READING the Bible, you might actually learn something.
> Religion (Particularly Christianity, but also Islam) and Corporatism are literally leading us to the extinction of the Human species.
Hyperbole much?
HOW _exactly_ are the religious people causing the extinction of the human species again???
/sarcasm Because _only_ religious people have to deal with abuse, addictions, communication problems, financial problems, intimacy, sexual problems, etc.
Religion is NOT the _only_ thing ministers deal with dumbass.
But let's keep blaming an inanimate object, Religion, for all of the world's problem.
And zero fucks were given about these "celebrities". Who the fuck are they and why are they important?
I'd rather have a _real_ conversation with a teacher or minister to understand today's real problems ... not some invented first world "problem."
> If a currency no longer facilitates commerce, is it still a currency?
That IS the question though:
How many people need to use a currency before it is called a currency?
2 ?
3 ??
???
Just because a currency has no value to me doesn't imply it isn't a currency for someone else.