Oh, you know they'd submit your bill to collections if you canceled your credit card. Of course, that retention guy you're talking to gets flogged at the end of the day if he doesn't make his quota -- one of the benefits of outsourcing the phone people to third world countries, but that's not really your problem. If it makes you feel any better, the $1.50 a day they pay him allows him to live like a king there, at least when he's not getting flogged.
C level execs can't chill with the employees. They might accidentally develop human feelings that might cause them to view their employees as people and not just cogs in the machine. Next thing you know, they might start treating them with compassion, and you know that's no good for the shareholders!
Yeah, we've got the ash borer in Colorado. For 45 years I'd never seen a tree die at any house I lived at, then all of a sudden 3 of them in one year. And the pine beetle was killing the hell out of the pine trees up in the park, too. You'd come around a mountain curve and all the trees on the side of the mountain would be dead. Crazy. Guess it's a bad decade for trees.
We've known using fossil fuels is terrible for the planet since, what, at least the 50's? When "Clean, ATOMIC Energy" was supposed to fix all the ills caused by them. We've been in that bubble since then, enriching countless (Well, probably countful, if you're into that sort of things, but I'm not) despotic regimes, giant assholes and, for some of us, enabling a lifestyle that was not sustainable or available to most of the people on the planet.
Sooo... Sorry Africa. And millenials. And, well, millenial children, if the millenials can ever afford to have any. But driving that hummer sure was fun, and the Koch brothers got to spend most of their lives dipping their wrinkly balls in gold. We'll try to do better next time. Oh... wait...
I filed a bug report on firefox and found their response to be arrogant and dismissive and that was the last time I've had anything too do with them. Every once in a while I feel like I should do my own damn browser, but there's a lot of work involved in that which I really don't care to do. Also every once in a while I feel like we might be better off going back to store-and-forward, which actually feels a bit more "right" but is still pretty unrealistic.
There's room for a lot of competition in several information industries right now, if someone is willing to put in some effort.
Same here. Most of the time it's a shitty job recruiter who hasn't read my resume. In a growing number of cases, someone posing as a job recruiter is trying to scam me into a shitty MLM scheme. So I run T-Mobile's scam block plus a call blocker that sends calls not in my contact list directly to voicemail.
Given that it's much more difficult to install ad blockers on my phone, I really don't want to use it for internet browsing anyway, so I really end up not using my phone very much. I could probably get away with having a no-frills flip phone enough of the time that it's getting really hard to justify $500+ for s "smart" phone.
Ah yes, well video on the Internet is somewhat intentionally a shit sandwich. WebM/VP8 (or VP9)/Vorbis seems to be the most compatible with most browsers (Except for Safari and older internet explorers, and they can all fuck off.) I set up a ffserver demo project a while back to stream some webm audio and video on localhost with the ffserver utility that comes with ffmpeg, along with how to manipulate the video with some javascript. Ffserver is deprecated in more recent versions of ffmpeg, although I believe if you build it from source from its 3.3 branch, you should still get it. It's kind of a pain in the ass to work with, but it is open source, so if anyone's curious about how to do that, there you go. What the video services buy you is that getting your video up and playing on every browser is easy with any of them.
Seems if you're going to make decent money on youtube, your youtube channel is your ad. You build your brand with your videos and use it to promote other products or services. Maybe that involves convincing people to support you on patron. Maybe that means selling T-Shirts. Or cookbooks. Or driving traffic to your blog. Maybe that involves promoting other products that you agree to promote external to YouTube. Seems like you can't count on a lot of advertising money from Google, so any video service popular enough should work just as well. But everyone I've met clicks the Google Apps icon and goes to Youtube, which means you're searching YouTube for video. As more content creators leave YouTube (And I'm already starting to see them leave YouTube,) people are going to need another way to find videos. And I really wouldn't trust Google not to prioritize their own content. The market is theirs to lose, I can't wait to see what's going to happen.
Youtube controls the vast majority of the market, and viewers and content creators alike have been complaining about their recent changes in policies. The question remains whether youtube or another service can improve the situation all around and also make money. In any event, the field is open for competition. I'm curious to see will happen in the next couple of years.
Yeah. The other day I set up some demo video streaming on a Linux box. Fire up screen, start my streaming program. Disconnect screen and exit my ssh system, and my streaming freezes. There're a metric fuckton of reports of systemd killing detached/nohup'd processes, but I check my config file and it's not that. Although them being that willing to walk away from expected system behavior is already cause to blow a gasket. But no, something else is going on here. I tweak the streaming code to catch all catchable signals, still nothing. So probably not systemd, but I can't be 100% certain. I'm still testing all the possibilities -- if I start the servers from the console in screen and then detach and exit, I don't have the problem, it's only if I start them from ssh. And if I ssh in later, attach and detach, I still don't have the problem. So I'm looking forward to a couple of days of digging around in the ssh code to see if I can figure out what's going on with it. In the mean time, I have a reasonable workaround.
My point being that I don't think it's unreasonable to expect to know and understand every aspect of my system's behavior, and to expect it to continue to behave in the way that I know it does. I've worked on systems where you had to type the sequence of numbers that was the machine code for the bootstrap sequence in order to boot the system. I know how the boot sequence works. I know how fork and exec and the default file handles work. I know how my system is supposed to start from the very first process. And I don't mind changing those things, as long as I trust the judgement of the people changing them. And I very much don't, for a lot of this new shit. Not systemd, not wayland, not the new networking utilities. Still not enough to take matters into my own hands, though.
Ooh! I'm all for that! I mean, there'd have to be a basic fitness test. Maybe a credit check. And a required class. A license! Yes! You know, it's easier to make another human being than it is to buy a car, or a gun? And it's not like either of those things is particularly hard. And do you know the odds of that little human being making it to adulthood without being struck in anger, sexually assaulted or both? And don't even get me started on education! Whether you get a good one or not is just a matter of odds. I'm a military brat, so I've seen the disparity in the educational systems between the relatively affluent northern states and the broke-ass southern ones first-hand. This isn't something that should be left to chance and real estate values! It's almost as if all children should be raised in clean, well regulated federal facilities where they will receive a nationally-consistent education, nutritious meals, all the health and dental care they require, where all interactions with adults shall be strictly monitored and required that two or more randomly chosen staff members shall be on hand, and indoctrinated into the mandatory state religion, which focuses primarily on ponies and the magic of friendship.
And you're probably thinking, well that sounds a bit... fascist. Well if you want to make an omelette, you know, but I bet the people whose parents never took them to the ER after ripping their arms out of their sockets when they were a toddler, or to the dentist and the ones who grew up in a household with food anxiety, which could in fact be half of them in some place, might find some sense in it. Because there are a lot of fucking people out there who will tell you that their parents were clearly unqualified to raise them, and if they're lucky those people are not crippled for life both mentally and physically because of it.
They don't really understand what's going on in a neural network, so exactly how would they "program" that, exactly? And they've been trying to teach squishy meat ones not to kill for thousands of years without much luck. If they figure out the problem well enough to "program" an AI not to "harm" humans, they'll probably also be able to "program" humans not to harm humans.
The Emacs VM mail client has a lot of really unique features, including the best message threading of any Email client I've ever worked with. You can kill entire threads or sort them into folders from anywhere in the thread. It also has folders support because it was made by people who actually use their email. It supports encryption and message signing with pgp or gpg. And if you really want to bam your mail up a notch, you can hook in the MIT Remebrance Agent, which can index your messages and other documents and dedicate a portion of your window to similar things in the index. Even it its current decades-old form, once you get used to that, it's really hard to go back to outlook. Or gmail.
What it doesn't do is email across all your devices and it does seem to occasionally lose my email box completely, which is why I'm not using it now, but I'm starting to get the itch to dust it off and try it again.
Right. I don't understand how gene editing works. I do understand how programming works, though. And I understand what happens when some jackass who doesn't understand about programming starts cutting and pasting code around and finds that he's occasionally somewhat successful at getting something to do sort of what he wants it to. We're doing that now with systems more complex than anything humanity has ever built. Given that we can't even change the formulation of soap without accidentally unleashing antibiotic-resistant E-Coli on an unsuspecting world, we really should approach this shit with a little bit of humility and caution.
So you'd have us believe that an anthropology professor is such a dysfunctional human being they wouldn't even pick up some books after a shelf collapsed? Or that a carpenter that apparently never shows up anywhere can make it to the office so promptly that he gets there before said books are picked up, and then never shows up again after that? Something about that story doesn't add up. In fact, I think it's just made up. And what's more pointless than making up a story about someone with a pointless job? That's like the most pointless job of all!
Didn't we just have a story a week or two ago about how Canada's attracting tech talent from the USA? Is it really brain drain if they're draining in both directions?
Cars, Parachutes and gliders are a very well known problem space. It's not terribly hard to find someone in those problem spaces who can tell you if what you're doing is going to kill you. Gene editing is not a well-understood field at this point. We're just poking at things and seeing what happens. Even if you find something that looks like it's going to work, you really need to study that process for years to make sure that all the potential consequences are well understood. We're not at that point yet, and I'd honestly be surprised if it was less than another 2 - 5 decades before we're even remotely certain of anything that modifies human DNA for non-terminal diseases. For all we know at this point, this guy died of turbo-herpes and has introduced turbo-herpes into the ecosystem. That's why we need to be careful with this stuff.
Oh sure, you could build video hosting on tor or something. Set it up kind of like the hadoop file system, so chunks of video are stored redundantly in different places. Maybe even set up some sort of encryption so that it's difficult or impossible to discover what's stored on any individual system Generating a one time pad and storing it out on the network along with the video it's encrypted with might work. Maybe even set up a cryptographic system that could be used to identify users based on a public key they could post somewhere.
People would have to volunteer storage for it and anyone would be able to post anything there. Once something's in the system, it'd be more or less impossible to remove. It would be under constant attack, both from spammers and from authorities intent on taking it down, because it would be used to distribute all manner of illegal content. Running storage nodes for it would no doubt be against the TOS for all the cloud providers, and people found running one would be vulnerable to persecution.
It's very hard to build a system that would be resistant to attacks, and if you didn't account for all possible vulnerabilities, the developers and people participating in the network would no doubt be subject to legal liabilities. Even if you live in a country with some sort of "free speech," this would be one of the first things to consider when thinking about how to design a system like this. Even an educational implementation of such a system could potentially expose a developer to jail time. The considerations were similar for developing an encrypting mail client back in the day. There were a few half-hearted attempts to do so, none of them were ever very popular.
How much code do you have to reuse before you're not really programming anymore? When I started in this business, it was reasonably possible that you could end up on a project that didn't particularly have much (or any) of an operating system. They taught you assembly language and the process by which the system boots up, but I think if I were to ask most of the programmers where I work, they wouldn't be able to explain how all that works. Or technical details about processes -- how to effectively create and monitor them, that sort of thing. Hell, a lot of them probably wouldn't be able to tell you technical details about threads that they probably should know to effectively use threads in their code. But a lot of them could tell you about Javascript ecosystems that I've largely been ignoring.
I'm thinking the bar should be at the point where you can actually make something out of all that code you're reusing. Since around 2010, I've seen a lot of projects where they look like they've assembled something that does about 70% of what the project wants. But that 70% is just what the libraries they've assembled are doing, and they're not actually capable of building the final 30%. You know, the 30% where all the differentiating business logic is. They seem to spend most of the rest of the time spinning their wheels and looking for libraries that do more of what they're trying to accomplish. In a couple of them, they also could not use the underlying libraries very well -- I remember one particular guy who was using spring and hibernate, joining two tables in Java. He'd retrieve both the tables and then try to join them manually in Java. On more than about 30,000 records, his program ran out of memory and crashed. The SQL join I wrote to test it ran in seconds on a million records. Their solution, upon seeing that, was to run their thing several time a day and hope that it didn't crash. That's the kind of thing I've been seeing on projects lately.
It really feels like if you know what you're doing it should be possible to build a team of actually good programmers and put everyone else out of business by actually meeting your deliverables, but no one has yet. I wonder why that is.
Yeah, no. Well. You know. It's capitalism. So maybe they could come up with some sort of score based on how much money you have. Or are expected to have. You could call it your "money score." And it'd mostly be made up of good solid math, not Chinese hocus-pocus. Although it'd probably be somewhat ambiguous as to everything that goes into the math. Like, would they consider your facebook behavior in that? It'd probably be fair game. And it would dictate whether you could buy a house or a car. And might be looked at by potential employers when deciding to hire you. The only hard part would be assigning you a secure identity that could never in any way be stolen. But you're right, we'd never have anything like that over here!
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Oh, you know they'd submit your bill to collections if you canceled your credit card. Of course, that retention guy you're talking to gets flogged at the end of the day if he doesn't make his quota -- one of the benefits of outsourcing the phone people to third world countries, but that's not really your problem. If it makes you feel any better, the $1.50 a day they pay him allows him to live like a king there, at least when he's not getting flogged.
Fish still found in water, news at 11. Now if they'd found fish in deep space because of humans, that might be interesting.
C level execs can't chill with the employees. They might accidentally develop human feelings that might cause them to view their employees as people and not just cogs in the machine. Next thing you know, they might start treating them with compassion, and you know that's no good for the shareholders!
Yeah, we've got the ash borer in Colorado. For 45 years I'd never seen a tree die at any house I lived at, then all of a sudden 3 of them in one year. And the pine beetle was killing the hell out of the pine trees up in the park, too. You'd come around a mountain curve and all the trees on the side of the mountain would be dead. Crazy. Guess it's a bad decade for trees.
Sooo... Sorry Africa. And millenials. And, well, millenial children, if the millenials can ever afford to have any. But driving that hummer sure was fun, and the Koch brothers got to spend most of their lives dipping their wrinkly balls in gold. We'll try to do better next time. Oh... wait...
There's room for a lot of competition in several information industries right now, if someone is willing to put in some effort.
Given that it's much more difficult to install ad blockers on my phone, I really don't want to use it for internet browsing anyway, so I really end up not using my phone very much. I could probably get away with having a no-frills flip phone enough of the time that it's getting really hard to justify $500+ for s "smart" phone.
Ah yes, well video on the Internet is somewhat intentionally a shit sandwich. WebM/VP8 (or VP9)/Vorbis seems to be the most compatible with most browsers (Except for Safari and older internet explorers, and they can all fuck off.) I set up a ffserver demo project a while back to stream some webm audio and video on localhost with the ffserver utility that comes with ffmpeg, along with how to manipulate the video with some javascript. Ffserver is deprecated in more recent versions of ffmpeg, although I believe if you build it from source from its 3.3 branch, you should still get it. It's kind of a pain in the ass to work with, but it is open source, so if anyone's curious about how to do that, there you go. What the video services buy you is that getting your video up and playing on every browser is easy with any of them.
Seems if you're going to make decent money on youtube, your youtube channel is your ad. You build your brand with your videos and use it to promote other products or services. Maybe that involves convincing people to support you on patron. Maybe that means selling T-Shirts. Or cookbooks. Or driving traffic to your blog. Maybe that involves promoting other products that you agree to promote external to YouTube. Seems like you can't count on a lot of advertising money from Google, so any video service popular enough should work just as well. But everyone I've met clicks the Google Apps icon and goes to Youtube, which means you're searching YouTube for video. As more content creators leave YouTube (And I'm already starting to see them leave YouTube,) people are going to need another way to find videos. And I really wouldn't trust Google not to prioritize their own content. The market is theirs to lose, I can't wait to see what's going to happen.
Youtube controls the vast majority of the market, and viewers and content creators alike have been complaining about their recent changes in policies. The question remains whether youtube or another service can improve the situation all around and also make money. In any event, the field is open for competition. I'm curious to see will happen in the next couple of years.
My point being that I don't think it's unreasonable to expect to know and understand every aspect of my system's behavior, and to expect it to continue to behave in the way that I know it does. I've worked on systems where you had to type the sequence of numbers that was the machine code for the bootstrap sequence in order to boot the system. I know how the boot sequence works. I know how fork and exec and the default file handles work. I know how my system is supposed to start from the very first process. And I don't mind changing those things, as long as I trust the judgement of the people changing them. And I very much don't, for a lot of this new shit. Not systemd, not wayland, not the new networking utilities. Still not enough to take matters into my own hands, though.
It might be Platonic "for the children."
And you're probably thinking, well that sounds a bit... fascist. Well if you want to make an omelette, you know, but I bet the people whose parents never took them to the ER after ripping their arms out of their sockets when they were a toddler, or to the dentist and the ones who grew up in a household with food anxiety, which could in fact be half of them in some place, might find some sense in it. Because there are a lot of fucking people out there who will tell you that their parents were clearly unqualified to raise them, and if they're lucky those people are not crippled for life both mentally and physically because of it.
They don't really understand what's going on in a neural network, so exactly how would they "program" that, exactly? And they've been trying to teach squishy meat ones not to kill for thousands of years without much luck. If they figure out the problem well enough to "program" an AI not to "harm" humans, they'll probably also be able to "program" humans not to harm humans.
I like to think of it more as a "Not Paying Attention" fee.
What it doesn't do is email across all your devices and it does seem to occasionally lose my email box completely, which is why I'm not using it now, but I'm starting to get the itch to dust it off and try it again.
Right. I don't understand how gene editing works. I do understand how programming works, though. And I understand what happens when some jackass who doesn't understand about programming starts cutting and pasting code around and finds that he's occasionally somewhat successful at getting something to do sort of what he wants it to. We're doing that now with systems more complex than anything humanity has ever built. Given that we can't even change the formulation of soap without accidentally unleashing antibiotic-resistant E-Coli on an unsuspecting world, we really should approach this shit with a little bit of humility and caution.
So you'd have us believe that an anthropology professor is such a dysfunctional human being they wouldn't even pick up some books after a shelf collapsed? Or that a carpenter that apparently never shows up anywhere can make it to the office so promptly that he gets there before said books are picked up, and then never shows up again after that? Something about that story doesn't add up. In fact, I think it's just made up. And what's more pointless than making up a story about someone with a pointless job? That's like the most pointless job of all!
Didn't we just have a story a week or two ago about how Canada's attracting tech talent from the USA? Is it really brain drain if they're draining in both directions?
What mess is that? Having the 4th largest economy in the world? Life must be so hard for them!
Cars, Parachutes and gliders are a very well known problem space. It's not terribly hard to find someone in those problem spaces who can tell you if what you're doing is going to kill you. Gene editing is not a well-understood field at this point. We're just poking at things and seeing what happens. Even if you find something that looks like it's going to work, you really need to study that process for years to make sure that all the potential consequences are well understood. We're not at that point yet, and I'd honestly be surprised if it was less than another 2 - 5 decades before we're even remotely certain of anything that modifies human DNA for non-terminal diseases. For all we know at this point, this guy died of turbo-herpes and has introduced turbo-herpes into the ecosystem. That's why we need to be careful with this stuff.
People would have to volunteer storage for it and anyone would be able to post anything there. Once something's in the system, it'd be more or less impossible to remove. It would be under constant attack, both from spammers and from authorities intent on taking it down, because it would be used to distribute all manner of illegal content. Running storage nodes for it would no doubt be against the TOS for all the cloud providers, and people found running one would be vulnerable to persecution.
It's very hard to build a system that would be resistant to attacks, and if you didn't account for all possible vulnerabilities, the developers and people participating in the network would no doubt be subject to legal liabilities. Even if you live in a country with some sort of "free speech," this would be one of the first things to consider when thinking about how to design a system like this. Even an educational implementation of such a system could potentially expose a developer to jail time. The considerations were similar for developing an encrypting mail client back in the day. There were a few half-hearted attempts to do so, none of them were ever very popular.
I'm thinking the bar should be at the point where you can actually make something out of all that code you're reusing. Since around 2010, I've seen a lot of projects where they look like they've assembled something that does about 70% of what the project wants. But that 70% is just what the libraries they've assembled are doing, and they're not actually capable of building the final 30%. You know, the 30% where all the differentiating business logic is. They seem to spend most of the rest of the time spinning their wheels and looking for libraries that do more of what they're trying to accomplish. In a couple of them, they also could not use the underlying libraries very well -- I remember one particular guy who was using spring and hibernate, joining two tables in Java. He'd retrieve both the tables and then try to join them manually in Java. On more than about 30,000 records, his program ran out of memory and crashed. The SQL join I wrote to test it ran in seconds on a million records. Their solution, upon seeing that, was to run their thing several time a day and hope that it didn't crash. That's the kind of thing I've been seeing on projects lately.
It really feels like if you know what you're doing it should be possible to build a team of actually good programmers and put everyone else out of business by actually meeting your deliverables, but no one has yet. I wonder why that is.
Sadly to use it, you'll be required to enter your password on an Apple keyboard. No human eye will ever see it in action.
Yeah, no. Well. You know. It's capitalism. So maybe they could come up with some sort of score based on how much money you have. Or are expected to have. You could call it your "money score." And it'd mostly be made up of good solid math, not Chinese hocus-pocus. Although it'd probably be somewhat ambiguous as to everything that goes into the math. Like, would they consider your facebook behavior in that? It'd probably be fair game. And it would dictate whether you could buy a house or a car. And might be looked at by potential employers when deciding to hire you. The only hard part would be assigning you a secure identity that could never in any way be stolen. But you're right, we'd never have anything like that over here!