/sarcasm I mean who would want a consistent Windows Control Panel -- let's fuck with it every version and move shit around because we're too lazy to do it right the first time.
Pretending to be am armchair expert who is still struggling to understand ad hominem attacks just makes you look like an complete tool but then what can you expect from an Anonymous Coward./sarcasm Clearly the rest of us are doing it wrong.
One is known, the other unknown. Regardless, the point is, is the _transmission_ legal or not (over a spectrum.) HOW the message is sent, where one is illegal and the other is not is complete bullshit.
MADELEINE Ennis, a pharmacologist at Queen's University, Belfast, was the scourge of homeopathy. She railed against its claims that a chemical remedy could be diluted to the point where a sample was unlikely to contain a single molecule of anything but water, and yet still have a healing effect. Until, that is, she set out to prove once and for all that homeopathy was bunkum.
In her most recent paper, Ennis describes how her team looked at the effects of ultra-dilute solutions of histamine on human white blood cells involved in inflammation. These "basophils" release histamine when the cells are under attack. Once released, the histamine stops them releasing any more. The study, replicated in four different labs, found that homeopathic solutions - so dilute that they probably didn't contain a single histamine molecule - worked just like histamine. Ennis might not be happy with the homeopaths' claims, but she admits that an effect cannot be ruled out.
So how could it happen? Homeopaths prepare their remedies by dissolving things like charcoal, deadly nightshade or spider venom in ethanol, and then diluting this "mother tincture" in water again and again. No matter what the level of dilution, homeopaths claim, the original remedy leaves some kind of imprint on the water molecules. Thus, however dilute the solution becomes, it is still imbued with the properties of the remedy.
You can understand why Ennis remains skeptical. And it remains true that no homeopathic remedy has ever been shown to work in a large randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial. But the Belfast study (Inflammation Research, vol 53, p 181) suggests that something is going on. "We are," Ennis says in her paper, "unable to explain our findings and are reporting them to encourage others to investigate this phenomenon." If the results turn out to be real, she says, the implications are profound: we may have to rewrite physics and chemistry.
It could well be -- the placebo effect is ~ 50% effective. How the hell can you have something that effective when you have zero mg administered? The placebo effect is even stranger (From 13 Things that don't make sense)
1 The placebo effect Don't try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.
This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it's not quite nothing. When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared.
So what is going on? Doctors have known about the placebo effect for decades, and the naloxone result seems to show that the placebo effect is somehow biochemical. But apart from that, we simply don't know.
Benedetti has since shown that a saline placebo can also reduce tremors and muscle stiffness in people with Parkinson's disease. He and his team measured the activity of neurons in the patients' brains as they administered the saline. They found that individual neurons in the subthalamic nucleus (a common target for surgical attempts to relieve Parkinson's symptoms) began to fire less often when the saline was given, and with fewer "bursts" of firing -- another feature associated with Parkinson's. The neuron activity decreased at the same time as the symptoms improved: the saline was definitely doing something.
We have a lot to learn about what is happening here, Benedetti says, but one thing is clear: the mind can affect the body's biochemistry. "The relationship between expectation and therapeutic outcome is a wonderful model to understand mind-body interaction," he says. Researchers now need to identify when and where placebo works. There may be diseases in which it has no effect. There may be a common mechanism in different illnesses. As yet, we just don't know.
> "THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience"
Disagree about Windows. Every version past WinXP feels like lets-slap-this-shit-together-and-ship-it. Proof: Why the fuck does Window's Control Panel constantly need to have different entries for every version of Windows when OSX's System Panel has more or less remained mostly the same throughout?
Never thought we'd still be having flame wars over which is better, Gnome, or KDE, in 2015...
Even a 1st year comp. sci. persons knows that it is fastest to load the plane with LIFO.
I estimate you could cut loading time down by 50%.. 75%, but no, the airlines are to stupid to figure this out and make loading time be exponentially long.
They could even sell it if they worded it properly:
"We have some good news. You no longer have to wait 20 minutes to board the plane. It will take around ~7 minutes! The downside is that 1st class will have to wait a little longer. All in all this means we can reach your destination about ~10 minutes sooner."
/Sarcasm Gee, if only there was a place a person could go for a news aggregator to read the important summaries from a single place instead of wasting time with N+ sites.
Sticking your head in the sand and ignoring what is going around in the world is dumb.
Being balanced and investing a few minutes to keep up-to-date is smart.
/sarcasm Riiight, because taking 30 seconds out of my 5 minute budget to hopefully enligthen carni that he has unresolved issues is a SUCH a waste of time.
* If you are wasting time following another blogger that means you are being reactive. * Instead, invest your time into creating/producing solutions which means you are being pro-active.
It is the same deal with Focus. As Steve Job's used to say "The secret to staying focused is to say no." Every minute you waste reading someone else's blog, waste watching TV, waste gaming, etc., means the competition just gained an advantage over you.
I spend 5 minutes / day reading/. and Reddit spread throughout the day. Any more then ~5 minutes is time wasted that could be spend more efficiently building your business, helping people, networking, etc.
* Four TITAN X GPUs with 12GB of memory per GPU * 64GB DDR4 * Asus X99-E WS workstation class motherboard with 4-way PCI-E Gen3 x16 support * Core i7-5930K 6 Core 3.5GHz desktop processor * Three 3TB SATA 6Gb 3.5â Enterprise Hard Drive in RAID5 * 512GB PCI-E M.2 SSD cache for RAID * 250GB SATA 6Gb Internal SSD * 1600W Power Supply Unit * Ubuntu 14.04 * NVIDIA-qualified driver * NVIDIA® CUDA® Toolkit 7.0 * NVIDIA® DIGITSâ SW * Caffe, Theano, Torch, BIDMach
.. holy crap is that a lot of GPU horsepower "just" for AI. Oh look, they are running Ubuntu:-)
They are really trying to get people on board about how much better / faster their GPU solutions are...
The problem is that there are lot of "niche" use cases. If your problem domain maps to the GPU then yeah, mjaor speedup. If not, well, then you're SOL running on "slow" CPUs.
You know and I know that "Robbing Paul to pay Peter" is not sustainable; the problem is most people will whine about the short-term excuse "But think of the children! and are too stupid to focus on long term stability at the expense of greed.
This whole situation is similar to how banning forest fires ironically and paradoxically led to an increase in fires.
1. The total tax revenues for USA Federal government are 2.46 Trillion USD. 2. The total expenses for USA Federal government are 3.8 Trillion USD. 3. The interest payment on the outstanding public debt that is on the books is at least 360 Billion USD for the year based on the interest rate (which is manipulated by Federal reserve and other banks, but that's a separate subject matter). 4. Social Security benefit payouts are budgeted as 882.7 Billion USD. 5. Medicare for the year is budgeted at 523 Billion USD. 6. Medicaid for the year is budgeted at 283 Billion USD. 7. Other mandatory programs for the year is budgeted at 654 Billion USD. 8. War will cost 525.4 Billion USD.
So the total revenues are 2.46 Trillion USD, total expenses are 3.8 Trillion USD, the interes payment is 360 Billion USD.
Agreed, that the US doesn't have a saving problem, it has a spending problem.
The US is fucked.:-( It is not a matter of if but when.
> 3. You'll find yourself sitting way too often and never get adjusted to standing all day.
Disagree on #3. This isn't the same as quitting an addiction where you go cold-turkey.
HEALTH WARNING: If your body isn't used to the change in extended posture you'll simply end up hurting yourself until you become accustomed to it. If you go the gym you don't just pick up 100 lbs of weights, you ease into. The trick is be gradual and persistent.
Also, for some tasks I just can't stand 100% time. A extended standing chair lets you transition from sitting 100% all the time to standing most of the time.
If your co-workers are sitting more then standing then they aren't disciplined enough to be (and stay) healthy. The world's best environment and ergonomics won't help someone not disciplined and interested in their health.
Oh get off your high horse already with your myopic POV.
A bunch of us game devs "stream" coding. Some on Twitch others on YouTube.
The real-time nature of Twitch means people can ask questions and get insight into why the coder is doing it _that_ way instead of _this_ way.
If you want to see how "professionals" solve problems it can be worth while. For experienced developers I agree it is probably a waste of time, but for inexperienced developers you can learning coding style, naming conventions, organization, IDE usage, etc. You're right that experience it the best teacher but sometimes is is beneficial to see what others are doing. I assume you *never* use StackOverflow / StackExchange?
The downside is that more often then not the conversation gets derailed with the "noobs" clogging up the topics with flamewars over the "right" way to do something.
That seems to the common definition of (MMO) RPGS today -- synonymous with grind fest.:-(
Whether it be good games like Path of Exile or bad games like Defiance, Destiny, Diablo 3, Warframe, and toys like WoW -- these games all disrespect the player's time.
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No, you're not the only one.
You mentioned all the positives that I would list too -- the primary one being "It's NOT FazeBook"
Spot on 100% !
Functionality got tossed out for bullshit Form.
i.e. Windows 1 vs Windows 8.1
* http://gaspull.geeksaresexytec...
Pretending to be am armchair expert who is still struggling to understand ad hominem attacks just makes you look like an complete tool but then what can you expect from an Anonymous Coward. /sarcasm Clearly the rest of us are doing it wrong.
> I use clang as well because I develop on a mac
Sadly clang doesn't support OpenMP yet ... so still using GCC 5.x on OSX 10.9
Ugh. Visual Studio 2015 requires Windows 8.1. No thanks.
* https://www.visualstudio.com/e...
Here is the list of bugs fixed in
* GCC 5.2 compiler issues
* MSVC 2015 compiler issues
Additional MSVC 2015 bug fixes ...
* MSVC 2015 Features
* MSVC 2015 (C++11/14/17)
* MSVC 2015 STL part 1
* MSVC 2015 STL part 2
> It's amusing that there are 'experts' on a subject based on something that doesn't exist.
Hey, it "works" for the atheists ...
Oh, wait. :-)
One is known, the other unknown. Regardless, the point is, is the _transmission_ legal or not (over a spectrum.) HOW the message is sent, where one is illegal and the other is not is complete bullshit.
> It's called the placebo effect.
Not quite so fast ...
> It's called the placebo effect.
It could well be -- the placebo effect is ~ 50% effective. How the hell can you have something that effective when you have zero mg administered? The placebo effect is even stranger (From 13 Things that don't make sense)
From TFA:
> "THE Linux desktop in the same way that Windows or OS X have THE desktop experience"
Disagree about Windows. Every version past WinXP feels like lets-slap-this-shit-together-and-ship-it. Proof: Why the fuck does Window's Control Panel constantly need to have different entries for every version of Windows when OSX's System Panel has more or less remained mostly the same throughout?
Never thought we'd still be having flame wars over which is better, Gnome, or KDE, in 2015 ...
/Oblg. Captain Picard WTF is this shit?
Even a 1st year comp. sci. persons knows that it is fastest to load the plane with LIFO.
I estimate you could cut loading time down by 50% .. 75%, but no, the airlines are to stupid to figure this out and make loading time be exponentially long.
They could even sell it if they worded it properly:
"We have some good news. You no longer have to wait 20 minutes to board the plane. It will take around ~7 minutes! The downside is that 1st class will have to wait a little longer. All in all this means we can reach your destination about ~10 minutes sooner."
First, define "hate speech", and "offensive speech"
How many people are needed before something is considered "hate / offensive?"
Can the truth be considered hate / offensive ?
I was thinking more along the lines of Shrek's Prince Charming Hair Flip ...
/Sarcasm Gee, if only there was a place a person could go for a news aggregator to read the important summaries from a single place instead of wasting time with N+ sites.
Sticking your head in the sand and ignoring what is going around in the world is dumb.
Being balanced and investing a few minutes to keep up-to-date is smart.
/sarcasm Riiight, because taking 30 seconds out of my 5 minute budget to hopefully enligthen carni that he has unresolved issues is a SUCH a waste of time.
Why are you wasting your time with pointless ad hominem attacks??
You completely missed the point.
I never said to ignore everyone.
I only said you need to be selective in how and how much you spend your time.
If you want to be successful you need to properly manage how your time is spent / invested.
It is real simple.
* If you are wasting time following another blogger that means you are being reactive.
* Instead, invest your time into creating/producing solutions which means you are being pro-active.
It is the same deal with Focus. As Steve Job's used to say "The secret to staying focused is to say no." Every minute you waste reading someone else's blog, waste watching TV, waste gaming, etc., means the competition just gained an advantage over you.
I spend 5 minutes / day reading /. and Reddit spread throughout the day. Any more then ~5 minutes is time wasted that could be spend more efficiently building your business, helping people, networking, etc.
From TFA there was no pic of the UI, nor any mention of tech specs aside from a lot of nebulous details. From nVidia's website ...
* https://developer.nvidia.com/d...
They are really trying to get people on board about how much better / faster their GPU solutions are ...
* http://www.nvidia.com/object/m...
The problem is that there are lot of "niche" use cases. If your problem domain maps to the GPU then yeah, mjaor speedup. If not, well, then you're SOL running on "slow" CPUs.
You know and I know that "Robbing Paul to pay Peter" is not sustainable; the problem is most people will whine about the short-term excuse "But think of the children! and are too stupid to focus on long term stability at the expense of greed.
This whole situation is similar to how banning forest fires ironically and paradoxically led to an increase in fires.
* http://www.npr.org/2012/08/23/...
I like your journal entry where you go over the USA Budget 2013 numbers ...
* http://slashdot.org/journal/30...
Agreed, that the US doesn't have a saving problem, it has a spending problem.
The US is fucked. :-( It is not a matter of if but when.
> This is the first time that I can think of that a population directly voted in the affirmative to collapse their economy.
You really should read more history.
> 3. You'll find yourself sitting way too often and never get adjusted to standing all day.
Disagree on #3. This isn't the same as quitting an addiction where you go cold-turkey.
HEALTH WARNING: If your body isn't used to the change in extended posture you'll simply end up hurting yourself until you become accustomed to it. If you go the gym you don't just pick up 100 lbs of weights, you ease into. The trick is be gradual and persistent.
Also, for some tasks I just can't stand 100% time. A extended standing chair lets you transition from sitting 100% all the time to standing most of the time.
If your co-workers are sitting more then standing then they aren't disciplined enough to be (and stay) healthy. The world's best environment and ergonomics won't help someone not disciplined and interested in their health.
Oh get off your high horse already with your myopic POV.
A bunch of us game devs "stream" coding. Some on Twitch others on YouTube.
The real-time nature of Twitch means people can ask questions and get insight into why the coder is doing it _that_ way instead of _this_ way.
If you want to see how "professionals" solve problems it can be worth while. For experienced developers I agree it is probably a waste of time, but for inexperienced developers you can learning coding style, naming conventions, organization, IDE usage, etc. You're right that experience it the best teacher but sometimes is is beneficial to see what others are doing. I assume you *never* use StackOverflow / StackExchange?
The downside is that more often then not the conversation gets derailed with the "noobs" clogging up the topics with flamewars over the "right" way to do something.
That seems to the common definition of (MMO) RPGS today -- synonymous with grind fest. :-(
Whether it be good games like Path of Exile or bad games like Defiance, Destiny, Diablo 3, Warframe, and toys like WoW -- these games all disrespect the player's time.