As someone who's drank practically every type of ethanol under the sun, from Busch beer to Johnny Walker Blue to fortified "wine" to home-brewed mead to gluten-free beer to Cristal to Everclear, in every combination imaginable, getting blackout drunk on nothing but neat Jim Beams all night or Guinness or a different drink every time, who's tried every hangover cure, multivitamins, aspirin, Vicodin, hair of the dog, bacon and eggs, a gallon of water before bed, drinking a large glass of water between every alcoholic beverage, you name it, I can say with the utmost confidence that the "impurities" have fuck-all effect on your hangover.
Try evaporating all the alcohol out of the worst possible plastic-bottle booze, and drink the remains all the way down. You won't feel a thing. Now go raise your BAC to 0.25% with 100% pure lab-grade ethanol, drink a bottle of water between every serving, take a four Tylenol before bed, and tell me how you feel in the morning.
You get hung over because you drank poison. The perfect hangover cure is morphine. Thread over.
our efforts, to paraphrase patton, should be to make sure that as many as possible of the other guys die, and putting so much emphasis on saving all of our guys will impede that effort.
No matter how much killing one soldier can do, two can do more.
The tricky thing is, what do you do when an app already has its own tabs? Ideally there would be some sort of an API that states whether the WM is capable of application tabbing, and if so, whether it is tabbed, because otherwise you'll end up with a "we put tabs in your tabs so you can tab while you tab" situation, and that's just ridiculous.
Well, they didn't give us any information about tha, nor whether or not there is a feedback system, but let's consider the feasibility: I'm no EE, but wouldn't there be some sort of change in resistance or... something... as the motors experienced load? I'm not sure the signal would transmit through relays or whatever they're using, but short of a specifically designed feedback system, is it possible, or likely? The nervous system operates on very low power, I know that much, so is there any sort of signal it could get and potentially interpret?
I'm not going to argue the "kinda out of it for a month" claim but I challenge you to produce the results of any study that backs up your claim that isn't countered by double the number of studies that find exactly the opposite, but your claim that you're "ok maybe two or three days later" is ridiculous. Brain damage, cirrhosis, heart disease are some permanent problems just to name a few, and if that's not good enough for you, you can die by drinking it quickly enough.
Go try to die or have any permanent effect by smoking as much pot as you possibly can as fast as you can. Unless you have asthma or a very bad heart or something, you will fail, every time. Use a vaporizer, a gravity bong, it doesn't matter, you just can't do it. I'm not even sure you could permanently hurt yourself if you ate a pound of the stuff. In studies, the lethal to effective dose ratio from animal studies, I've seen numbers anywhere from 250:1 to 40,000:1. Even for really really good weed, where you would feel something off half of a normal-sized hit, and using the 250:1 statistic which is frankly so far outside what every other study I've seen that it should hardly be considered, you'd have to take 125 hits to die. All I have to say is, go try to take 125 hits of weed good enough to get you stoned of half a hit. Just try, try as hard as you can.
On second thought, I will argue against your "out of it for a month" claim, because it's just so ridiculous. No drug lasts for a month, that's just silly. If you did try it, and you felt out of it for a month, you either smoked something laced with an exotic research chemical (you didn't), or I'm afraid it was nothing but your overactive imagination at work.
Yup. This, combined with the parent's note about high-resolution timing shouldn't have even gotten past the first programmer to write the code. The instant they wrote a line of code that depended on timekeeping that precise, there should have been a review of the time system, or rather before, that should have been thought of in the design phase. And as for floating-point errors, any programmer that isn't aware of those issues needs to be writing... fuck, I don't even know. Something that doesn't use floating-point numbers I guess. Why the Christ they were repeatedly adding floating-point numbers is beyond me, 99.1% of the time it's possible to either do a direct calculation or do a "resync" of some sort, and for the 0.899999998% of the rest of the time, you can use an arbitrary-precision number library, or a rational number library, or (very) carefully look at the rounding algorithm, or any number of other ways around the issue.
Anyway, this should have been caught at pretty much every layer, and whoever missed it shouldn't be in the business. Blech.
A couple friends of mine once wrote software to predict market commodities price changes. They had a huge dataset, the last 10 years worth of every commodity price. They tweaked it, and tweaked it, and tweaked it, and in the end it made a consistent profit over their entire dataset. Then they both invested $2,500 each, and it steadily lost every cent of it over less than a year.
It's easy to come up with a model that matches your data without even realizing it, this sounds like the exact same thing.
Children are best at spotting when the emperor is naked.
I see what you're saying, but you're wrong. Children are horrible at spotting that.
Look at drug education, which is taught in a similarly shrill tone. Almost all children come out of that with an absolute hatred of any drugs. It's not until later, when exposed to the actual effects that some of them will realize that most of what was taught was bunk. Many will have the extremely negative reaction that they were taught for the rest of their lives, regardless of any evidence they receive to the contrary. And even those that do figure out that it was mostly hysteria that they were taught generally fling in the other direction, rebelling against any authority and expecting everything they say to be a lie.
Teaching unbalanced and hysterical lessons to young children, who do not have BS filters in place, is as far as I've seen, universally harmful. I can think of no situation where a reasoned explanation of the facts, and clearly marked explanation of theories, would not be better than the above.
Jesus Christ you had your GF's mail on your server? I run my own mail server too, never felt comfortable doing that. I run mail for a couple friends, never been tempted to look and wouldn't look if I was tempted, but I would never give myself that kind of access to someone I was screwing, and besides, what happens when you break up? I guess she lost her e-mail address?
I guess you don't have to worry about things like that when you're ScrewMaster though.
Your 45 EUR a month comes out to 1,080 EUR for two years, or $1,544.72. Congratulations, you pay 75% what we pay.
On the other hand, you also get to pay matching numerical amounts for much of your electronics, have paid double what we pay for gas for years, and of course have to deal with smug pricks such as yourself on a daily basis.
(Jesus fuck Slashdot if we can't enter HTML entities could you at least accept Unicode? It's pretty Goddamn easy to avoid accepting control characters; it's called Character Categories, they built it into the fucking standard. Ugh.)
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As someone who's drank practically every type of ethanol under the sun, from Busch beer to Johnny Walker Blue to fortified "wine" to home-brewed mead to gluten-free beer to Cristal to Everclear, in every combination imaginable, getting blackout drunk on nothing but neat Jim Beams all night or Guinness or a different drink every time, who's tried every hangover cure, multivitamins, aspirin, Vicodin, hair of the dog, bacon and eggs, a gallon of water before bed, drinking a large glass of water between every alcoholic beverage, you name it, I can say with the utmost confidence that the "impurities" have fuck-all effect on your hangover.
Try evaporating all the alcohol out of the worst possible plastic-bottle booze, and drink the remains all the way down. You won't feel a thing. Now go raise your BAC to 0.25% with 100% pure lab-grade ethanol, drink a bottle of water between every serving, take a four Tylenol before bed, and tell me how you feel in the morning.
You get hung over because you drank poison. The perfect hangover cure is morphine. Thread over.
Holy blast from the past.
Just put weights in it, duh.
Or just get rid of the white ink WAIT A MINUTE+++ath0
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our efforts, to paraphrase patton, should be to make sure that as many as possible of the other guys die, and putting so much emphasis on saving all of our guys will impede that effort.
No matter how much killing one soldier can do, two can do more.
The tricky thing is, what do you do when an app already has its own tabs? Ideally there would be some sort of an API that states whether the WM is capable of application tabbing, and if so, whether it is tabbed, because otherwise you'll end up with a "we put tabs in your tabs so you can tab while you tab" situation, and that's just ridiculous.
Well, they didn't give us any information about tha, nor whether or not there is a feedback system, but let's consider the feasibility: I'm no EE, but wouldn't there be some sort of change in resistance or ... something ... as the motors experienced load? I'm not sure the signal would transmit through relays or whatever they're using, but short of a specifically designed feedback system, is it possible, or likely? The nervous system operates on very low power, I know that much, so is there any sort of signal it could get and potentially interpret?
EVE is a crushing depression with suicidal tendencies simulator, the best there ever was.
Works better when it's Sarah Jessica Parker.
I'm too lazy, but somebody do a relative size comparison now.
The barber is a woman!
I have literally done every single one of these things.
I'm not going to argue the "kinda out of it for a month" claim but I challenge you to produce the results of any study that backs up your claim that isn't countered by double the number of studies that find exactly the opposite, but your claim that you're "ok maybe two or three days later" is ridiculous. Brain damage, cirrhosis, heart disease are some permanent problems just to name a few, and if that's not good enough for you, you can die by drinking it quickly enough.
Go try to die or have any permanent effect by smoking as much pot as you possibly can as fast as you can. Unless you have asthma or a very bad heart or something, you will fail, every time. Use a vaporizer, a gravity bong, it doesn't matter, you just can't do it. I'm not even sure you could permanently hurt yourself if you ate a pound of the stuff. In studies, the lethal to effective dose ratio from animal studies, I've seen numbers anywhere from 250:1 to 40,000:1. Even for really really good weed, where you would feel something off half of a normal-sized hit, and using the 250:1 statistic which is frankly so far outside what every other study I've seen that it should hardly be considered, you'd have to take 125 hits to die. All I have to say is, go try to take 125 hits of weed good enough to get you stoned of half a hit. Just try, try as hard as you can.
On second thought, I will argue against your "out of it for a month" claim, because it's just so ridiculous. No drug lasts for a month, that's just silly. If you did try it, and you felt out of it for a month, you either smoked something laced with an exotic research chemical (you didn't), or I'm afraid it was nothing but your overactive imagination at work.
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Yup. This, combined with the parent's note about high-resolution timing shouldn't have even gotten past the first programmer to write the code. The instant they wrote a line of code that depended on timekeeping that precise, there should have been a review of the time system, or rather before, that should have been thought of in the design phase. And as for floating-point errors, any programmer that isn't aware of those issues needs to be writing ... fuck, I don't even know. Something that doesn't use floating-point numbers I guess. Why the Christ they were repeatedly adding floating-point numbers is beyond me, 99.1% of the time it's possible to either do a direct calculation or do a "resync" of some sort, and for the 0.899999998% of the rest of the time, you can use an arbitrary-precision number library, or a rational number library, or (very) carefully look at the rounding algorithm, or any number of other ways around the issue.
Anyway, this should have been caught at pretty much every layer, and whoever missed it shouldn't be in the business. Blech.
Yeah, well, it's Score 4: Funny, so apparently ... there's one.
That's not a concept, that's a cartoon. From that realm, I'm far more interested in the ability to not fall by not looking down.
Jesus fuck you self-flagellating faggots are annoying.
A couple friends of mine once wrote software to predict market commodities price changes. They had a huge dataset, the last 10 years worth of every commodity price. They tweaked it, and tweaked it, and tweaked it, and in the end it made a consistent profit over their entire dataset. Then they both invested $2,500 each, and it steadily lost every cent of it over less than a year.
It's easy to come up with a model that matches your data without even realizing it, this sounds like the exact same thing.
Children are best at spotting when the emperor is naked.
I see what you're saying, but you're wrong. Children are horrible at spotting that.
Look at drug education, which is taught in a similarly shrill tone. Almost all children come out of that with an absolute hatred of any drugs. It's not until later, when exposed to the actual effects that some of them will realize that most of what was taught was bunk. Many will have the extremely negative reaction that they were taught for the rest of their lives, regardless of any evidence they receive to the contrary. And even those that do figure out that it was mostly hysteria that they were taught generally fling in the other direction, rebelling against any authority and expecting everything they say to be a lie.
Teaching unbalanced and hysterical lessons to young children, who do not have BS filters in place, is as far as I've seen, universally harmful. I can think of no situation where a reasoned explanation of the facts, and clearly marked explanation of theories, would not be better than the above.
Jesus Christ you had your GF's mail on your server? I run my own mail server too, never felt comfortable doing that. I run mail for a couple friends, never been tempted to look and wouldn't look if I was tempted, but I would never give myself that kind of access to someone I was screwing, and besides, what happens when you break up? I guess she lost her e-mail address?
I guess you don't have to worry about things like that when you're ScrewMaster though.
Your 45 EUR a month comes out to 1,080 EUR for two years, or $1,544.72. Congratulations, you pay 75% what we pay.
On the other hand, you also get to pay matching numerical amounts for much of your electronics, have paid double what we pay for gas for years, and of course have to deal with smug pricks such as yourself on a daily basis.
(Jesus fuck Slashdot if we can't enter HTML entities could you at least accept Unicode? It's pretty Goddamn easy to avoid accepting control characters; it's called Character Categories, they built it into the fucking standard. Ugh.)
Calm down, Larry, it was a joke.
Save your insincere apologies for your children.
Somebody get a Wayans brother up in here, we need a Z snap, stat.
MY IQ IS A BILLLLLLLLION UHUHUHHPR
fuck slashdot and its neurotic-ass filters.