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  1. If only he were as specific as to which Christians he was referring to as you are in your comment...

  2. Nice stereotyping there mate.

  3. This article has an embedded video that explains some of their reasoning for using 70mm. Interestingly, they thought that 70mm was an advantage in the interior locations.

    http://www.cinemablend.com/new...

  4. I think that's sort of true. The Room will still be The Room even on 70 mm. You might enjoy the amazing quality footage but still be slapped in the face by the plot. So in the end one will override the other in the casual viewers mind.

  5. I think people enjoy HDTV over SDTV very much. And that is very much a case of "what kind of media it's recorded on". The same is true for various film and digital cinematography formats. Some media/formats present large advantages over other formats and people enjoy these advantages - that's not exactly controversial.

  6. "Renaissance?"

    Yes, that's what he wrote.

    Whether or not you liked The Hateful Eight is immaterial. The thing that matters here is if other directors and cinematographers saw it and thought that their next movie could use it or not. They also may have hated the plot of The Hateful Eight but thought "fuck those vistas and amazing in 70mm" and adopted it.

  7. The Hateful Eight was shot in 70 mm. So if there is a 70mm film renaissance it may have already been started by Quentin Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson in 2015.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re: easy to clip this on to a bill banning burner on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    His statement seems correct to me.

    He is saying that how his children turn out has no correlation with whether he provides someone statistical proof or not.

    Do you have a different comprehension of his words?

  9. Stability eh? on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "At this time more than anything else, this country needs a period of stability"

    Then she probably shouldn't have called an election... Lol.

  10. On first glance it seems to me that "fail" type videos and practical joke videos all fall foul of these rules.

  11. Re: Not "misunderstood" on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he covered that eventuation:

    "must resort to punitive measures such as sanctions or military prowess to get what they want, which is what they do ANYWAY."

  12. Re:Nice sensationalism on Google Unveils Design For 1 Million Squarefoot London Headquarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it kill you to use a couple more significant digits? ;)

    9.29 hectares or 92900 square meters.

    Or as you wrote, ten billion square millimeters. It is highly impressive.

  13. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    A physical logic gate is a machine (by the modern definition). Software is not.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    That's what a machine is. Software uses the term as a homograph, i.e. same word, different meaning.

  14. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you know what context is. These are homographs. I.e. they use the word machine but it means something entirely different. So no, they are not machines.

  15. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it can't be a machine. The Turing machine is the "machine" in this instance. It accepts paper strips as its input - which, once input into the machine, are not the "machine" but the abstract input it is acting on.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol. I misinterpreted it as the opposite.

    That's interesting. Are there similar libraries for x86, ARM, etc?

  17. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Software literally cannot be a machine. It is purely abstract. On the other hand it can control a machine.

    It's why in many countries software is not patentable (because maths and logic are not considered patentable material).

  18. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    "They you're clearly one of the many people that incorrectly think that being a good Software Engineer just means being good at "coding"."

    Don't make dumb assumptions. No, I know what a software engineer does. They aren't engineers because they don't design physical objects. That's my differentiation - and it's the obvious one. I wouldn't let you touch the designs of anything that a structural, hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, electronic, biomedical, etc. engineer has made - because you're not an engineer.

    Let's be clear, I'm not demeaning the job, or you. If I were to choose someone to code for me a software "engineer" would be my first port of call. I simply don't consider the title of "engineer" appropriate.

  19. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you're going to have to do some maths when you implement your Bayesian filter...

    But lets look at this another way. Presenting a narrow case (some form of quasi engineering that doesn't have as much maths) does not disprove the wider case (that engineering is mainly applied mathematics).

  20. Re:Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is: is software engineering really an engineering discipline...? I say no.

    That said, and assuming it is engineering (noooooo, simply calling yourself an engineer doesn't make you one!!!), doesn't signal processing use Fourier series, Fourier transforms, etc? I'd call that pretty heavy maths.

    Isn't programming a mix of logic and maths?

    I'm going to guess that most programming degrees have at least a year of maths.

  21. Engineering and maths on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    "Great engineering is not maths".

    Great engineering is not only maths.

    Most engineering usually involves a metric shit-ton of maths.

  22. Re:Guilty by default? on Manchester Attack Could Lead To Internet Crackdown (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, you do have something to fear. The removal of your privacy and the abuse of these powers.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You should probably read it.

  23. Re:And this is why labor unions are still a thing on Tesla Factory Workers Reveal Pain, Injury and Stress: 'Everything Feels Like the Future But Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "You keep comparing"

    Do I now? Solandri made the original comparison.

    He excluded old and young people - only including 18 to 65 year old people (working age).

  24. Re:And this is why labor unions are still a thing on Tesla Factory Workers Reveal Pain, Injury and Stress: 'Everything Feels Like the Future But Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The full population rate includes the Tesla employees. The only at Tesla rate does not. But you would need to establish a link between their callouts from home and their work at Tesla for that to be useful information e.g. as a condition caused by their work.

    But lets extrapolate. Lets say that they call the amulance at home at the same rate they do at work (unlikely since they aren't working anymore and have been removed from the alleged source of their morbidity). From an 8 hour work day we can triple the amount of callouts to 300 and keep the population the same at 10000. So now we're at 8.8 per 1000 people per year. That's still 10x better than the general population.

  25. Re:"Ambulances have been called more than 100 time on Tesla Factory Workers Reveal Pain, Injury and Stress: 'Everything Feels Like the Future But Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "A factory or business will have healthy employable people within a certain hirable age range."

    Lol, yeah nah. They won't all be healthy. Not nearly.