As someone who used to battle suicidal thoughts for years let me offer some perspective.
For a long time there was a single thought that would go through my mind - almost constantly, even when I wasn't really *feeling* depressed. The thought was of stabbing myself in the chest or stomach with a large kitchen knife or cutting myself in a way which would kill me.
The reason I am putting an * around the word feeling is because I wasn't always self-aware of my deeply depressed state.. Actually, there were times I would even feel euphoric but yet that thought of inflicting such injuries upon myself would constantly go through my mind. By constantly, I mean every few minutes (if not every few seconds).
The thought was that this act would release me - that it would give me a sense of relief. I am not surprised that some people give in to this senseless feeling.
For myself, I escaped because I turned to religion. Those thoughts don't cross my mind anymore and haven't anymore. I recognise now that there are forces out there which don't want me alive and that there is also a benevolent personality out there (God) who wants me to live and thrive.
I realise that this thought may be scorned or mocked on this site and others. But for me it saved my life.
Yes, I agree. Many of us still visit the site but it has gradually become less and less relevant to the geeks and the nerds. These days I find better news articles in other sites such as news.ycombinator.com but the comment section there is an absolute eyesore. Slashdot has the best comments system by far, but I wish the corporate overlords would post the right stories. I have submitted stories which may have been of interest to people like me and many of those have never hit the site but on the same day I would see stories on slashdot which are pure clickbait and which are only very, very remotely related to tech. The site has started posting more and more stories which arepolitical in nature rather than technical in nature.
Something else which I have noticed is that stories have very few comments these days - often less than 100, and that is a far cry from the glory days when it wasn't unusual to have multiple stories with 1000+ comments on the same day.
One more thing: I do see the occasional comments from people like Bruce Schnier and other experts on this stie, but those are very, very rare these days - and not like during Slashdot's heydays. So am seeing less and less value in the comments section.
You are arguing that java should not be used because one of the dozens of mvc libraries had a security issue? That is similar to saying operating systems should not be written in C because operating systems written in C have had security vulnerabilities in the past
Java is excellent for some scenarios such as the development of server-side applications, webservices and so on. For stuff such as desktop GUI development, C/C++/.NET etc may be better options.
Apart from that, Jave has the following advantages: Excellent portability Automatic garbage collection Huge collection of excellent libraries accessible via well-organized central repositories via build tools such as maven, gradle and so on Dependency management is lot easier if you use build tools such as maven/gradle etc Huge numbers of competent developers
This is exactly the approach that the present Indian government is also using. Their intent is to use propaganda, lies and an army of trolls to control dissent, distract people from what is really happening and also to suppress any hint of an opposition.
The Prime Minister Modi himself follows some of the worst members of this troll army who use rape threats, murder threats and whatever else against anyone engaging in any form of dissent.
I wonder if systemd, pulseaudio etc are trojan horses inserted into the Linux ecosystem for nothing else but screwing things up - they work, sort of, but not very well.. they are irritating enough to significantly reduce the adoption of Linux and also to slow down the overall development of the Linux ecosystem by focusing attention on problems which could have been easily avoided. There there is of course these security vulnerabilities which open up in the strangest of places.
Of course, I have no evidence for this, but it has been a nagging suspicion.
The propensity to jump to conclusions is not new. See this "research" which concluded that T-Rex's are cannibals based on a SINGLE bite mark which they found on a T-Rex: https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
Why chat at all if it is supposed to be just exercise? Many of the mantras are invocations to Shiva, Ganesha etc. The deeper you go into yoga you get into things like Kundalini etc which is seen as a serpent kundalini resting in the base of the spine. If all of that isn't spooky and religious, what is?
The Hindu right in India begs to differ with you. The Hindu right have notions of grandeur which involve conquering neighboring countries and bringing them under a Hindu "rashtra" (kingdom). The present Indian government under the BJP Party have made it clear that they are interested in declaring India as an Indian state and also the current PM is on record as calling for an Akhand Bharat (a greater nation which incorporates Pakistan, Bangladesh, parts of Afghanistan etc).
The present government has also declared their intent to declare India as a Hindu nation with minority rights severely restricted as per the ideologies of their parent organizations that they owe allegiance to - such as the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha.
Yes, of course, I am not dead! Still remember the good old Turbo Pascal, writing directly into memory to draw on the screen, yes, Novell Netware... UTP...
If you want an unbiased view on this, please don't ask just the mobile payment providers who have everything to gain by painting a rosy picture of a very bad situation in India. The markets across the country are crumbling following this idiotic decision with markets falling as much as 70% in some sectors (agriculture is an example) and 100s of 1000s of people losing their jobs as a direct result of this bone headed move by the government.
The Harvard Business Review article on this is far more factual: Case study in poor policy and even poorer execution. https://hbr.org/2016/12/indias...
I agree. The quality of slashdot discussions have dropped a lot.. the number of comments against each article is also very low these days. It was unusual to have stories with less than 300-400 comments, now a lot of stories don't even hit the 100 comment mark. And most of the comments themselves are not adding much insight - and that is a shame, because I have always come to this site for the depth of the discussion and not because of the stories themselves.
In Nancy, France, there are already trams which run on pneumatic tires and which connect to overhead cables. So I don't really see what was supposedly invented here.
There is nothing in the law against selling fully imported good or even selling only fully imported goods. However, fully imported goods will attract a duty which is much higher than what good which are assembled locally will receive even if all or most of the parts are imported from abroad.
For example, in the case of vehicles, if they are brought into the country as parts (completely knocked down (CKD)), they will attract much less duty than if they were imported in fully assembled (completely built units (CBU)). Cars brought in as CBUs can attract as much as 125% tax.
In the case of Apple, the choice for them is one of the following: A) Assemble the phones locally B) Assemble abroad with 30% of the parts coming from India C) Bring it in fully assembled from abroad without parts from India but sell via Indian retailers so that there is job being generated at least in retailing the products
What Apple has been denied is option D) Bring products fully assembled and sell locally directly bypassing indian retailers without attracting additional duties.
This is my understanding of the subject and I could be wrong.
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As someone who used to battle suicidal thoughts for years let me offer some perspective.
For a long time there was a single thought that would go through my mind - almost constantly, even when I wasn't really *feeling* depressed. The thought was of stabbing myself in the chest or stomach with a large kitchen knife or cutting myself in a way which would kill me.
The reason I am putting an * around the word feeling is because I wasn't always self-aware of my deeply depressed state.. Actually, there were times I would even feel euphoric but yet that thought of inflicting such injuries upon myself would constantly go through my mind. By constantly, I mean every few minutes (if not every few seconds).
The thought was that this act would release me - that it would give me a sense of relief. I am not surprised that some people give in to this senseless feeling.
For myself, I escaped because I turned to religion. Those thoughts don't cross my mind anymore and haven't anymore. I recognise now that there are forces out there which don't want me alive and that there is also a benevolent personality out there (God) who wants me to live and thrive.
I realise that this thought may be scorned or mocked on this site and others. But for me it saved my life.
Yes, I agree. Many of us still visit the site but it has gradually become less and less relevant to the geeks and the nerds. These days I find better news articles in other sites such as news.ycombinator.com but the comment section there is an absolute eyesore. Slashdot has the best comments system by far, but I wish the corporate overlords would post the right stories. I have submitted stories which may have been of interest to people like me and many of those have never hit the site but on the same day I would see stories on slashdot which are pure clickbait and which are only very, very remotely related to tech. The site has started posting more and more stories which arepolitical in nature rather than technical in nature.
Something else which I have noticed is that stories have very few comments these days - often less than 100, and that is a far cry from the glory days when it wasn't unusual to have multiple stories with 1000+ comments on the same day.
One more thing: I do see the occasional comments from people like Bruce Schnier and other experts on this stie, but those are very, very rare these days - and not like during Slashdot's heydays. So am seeing less and less value in the comments section.
You are arguing that java should not be used because one of the dozens of mvc libraries had a security issue? That is similar to saying operating systems should not be written in C because operating systems written in C have had security vulnerabilities in the past
Java is excellent for some scenarios such as the development of server-side applications, webservices and so on. For stuff such as desktop GUI development, C/C++/.NET etc may be better options.
Apart from that, Jave has the following advantages:
Excellent portability
Automatic garbage collection
Huge collection of excellent libraries accessible via well-organized central repositories via build tools such as maven, gradle and so on
Dependency management is lot easier if you use build tools such as maven/gradle etc
Huge numbers of competent developers
This is exactly the approach that the present Indian government is also using. Their intent is to use propaganda, lies and an army of trolls to control dissent, distract people from what is really happening and also to suppress any hint of an opposition.
One of the former members of this huge paid army even released a book on it:
http://www.amazon.in/Am-Troll-...
The Prime Minister Modi himself follows some of the worst members of this troll army who use rape threats, murder threats and whatever else against anyone engaging in any form of dissent.
The BJP party which is in power is the primary backers and the ones who run this troll army:
http://mashable.com/2016/12/27...
I wonder if systemd, pulseaudio etc are trojan horses inserted into the Linux ecosystem for nothing else but screwing things up - they work, sort of, but not very well.. they are irritating enough to significantly reduce the adoption of Linux and also to slow down the overall development of the Linux ecosystem by focusing attention on problems which could have been easily avoided. There there is of course these security vulnerabilities which open up in the strangest of places.
Of course, I have no evidence for this, but it has been a nagging suspicion.
The propensity to jump to conclusions is not new. See this "research" which concluded that T-Rex's are cannibals based on a SINGLE bite mark which they found on a T-Rex:
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
This is the paper:
http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
Why chat at all if it is supposed to be just exercise? Many of the mantras are invocations to Shiva, Ganesha etc. The deeper you go into yoga you get into things like Kundalini etc which is seen as a serpent kundalini resting in the base of the spine. If all of that isn't spooky and religious, what is?
Correct: The present Indian government under the BJP Party have made it clear that they are interested in declaring India as an **Hindu** state
The Hindu right in India begs to differ with you. The Hindu right have notions of grandeur which involve conquering neighboring countries and bringing them under a Hindu "rashtra" (kingdom). The present Indian government under the BJP Party have made it clear that they are interested in declaring India as an Indian state and also the current PM is on record as calling for an Akhand Bharat (a greater nation which incorporates Pakistan, Bangladesh, parts of Afghanistan etc).
http://indianexpress.com/artic...
The present government has also declared their intent to declare India as a Hindu nation with minority rights severely restricted as per the ideologies of their parent organizations that they owe allegiance to - such as the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha.
http://www.rediff.com/news/rep...
Not all yoga is religion, but there are types of yoga involving chants, mantras etc and invocation of deities. Those are definitely religious.
There are chants invoking Shiva etc. See the common yoga chants here:
https://www.yogajournal.com/yo...
Does this impact the accuracy of the dating of the current dating methods such as radio carbon, caesium etc?
Yes, slashdot was quite the rage. Sad to see that it is now reduced to clickbait articles surrounding US politics
Yes, thoroughly reliable phones with a solid build. Still use an "ancient" 526G. What I miss is the fact that they don't do any software updates
Excellent points! This approach is not so popular though because those who enable others to function won't get the rockstar salaries...
Yes, of course, I am not dead! Still remember the good old Turbo Pascal, writing directly into memory to draw on the screen, yes, Novell Netware... UTP...
Also, when did Nginx become a language?
If you want an unbiased view on this, please don't ask just the mobile payment providers who have everything to gain by painting a rosy picture of a very bad situation in India. The markets across the country are crumbling following this idiotic decision with markets falling as much as 70% in some sectors (agriculture is an example) and 100s of 1000s of people losing their jobs as a direct result of this bone headed move by the government.
Washington Post: India just made a big mistake with its currency ban
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The Harvard Business Review article on this is far more factual: Case study in poor policy and even poorer execution.
https://hbr.org/2016/12/indias...
I agree. The quality of slashdot discussions have dropped a lot.. the number of comments against each article is also very low these days. It was unusual to have stories with less than 300-400 comments, now a lot of stories don't even hit the 100 comment mark. And most of the comments themselves are not adding much insight - and that is a shame, because I have always come to this site for the depth of the discussion and not because of the stories themselves.
India launched their first satellite using indeginously developed cryogenic rockets in september 2016
http://thewire.in/64280/gslv-m...
The last pslv launch involved placing satellites into two orbits.
http://m.hindustantimes.com/in...
Take a look at this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In Nancy, France, there are already trams which run on pneumatic tires and which connect to overhead cables. So I don't really see what was supposedly invented here.
There is nothing in the law against selling fully imported good or even selling only fully imported goods. However, fully imported goods will attract a duty which is much higher than what good which are assembled locally will receive even if all or most of the parts are imported from abroad.
For example, in the case of vehicles, if they are brought into the country as parts (completely knocked down (CKD)), they will attract much less duty than if they were imported in fully assembled (completely built units (CBU)). Cars brought in as CBUs can attract as much as 125% tax.
In the case of Apple, the choice for them is one of the following:
A) Assemble the phones locally
B) Assemble abroad with 30% of the parts coming from India
C) Bring it in fully assembled from abroad without parts from India but sell via Indian retailers so that there is job being generated at least in retailing the products
What Apple has been denied is option D) Bring products fully assembled and sell locally directly bypassing indian retailers without attracting additional duties.
This is my understanding of the subject and I could be wrong.
Agreed. If there is no one running a simulation, then the simulation cannot exist.