Has anyone compared wired to wireless quality? Are there any blind A/B tests comparing the built-in DAC of the iPhone using wired headphones vs wireless? And also the built-in DAC with an external DAC?
i.e. I'm wondering how much better quality a dedicated DAC and/or DAC+AMP is such as the Schiit Modi 3 (DAC) + Schiit Magni 3 (AMP) ?
Back on Topic: There is a reason us audiophiles ripped everything to FLAC in the first place. So we would never have to re-encode it. The problem is Apple pushed their own proprietary lossless format, ALAC instead of embracing open standards such as FLAC.
Good to see streaming services finally embracing FLAC.
Also, could one of the editors at least PLEASE fix (*) this clickbait: The higher you go with audio file resolution, the better it gets.
It should read: The higher you go with audio file resolution, the better it gets,with decreasing returns.
i.e. I doubt most people could tell the difference between variable 320 kbps (kilobits/s) and CD quality even with quality headphones for most music -- unless it is Classical or Jazz.
(*) Yeah, yeah, I know the editors have been a joke around here for ~20 years.
> Seriously, this is a total lunar eclipse, which is cool, but not particularly unique. > Unless you're 90 years old, you'll have a chance to see another.
Next total eclipses are in 2022 and 2025 for North America.
> Even Incredibles 2 was not enough to drag me into a theater, I waited to rent it.
I *did* go to the theater for Incredibles 2 -- in hindsight I wish I waited like you.:-/
It's not that the movie was bad per se -- just don't think the bang-per-buck of an expensive movie ticket was worth it. Could have paid for another month of Netflix. LOL.
While it is true that sometimes, sadly usually more often then not, men are motivated by greed, power, and ego to start a religion, however, you are assuming that is the ONLY reason. It is not.
You are forgetting that some people WANT to help others. My local churches donate their time and money to help the less fortunate. Do you? They are doing it because they understand the Golden Rule:Treat others how you want to be treated and indirectly the Law of Karma:You receive what you give. They consider it our moral duty to help others, ego notwithstanding.
Likewise when a person has a mystical insight they try to communicate what Spiritual Principles they learned with others on how to live a better life -- this True Ego is OK in spite of you trying to trivializing it.
This principles, or Spirit of the Law, get codified into a Letter of the Law. Unfortunately, over time, people start to worship these Letters of the Law and lose their sense of compassion and humanity due to False Ego.
Case in point: Yeshua pointed out the stupidity and hypocrisy of Judaic man-made laws when he asked the Pharisees: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?" Since they refused to answer him he pointed out "If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?" Somehow this wasn't considered work -- but yet magically healing / helping your fellow man on the Sabbath had a bullshit excuse of "work"?! The point was: What is more importantly? Mindless following man-made rules and ignoring our brothers when they need help? Or having compassion for our fellow man (and lesser brothers the animals) REGARDLESS of what day of the week it is??? There was no law against doing good in spite of what the ignorant Pharisees preached.
And while religions tend to have monochromatic blindness (only MY color is the right one), and egomaniac pissing contests (my god is bigger then your god) the CORE of what they ALL teach is compassion -- along with a process in which our False Egos is transformed into our True Egos.
You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater focusing on corrupt implementations of principles. Why did you focus on Religion and ignore Spirituality? Here is a refresher:
* Religion: One man telling another what they SHOULD do to understand The Source, * Spirituality: One man telling another what they COULD do to understand The Source.
>> What causes us to strive to break world records? Ego
There is nothing wrong a sense of pride and accomplishment when it is in balance with the rest of your life.
You are under the delusion that ALL ego is bad. It isn't. Likewise you are confused between True Ego and False Ego.
> The list goes on without any discernible limit. Making your response "Ego" completely meaningless trite.
Is that why did YOU made a trite list?
>> What made you say it? > Ego.
Just because you don't like one of the main factors doesn't make it any less true.
Let's conveniently ignore the quote I included:
"Science progresses one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck
In this particular case I was summarizing:
* A scientists with an ego is shocked by what he discovers, * A scientist who is humble isn't shocked, rather he is intrigued.
Lastly, I'm responding, not because of my ego, but because your title was a queryTo unknown soldier; but you'll probably blame that on Ego as well. LOL.
> someone disagrees with you, it's because they are obviously stupid and desire your ridicule and vitriol
Yeah, that's the typical Ad hominem fallacy. Shoot the messenger and ignore the message. Mainstream media is partially to blame for this with trivializing complex issues, sensationalism, and sound bites.
> There no longer seems to be intelligent debate or even discussions on the likes of FB or Twitter in the same way you had it in the old days of Usenet and other public internet forums.
That's cult thinking. Us vs Them. Aren't interested in finding a common middle ground. The Fallacy of Duality happens in politics, religion, etc. "I'm right, therefore your wrong." instead of a more enlightened perspective: "Maybe I'm *part* right, Maybe you're *part* right" -- but that takes humility to admit one doesn't have all the answers, and that everyone's POV is only a partial perspective.
It also doesn't help that critical thinking isn't taught in school.
Society has devolved into a majority/popularity contest If you don't kowtow the popular opinion you are wrong, "just because."
Every social group has its biases. e.g./. in the early 2000's used to be heavy Pro-Linux Anti-MS. In 2019 we see way more MS fanboi's making excuses for MS's spyware and lack of respect for its customers.
We see the same bullshit with "hate speech." People are no longer interested in learning. They would rather censor a different opinion. Because if we are forced to have a healthy dialog about opposing opinions we might learn a) our POV in incomplete, or b) worse, we were wrong.
People complain about "superhero fatigue" but yet Marvel is STILL laughing all the way to the bank.
The surplus Quantity ISN'T the problem. The lack of Quality IS.
Usually when Quanity goes up Quality goes down. It takes time to craft something that will be popular.
Disney lacks a Kevin Feige -- a fan who grew up with the lore, is passionate, and understands what sells and what doesn't. DC's Extended Universe has the same problems.
And while we can complain about Marvel movies being 99% formulaic they sell.
Pro: It's a Marvel movie -- you know *exactly* what you are getting: Action, Humor, side romance, etc. Con: It's a Marvel movie -- formulaic.
Disney lacks visions and ignored the RICH Star Wars Extended Universe -- instead we get some shitty first draft. It also didn't help they disrespected their fans by resorting to childish name calling. Really? The fans have been supporting you for ~40 years, you put out crap, they call you out on it, and you are going to blame THEM because they didn't swallow your Stupid Juvenile Whiner Bully bullshit ???
Disney: Get woke, go broke. News at 10, Film at 11.
It has your typical run-of-the-mill idiotic plot holes but just turn your brain off and enjoy the beautiful CG eye candy.
I'm a sucker for Pixar/Dreamworks CG/CGI so I'll probably end up buying it on BluRay but honesty even as a Pixar fan it was only OK; I'd rate Coco 6/10.
The Good Dinosaur is even worse, 5/10, but again I loved the CG vistas. Everything else was pretty meh or bad.
It's sad then we have have to settle for just Form when Function has become bad in CG anime movies.:-/ Maybe I'm spoiled on classic anime such as Ghost in the Shell (1995 not the shitty 2017 remake), Akira, Macross, and Miyazaki's awesome work. It will be interesting to see how Pixar fares considering Pixar co-founder John Lasseter left mid-2018.
More and more with bad movies I find myself trying to guess beforehand how many things CinemaSins or RedLetterMedia will complain about. =P I usually have same problems with bad character development, bad plot structure, wrong pacing, facepalm plot holes, etc. e.g. Turd Box (Bird Box) was crap.
Other under-rated CG anime that I enjoyed:
* 9 * Durango
Speaking of Netflix these anime are worth watching -- though they may not be your cup of tea:
I think the better question to ask is: WHO is buying the tapes?
I'd be willing to bet it's Boomers and/or Gen-X. I highly doubt it's teens or the 20-year olds given the data:
1, Soundtrack: Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 @24,000 2, Soundtrack: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 @19,000 3, Twenty One Pilots, Trench @7,000 4, Soundtrack: Stranger Things: Music From the Netflix Original Series @5,000
Not everyone wants to pay a streaming tax.
Also, the 219,000 cassette copies sold is like a rounding error for sales of CD's. LOL.
Ad hominem fallacies aside (*) that doesn't change the fact that some programming languages are total shit.
What is THE purpose of a programming language? To communicate with a machine. You can communicate in an obtuse way, verbose way, in a precise way, in an ambiguous way, etc. There is a range of QUALITY. There is poor communication and there is good communication.
The reality is that ALL programming languages suck -- some just more then others. One of the properties of a good programming language is that it is consistent. i.e. See PHP is a fractal of bad design
> Sometimes I think you just hate any language that's actually useful...
IF I was idealist I wouldn't use any programming language -- but that is not realistic. I'm a pragmatist -- things need to get implemented in the Real World TM. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to just blindly accept and ignore the problems of a language.
>... extremely useful JavaScript..
Let's talk about Javaschit.
Is it useful? Yes! It has become the new BASIC of the millennium. It is ubiquitous.
I'm NOT against useful languages -- I'm against the BAD DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of them.
Do you know how many man years are wasted tracking down bugs simply due to misspelling??? All because the language designer was too fucking lazy to make the KLUDGE "use strict"; the DEFAULT. It's as if NOTHING was learnt from the experience of BASIC. Gee, if only the computer could tell us about misspelled variable names, oh wait, they can! Good engineering is about FAIL EARLY. Javascript was never designed with that mindset -- it was literally hacked together in 10 days. And 20+ years later we are STILL paying the price.
On the other end of the spectrum we have over-engineered shit like Boost where a simple to Read and Write ~25 lines implementation of CRC32 turns into 1,100+ lines of Crap++. WHEN was the last time you _actually_ needed to modify a CRC implementation??? If you need a stronger hash than CRC32 then, chances are, you are probably using a DIFFERENT hash such as FNV, SHA1, etc. due to a) performance, or b) more cryptographically secure (i.e. less collisions.) reasons. The Boost guys have become so obsessed over one little tree that they COMPLETELY missed the entire fucking forest.
Let's talk about C. It was a stupid decision to default every function as returning int. Why wasn't the return type mandatory? Having to run a "lint" program is a SYMPTOM. So why wasn't the CAUSES addressed?
Let's talk about C++. We are STILL waiting for modules -- something that has been standard in Pascal for 35+ years! Why aren't error messages _standardized_ ?? One of the few things MS Visual C++ does right -- is to provide an unique error code. This makes it easier to search for solutions. Go figure!
I am extremely vocal about shitty engineering practices because I'm tired of having to deal with other people's retarded designs and waste MY timing tracking down WTF is wrong with their broken, inconsistent, implementations.
If nothing is ever said about WHY said designs are crap then nothing will ever change.
I am only one voice out of many saying WHY PHP sucks (When even diehard PHP users say PHP needs to die you know there is a problem.)
People who use PHP are either ignorant, stupid, lazy or some combination of them. But that should come as no surprise -- it was designed for non-programmers. Gee and is there ANY wonder it has problems when any decent prog
Translation: An one-size-fits-all jack-of-all-trades master-of-none wasn't working as well as we thought, plus everyone bitched about it being so hard to disable and the constant excessive internet bandwidth usage, so we went back to domain specific searching that gives better search results by breaking up the bloat into smaller apps that function better and faster.
There was a massive opportunity for Wikipedia to actually disrupt teaching and self-learning and they COMPLETELY squandered it.
An article could be written for the layman, with advanced details/explanations for the novice/expert, a tutorial, examples to make sure you understand the concepts, videos, audio pronunciation, tips from professionals, a forum, along with verification/authenticity from professors for accuracy.
Wikipedia COULD have been basically an interactive textbook, reference, dictionary, encyclopedia, forum, fan site, library, and StackOverflow all rolled in one.
INSTEAD we get some circle jerk admins whining about citations, revert wars, idiotic politics and policies such as no trivia sections, no original research, and pages deleted because they aren't "notable" enough (as if popularity was _ever_ a good way to decide that a 1 KB database entry was worth keeping LOL). Why the fuck do I have to go to Project Gutenberg to read a public domain book or YouTube to see a video about the topic? At least put a fucking link so I can see it on YouTube or a link to a store where I can buy the TV/movie/music asset, etc.
And then these smegheads have the gall to constantly beg for money??
Hey dumbass wikipedia admins: one man's trivia is another man's junk. Information is MULTI-Valued. Just because it has NO value to YOU, doesn't imply it has no value. You had ONE job: Categorize information. WE, the readers, determine what is USEFUL.
Wikipedia has been shit for years; a pale shadow of what could have been -- a bastion of all knowledge, a digital library.
If a sword does 1-4 damage you know you are going to roll a 1,2, 3, or 4. There is no bait-and-switch like there is with real gambling where the outcome can be *nothing.*
Second, no one is complaining about random dice rolls; only about **paying real money** for random loot.
Spending virtual currency that you earn IN-GAME isn't the problem. Spending _actual_ money is, aka Pay-to-Win, IS.
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Has anyone compared wired to wireless quality? Are there any blind A/B tests comparing the built-in DAC of the iPhone using wired headphones vs wireless? And also the built-in DAC with an external DAC?
i.e.
I'm wondering how much better quality a dedicated DAC and/or DAC+AMP is such as the Schiit Modi 3 (DAC) + Schiit Magni 3 (AMP) ?
Back on Topic: There is a reason us audiophiles ripped everything to FLAC in the first place. So we would never have to re-encode it. The problem is Apple pushed their own proprietary lossless format, ALAC instead of embracing open standards such as FLAC.
Good to see streaming services finally embracing FLAC.
Also, could one of the editors at least PLEASE fix (*) this clickbait: The higher you go with audio file resolution, the better it gets.
It should read: The higher you go with audio file resolution, the better it gets, with decreasing returns.
i.e.
I doubt most people could tell the difference between variable 320 kbps (kilobits/s) and CD quality even with quality headphones for most music -- unless it is Classical or Jazz.
(*) Yeah, yeah, I know the editors have been a joke around here for ~20 years.
> Seriously, this is a total lunar eclipse, which is cool, but not particularly unique.
> Unless you're 90 years old, you'll have a chance to see another.
Next total eclipses are in 2022 and 2025 for North America.
https://www.timeanddate.com/ec...
> I'm trying to think of something else that's deeply computer integrated and has remained largely unchanged in the past 20 years.
The closest (*) are probably:
* TCP/IP
* USB
(*) they have each had a few revisions, hence "closest".
> Even Incredibles 2 was not enough to drag me into a theater, I waited to rent it.
I *did* go to the theater for Incredibles 2 -- in hindsight I wish I waited like you. :-/
It's not that the movie was bad per se -- just don't think the bang-per-buck of an expensive movie ticket was worth it. Could have paid for another month of Netflix. LOL.
/sarcasm I'd rather be known for having an ego then being an anonymous coward who resorts to ad hominem fallacies.
Do you have a specific complaint or do you just like to whine?
> What causes religion? Ego.
That's an incomplete answer.
While it is true that sometimes, sadly usually more often then not, men are motivated by greed, power, and ego to start a religion, however, you are assuming that is the ONLY reason. It is not.
You are forgetting that some people WANT to help others. My local churches donate their time and money to help the less fortunate. Do you? They are doing it because they understand the Golden Rule: Treat others how you want to be treated and indirectly the Law of Karma: You receive what you give. They consider it our moral duty to help others, ego notwithstanding.
Likewise when a person has a mystical insight they try to communicate what Spiritual Principles they learned with others on how to live a better life -- this True Ego is OK in spite of you trying to trivializing it.
This principles, or Spirit of the Law, get codified into a Letter of the Law. Unfortunately, over time, people start to worship these Letters of the Law and lose their sense of compassion and humanity due to False Ego.
Case in point: Yeshua pointed out the stupidity and hypocrisy of Judaic man-made laws when he asked the Pharisees: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?" Since they refused to answer him he pointed out "If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?" Somehow this wasn't considered work -- but yet magically healing / helping your fellow man on the Sabbath had a bullshit excuse of "work"?! The point was: What is more importantly? Mindless following man-made rules and ignoring our brothers when they need help? Or having compassion for our fellow man (and lesser brothers the animals) REGARDLESS of what day of the week it is??? There was no law against doing good in spite of what the ignorant Pharisees preached.
And while religions tend to have monochromatic blindness (only MY color is the right one), and egomaniac pissing contests (my god is bigger then your god) the CORE of what they ALL teach is compassion -- along with a process in which our False Egos is transformed into our True Egos.
You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater focusing on corrupt implementations of principles. Why did you focus on Religion and ignore Spirituality? Here is a refresher:
* Religion: One man telling another what they SHOULD do to understand The Source,
* Spirituality: One man telling another what they COULD do to understand The Source.
>> What causes us to strive to break world records? Ego
There is nothing wrong a sense of pride and accomplishment when it is in balance with the rest of your life.
You are under the delusion that ALL ego is bad. It isn't. Likewise you are confused between True Ego and False Ego.
> The list goes on without any discernible limit. Making your response "Ego" completely meaningless trite.
Is that why did YOU made a trite list?
>> What made you say it?
> Ego.
Just because you don't like one of the main factors doesn't make it any less true.
Let's conveniently ignore the quote I included:
"Science progresses one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck
In this particular case I was summarizing:
* A scientists with an ego is shocked by what he discovers,
* A scientist who is humble isn't shocked, rather he is intrigued.
Lastly, I'm responding, not because of my ego, but because your title was a query To unknown soldier; but you'll probably blame that on Ego as well. LOL.
Go in peace.
> but now it makes me wonder what happened to humanity.
That's easy: /Oblg.Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
> someone disagrees with you, it's because they are obviously stupid and desire your ridicule and vitriol
Yeah, that's the typical Ad hominem fallacy. Shoot the messenger and ignore the message. Mainstream media is partially to blame for this with trivializing complex issues, sensationalism, and sound bites.
> There no longer seems to be intelligent debate or even discussions on the likes of FB or Twitter in the same way you had it in the old days of Usenet and other public internet forums.
That's cult thinking. Us vs Them. Aren't interested in finding a common middle ground. The Fallacy of Duality happens in politics, religion, etc. "I'm right, therefore your wrong." instead of a more enlightened perspective: "Maybe I'm *part* right, Maybe you're *part* right" -- but that takes humility to admit one doesn't have all the answers, and that everyone's POV is only a partial perspective.
It also doesn't help that critical thinking isn't taught in school.
Society has devolved into a majority/popularity contest If you don't kowtow the popular opinion you are wrong, "just because."
Every social group has its biases. e.g. /. in the early 2000's used to be heavy Pro-Linux Anti-MS. In 2019 we see way more MS fanboi's making excuses for MS's spyware and lack of respect for its customers.
We see the same bullshit with "hate speech." People are no longer interested in learning. They would rather censor a different opinion. Because if we are forced to have a healthy dialog about opposing opinions we might learn a) our POV in incomplete, or b) worse, we were wrong.
False Ego is a helluva thing to overcome.
People complain about "superhero fatigue" but yet Marvel is STILL laughing all the way to the bank.
The surplus Quantity ISN'T the problem.
The lack of Quality IS.
Usually when Quanity goes up Quality goes down. It takes time to craft something that will be popular.
Disney lacks a Kevin Feige -- a fan who grew up with the lore, is passionate, and understands what sells and what doesn't. DC's Extended Universe has the same problems.
And while we can complain about Marvel movies being 99% formulaic they sell.
Pro: It's a Marvel movie -- you know *exactly* what you are getting: Action, Humor, side romance, etc.
Con: It's a Marvel movie -- formulaic.
Disney lacks visions and ignored the RICH Star Wars Extended Universe -- instead we get some shitty first draft. It also didn't help they disrespected their fans by resorting to childish name calling. Really? The fans have been supporting you for ~40 years, you put out crap, they call you out on it, and you are going to blame THEM because they didn't swallow your Stupid Juvenile Whiner Bully bullshit ???
Disney: Get woke, go broke. News at 10, Film at 11.
> Is Coco any good?
It has your typical run-of-the-mill idiotic plot holes but just turn your brain off and enjoy the beautiful CG eye candy.
I'm a sucker for Pixar/Dreamworks CG/CGI so I'll probably end up buying it on BluRay but honesty even as a Pixar fan it was only OK; I'd rate Coco 6/10.
The Good Dinosaur is even worse, 5/10, but again I loved the CG vistas. Everything else was pretty meh or bad.
It's sad then we have have to settle for just Form when Function has become bad in CG anime movies. :-/ Maybe I'm spoiled on classic anime such as Ghost in the Shell (1995 not the shitty 2017 remake), Akira, Macross, and Miyazaki's awesome work. It will be interesting to see how Pixar fares considering Pixar co-founder John Lasseter left mid-2018.
More and more with bad movies I find myself trying to guess beforehand how many things CinemaSins or RedLetterMedia will complain about. =P I usually have same problems with bad character development, bad plot structure, wrong pacing, facepalm plot holes, etc. e.g. Turd Box (Bird Box) was crap.
Other under-rated CG anime that I enjoyed:
* 9
* Durango
Speaking of Netflix these anime are worth watching -- though they may not be your cup of tea:
* Disenchantment
* Gantz:O
* One Punch Man
Oh look, a self-serving definition:
I think the better question to ask is: WHO is buying the tapes?
I'd be willing to bet it's Boomers and/or Gen-X. I highly doubt it's teens or the 20-year olds given the data:
1, Soundtrack: Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 @24,000
2, Soundtrack: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 @19,000
3, Twenty One Pilots, Trench @7,000
4, Soundtrack: Stranger Things: Music From the Netflix Original Series @5,000
Not everyone wants to pay a streaming tax.
Also, the 219,000 cassette copies sold is like a rounding error for sales of CD's. LOL.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Ad hominem fallacies aside (*) that doesn't change the fact that some programming languages are total shit.
What is THE purpose of a programming language? To communicate with a machine. You can communicate in an obtuse way, verbose way, in a precise way, in an ambiguous way, etc. There is a range of QUALITY. There is poor communication and there is good communication.
The reality is that ALL programming languages suck -- some just more then others. One of the properties of a good programming language is that it is consistent. i.e. See PHP is a fractal of bad design
> Sometimes I think you just hate any language that's actually useful ...
IF I was idealist I wouldn't use any programming language -- but that is not realistic. I'm a pragmatist -- things need to get implemented in the Real World TM. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to just blindly accept and ignore the problems of a language.
> ... extremely useful JavaScript ..
Let's talk about Javaschit.
Is it useful? Yes! It has become the new BASIC of the millennium. It is ubiquitous.
I'm NOT against useful languages -- I'm against the BAD DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of them.
Do you know how many man years are wasted tracking down bugs simply due to misspelling??? All because the language designer was too fucking lazy to make the KLUDGE "use strict"; the DEFAULT. It's as if NOTHING was learnt from the experience of BASIC. Gee, if only the computer could tell us about misspelled variable names, oh wait, they can! Good engineering is about FAIL EARLY. Javascript was never designed with that mindset -- it was literally hacked together in 10 days. And 20+ years later we are STILL paying the price.
On the other end of the spectrum we have over-engineered shit like Boost where a simple to Read and Write ~25 lines implementation of CRC32 turns into 1,100+ lines of Crap++. WHEN was the last time you _actually_ needed to modify a CRC implementation??? If you need a stronger hash than CRC32 then, chances are, you are probably using a DIFFERENT hash such as FNV, SHA1, etc. due to a) performance, or b) more cryptographically secure (i.e. less collisions.) reasons. The Boost guys have become so obsessed over one little tree that they COMPLETELY missed the entire fucking forest.
Let's talk about C. It was a stupid decision to default every function as returning int. Why wasn't the return type mandatory? Having to run a "lint" program is a SYMPTOM. So why wasn't the CAUSES addressed?
Let's talk about C++. We are STILL waiting for modules -- something that has been standard in Pascal for 35+ years! Why aren't error messages _standardized_ ?? One of the few things MS Visual C++ does right -- is to provide an unique error code. This makes it easier to search for solutions. Go figure!
I am extremely vocal about shitty engineering practices because I'm tired of having to deal with other people's retarded designs and waste MY timing tracking down WTF is wrong with their broken, inconsistent, implementations.
If nothing is ever said about WHY said designs are crap then nothing will ever change.
I am only one voice out of many saying WHY PHP sucks (When even diehard PHP users say PHP needs to die you know there is a problem.)
People who use PHP are either ignorant, stupid, lazy or some combination of them. But that should come as no surprise -- it was designed for non-programmers. Gee and is there ANY wonder it has problems when any decent prog
> The opposite of science is believe.
*Facepalm*
The opposite of Belief (Faith) is Gnosis (experiential Knowledge) -- in contradistinction to intellectual knowledge.
The opposite of Science (process of removing falsehood) is Intuition (process of adding truth)
Glorified table lookup is NOT AI no matter how many times you keep spamming it.
> Me, I would want to experience the ability to enhance my recall
You might want to think about the consequences of what that entails (Black Mirror, The Entire History if You) first.
While I agree with your sentiments aren't you lumping all the homeless together?
Does anyone know what percentage of the homeless _don't_ want help? (Or DO want help)
> And when that happens what role is left for humanity?
What role is left for animals? Do we go around killing ALL the animals on the planet simply because we are superior? Of course not.
Humans 1.0 (Flesh) and Humans 2.0 (Cyborgs) are unique life forms. They serve a purpose. The _medium_ is irrelevant.
> Go to the "Passwords" tab and scroll down to the bottom.
Thanks for the info!
Here is the link in question that has the .torrent / .7z file: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
/sarcasm Like I'm going to fall for "Have I Been Pwned" -- that's just a honeypot ! =P
And how are non Farcebook users supposed to download their shadow account info.?
I see that you like movies and are away from your house late at night ... =P
Translation: An one-size-fits-all jack-of-all-trades master-of-none wasn't working as well as we thought, plus everyone bitched about it being so hard to disable and the constant excessive internet bandwidth usage, so we went back to domain specific searching that gives better search results by breaking up the bloat into smaller apps that function better and faster.
Sorry about that all bold end text. Missed a bold close tag. :-/
There was a massive opportunity for Wikipedia to actually disrupt teaching and self-learning and they COMPLETELY squandered it.
An article could be written for the layman, with advanced details/explanations for the novice/expert, a tutorial, examples to make sure you understand the concepts, videos, audio pronunciation, tips from professionals, a forum, along with verification/authenticity from professors for accuracy.
Wikipedia COULD have been basically an interactive textbook, reference, dictionary, encyclopedia, forum, fan site, library, and StackOverflow all rolled in one.
INSTEAD we get some circle jerk admins whining about citations, revert wars, idiotic politics and policies such as no trivia sections, no original research, and pages deleted because they aren't "notable" enough (as if popularity was _ever_ a good way to decide that a 1 KB database entry was worth keeping LOL). Why the fuck do I have to go to Project Gutenberg to read a public domain book or YouTube to see a video about the topic? At least put a fucking link so I can see it on YouTube or a link to a store where I can buy the TV/movie/music asset, etc.
And then these smegheads have the gall to constantly beg for money??
Hey dumbass wikipedia admins: one man's trivia is another man's junk. Information is MULTI-Valued. Just because it has NO value to YOU, doesn't imply it has no value. You had ONE job: Categorize information. WE, the readers, determine what is USEFUL.
Wikipedia has been shit for years; a pale shadow of what could have been -- a bastion of all knowledge, a digital library.
So who is going to take up the mantle?
That's _quite_ a bit of a stretch there Skippy.
If a sword does 1-4 damage you know you are going to roll a 1,2, 3, or 4. There is no bait-and-switch like there is with real gambling where the outcome can be *nothing.*
Second, no one is complaining about random dice rolls; only about **paying real money** for random loot.
Spending virtual currency that you earn IN-GAME isn't the problem. Spending _actual_ money is, aka Pay-to-Win, IS.