When will people wake up and stop eating up this stuff?
When someone (us) fights back. When we say we're going to "buy" less of Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft, because their values don't align with ours.
I haven't made the same as a female since I was bagging groceries as a kid. After that, adult's skill sets widely diverge over time. Hell, there isn't a MAN with the identical qualifications that I have. Everybody's different...
Further, let's multiply that by the fact that I had to fight, threaten and give ultimatums to get the vast majority of raises I have gotten over the decades. This is something I don't see most of the women I associate with being able to readily do, and for that (and them) I am thankful.
I back up/image my hard drive regularly using a large-storage, USB, thumb drive with Macrium's Reflect software (I have no relation to them - I like the software); the idea being that the encrypted flash stick can hook to my key chain and be off-site and with me (if I ever need a file while away from home).
Just a few weeks ago, my sister bought a new laptop to replace her decade old laptop, which still works, but struggles to keep up with today's web. (Why?! Grrr...) I think she inadvertently got one without an optical drive. Anyway, she called me for advice on setting it up and asked about which office suite to use. 'I still have MS Office 2003 on CD-ROM, should I just use that?', she said. I reminded her of her purchase, which elicited a "D'oh!"
Driving is harder and more "quirky" than any computer will ever be able to comprehend. Don't believe me? The best computers on the planet, after countless revisions and countless years of testing (i.e., our brains), still aren't perfect when it comes to the task. It is comical to me to see engineers again believe they are "more clever" and will overcome everything if enough tech. is thrown at it. Mark my words, this will be a slow-motion clogging of our roadways as such cars get befuddled by a simple plastic bag blowing about the freeway.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
I "invented" the word "splinternet" several years ago. When I would babysit my niece and nephew, I wanted them to at least know what an encyclopedia was. So when I couldn't answer one of their many questions, we'd reference the Internet made of wood! (I lucked out that almost all of their topics were found there.)
Today's triumphant news is about a new Tinder app that lets you 'hook up' with multiple people.
I know it's very "get off my lawn" but where we had an outward-looking, achievement-oriented society 50 years ago, today I see nothing but an enervated country suffused with ennui and a narcissistic obsession with carnality that leaves us paralyzed like a heroin addict on a buzz.
Wow, I really enjoyed your comment, so I "liked" it, Tweeted it to all my "friends", and will post it on Facebook too!! (...After I'm done playing Pokemon Go for an hour or two.)
Sure, they might make less money, but in the 1980s a cell phone cost thousands and barely worked...
Sorry to nitpick off topic, but I'm obligated to prevent falsehoods from gaining traction. Cell phones then worked much better than cell phones do today. Most people don't know this (they assume!) because a) they weren't alive to own one at the time, or b) since cellular phones and air time were costly, most folks couldn't afford them.
I know what you're saying. I have coded in C for over a decade, but only "discovered" the following in the last few years after I was forced to use an editor that didn't have the features that you describe (as my last editors did). A space is all that's required:
/* This code block does things. */
blah;
/* This block no longer does things. * /...NOTE THE SPACE.
blah2;
blah3;// This does blah3.
/* Back to more working code. */
blah4;
It's more helpful if the IDE colors the comments differently than the code.
"Why would anyone write code at such a low level, being far less productive if compared to using any other programming language and being vulnerable to all kinds of programming mistakes?"
A) Why don't you ask them and learn?
B) I politely disagree that they are automatically "far less productive". I am an embedded programmer and have only used tiny amounts of assembly over the last decade. However, if I had more tiny projects, and my bosses weren't akin to cats chasing flashlight spots to where I could stick with the same processor for more than a year, I'd consider it for sure. Why? Because I never seem to get to just "code and go" anymore. As an example, last week I had to reinstall my multi-gigabyte Eclipse IDE for the SECOND time this past year (this time due to a debugger corruption). In such IDEs, all the higher libraries (and their paths) need to be in place, and compiled too (which doesn't always go perfectly). Whereas my former officemate would open any text editor (his was Corel Word Perfect(!)) to write his assembly, then compile on the command line, then upload the binary.
I don't know how many hours I've spent learning and fixing IDEs. Then, a year to two later, the IDE changes again after the chip's OEM "upgraded" it!...More productivity down the drain.
And, we will start to get such notices from these thousand-computer hospitals so often, that we won't even pay attention to them anymore, especially since there's nothing we can do about it.
How come I smell the price of an aspirin going up? Thanks again, congress.
I should start a blog as I've been documenting how I come across so-called "oddball scenarios" just about every other month - and I am but one driver! Autonomous vehicles (AV) will probably not kill very many people, but they will significantly slow traffic (forever going forward). Issues I've witnessed, off the top of my head:
--LARGE, rim-breaking potholes
--Snow covering the road paint
--No GPS signal near tall buildings
--Tumbleweeds/garbage plastic bags
--Construction cone blocking the lane by 10%
--Temporary/unofficial road construction forcing traffic onto gravel shoulder
--Live, downed, power wire
--Thin branch that looks like a live, downed, power wire
--Baby geese on roadway
--Dangerously deep puddle blocking 25% of the lane
I have personally seen all of these within the last several years of driving (at least once), most within the last couple years. I am an embedded programmer (decades); I already know that the infinite number of possible road scenarios WILL come up, and cannot be coded for in advance. That's where the human brain takes the universe's trophy.
Respectfully, I keep reading this, but find no "proof" from anyone to back it up. And any time I try to research it myself, I get lost in deep, physics jargon.
I find it hard to believe that something in one quantity can cook meat, but doesn't destabilize tiny atoms when in a lower quantity. (And we are talking quantity here, right? Given that the frequency and amplitude are relatively constant?)
Further, I wonder about the superposition principle from physics. If billions of quanta are emitted per second, isn't it possible that a few strike the exact same atom, at the exact same time, in the same spot, multiplying their effect on that bond?
Anecdotally, a coworker just had a mass removed behind his ear, causing deafness. He's a salesman type, and has been heavily using the cellular phone, on that side, for decades.
One point I never see made is that, yeah, we may trust this government with our lives/security/privacy, but the issue I think the founding fathers saw was that if you "let such cats out of the bag", the horribly evil government that's in place 25 years from now will have total, unretractable control - "we the people" would, then, have no recourse.
I think you jumped right over the irony puddle there. The law apparently wasn't taking care of the illegal prostitution enough for this guy, and he (one of the people) took action to "solve" the problem.
I used have an AT & T MasterCard credit card. After they offered the paperless option, I signed up figuring it would save the trees, etc.
It worked fine; then one month, I never got the "your bill is due" email, despite the lady on the phone saying they sent it thrice. I missed the payment due date, so there was a late charge and a finance charge added to my account, neither of which I had ever earned before as I pay my balance off monthly. She was nice enough to reverse the late fee, but enforced the other. I've gone back to the paper versions ever since.
First of all, folks, "Twitter" is in the headline, so it does enjoy some STEMy goodness.
Secondly, I've always thought it was obvious that "...stuff that matters" meant a tongue-in-cheek "Nerdy news is stuff that matters to us, even though it is not interesting to the vast majority of people." Whereas stating "...stuff that matters" in the general sense is such an empty statement, it's not even worth saying. (It was never "News for nerds AND stuff that matters".)
Thirdly, I agree that what draws me here is the mental kinship - I like seeing what the more thoughtful posters have to say. However, my logical brain does not appreciate the blurring of those topical lines, and knows it only a matter of time before those with a political rant, etc., know that Slashdot has the most eyeballs to troll. So my knee-jerk thought was to break/. into two differently (though similarly) named sites, akin to the successful Stack Exchange website. (Admittedly, I haven't given this much thought beyond this post...)
I sold something on Craigslist.com to a guy in the next town, about 15 minutes away via highway. He said that he would pick the item up right away, but he had to charge his car first (a Leaf) which would take an hour or so. That sounded comically backwards to me.
And so it begins... I predict that congestion will be significantly increased on average as these car struggle with the frequent, "non-standard", driving conditions that we all experience but don't think twice about (neither did the engineers, I presume). Just yesterday I saw there was a police chase that ended in a highway crash, turning 4 lanes into 1, forcing everyone onto the shoulder for obvious reasons. Would this also be obvious to such automated cars, especially after it snowed that morning?
Progress will again be lubricated by the blood of a few innocents. (Or at least the time & patience of many...)
Slashdot Mirror
As reported by TechCrunch; how appropriate.
From your link: "While many people nowadays would regard tampering with the ecosystem in such a radical way as a shockingly irresponsible idea, ..."
Apparently not.
Tell you what, let's try eradicating all humans first, and if it works out, go from there.
When will people wake up and stop eating up this stuff?
When someone (us) fights back. When we say we're going to "buy" less of Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft, because their values don't align with ours.
I haven't made the same as a female since I was bagging groceries as a kid. After that, adult's skill sets widely diverge over time. Hell, there isn't a MAN with the identical qualifications that I have. Everybody's different...
Further, let's multiply that by the fact that I had to fight, threaten and give ultimatums to get the vast majority of raises I have gotten over the decades. This is something I don't see most of the women I associate with being able to readily do, and for that (and them) I am thankful.
I back up/image my hard drive regularly using a large-storage, USB, thumb drive with Macrium's Reflect software (I have no relation to them - I like the software); the idea being that the encrypted flash stick can hook to my key chain and be off-site and with me (if I ever need a file while away from home).
Just a few weeks ago, my sister bought a new laptop to replace her decade old laptop, which still works, but struggles to keep up with today's web. (Why?! Grrr...) I think she inadvertently got one without an optical drive. Anyway, she called me for advice on setting it up and asked about which office suite to use. 'I still have MS Office 2003 on CD-ROM, should I just use that?', she said. I reminded her of her purchase, which elicited a "D'oh!"
Death and slower traffic for all!
Driving is harder and more "quirky" than any computer will ever be able to comprehend. Don't believe me? The best computers on the planet, after countless revisions and countless years of testing (i.e., our brains), still aren't perfect when it comes to the task. It is comical to me to see engineers again believe they are "more clever" and will overcome everything if enough tech. is thrown at it. Mark my words, this will be a slow-motion clogging of our roadways as such cars get befuddled by a simple plastic bag blowing about the freeway.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
I "invented" the word "splinternet" several years ago. When I would babysit my niece and nephew, I wanted them to at least know what an encyclopedia was. So when I couldn't answer one of their many questions, we'd reference the Internet made of wood! (I lucked out that almost all of their topics were found there.)
I only hope they know how to use Google today...
Today's triumphant news is about a new Tinder app that lets you 'hook up' with multiple people. I know it's very "get off my lawn" but where we had an outward-looking, achievement-oriented society 50 years ago, today I see nothing but an enervated country suffused with ennui and a narcissistic obsession with carnality that leaves us paralyzed like a heroin addict on a buzz.
Wow, I really enjoyed your comment, so I "liked" it, Tweeted it to all my "friends", and will post it on Facebook too!! (...After I'm done playing Pokemon Go for an hour or two.)
Sure, they might make less money, but in the 1980s a cell phone cost thousands and barely worked...
Sorry to nitpick off topic, but I'm obligated to prevent falsehoods from gaining traction. Cell phones then worked much better than cell phones do today. Most people don't know this (they assume!) because a) they weren't alive to own one at the time, or b) since cellular phones and air time were costly, most folks couldn't afford them.
I thought McDonald's already had to block their hot coffee.
Lol.
It sounds like he had high expectations of availability and warranty.
I know what you're saying. I have coded in C for over a decade, but only "discovered" the following in the last few years after I was forced to use an editor that didn't have the features that you describe (as my last editors did). A space is all that's required:
/* This code block does things. */
/* This block no longer does things. * / ...NOTE THE SPACE. // This does blah3.
/* Back to more working code. */
blah;
blah2;
blah3;
blah4;
It's more helpful if the IDE colors the comments differently than the code.
"Why would anyone write code at such a low level, being far less productive if compared to using any other programming language and being vulnerable to all kinds of programming mistakes?"
...More productivity down the drain.
A) Why don't you ask them and learn?
B) I politely disagree that they are automatically "far less productive". I am an embedded programmer and have only used tiny amounts of assembly over the last decade. However, if I had more tiny projects, and my bosses weren't akin to cats chasing flashlight spots to where I could stick with the same processor for more than a year, I'd consider it for sure. Why? Because I never seem to get to just "code and go" anymore. As an example, last week I had to reinstall my multi-gigabyte Eclipse IDE for the SECOND time this past year (this time due to a debugger corruption). In such IDEs, all the higher libraries (and their paths) need to be in place, and compiled too (which doesn't always go perfectly). Whereas my former officemate would open any text editor (his was Corel Word Perfect(!)) to write his assembly, then compile on the command line, then upload the binary.
I don't know how many hours I've spent learning and fixing IDEs. Then, a year to two later, the IDE changes again after the chip's OEM "upgraded" it!
And, we will start to get such notices from these thousand-computer hospitals so often, that we won't even pay attention to them anymore, especially since there's nothing we can do about it.
How come I smell the price of an aspirin going up? Thanks again, congress.
Sigh, I spent several years+ (a decade?) before signing up... "Why sign up? I can still read it..."
Oh well, it's only nerd cred...
"The Body Electric" by Rush
One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun
Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode...crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
SOS
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
In distress
1 0 0 1 0 0
Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits
Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist
To resist
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
SOS
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
In distress
1 0 0 1 0 0
It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head and prays
To the mother of all machines
I should start a blog as I've been documenting how I come across so-called "oddball scenarios" just about every other month - and I am but one driver! Autonomous vehicles (AV) will probably not kill very many people, but they will significantly slow traffic (forever going forward). Issues I've witnessed, off the top of my head:
--LARGE, rim-breaking potholes
--Snow covering the road paint
--No GPS signal near tall buildings
--Tumbleweeds/garbage plastic bags
--Construction cone blocking the lane by 10%
--Temporary/unofficial road construction forcing traffic onto gravel shoulder
--Live, downed, power wire
--Thin branch that looks like a live, downed, power wire
--Baby geese on roadway
--Dangerously deep puddle blocking 25% of the lane
I have personally seen all of these within the last several years of driving (at least once), most within the last couple years. I am an embedded programmer (decades); I already know that the infinite number of possible road scenarios WILL come up, and cannot be coded for in advance. That's where the human brain takes the universe's trophy.
Photons from microwaves can't ionize matter.
Respectfully, I keep reading this, but find no "proof" from anyone to back it up. And any time I try to research it myself, I get lost in deep, physics jargon.
I find it hard to believe that something in one quantity can cook meat, but doesn't destabilize tiny atoms when in a lower quantity. (And we are talking quantity here, right? Given that the frequency and amplitude are relatively constant?)
Further, I wonder about the superposition principle from physics. If billions of quanta are emitted per second, isn't it possible that a few strike the exact same atom, at the exact same time, in the same spot, multiplying their effect on that bond?
Anecdotally, a coworker just had a mass removed behind his ear, causing deafness. He's a salesman type, and has been heavily using the cellular phone, on that side, for decades.
One point I never see made is that, yeah, we may trust this government with our lives/security/privacy, but the issue I think the founding fathers saw was that if you "let such cats out of the bag", the horribly evil government that's in place 25 years from now will have total, unretractable control - "we the people" would, then, have no recourse.
If the law fails to solve problems, people will.
I think you jumped right over the irony puddle there. The law apparently wasn't taking care of the illegal prostitution enough for this guy, and he (one of the people) took action to "solve" the problem.
They said exactly what he says in public...
FP!
I used have an AT & T MasterCard credit card. After they offered the paperless option, I signed up figuring it would save the trees, etc.
It worked fine; then one month, I never got the "your bill is due" email, despite the lady on the phone saying they sent it thrice. I missed the payment due date, so there was a late charge and a finance charge added to my account, neither of which I had ever earned before as I pay my balance off monthly. She was nice enough to reverse the late fee, but enforced the other. I've gone back to the paper versions ever since.
First of all, folks, "Twitter" is in the headline, so it does enjoy some STEMy goodness.
/. into two differently (though similarly) named sites, akin to the successful Stack Exchange website. (Admittedly, I haven't given this much thought beyond this post...)
Secondly, I've always thought it was obvious that "...stuff that matters" meant a tongue-in-cheek "Nerdy news is stuff that matters to us, even though it is not interesting to the vast majority of people." Whereas stating "...stuff that matters" in the general sense is such an empty statement, it's not even worth saying. (It was never "News for nerds AND stuff that matters".)
Thirdly, I agree that what draws me here is the mental kinship - I like seeing what the more thoughtful posters have to say. However, my logical brain does not appreciate the blurring of those topical lines, and knows it only a matter of time before those with a political rant, etc., know that Slashdot has the most eyeballs to troll. So my knee-jerk thought was to break
I sold something on Craigslist.com to a guy in the next town, about 15 minutes away via highway. He said that he would pick the item up right away, but he had to charge his car first (a Leaf) which would take an hour or so. That sounded comically backwards to me.
And so it begins... I predict that congestion will be significantly increased on average as these car struggle with the frequent, "non-standard", driving conditions that we all experience but don't think twice about (neither did the engineers, I presume). Just yesterday I saw there was a police chase that ended in a highway crash, turning 4 lanes into 1, forcing everyone onto the shoulder for obvious reasons. Would this also be obvious to such automated cars, especially after it snowed that morning?
Progress will again be lubricated by the blood of a few innocents. (Or at least the time & patience of many...)