I've never been able to intuitively understand social interaction.
Well that's easy. Logic, computers, and numbers are always there and never lie to you. If they do it's because you misunderstood. And if they actually did, then that becomes an interesting problem in and of itself.
People, on the other hand, people... ehhh, never mind.
As a side topic -- I do NOT process visually, like over 60% of the population does. A lot of the time I literally couldn't understand what they were talking about. Vision is to keep from running into walls and furniture, at which I am only mostly successful at.
Probably anyone in Arkansas who earns a CS degree ends up moving somewhere else anyway.
Nope, not quite all. Although I have to say all of the other 7(!) people getting a BS in CS at the U of A Fayetteville back in the mid-70s long ago moved away; I never did.
I've got 3 friends with CS degrees from here that are still here; everyone else I know has moved out of state including mechanical and chemical engineers -- and then one friend that does NO COMMENT for NO COMMENT. I suspect that his Doctorate certificate is written in invisible ink as well.... or maybe it really IS just a blank sheet of paper.
If I was tasked with writing a program to list the digits from zero to six, I would write this:
Sorry, that's an F. You've got a horizontal list there, the end-user wanted a normal-style vertical list instead. Can't you interpret standard specifications correctly???
"The Bizarre and Complex Story of a Failed Wikipedia Software Extension" -- so they took this failed Alpha code, installed and upgraded it here, and called it Beta?
Well, I'm neutral about neutrons, fairly positive for protons, but highly negative about electrons. I get just sick over germs and am a bit attracted to gravity, but just explode if introduced to someone who's ideas are too petty. (Anti-matter.)
I'm shocked at times over the abundance of electromagnetism and find astrophysics rarely smashing, while thermodynamics leaves me lukewarm. I'm still all tangled up over string theory and hot then cold on Global Warming.
My ideas on evolution change over time but my religious ideas are absolutely static. Psychology is just nuts. I'm a bit wish-washy on politics -- or is it the other way? -- but terrorism just makes me blow my stack. I'm not sure I even believe in metaphysics while philosophy just seems to be all talk, and the occult really gives me the creeps. (Spirits belong in their bottles, not evaporated and floating around in the air.)
I first started thinking about the Big Bang, but finally, the expected Big Crunch far, far in the future leaves me
This [myfirstdrone.com] is a 4-lb payload drone that doesn't look more than 1 meter wide....
A M18 Claymore [wikipedia.org] is 3.5 lbs, so this drone could carry one without issue.
!! That's really cool! Home-brew, huh? Neat.
But I can't do that -- my cheap $100 drone doesn't hardly carry any weight. I guess I'll just add razor-blades to the propellers and slice the watermelon by running into it. Once, anyway.
Even with "scratch resistant external media", I use 10% of the disc space for redundancy and recovery by using Multipar. It's a PAR2 compatible program that handles subdirectories. I've also bought but haven't used in recovery mode ISOBuster, a program that can handle the internal disc structures to try to recovery from corrupted media.
I have manually changed files and parts of files and had Multipar recover the originals; I have not yet physically scarred a CD/DVD/BR to see if it's recoverable via ISOBuster. It's supposed to work, though.
Fair (not archivable quality discs) BDs cost $0.50 for 20GB effective or $25 for 1TB, this is comparable to hard drive prices. They'll handle drops better and if one goes bad, you "only" lose that media (20G) vs terabytes. It's much slower, smaller, and write-once, though.
(OMG -- 20G is "small"?? I remember having things fit on a single 256KB 8" floppy. Much better than paper tape, though.)
My ISP has only ONE JOB: connect me to the web without getting in the way.
Assuming that they use lasers for communication to Sprint and T-Mobile: all it takes are a few half-silvered mirrors somewhere as a R/O tap and SpGoogle(TM) is ready for your business! Use the web as much as you want and they'll make sure your data goes exactly where it's supposed to.
But I just don't know where they are going to place the sharks that are attached to all of those lasers. Guarding the Google Barge, perhaps?
Oh, that's been moved or depreciated, you say? That's just what they WANT you to think. You haven't seen Google Cloak, have you? (Well, for that matter NO ONE has -- but that's kinda the point.)
Now, tie that with their autonomous cars that "no one wants" and you've got: -- KnightRider! All it needs now is RoboCop to change the flat tires.
Between the two of them Muslim scholars and Catholic monks are pretty much single handedly responsible for salvaging much of the collective knowledge of the classical world.
THIS. This is the only use I can think of for religion, in saving knowledge for the future. (See? It's not totally bad!)
"[In the time of] the classical world" - So, what have you done for me lately?
(Yes, cap-Science isn't enough all by itself either. The real Golden Rule works, too. But I'd still rather all of us try to figure things out than assume everything was completely determined for us millennia ago.
Of course, that's the trick: science is how all of nature and the universe works, religion is how humans should live and relate with each other. Completely different domains. Guess that's why I'm an introvert!)
I did not know that -- it's very sweet; good for them.
Now, I do have an off-topic question: When God finally arrives and brings back everyone from the dead:
a) Does that also include cremations? (Probably so -- just add water.) Dismemberment? (Super Glue.)
b) Will He do it more than once? I can just see Gene waking up in the shadow of the moon, and then immediately expiring because of the non-existent atmosphere and cold. So is this a one-time thing, or does God hit Ctrl-Alt-Del repeatedly until it finally works?
c) God brings back to Earth all of the travelers that have managed to escape Earths' gravity. (Sounds kinda like a shepherd -- "That's not your yard, get back over here. Stupid sheep.")
d) God doesn't bother. "You really want to leave? Have at it." (Wonder if any lawyers will take it up with Him since their potential clients are missing out.)
e) Does that also include video-game characters? NetHack, Mario, Gordon Freeman, etc? (What about PacMan and GLaDOS?) And what about Sweetie?
You can shorten something so far for clarity, but if you go to far you end up with less clarity.
I see what you did there!!
... I only wish it had been intentional.
how sometimes you make a program a little more verbose so that a different programmer coming across the code later can understand it.
Oh, like comments? You can write insanely complicated code and as long as it produces the results you had intended, it's correct. But it helps the programmer behind you if you then also write "War and Peace" describing how it works. "It's Magic" is too short.
Open Source... merely guarantees that all of the bugs can be found.
Well it seems like Closed Source "merely guarantees that all of the bugs can be found" by crackers. (NO, they're not hackers.) They seem to do a pretty good job of finding and exploiting problems withOUT any copy of the source for reference.
(Well, I presume they don't. Maybe Bill Gates has a whole independent second fortune that we don't know about. Or: how DID Balmer afford to pay $2B for a bunch of guys walking around while bouncing a ball?)
It's like you expect the schools to larn thuse kids sumfin and then expect the graduates to actually think logically for themselves. If we did that -- THEN where would we be?
There seems to be a double standard where people are expected to make... sacrifices
Wife: Huh? There's no double standard here. Just fix it up or you won't have dinner or sex for a week or four. Then I guess you'll have lots of time to sleep on the couch to play with your (ermm) games.
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I've never been able to intuitively understand social interaction.
Well that's easy. Logic, computers, and numbers are always there and never lie to you. If they do it's because you misunderstood. And if they actually did, then that becomes an interesting problem in and of itself.
... ehhh, never mind.
People, on the other hand, people
As a side topic -- I do NOT process visually, like over 60% of the population does. A lot of the time I literally couldn't understand what they were talking about. Vision is to keep from running into walls and furniture, at which I am only mostly successful at.
Probably anyone in Arkansas who earns a CS degree ends up moving somewhere else anyway.
Nope, not quite all. Although I have to say all of the other 7(!) people getting a BS in CS at the U of A Fayetteville back in the mid-70s long ago moved away; I never did.
.... or maybe it really IS just a blank sheet of paper.
I've got 3 friends with CS degrees from here that are still here; everyone else I know has moved out of state including mechanical and chemical engineers -- and then one friend that does NO COMMENT for NO COMMENT. I suspect that his Doctorate certificate is written in invisible ink as well
Football is more important than skoolin.
I'm a CURRENT Arkie. That's too wordy, it should be: Football is more important period
If I was tasked with writing a program to list the digits from zero to six, I would write this:
Sorry, that's an F. You've got a horizontal list there, the end-user wanted a normal-style vertical list instead. Can't you interpret standard specifications correctly???
Off to the short bus!
"The Bizarre and Complex Story of a Failed Wikipedia Software Extension" -- so they took this failed Alpha code, installed and upgraded it here, and called it Beta?
Well, I'm neutral about neutrons, fairly positive for protons, but highly negative about electrons. I get just sick over germs and am a bit attracted to gravity, but just explode if introduced to someone who's ideas are too petty. (Anti-matter.)
I'm shocked at times over the abundance of electromagnetism and find astrophysics rarely smashing, while thermodynamics leaves me lukewarm. I'm still all tangled up over string theory and hot then cold on Global Warming.
My ideas on evolution change over time but my religious ideas are absolutely static. Psychology is just nuts. I'm a bit wish-washy on politics -- or is it the other way? -- but terrorism just makes me blow my stack. I'm not sure I even believe in metaphysics while philosophy just seems to be all talk, and the occult really gives me the creeps. (Spirits belong in their bottles, not evaporated and floating around in the air.)
I first started thinking about the Big Bang, but finally, the expected Big Crunch far, far in the future leaves me
PS -- Oh, and I'm Cuckoo for Cooko-Puffs!
Yes, it was an overreaction because it was not a threat, but I don't see a note there..
NOTE: This long, heavy, red, ticking thing is not a bomb. Really, it's not!
BTW, if a RoadRunner happens to stand by you, please push the button on the side to take a picture.
Thanks. -WEC.
There are no conditions in which a civilian would be allowed to operate there
You Insensitive Clod! I'm not only a civilian, I'm the President, and I'll fly my drone anywhere I want!
EOM
DC: Any denomination, any amount.
I'm HIGHLY offended by this remark. I'll have you know that my representative only takes the largest, highest quality amounts.
Maybe yours can be bought for a pittance, but mine is thinking ahead for inflation!
Add a large canister of ink in the money box.
You're going to add a large canister of ink-jet ink over the money box?? MY GOD, that's worth more than the entire owning bank itself!
and here it is:
:-) <---- Muhammad
This [myfirstdrone.com] is a 4-lb payload drone that doesn't look more than 1 meter wide. ...
A M18 Claymore [wikipedia.org] is 3.5 lbs, so this drone could carry one without issue.
!! That's really cool! Home-brew, huh? Neat.
But I can't do that -- my cheap $100 drone doesn't hardly carry any weight. I guess I'll just add razor-blades to the propellers and slice the watermelon by running into it. Once, anyway.
Even with "scratch resistant external media", I use 10% of the disc space for redundancy and recovery by using Multipar. It's a PAR2 compatible program that handles subdirectories. I've also bought but haven't used in recovery mode ISOBuster, a program that can handle the internal disc structures to try to recovery from corrupted media.
I have manually changed files and parts of files and had Multipar recover the originals; I have not yet physically scarred a CD/DVD/BR to see if it's recoverable via ISOBuster. It's supposed to work, though.
Fair (not archivable quality discs) BDs cost $0.50 for 20GB effective or $25 for 1TB, this is comparable to hard drive prices. They'll handle drops better and if one goes bad, you "only" lose that media (20G) vs terabytes. It's much slower, smaller, and write-once, though.
(OMG -- 20G is "small"?? I remember having things fit on a single 256KB 8" floppy. Much better than paper tape, though.)
My ISP has only ONE JOB: connect me to the web without getting in the way.
Assuming that they use lasers for communication to Sprint and T-Mobile: all it takes are a few half-silvered mirrors somewhere as a R/O tap and SpGoogle(TM) is ready for your business! Use the web as much as you want and they'll make sure your data goes exactly where it's supposed to.
But I just don't know where they are going to place the sharks that are attached to all of those lasers. Guarding the Google Barge, perhaps?
Oh, that's been moved or depreciated, you say? That's just what they WANT you to think. You haven't seen Google Cloak, have you? (Well, for that matter NO ONE has -- but that's kinda the point.)
Now, tie that with their autonomous cars that "no one wants" and you've got: -- KnightRider! All it needs now is RoboCop to change the flat tires.
Between the two of them Muslim scholars and Catholic monks are pretty much single handedly responsible for salvaging much of the collective knowledge of the classical world.
THIS. This is the only use I can think of for religion, in saving knowledge for the future. (See? It's not totally bad!)
"[In the time of] the classical world" - So, what have you done for me lately?
(Yes, cap-Science isn't enough all by itself either. The real Golden Rule works, too. But I'd still rather all of us try to figure things out than assume everything was completely determined for us millennia ago.
Of course, that's the trick: science is how all of nature and the universe works, religion is how humans should live and relate with each other. Completely different domains. Guess that's why I'm an introvert!)
I did not know that -- it's very sweet; good for them.
Now, I do have an off-topic question: When God finally arrives and brings back everyone from the dead:
a) Does that also include cremations? (Probably so -- just add water.) Dismemberment? (Super Glue.)
b) Will He do it more than once? I can just see Gene waking up in the shadow of the moon, and then immediately expiring because of the non-existent atmosphere and cold. So is this a one-time thing, or does God hit Ctrl-Alt-Del repeatedly until it finally works?
c) God brings back to Earth all of the travelers that have managed to escape Earths' gravity. (Sounds kinda like a shepherd -- "That's not your yard, get back over here. Stupid sheep.")
d) God doesn't bother. "You really want to leave? Have at it." (Wonder if any lawyers will take it up with Him since their potential clients are missing out.)
e) Does that also include video-game characters? NetHack, Mario, Gordon Freeman, etc? (What about PacMan and GLaDOS?) And what about Sweetie?
Enquiring minds want to know
Unused drive space?? Sorry, what's that?
Pu 241 has 14 year half life [while] Pu-239 has a half life of 24,100 years.
So? Just add 2 and you're all done within 14 years -- problem solved.
If it's good enough for finance, it's certainly good enough for science.
You can shorten something so far for clarity, but if you go to far you end up with less clarity.
I see what you did there!!
... I only wish it had been intentional.
how sometimes you make a program a little more verbose so that a different programmer coming across the code later can understand it.
Oh, like comments? You can write insanely complicated code and as long as it produces the results you had intended, it's correct. But it helps the programmer behind you if you then also write "War and Peace" describing how it works. "It's Magic" is too short.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
Is there a reason why browsers like Firefox return everything?
"All the better to track you with, my dear..." -- the NSA
(... aka The Big Bad Wolf. And do you really think your house of bricks is that opaque?)
Open Source ... merely guarantees that all of the bugs can be found.
Well it seems like Closed Source "merely guarantees that all of the bugs can be found" by crackers. (NO, they're not hackers.) They seem to do a pretty good job of finding and exploiting problems withOUT any copy of the source for reference.
(Well, I presume they don't. Maybe Bill Gates has a whole independent second fortune that we don't know about. Or: how DID Balmer afford to pay $2B for a bunch of guys walking around while bouncing a ball?)
...but where's the profit in that?
It's like you expect the schools to larn thuse kids sumfin and then expect the graduates to actually think logically for themselves. If we did that -- THEN where would we be?
There seems to be a double standard where people are expected to make ... sacrifices
Wife: Huh? There's no double standard here. Just fix it up or you won't have dinner or sex for a week or four. Then I guess you'll have lots of time to sleep on the couch to play with your (ermm) games.