The layout of some of these clay tablets looks like someone invented the spreadsheet before the computer
Accountants were using ledgers and analysis paper with figures in multiple columns since the Middle Ages. The spreadsheet started off as an electronic version of a ledger page.
Keep politics out of here *except* all the privacy issues as well as NSA and government surveillance stuff
Whether you like it or not, politics is involved in almost everything. It is the height of absurdity to pretend that, just because you agree with the politics behind something, there is no other sane alternative worth discussing.
For example, if you have a military tech story, it would be impossible to keep politics (or economics or ethics) out without an entirely artificial stove-piping exercise.
Logan Abbott from BIZX here. Happy to answer any questions.
How do you intend to make slashdot self-sufficient WRT to income/expenses? You must have *some* idea or else you would not have purchased it, so let us hear it.
Since they can't charge for access to slashdot because this is the internet, and advertising is disgusting and immoral, I suggest they sell slashdot action figures and/or put on some live discussion shows.
Can we please stop getting stories about trying to convince more of protected group XYZ into IT/CS/coding. Forced diversity is discrimination. Dice loved to push that shit on us.
Whether you approve or not, it is still a fact that it is definitely nerd news if Intel or Google say they're spending $374 billion (or whatever) on increasing diversity.
In non-nerd terms, I wouldn't want the evening news to ignore news of Russia invading Ukraine just because I'm not in favour of Russia invading Ukraine.
Especially keep in mind that most of us use large desktop monitors with lots and lots of realestate to play with.
This means get your developers and designers some 4k displays to play with, so they can see what we see.
Why? Slashdot is a site based on text discussions. There is absolutely no need for anything elaborate. If you want to view it in a tiny window on your seventy two inch ultra ultra high definition monitor, fine, but the site should be designed for and perfectly usable on a basic laptop.
it went from being "News for Nerds" to being "News for a particular philosophical and political subset of Nerds".
What happened is that slashdot started posting some political stories, and because these weren't generally by extreme right wingers, a lot of people started moaning about a left wing bias, which is only true in the sense that "not being an actual Nazi" makes you left wing.
The subset of nerds who are blatant facists is actually quite small, but as soon as anyone criticises them they start moaning about politically correct censorship of their right to absolute free speech, as though pointing out that someone is a moron for believing that their skin colour or gender makes them a superior human being is restricting their right to hold those beliefs.
> Calculating all of the possible moves then picking the best one is hard to call intelligent.
The book on AI we use at our university disagrees with you.
That's because most AI researchers are quite happy to call anything involving a machine doing something "artificial intelligence" even if it's just the speaking clock.
If there are 5000 people who know of the conspiracy then it's much more difficult, probabilistically, to have all of them take the secret to their grave. Thus the likelihood that no one has spilled the beans on a fake moon landing is extremely small, but the likelihood that three people who worked together to have someone assassinated can keep that secret is very high.
If there was a Nobel Prize awarded for making a tedious explanation of the painfully obvious, you'd surely be in contention.
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Also, there can't be any traffic on the road because vehicles will block the sunlight, greatly reducing the amount of electricity generated.
What a wonderful idea.
Similarly, solar panels on houses are completely useless because what happens if a cloud passes over?
Today seems to be "give mod points to fascists" day.
(And let's not forget that Nazism and racism were progressive ideologies, so they fit the pattern.)
Hur hur Nazi is German for National Socialism, so all socialists are Nazis.
You are a buffoon.
"We should stop Muslims coming into America until we can figure out what the hell is going on." is not hate speech.
I'm guessing you're not a Muslim.
The layout of some of these clay tablets looks like someone invented the spreadsheet before the computer
Accountants were using ledgers and analysis paper with figures in multiple columns since the Middle Ages. The spreadsheet started off as an electronic version of a ledger page.
Keep politics out of here *except* all the privacy issues as well as NSA and government surveillance stuff
Whether you like it or not, politics is involved in almost everything. It is the height of absurdity to pretend that, just because you agree with the politics behind something, there is no other sane alternative worth discussing.
For example, if you have a military tech story, it would be impossible to keep politics (or economics or ethics) out without an entirely artificial stove-piping exercise.
The abbreviation for duplicates is "dupes" not "dups". "Dups" would be pronounced like "cups".
Logan Abbott from BIZX here. Happy to answer any questions.
How do you intend to make slashdot self-sufficient WRT to income/expenses? You must have *some* idea or else you would not have purchased it, so let us hear it.
Since they can't charge for access to slashdot because this is the internet, and advertising is disgusting and immoral, I suggest they sell slashdot action figures and/or put on some live discussion shows.
Can we please stop getting stories about trying to convince more of protected group XYZ into IT/CS/coding. Forced diversity is discrimination. Dice loved to push that shit on us.
Whether you approve or not, it is still a fact that it is definitely nerd news if Intel or Google say they're spending $374 billion (or whatever) on increasing diversity.
In non-nerd terms, I wouldn't want the evening news to ignore news of Russia invading Ukraine just because I'm not in favour of Russia invading Ukraine.
Especially keep in mind that most of us use large desktop monitors with lots and lots of realestate to play with.
This means get your developers and designers some 4k displays to play with, so they can see what we see.
Why? Slashdot is a site based on text discussions. There is absolutely no need for anything elaborate. If you want to view it in a tiny window on your seventy two inch ultra ultra high definition monitor, fine, but the site should be designed for and perfectly usable on a basic laptop.
it went from being "News for Nerds" to being "News for a particular philosophical and political subset of Nerds".
What happened is that slashdot started posting some political stories, and because these weren't generally by extreme right wingers, a lot of people started moaning about a left wing bias, which is only true in the sense that "not being an actual Nazi" makes you left wing.
The subset of nerds who are blatant facists is actually quite small, but as soon as anyone criticises them they start moaning about politically correct censorship of their right to absolute free speech, as though pointing out that someone is a moron for believing that their skin colour or gender makes them a superior human being is restricting their right to hold those beliefs.
There used to be a good amount of original content on Slashdot, things like interviews, book reviews, articles written by Jon Katz.
Hi Jon.
Also "inline" should be " in line". And there should be a comma between "desperate" and "deceptive". Finally, it should be "Our focus is on making".
I hope the new owners are taking heed of all this constructive criticism.
Uhh.. paraphrasing Donald Trump might not be the best of ideas.
Yeah, most slashdotters don't appreciate weak liberals like him.
Add to that, cut the SJW crap as well as the "downtrodden race/gender du jour" articles need to go in the shit can.
Thank you.
Let me guess, those are the downtrodden races or genders of which you're not a member?
You guys should hire Jon Katz.
Last I heard, he'd changed sides and become Jon Dogz.
What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world?
What about the over-entitled whining mummy's boys who think any criticism of the system that they've done well by is a personal attack?
Please fuck off. Slashdot is not Slashdot without the AC.
Says the AC...
Sounds like something from a 1990s cyberpunk novel.
Recreating human intelligence is already trivial
Well it certainly didn't work in your case.
> Calculating all of the possible moves then picking the best one is hard to call intelligent. The book on AI we use at our university disagrees with you.
That's because most AI researchers are quite happy to call anything involving a machine doing something "artificial intelligence" even if it's just the speaking clock.
Having actually been to the south pole, I can definitely say that there are NO NASA employees there.
That just proves you're part of the conspiracy.
If there are 5000 people who know of the conspiracy then it's much more difficult, probabilistically, to have all of them take the secret to their grave. Thus the likelihood that no one has spilled the beans on a fake moon landing is extremely small, but the likelihood that three people who worked together to have someone assassinated can keep that secret is very high.
If there was a Nobel Prize awarded for making a tedious explanation of the painfully obvious, you'd surely be in contention.
Not while Bennet Haselton is still alive.
Because it's not my job to stop crime, especially victimless ones.
If you think child abuse crimes are victimless, you're a sorry excuse for a human being.
The vast majority of "child porn" has no children in it.
On the face of it that sounds...illogical.
I assume you mean that you don't consider porn with someone aged 15 child porn because they're a young human being, not a child. How about 10? 4?
The law has to draw a line somewhere, otherwise it would be legal to have sex with babies.