Minimalists don't focus on having less, less, less; rather, we focus on making room for more: more time, more passion, more experiences, more growth, more contribution, more contentment. More freedom. Clearing the clutter from life's path helps us make that room.
Because it has a HUGE Risk for very little Reward. Silicon is literally dirt cheap.
99% of people don't know or care that Silicon CPU's do everything they need. They will never be able to justify the cost of a CPU that is 10x or 100x then what they currently pay. The current tech is "good enough" for 99% of people -- that's where the bread and butter is.
This creates a chicken-and-egg scenario. None wants to risk investing billions into alt. tech when the status quo is much more profitable. i.e. Who is going to change first? Intel? AMD? The _other_ guy won't so why take that risk? With Intel abandoning Tick-Tock for for Process-Architecture-Optimization there is even less motivation.
I don't see any "disruptive technology" happening anytime soon -- due to the HUGE $$$ barriers of entry. i.e. AMD has been fabless for years. Intel isn't interested in Knight's Landing, er, Xeon Phi in shipping to consumers. ARM is in't going to invest into Hybrid-Silicon or non-Silicon CPUs. Who's left? nVidia? There has been rumors of them making their own CPU's and Mobo's for years but that hasn't happened.
Instead of going deep, everyone is going wide but it is significantly cheaper to scale.
The elephant in the room is that Silicon doesn't scale past 5 GHz. Everyone knows about it but no one in the commercial sector is interested in doing anything about it.:-(
Hell, even back in 2007 SiGe was proposed to get up past 50 GHz.
What's really freaky is that a close friend of mine was playing with 1+ GHz CPUs in the (late) 70's. I guess we'll never have those 100 GHz Gallium Arsenide CPU's anytime soon...:-/
> and the 3-4 hour physical "stand up" meetings daily
Holy shit! No wonder you bitch about SCRUMM. You're doing it wrong.
Standup meetings shoot take between 5 and 10 minutes; 15 minutes MAX. It is supposed to be a "macro" view -- not a deep dive into the micro-issues. Anything else should be taken "offline."
-- Slashtard, Redditard, noun, an imbecile who down-votes everything they disagree. When you stop being challenged, you stop learning.
That's because you are letting the rules of nature determine the outcome. People have been cross breeding for thousands of years and we know what to expect.
GMO = Man fucking about with genes that may or may not produce something good or bad due to a complete lack of long term studies (i.e. 50+ years).
> Can you concatenate 0 and 1? 01 isn't a valid thing.
Holy shit, did you really fail Math that bad???
According to your bad logic:
1 01 001 0001 etc.
are all different numbers?!?!?!
Gee, what does a base 10 placeholder digit even mean!? If we have a 2 digit number "ab" it means we can write the _equivalent_ polynomial form as:
a*10^1 + b*10^0
Where 'a', and 'b' are decimal digits from 0... 9. In contradistinction to a Roman Number, an Arabic number IS Concatenation of Arabic numerals BY definition. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Can you concatenate.1 and.2?
What happens when we divide X by 0? We get undefined or a singularity. That is just mathematical terminology that means "This operation is not defined." Same thing here:.1 +.2 is undefined.
You are of course free to invent an operation
> Concatenation is not a "normal math symbol" (or "normal mathematical operation").
You really don't know what the fuck you are talking about. I'd highly recommend you go back to school and actually learn something -- because you look like an idiot.
> For one, Vulkan and its competitors aren't designed for use with untrusted code,
[[Citation]]
Do you have an _actual example_ that shows this or are you just repeating dogma that everyone else does?
> neither Vulkan nor its competitors are actually cross-platform in practice today.
Um, Hello, McFly. We already have WebGL. Hell, even Microsoft supports it on Edge! Of all the graphics API available WebGL is the most cross-platform. The only exceptions that I'm aware of are consoles such as PS3/PS4 and Xbox360/Xbone.
WebGL 2.x was here in 2013. We don't need Yet-Another-Graphics-API. It is time to get rid of proprietary vendor lock-in regardless of how much "freedom" it promises.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. If then a god or a wise teacher should present himself to a man and bid him to think of nothing and to design nothing which he would not express as soon as he conceived it, he could not endure it even for a single day. So much more respect have we to what our neighbours shall think of us than to what we shall think of ourselves.
> Not quite sure what you are trying to say. What you listed there is what I already listed,
I was just independently verifying what it looked like in previous versions via text since I didn't feel like to linking to an external screenshot image in case others weren't aware.
> Perhaps you aren't aware...
Yes, I'm perfectly aware of Apple's shenanigans.
> macOS 10.12 (Sierra) is and the "Anywhere" option does not exist anymore.
It does still exist, it is just hidden by default (which is dumb.) On sierra one must use the command line to disable GateKeeper and reboot for it to be active:
OSX 10.10 System Menu > System Preferences > Security & Privacy
Allow apps downloaded from:
( ) Mac App Store ( ) Mac App Store and identified developers (x) Anywhere
-- "Religion focuses more on the external problem that follows the false Profits selling Heaven Insurance rather then teaching people how to be taught by the internal true Prophet.
> When Microsoft was trying to be a corporate partner of IBM, they followed the above standard for a while... and then they rebelled and implemented Ctrl+S for Save, Ctrl+P for Print, and Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V for Cut/Copy/Paste. And left the CUA ones working because why not.
That's because Microsoft ripped it off from Apple who first used Open-Apple shortcuts year earlier on the Apple//e
> Apparently Microsoft uses the word "Trust" in the same way Apple uses the word "Courage". I still haven't figured out what either one means..
MS Trust: "I'm altering the deal. Trust I don't alter it any further." DUN DUN DE DUN.
Apple Courage: "It is easy confuse to Courage with Stupidity -- we did. If you're stupid enough to spend yet more money on over-priced wireless crap to replace the gear you already have, we have the courage to sell it to you."
Here are the things that if an edit button is included that should also be done:
* Allow a "grace period" of ~15 minutes to edit the post * Optionally, if someone posts a reply, disable editing * Clearly show a post has been edited * Allow the viewer to see the _first_ original version AND with the _current_ version.
I've thought about this issue over years as I use both/. and Reddit.
There are pros and cons of not having an edit button:
= Pros of Edit =
* I don't have to worry about spelling or grammar mistakes -- since I can fix them later * I can expand to include additional thoughts post submit (I use this feature all the time on Reddit.)
= Cons of Edit =
* I can be lazy and just type stuff up not worrying about grammar and flow knowing that I can fix it "later" * Posts can be redacted after the initial submit making it hard to know what the original version said. It is nice knowing a post hasn't been "tampered with" * You usually can't see a history of edits to see what was changed and why. This is one area StackOverflow does well.
For every argument for having an edit button, I think a case could be made against it.
However I think there is an argument that swings it to the "edit side". The thing about having an edit button is that you don't have to use it. It solves "most" of the issues.
What part about RPC (Remote Procedural Calls) do you not understand?
Go watch Alan Kay's talk.
> And do you really think it is interesting that others have had the same (kind of) ideas before?
No, it isn't that interesting. If one has a great idea, chances are someone else will ALSO come up with. i.e. Leibniz and Newton simultaneously co-invented calculus.
> Are your completely ignorant of history in general and technical history in particular?
Hello, McFly. Why do you think I give examples of where people have repeatedly re-invented the SAME idea.
Every language goes through this fad phase. It gets used for 20 years, then everyone forgets about for the next 20, then everyone jumps on the bandwagon when retro is hip again.
You see this all the time.
i.e. Hyperlink had been (re) invented two times PRIOR to Timothy Lee Burner butchering it.
I love my MacBook Pro (Mid 2014), but lately Apple has jumped the shark and moved from a luxury brand to full iHipster. i.e. Every so often they come up with a great idea (MagSafe) but then they go full retard and remove it (!) Along with them soldering the memory to the motherboard, while I understand they are trying to cut costs, is a full dick move.
So you write off an entire company just because of a few idiots?
Do you actually use anything at all because I can guarantee it that everything under the Sun has been used for dumb shit.
How about instead of judging a product based on an idiotic fashion statement you instead evaluate it on practicality ?
I'm not defending earbuds -- they suck compared to a "real" circumaural headphones (over-ear headphones) -- you can pry my Sens 380 Pro and Sony MDR 7506 from my cold, dead hands -- but go ahead and keep labeling _everyone_ who uses Apple products as "drinking the Kool Aide (TM)"
Slashdot Mirror
Netflix has an interesting video that has a blurb about small homes.
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
The movie is more then just eliminating clutter
Because it has a HUGE Risk for very little Reward. Silicon is literally dirt cheap.
99% of people don't know or care that Silicon CPU's do everything they need. They will never be able to justify the cost of a CPU that is 10x or 100x then what they currently pay. The current tech is "good enough" for 99% of people -- that's where the bread and butter is.
This creates a chicken-and-egg scenario. None wants to risk investing billions into alt. tech when the status quo is much more profitable. i.e. Who is going to change first? Intel? AMD? The _other_ guy won't so why take that risk? With Intel abandoning Tick-Tock for for Process-Architecture-Optimization there is even less motivation.
I don't see any "disruptive technology" happening anytime soon -- due to the HUGE $$$ barriers of entry. i.e. AMD has been fabless for years. Intel isn't interested in Knight's Landing, er, Xeon Phi in shipping to consumers. ARM is in't going to invest into Hybrid-Silicon or non-Silicon CPUs. Who's left? nVidia? There has been rumors of them making their own CPU's and Mobo's for years but that hasn't happened.
Instead of going deep, everyone is going wide but it is significantly cheaper to scale.
The industry is stagnating. :-/
Fantastic summary!
The elephant in the room is that Silicon doesn't scale past 5 GHz. Everyone knows about it but no one in the commercial sector is interested in doing anything about it. :-(
Hell, even back in 2007 SiGe was proposed to get up past 50 GHz.
What's really freaky is that a close friend of mine was playing with 1+ GHz CPUs in the (late) 70's. I guess we'll never have those 100 GHz Gallium Arsenide CPU's anytime soon ... :-/
Lines of Code has always been a bullshit metric.
-2000 Lines Of Code
> and the 3-4 hour physical "stand up" meetings daily
Holy shit! No wonder you bitch about SCRUMM. You're doing it wrong.
Standup meetings shoot take between 5 and 10 minutes; 15 minutes MAX. It is supposed to be a "macro" view -- not a deep dive into the micro-issues. Anything else should be taken "offline."
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Slashtard, Redditard, noun, an imbecile who down-votes everything they disagree. When you stop being challenged, you stop learning.
That's because you are letting the rules of nature determine the outcome. People have been cross breeding for thousands of years and we know what to expect.
GMO = Man fucking about with genes that may or may not produce something good or bad due to a complete lack of long term studies (i.e. 50+ years).
As a game developer I've been to E3. Complete waste of time for John Q Public aside from ePenis bragging rights.
The whole event is designed to be a glorified advertising event -- it was never intended for the public.
Save your money and spend it on buying the game(s) you are interested instead, AFTER reading Steam or Meta-critic reviews.
> which is why the onus is on the side claiming existence.
Uhm, Hello, McFly. You are the one making this claim:
1. Where, specifically are the security issues with untrusted code using Vulkan or WebGL ???
2. How is Apple's Metal any better?
> Can you concatenate 0 and 1? 01 isn't a valid thing.
Holy shit, did you really fail Math that bad???
According to your bad logic:
are all different numbers?!?!?!
Gee, what does a base 10 placeholder digit even mean!? If we have a 2 digit number "ab" it means we can write the _equivalent_ polynomial form as:
Where 'a', and 'b' are decimal digits from 0 ... 9. In contradistinction to a Roman Number, an Arabic number IS Concatenation of Arabic numerals BY definition.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Can you concatenate .1 and .2?
What happens when we divide X by 0? We get undefined or a singularity. That is just mathematical terminology that means "This operation is not defined." Same thing here: .1 + .2 is undefined.
You are of course free to invent an operation
> Concatenation is not a "normal math symbol" (or "normal mathematical operation").
Hello, McFly. Positional Notation.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You really don't know what the fuck you are talking about. I'd highly recommend you go back to school and actually learn something -- because you look like an idiot.
> For one, Vulkan and its competitors aren't designed for use with untrusted code,
[[Citation]]
Do you have an _actual example_ that shows this or are you just repeating dogma that everyone else does?
> neither Vulkan nor its competitors are actually cross-platform in practice today.
Um, Hello, McFly. We already have WebGL. Hell, even Microsoft supports it on Edge! Of all the graphics API available WebGL is the most cross-platform. The only exceptions that I'm aware of are consoles such as PS3/PS4 and Xbox360/Xbone.
WebGL 2.x was here in 2013. We don't need Yet-Another-Graphics-API. It is time to get rid of proprietary vendor lock-in regardless of how much "freedom" it promises.
Interesting quote !
In case anyone is interested is the paragraph it is quoted from:
The Meditations By Marcus Aurelius, Book 12
> Not quite sure what you are trying to say. What you listed there is what I already listed,
I was just independently verifying what it looked like in previous versions via text since I didn't feel like to linking to an external screenshot image in case others weren't aware.
> Perhaps you aren't aware ...
Yes, I'm perfectly aware of Apple's shenanigans.
> macOS 10.12 (Sierra) is and the "Anywhere" option does not exist anymore.
It does still exist, it is just hidden by default (which is dumb.) On sierra one must use the command line to disable GateKeeper and reboot for it to be active:
OSX 10.10 System Menu > System Preferences > Security & Privacy
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"Religion focuses more on the external problem that follows the false Profits selling Heaven Insurance rather then teaching people how to be taught by the internal true Prophet.
They shouldn't but the OP was being respectful via full disclosure.
Tab filename completion would have caught that.
That, along with double-checking the command line before you do ANY rm stuff ...
> When Microsoft was trying to be a corporate partner of IBM, they followed the above standard for a while... and then they rebelled and implemented Ctrl+S for Save, Ctrl+P for Print, and Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V for Cut/Copy/Paste. And left the CUA ones working because why not.
That's because Microsoft ripped it off from Apple who first used Open-Apple shortcuts year earlier on the Apple //e
Technically, Verizon is a Fortune 13 company, whilst Comcast is a Fortune 37.
Interesting that Comcast bought DreamWorks Animation studio for $3.8 billion.
So yeah, one big evil fish could buy one smaller bad fish. :-/
> Apparently Microsoft uses the word "Trust" in the same way Apple uses the word "Courage". I still haven't figured out what either one means..
MS Trust: "I'm altering the deal. Trust I don't alter it any further." DUN DUN DE DUN.
Apple Courage: "It is easy confuse to Courage with Stupidity -- we did. If you're stupid enough to spend yet more money on over-priced wireless crap to replace the gear you already have, we have the courage to sell it to you."
Agreed.
Here are the things that if an edit button is included that should also be done:
* Allow a "grace period" of ~15 minutes to edit the post
* Optionally, if someone posts a reply, disable editing
* Clearly show a post has been edited
* Allow the viewer to see the _first_ original version AND with the _current_ version.
I've thought about this issue over years as I use both /. and Reddit.
There are pros and cons of not having an edit button:
= Pros of Edit =
* I don't have to worry about spelling or grammar mistakes -- since I can fix them later
* I can expand to include additional thoughts post submit (I use this feature all the time on Reddit.)
= Cons of Edit =
* I can be lazy and just type stuff up not worrying about grammar and flow knowing that I can fix it "later"
* Posts can be redacted after the initial submit making it hard to know what the original version said. It is nice knowing a post hasn't been "tampered with"
* You usually can't see a history of edits to see what was changed and why. This is one area StackOverflow does well.
For every argument for having an edit button, I think a case could be made against it.
However I think there is an argument that swings it to the "edit side". The thing about having an edit button is that you don't have to use it. It solves "most" of the issues.
C'est la vie
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Region Locking is Price Fixing
> Whut? Why TF would he do that?
Because George is highly insecure.
He has to keep fucking around with Star Wars, tweaking this, fixing that, until it is "perfect" in his mind's eye.
As an artist he doesn't realize he needs to move on. The work is what is. Fans loved the original vision. Some fans love the changes. Some don't.
George Lucas is unable to respect the fans that want to see the original version.
We're happy with the original. Is it perfect? No. But it is perfectly fine the way it is.
> Butchering? Bullshit
Yes, butchering.
What part about RPC (Remote Procedural Calls) do you not understand?
Go watch Alan Kay's talk.
> And do you really think it is interesting that others have had the same (kind of) ideas before?
No, it isn't that interesting. If one has a great idea, chances are someone else will ALSO come up with. i.e. Leibniz and Newton simultaneously co-invented calculus.
> Are your completely ignorant of history in general and technical history in particular?
Hello, McFly. Why do you think I give examples of where people have repeatedly re-invented the SAME idea.
Go read Multiple discovery
No, just Silver Bullets (TM).
Every language goes through this fad phase. It gets used for 20 years, then everyone forgets about for the next 20, then everyone jumps on the bandwagon when retro is hip again.
You see this all the time.
i.e. Hyperlink had been (re) invented two times PRIOR to Timothy Lee Burner butchering it.
Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t...
> Apple used to be is a luxury brand.
FTFY.
I love my MacBook Pro (Mid 2014), but lately Apple has jumped the shark and moved from a luxury brand to full iHipster.
i.e.
Every so often they come up with a great idea (MagSafe) but then they go full retard and remove it (!) Along with them soldering the memory to the motherboard, while I understand they are trying to cut costs, is a full dick move.
Apple has lost their way.
So you write off an entire company just because of a few idiots?
Do you actually use anything at all because I can guarantee it that everything under the Sun has been used for dumb shit.
How about instead of judging a product based on an idiotic fashion statement you instead evaluate it on practicality ?
I'm not defending earbuds -- they suck compared to a "real" circumaural headphones (over-ear headphones) -- you can pry my Sens 380 Pro and Sony MDR 7506 from my cold, dead hands -- but go ahead and keep labeling _everyone_ who uses Apple products as "drinking the Kool Aide (TM)"
--
Region Locking is Price Fixing.