Not to mention, what kind of idiot engineer would design a camera that relied on the opacity of its case, which to him isn't just a black box, but an as-of-yet-nonexistent box? I don't buy it.
It's like you've purposefully made an entire post full of weasel words, and even sentences! "Metaphorically if you try to bend them at all they shatter rather spectacularly, they are brittle." Well done, sir.
How, exactly, are they brittle? I've heard this term used a number of times, but never actually seen a prediction of brittleness be an accurate predictor of any amount of bugs, maintenance issues, or really any negative outcome. As far as I can tell, it's just a weasel word to be used when you don't like something for aesthetic reasons or understand it fully.
So, prove me wrong. Explain exactly what's bad about using code that's been more heavily used and tested in production systems than just about anything else for more than 20 years.
Who is most people? I've been off and on a heavy pot user for 15 years now, and have never experienced any withdrawal effects at all. My usual m.o. is to get a big bag, smoke it over a period of a month or so, and when it's gone, *shrug*, I'm bored with it by then and I'll probably get another in a few months. Literally every one of my friends who smokes is the same way, in fact the usual impetus for getting more is someone going, "hey, when's the last time we smoked some weed?"
And no, I'm not failing to notice the symptoms. I've had physical dependencies on nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, and vicodin, and I know all too well what a physical dependency feels like. Vicodin? Got a too-long prescription from my doctor, and that was the most physically painful withdrawal I've ever had. Don't recommend it. Coke? Much like cigarettes in that there's little physical pain but a lot of brain twisting that makes you convince yourself to go get more. Caffeine? Easy to slowly ramp down, but if you don't holy shit that's a headache. Nicotine? Still trying to quit that. Such a subtle little rat in your head that whispers to go get more until you think it's your own thought, and if you reject it, it'll scratch and claw in death throes at the inside of your skull as you get hit with a craving where you feel the rest of your life go by without a fix. Now that's an addiction.
But pot? No, I can empirically say that pot is not addictive. If you have an issue quitting pot you have other psychological problems that would have manifested in other ways and if nothing else was available the kind of person who gets "addicted" to pot would get just as addicted to hitting themselves in the head with a rock.
Early in the beginning of the comment, I will make an extremely shallow connection to the parent, not because there's actually any contextual relation, but in order to prevent accusations of offtopic posting merely for the purpose of karma whoring.
Following said offtopic guard, I will make very little attempt to segue into my actual post, because by this point the mods who mod offtopic have either stopped skimming or are doing so so rapidly at this point that they won't even notice the actual comment has nothing to do with the parent. Anyone actually reading will most likely have forgotten the lack of connecting ideas, or at least it wasn't jarring enough to make them think about it. Make sure that this paragraph is relatively long and content-free, to encourage a zombie-like state in the moderator.
Toward the end is where you put your actual payload. Most will have stopped reading by this point, so you can safely add an insight that is completely off-topic. You only need 3-4 people to mod you up, so don't try to get too insightful, that's dangerous. Once you're modded up, that's a free pass to make half as many dissenting posts, and you can call them an idiot or any number of insensitive, misanthropic, or even downright racist epithets. The great thing is, if you don't use your karma bonus the most you can lose is 2 points. You should use your karma bonus in this post though, because being nested relatively deep and safely worded, it's going to need a little help getting noticed.
Some people mod up based purely off a snappy ending, so make it short and punchy and enjoy your +5.
Woah. What's the mix like on these digital downloads? Is it the blown-out compressed-to-fuck 3dB range CD mix, or is it the still-lower-than-a-CD's-dynamic-range vinyl mix? I assume they don't offer a lossless format, but if it's a high enough bitrate MP3 and decent mixes, I might just start buying digital music that comes with free frisbees.
You're off by about 6 years my man. Now it's so clean-shaven as to leave a doubt whether they're capable of growing facial hair or ratty untrimmed beard, painted-on jeans that look like they smell like chinese food, and greasy Flock of Seagulls cuts (those are on the way out though) or a blow-dried Justin Beiber mop.
So, to answer your question, you could get laughed at by hipsters. Although I bet they'd love the car setup, especially if you used a 70s-era component system with the original and thus horrible-sounding due to being 40 years old speakers.
omigod. What if all women are capable of such shapeshifting! My god! Her lips aren't that red, her eyes aren't that big, her lashes aren't that long, her boobs aren't that perky and her legs aren't that long! Oh the humanity!
Give it half a second after the movie starts so it starts taking keyboard input, and you only have to hit enter once. It'll go to the menu as soon as it can.
The texture corruption when AA is turned off is more annoying.
What the other poster said, also the car that got in the gap not only made an unsafe distance between itself and the car in front of it, but it also pulled in where I'm now an unsafe distance from it. I could slow down even more, but the cars would just get in the gap until I'm going half the speed limit or less, at which point I become a danger simply by my large difference in speed to the rest of the traffic.
Extreme defensive driving is right, because other motorists' perceptions come into play too. For instance, like every other driver on the road, I follow at distances where, if their car is able to slow down faster than mine, or I'm fiddling with the radio, I'm going to rear-end them. Before the banshees come out, hey, I'd avoid it if I could, but the fact is that when I do leave a space that would allow me to stop if they went from 60-0 in 1 second, another car passes and gets in that gap. There's no way to stop the behavior short of driving 30 in a 60mph zone, and that's what crumple zones, airbags, seatbelts, and insurance are for--driving in the real world.
Anyway, when I see a motorcycle, that goes out the window. I'm acutely aware that if they fall off the bike for some reason and I run over them, I'm probably going to kill someone, or at least fuck them up in ways that go far beyond sitting in a courtroom with a neckbrace suing my ass off. Since I'm not willing to accept that, I leave that space, and sometimes, even other drivers don't fill it in. I give them wide berth in other situations as well--just flat out, I never ever ever in my life want to hit a motorcyclist and do everything I can to make sure I don't. I notice most other drivers behave the same way, or at least leave some extra tolerance.
With an experimental car though, you're not going to get that immediate perception of "I'm quite possibly going to kill this person if I hit them." Sure, most of the risk is on the driver of the exotic, but what about steel rods that can detach in a collision and fly through the passenger compartment of a Saturn, or a million other things that can go wrong in weird ways? How do you even begin to evaluate that? Right now we require massive amounts of crash testing, but it becomes a lot less affordable to smash up 50 copies of your car when you might only sell 500 of them, and even then some wild design might cause huge problems in scenarios that aren't tested currently.
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8 years.
What will they think of next!
Not to mention, what kind of idiot engineer would design a camera that relied on the opacity of its case, which to him isn't just a black box, but an as-of-yet-nonexistent box? I don't buy it.
Hey, that's a great idea, if a guy notices the sign, she knows he's gay!
Through the air?
It's like you've purposefully made an entire post full of weasel words, and even sentences! "Metaphorically if you try to bend them at all they shatter rather spectacularly, they are brittle." Well done, sir.
How, exactly, are they brittle? I've heard this term used a number of times, but never actually seen a prediction of brittleness be an accurate predictor of any amount of bugs, maintenance issues, or really any negative outcome. As far as I can tell, it's just a weasel word to be used when you don't like something for aesthetic reasons or understand it fully.
So, prove me wrong. Explain exactly what's bad about using code that's been more heavily used and tested in production systems than just about anything else for more than 20 years.
We always had plenty of food growing up on the farm, therefore every resource is overabundant.
Who is most people? I've been off and on a heavy pot user for 15 years now, and have never experienced any withdrawal effects at all. My usual m.o. is to get a big bag, smoke it over a period of a month or so, and when it's gone, *shrug*, I'm bored with it by then and I'll probably get another in a few months. Literally every one of my friends who smokes is the same way, in fact the usual impetus for getting more is someone going, "hey, when's the last time we smoked some weed?"
And no, I'm not failing to notice the symptoms. I've had physical dependencies on nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, and vicodin, and I know all too well what a physical dependency feels like. Vicodin? Got a too-long prescription from my doctor, and that was the most physically painful withdrawal I've ever had. Don't recommend it. Coke? Much like cigarettes in that there's little physical pain but a lot of brain twisting that makes you convince yourself to go get more. Caffeine? Easy to slowly ramp down, but if you don't holy shit that's a headache. Nicotine? Still trying to quit that. Such a subtle little rat in your head that whispers to go get more until you think it's your own thought, and if you reject it, it'll scratch and claw in death throes at the inside of your skull as you get hit with a craving where you feel the rest of your life go by without a fix. Now that's an addiction.
But pot? No, I can empirically say that pot is not addictive. If you have an issue quitting pot you have other psychological problems that would have manifested in other ways and if nothing else was available the kind of person who gets "addicted" to pot would get just as addicted to hitting themselves in the head with a rock.
It's not physically addictive at all, and no more habit-forming than anything else that's fun.
Early in the beginning of the comment, I will make an extremely shallow connection to the parent, not because there's actually any contextual relation, but in order to prevent accusations of offtopic posting merely for the purpose of karma whoring.
Following said offtopic guard, I will make very little attempt to segue into my actual post, because by this point the mods who mod offtopic have either stopped skimming or are doing so so rapidly at this point that they won't even notice the actual comment has nothing to do with the parent. Anyone actually reading will most likely have forgotten the lack of connecting ideas, or at least it wasn't jarring enough to make them think about it. Make sure that this paragraph is relatively long and content-free, to encourage a zombie-like state in the moderator.
Toward the end is where you put your actual payload. Most will have stopped reading by this point, so you can safely add an insight that is completely off-topic. You only need 3-4 people to mod you up, so don't try to get too insightful, that's dangerous. Once you're modded up, that's a free pass to make half as many dissenting posts, and you can call them an idiot or any number of insensitive, misanthropic, or even downright racist epithets. The great thing is, if you don't use your karma bonus the most you can lose is 2 points. You should use your karma bonus in this post though, because being nested relatively deep and safely worded, it's going to need a little help getting noticed.
Some people mod up based purely off a snappy ending, so make it short and punchy and enjoy your +5.
A 2-car pileup? Is that like a pair of shoe?
Hell yes. In my book, insincere condolences are far worse than literally dancing on someone's grave. At least you know how they feel.
So do farmers and prostitutes.
Woah. What's the mix like on these digital downloads? Is it the blown-out compressed-to-fuck 3dB range CD mix, or is it the still-lower-than-a-CD's-dynamic-range vinyl mix? I assume they don't offer a lossless format, but if it's a high enough bitrate MP3 and decent mixes, I might just start buying digital music that comes with free frisbees.
You're off by about 6 years my man. Now it's so clean-shaven as to leave a doubt whether they're capable of growing facial hair or ratty untrimmed beard, painted-on jeans that look like they smell like chinese food, and greasy Flock of Seagulls cuts (those are on the way out though) or a blow-dried Justin Beiber mop.
So, to answer your question, you could get laughed at by hipsters. Although I bet they'd love the car setup, especially if you used a 70s-era component system with the original and thus horrible-sounding due to being 40 years old speakers.
Dear god that is a travesty. Here's some real kazoo, and some banjo, in a song about Ed Gein, and it's awesome.
Blind Melon - Skinned
omigod. What if all women are capable of such shapeshifting! My god! Her lips aren't that red, her eyes aren't that big, her lashes aren't that long, her boobs aren't that perky and her legs aren't that long! Oh the humanity!
Give it half a second after the movie starts so it starts taking keyboard input, and you only have to hit enter once. It'll go to the menu as soon as it can.
The texture corruption when AA is turned off is more annoying.
Something having to do with broomsticks and bodily orifices.
I was with you up until this. What the fuck?
What the other poster said, also the car that got in the gap not only made an unsafe distance between itself and the car in front of it, but it also pulled in where I'm now an unsafe distance from it. I could slow down even more, but the cars would just get in the gap until I'm going half the speed limit or less, at which point I become a danger simply by my large difference in speed to the rest of the traffic.
Extreme defensive driving is right, because other motorists' perceptions come into play too. For instance, like every other driver on the road, I follow at distances where, if their car is able to slow down faster than mine, or I'm fiddling with the radio, I'm going to rear-end them. Before the banshees come out, hey, I'd avoid it if I could, but the fact is that when I do leave a space that would allow me to stop if they went from 60-0 in 1 second, another car passes and gets in that gap. There's no way to stop the behavior short of driving 30 in a 60mph zone, and that's what crumple zones, airbags, seatbelts, and insurance are for--driving in the real world.
Anyway, when I see a motorcycle, that goes out the window. I'm acutely aware that if they fall off the bike for some reason and I run over them, I'm probably going to kill someone, or at least fuck them up in ways that go far beyond sitting in a courtroom with a neckbrace suing my ass off. Since I'm not willing to accept that, I leave that space, and sometimes, even other drivers don't fill it in. I give them wide berth in other situations as well--just flat out, I never ever ever in my life want to hit a motorcyclist and do everything I can to make sure I don't. I notice most other drivers behave the same way, or at least leave some extra tolerance.
With an experimental car though, you're not going to get that immediate perception of "I'm quite possibly going to kill this person if I hit them." Sure, most of the risk is on the driver of the exotic, but what about steel rods that can detach in a collision and fly through the passenger compartment of a Saturn, or a million other things that can go wrong in weird ways? How do you even begin to evaluate that? Right now we require massive amounts of crash testing, but it becomes a lot less affordable to smash up 50 copies of your car when you might only sell 500 of them, and even then some wild design might cause huge problems in scenarios that aren't tested currently.
ugh looks like I was a little to frenetic in my posting and forgot what I'd written before I was halfway through the sentence...
I'm picturing Red Bull, hot resin, and a million dollar reward for the most sealed batteries (pre-qa).
Isn't fixing quotes like this up allowed in quotes when the intended word (hermetically) is obvious?
Yeah, I can't wait to get operated on by "Tom".