I'll assume you're an aspie who needs things to be spelled out, and not a moron.
There are plenty of things out there that we all use on a regular basis and that are harmful. The fact that they exist does not mean we have to settle for status quo.
Batteries are currently the mainstream energy storage technology but they come with environmental issues, so as we strive to find eco-friendly energy solutions (like solar) it's a good idea to also think about ways of storing power that are less damaging for the environment.
People who know more about the subject have already thought about this [...] We don't have to work it out here, smarter people than us are already working on solutions
You're like the evil twin of a mansplainer; condenscending and submissive at the same time, it's truly fascinating.
Solar is great but the problem of storing power in an eco-friendly manner remains.
Batteries are poison. What would be better would a mechanical solution of some kind, like power-winding up a turbine during the day while it's sunny and letting it run and generate power at night.
I have the S9+ and it has basically made it impossible for me to go back to smaller screens or low-end devices.
And I still don't get how people can buy iPhones with their limited storage, especially since it's clear the lack of expansion slots is not a design requirements but simply a way to save money on devices that already bring in a $400 profit per unit sold. That's like buying a Cadillac with no A/C.
I won't put up with the damn thing ruining something I spend twenty hours a week doing.
If you read that much you should really consider a Kindle. It's so easy on the eye it's like reading a printout, even in the dark with the backlit screen.
an iPhone 6 running a fresh version of Android could be pretty nice.
Indeed. A device that has a bad camera, no storage expansion and a battery that tends to bend and crack the case, and a software ecosystem that allows malware and useless apps ridden with cryptomining ads. The best of both world.
if there's any of the toxicity you mention it's being well-hidden from me for some reason.
Peculiarly, this was also the case when I worked for a non-profit that was well over 90% women
The obvious conclusion here is that people make fun of you behind your back and you're too busy being a self-righteous cunt to notice it. Also one reason that can explain why they don't involve you in their bitching and whining is that you clearly suck at being sarcastic.
Have you ever had to do anything at a union jobsite?
I assume you're talking about a mostly male union jobsite, since you're engaged in both making fun of and using archetypes. Then yes, I have, and in that world, problems tend to get resolved by a well-deserved ass kicking typically followed by no resentment, as opposed to lovely ladies teaming up to make the life of their black sheep miserable until she quits or goes on sick leave.
This means for anyone who isn't totally 50%-50% bisexual there will be a certain amount of bias one way or another.
I'm a heterosexual male and I'd choose a Bill Lumbergh over a female boss, no matter how attractive she is. Twice in the past I have worked for women and it will never happen again. I've had plenty of female coworkers, some awful, some amazing, but I have yet to meet or hear about one female leader that doesn't suck.
If you look at famous female executives you can see it immediately. Marissa Mayer, Ellen Pao, Carly Fiorina - all terrible people. And when there's one that doesn't plainly suck, she turns out to be a greedy ruthless type (like Sheryl Sandberg, who was instrumental in transforming Facebook from a true social network into an ad platform that sells its users privacy to the highest bidder).
Anyone who has worked in a sewing shop or in any other mostly female work environment (nursing, beauty parlors, etc) will tell you how untrue that is. There's endless drama, arguments over who spent too much time in the bathroom or who gets to work next to the window, nonstop backstabbing and whining, etc. It's as toxic as it gets and usually comes with a tsunami of harassment complaints, burnouts, bickering in the cafeteria, and so on.
Ask any trustworthy women around you, would she rather work for a man or a woman, you'll see.
Before you answer, remember that there was a time when there was a similar discrepancy among published authors. You'd have maybe two women out of 100 published authors. There was a belief that men were just better writers, naturally. Today, there are more women published than men, and the publishing industry is notoriously tough to crack and demands sales above all else. In other words, the marketplace just preferred women authors to men.
In your quest to portray yourself as an open-minded liberal, you in fact made the demonstration that you are full of shit.
See what the data about the NYT best sellers list shows:
"Books by women consistently made up about a quarter of the list in the 1950s. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, female representation on the list fluctuated dramatically. The rate of books by women got as high as 38% in 1970, and as low as 14% in 1975. (Some of this was simple math: from 1963 to 1977, the New York Times capped the list to 10 books per week. This made the annual list of best sellers shorter and the gender ratio more sensitive to changes in the counts from year to year.)
This volatility didn’t result in permanent change: in both 1990 and 1950, 28% of the books on the list were written by women. In the 1990s, women finally made steady gains on the list over ten years. 2001 saw the highest ratio of all time: 50% women, 50% men, later dipping to 48% in 2016."
Time to start wrapping code in if(false){} blocks instead of comment blocks.
Funny fact is, that's exactly how knight capital lost $400 million in 30 minutes. Someone mistakenly changed the boolean value that "skipped" code on some of their trading servers and by the time they noticed they had become a textbook example of things going wrong on wall street.
The point is that most registrars charge an extra fee for privacy, usually around $10, so it doubles the price of the domain. Doesn't matter if you operate a handful of domains, but if you have many, it adds up.
Also domain privacy is a must, if only to cut down on the "we can seo you web-site for teh google" spam and various scams.
When i was in High school there were many students who were just there because they had to be by law and treated the classroom as party time.
I was one of those. I hated school because it was all about writing useless shit down and memorizing statements that one could not challenge or discuss. It was paradise mostly for girls and pussies who loved highlighting stuff and pleasing teachers, but for anyone who wanted to stand on their own two feet it was a huge waste of time.
It takes a lot of maturity to truly benefit from a rote learning system, such as going to medical or law school where you can build skills with the proper accumulation of information. For high school it's just a bad approach.
I don't think you have done a lot of online dating. Here's the thing: the vast majority of people are not worth a trip to Starbucks, just like a vast majority of candidates for a programming gig are not worth calling in for an interview.
Behind a cute pic and a casual "hey there lol omg did you watch the latest GoT" there could be some seriously disappointing entity, like a vegan pinterest addict who took a day off to cry when Clinton lost, or an over-the-top party girl who has the constant greasy cough of regular drug smokers. Unless you're in for a quickie it takes a lot of screening to get to someone that has no major mental or cultural defects.
most C programmers would love to have the compiler automatically warn them if a header file inclusion isn't needed; it can make compilation significantly faster, and removes doubt as to what the including code does
You're missing the point. Obviously everyone agrees that it's better to not have unrequired dependencies when you ship code. It's *before* you ship, in earlier iterations where a lot of time is spent refactoring and debugging that it's stupid. You comment out a line of code to try something? Compiler error because suddenly there's an unused import. Uncomment the line of code? Another error because you forgot to put the import back in. It's a productivity killer, even worse than when you comment out Python code and the indentation gets all wonky.
It would have been a good compromise to have compiler options in Go for that kind of situation. But of course they didn't do that, because as in everything else Google assumes they know better than everyone.
I remember a guy sued one dating site for using employees posing as potential matches.
I know for a fact that in cheap labor countries there are huge call centers crammed with people pretending to be potential matches for western dating sites/apps, and asked to make the courting process last as long as possible to keep the "customer" coming back to the ad-bloated service. The hilarious thing is that it's not even the same employee who keeps the conversation going, they just pick it up from the log and move it forward.
I think we need a new form of turing test to determine if we're talking to the same person online.
I gave up long time ago and prefer other paid services
You would assume that in a society where offering the wrong kind of wine to a lady is considered sexual misconduct (ask Aziz Ansari), prostitution would be a booming industry to cater to the needs of men weary of the dark cloud of fake metoos. But look what happened in Seattle where regular customers of escort services were shamed, or how the FBI has taken down backpage because there were ads for prostitution. The only safe space for single males nowadays is gay saunas and pornhubs, which may not be up to everyone's taste.
The only amusing part is that as a side effect of this socially driven emasculation of males, more and more heterosexual females are struggling to find non-limp dick males so they end up pouring billions in the dildo industry.
Porn and rubber dicks, people, that's the pot of gold at the end of this feminazi rainbow.
Forget 2020, it will be a landslide reelection for Trump (biggest landslide in history). But #Oprah2024 could happen, if she doesn't get caught trying to steal purses again.
It's like in The Wire, when they have low quality drugs that customers no longer buy, they keep selling the same shit but with a different color for the package.
It is my experience that apps written in Go have amazing performance. But it's also my experience that coding in Go is a huge pain in the ass. Granted, I didn't spend a billion hours RTFM but when compilation fails because of unused imports or because the opening curly brace of "if" is on the following line, I would say it's garbage not warranting further effort.
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I'll assume you're an aspie who needs things to be spelled out, and not a moron.
There are plenty of things out there that we all use on a regular basis and that are harmful. The fact that they exist does not mean we have to settle for status quo.
Batteries are currently the mainstream energy storage technology but they come with environmental issues, so as we strive to find eco-friendly energy solutions (like solar) it's a good idea to also think about ways of storing power that are less damaging for the environment.
People who know more about the subject have already thought about this [...] We don't have to work it out here, smarter people than us are already working on solutions
You're like the evil twin of a mansplainer; condenscending and submissive at the same time, it's truly fascinating.
Solar is great but the problem of storing power in an eco-friendly manner remains.
Batteries are poison. What would be better would a mechanical solution of some kind, like power-winding up a turbine during the day while it's sunny and letting it run and generate power at night.
"Sorry Elon Musk"? That's the most asswipy headline I've read in a long time. Was this mistakenly submitted to Slashdot instead of Jezebel or Salon?
I have the S9+ and it has basically made it impossible for me to go back to smaller screens or low-end devices.
And I still don't get how people can buy iPhones with their limited storage, especially since it's clear the lack of expansion slots is not a design requirements but simply a way to save money on devices that already bring in a $400 profit per unit sold. That's like buying a Cadillac with no A/C.
I won't put up with the damn thing ruining something I spend twenty hours a week doing.
If you read that much you should really consider a Kindle. It's so easy on the eye it's like reading a printout, even in the dark with the backlit screen.
If somebody was refurbishing iPhone 6's and putting current Android on them for an attractive price, it could be a good seller.
It could become a thing for neo-hipsters (those who pour their starbucks latte in mcdonalds cup).
an iPhone 6 running a fresh version of Android could be pretty nice.
Indeed. A device that has a bad camera, no storage expansion and a battery that tends to bend and crack the case, and a software ecosystem that allows malware and useless apps ridden with cryptomining ads. The best of both world.
if there's any of the toxicity you mention it's being well-hidden from me for some reason.
Peculiarly, this was also the case when I worked for a non-profit that was well over 90% women
The obvious conclusion here is that people make fun of you behind your back and you're too busy being a self-righteous cunt to notice it. Also one reason that can explain why they don't involve you in their bitching and whining is that you clearly suck at being sarcastic.
Have you ever had to do anything at a union jobsite?
I assume you're talking about a mostly male union jobsite, since you're engaged in both making fun of and using archetypes. Then yes, I have, and in that world, problems tend to get resolved by a well-deserved ass kicking typically followed by no resentment, as opposed to lovely ladies teaming up to make the life of their black sheep miserable until she quits or goes on sick leave.
This means for anyone who isn't totally 50%-50% bisexual there will be a certain amount of bias one way or another.
I'm a heterosexual male and I'd choose a Bill Lumbergh over a female boss, no matter how attractive she is. Twice in the past I have worked for women and it will never happen again. I've had plenty of female coworkers, some awful, some amazing, but I have yet to meet or hear about one female leader that doesn't suck.
If you look at famous female executives you can see it immediately. Marissa Mayer, Ellen Pao, Carly Fiorina - all terrible people. And when there's one that doesn't plainly suck, she turns out to be a greedy ruthless type (like Sheryl Sandberg, who was instrumental in transforming Facebook from a true social network into an ad platform that sells its users privacy to the highest bidder).
women supposedly listen and collaborate better
Anyone who has worked in a sewing shop or in any other mostly female work environment (nursing, beauty parlors, etc) will tell you how untrue that is. There's endless drama, arguments over who spent too much time in the bathroom or who gets to work next to the window, nonstop backstabbing and whining, etc. It's as toxic as it gets and usually comes with a tsunami of harassment complaints, burnouts, bickering in the cafeteria, and so on.
Ask any trustworthy women around you, would she rather work for a man or a woman, you'll see.
Before you answer, remember that there was a time when there was a similar discrepancy among published authors. You'd have maybe two women out of 100 published authors. There was a belief that men were just better writers, naturally. Today, there are more women published than men, and the publishing industry is notoriously tough to crack and demands sales above all else. In other words, the marketplace just preferred women authors to men.
In your quest to portray yourself as an open-minded liberal, you in fact made the demonstration that you are full of shit.
See what the data about the NYT best sellers list shows:
"Books by women consistently made up about a quarter of the list in the 1950s. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, female representation on the list fluctuated dramatically. The rate of books by women got as high as 38% in 1970, and as low as 14% in 1975. (Some of this was simple math: from 1963 to 1977, the New York Times capped the list to 10 books per week. This made the annual list of best sellers shorter and the gender ratio more sensitive to changes in the counts from year to year.)
This volatility didn’t result in permanent change: in both 1990 and 1950, 28% of the books on the list were written by women. In the 1990s, women finally made steady gains on the list over ten years. 2001 saw the highest ratio of all time: 50% women, 50% men, later dipping to 48% in 2016."
https://pudding.cool/2017/06/b...
Time to start wrapping code in if(false){} blocks instead of comment blocks.
Funny fact is, that's exactly how knight capital lost $400 million in 30 minutes. Someone mistakenly changed the boolean value that "skipped" code on some of their trading servers and by the time they noticed they had become a textbook example of things going wrong on wall street.
The point is that most registrars charge an extra fee for privacy, usually around $10, so it doubles the price of the domain. Doesn't matter if you operate a handful of domains, but if you have many, it adds up.
Also domain privacy is a must, if only to cut down on the "we can seo you web-site for teh google" spam and various scams.
When i was in High school there were many students who were just there because they had to be by law and treated the classroom as party time.
I was one of those. I hated school because it was all about writing useless shit down and memorizing statements that one could not challenge or discuss. It was paradise mostly for girls and pussies who loved highlighting stuff and pleasing teachers, but for anyone who wanted to stand on their own two feet it was a huge waste of time.
It takes a lot of maturity to truly benefit from a rote learning system, such as going to medical or law school where you can build skills with the proper accumulation of information. For high school it's just a bad approach.
Just ask for a simple meet-up at Starbucks
I don't think you have done a lot of online dating. Here's the thing: the vast majority of people are not worth a trip to Starbucks, just like a vast majority of candidates for a programming gig are not worth calling in for an interview.
Behind a cute pic and a casual "hey there lol omg did you watch the latest GoT" there could be some seriously disappointing entity, like a vegan pinterest addict who took a day off to cry when Clinton lost, or an over-the-top party girl who has the constant greasy cough of regular drug smokers. Unless you're in for a quickie it takes a lot of screening to get to someone that has no major mental or cultural defects.
An excuse for ISPs to charge extra for "private listings"
Try AWS Route 53. $11 domains including privacy.
It's best if you use your own DNS service though (or the one from Office365 or Linode) because otherwise AWS charges you $0.50/zone per month.
most C programmers would love to have the compiler automatically warn them if a header file inclusion isn't needed; it can make compilation significantly faster, and removes doubt as to what the including code does
You're missing the point. Obviously everyone agrees that it's better to not have unrequired dependencies when you ship code. It's *before* you ship, in earlier iterations where a lot of time is spent refactoring and debugging that it's stupid. You comment out a line of code to try something? Compiler error because suddenly there's an unused import. Uncomment the line of code? Another error because you forgot to put the import back in. It's a productivity killer, even worse than when you comment out Python code and the indentation gets all wonky.
It would have been a good compromise to have compiler options in Go for that kind of situation. But of course they didn't do that, because as in everything else Google assumes they know better than everyone.
I remember a guy sued one dating site for using employees posing as potential matches.
I know for a fact that in cheap labor countries there are huge call centers crammed with people pretending to be potential matches for western dating sites/apps, and asked to make the courting process last as long as possible to keep the "customer" coming back to the ad-bloated service. The hilarious thing is that it's not even the same employee who keeps the conversation going, they just pick it up from the log and move it forward.
I think we need a new form of turing test to determine if we're talking to the same person online.
I gave up long time ago and prefer other paid services
You would assume that in a society where offering the wrong kind of wine to a lady is considered sexual misconduct (ask Aziz Ansari), prostitution would be a booming industry to cater to the needs of men weary of the dark cloud of fake metoos. But look what happened in Seattle where regular customers of escort services were shamed, or how the FBI has taken down backpage because there were ads for prostitution. The only safe space for single males nowadays is gay saunas and pornhubs, which may not be up to everyone's taste.
The only amusing part is that as a side effect of this socially driven emasculation of males, more and more heterosexual females are struggling to find non-limp dick males so they end up pouring billions in the dildo industry.
Porn and rubber dicks, people, that's the pot of gold at the end of this feminazi rainbow.
Forget 2020, it will be a landslide reelection for Trump (biggest landslide in history). But #Oprah2024 could happen, if she doesn't get caught trying to steal purses again.
Does this mean no more go gopher? I like the gopher.
Yes. At the end of the first sentence in the summary they clearly state that no matter what, this change will affect Go's gopher mascot.
change your logo. marketing 101.
It's like in The Wire, when they have low quality drugs that customers no longer buy, they keep selling the same shit but with a different color for the package.
maybe it's not that great in the first place.
It is my experience that apps written in Go have amazing performance. But it's also my experience that coding in Go is a huge pain in the ass. Granted, I didn't spend a billion hours RTFM but when compilation fails because of unused imports or because the opening curly brace of "if" is on the following line, I would say it's garbage not warranting further effort.