Because of [Android's] MIDI production system; their system has too much latency in it (goes on to say they're going to port it to a browser-based system).
With the opportunity to reimagine a library, you might engage in a little 'alternate history' fiction. One option is to start with a perspective of why a library was created in the first place.
If home Internet/LAN/WIFI pre-dated the existence of the concept of a physical space that a library currently uses, what would the 'library' be invented to provide? A few ideas:
reading/research collaboration space -- get together to work on school assignments
white noise generators specially designed to keep collaboration sound down
access to documents and resources that cannot be made available over the internet -- non-functioning 3D artistic/STEM items for examination, perhaps not for use
ability to check out e-book readers and 'borrow' e-books within the wi-fi range of the library
ability to check out audiobooks, and maybe borrow listening devices while in the library
ability to use higher-end resources -- e.g., graphics tablets
other study-type resources that may not simply be books
Their presentation makes analogies between "reactive programming" and spreadsheets and specifically references the power of "chaining" to have multiple functions firing as the result of changes.
Sort of an off-topic question -- why is Excel the chosen programming 'language'/model for non-programmers? Are there design concepts that come into play to assist the non-programmer or any human when you lay out your data/variables visually?
how much junk the average welfare case buys that isn't healthy food. Also watch how much cash they bring in to buy cigarettes, liquor, or gambling merchandise (lottery/lotto tickets, etc). It's fucking pathetic.
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Just some food for thought. I personally dislike many aspects of government handouts, but between the poor and the financial institutions, I'd rather it go to the lazy degenerates who don't have the power to fuck up the economy, than the ones who DO:)
In this case, it seems to ending up in the hands of small local businesses (assuming the convenience store isn't just an appendage of some national chain), probably staffed by residents of the surrounding community.
Not the best situation, but it at least ends up keeping the money in the local neighborhood economy.
I find it impressive for several reasons: the bird is moving fast, the fish is moving fast, and the refraction caused by the (moving)water/air boundary has to be accommodated by a fish with a brain the size of a politician's. This is so difficult, in fact, that I find it amazing the fish had ever developed this capability.
Fishes brains are wired to see "bird" but think "bribe".
The article (sorry, TFA) says they witnessed twenty such catches per day. Yet the only video they captured was the one linked?
[Strokes chin skeptically...]
Connect the machine to a massive database which contains data about everyone, so that the robotic killer can just check a "life-long naughty" list, and confirm the identity of the target based on her previous collected behavior (and carried electronics). You don't even need constitutionally protected data, metadata should be enough.
There. No human needed, you can get perfect killers cruising the world for enemies of the state autonomously. Feel safe?
... We no longer invent. We no longer explore. We are content to sit on our wider and wider asses and make rude noises from the back of the class while our beloved government spends $600 million in a failed attempt to build a web site.
If I'm going to denounce my government's actions, I want the police to come. I want to be arrested, charged, and put on trial. And then I want a jury of twelve Americans to look me in the eye and say "You did wrong by us." And if I'm really sure this is a matter of human rights... I'm also really sure at least one of those twelve people is going to say: "You're right. The government was wrong."
You're going to get a lot of vitriol for this, so I'll just say this -- this organization broke a lot of laws and operated outside explicitly established court procedures in many cases. Why would they then choose to follow due process in prosecuting someone who in particular so thoroughly embarrassed them by bringing those same behaviors to light?
3 hot meals and a cot in a concrete cell is exactly where he needs to be if he really believes what he's shovelling.
It seems like he's living something like a modern-day equivalent of banishment.
With an honest president, this guy would get a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I thoroughly believe this, but it's too bad none of us will live to see that happen. On hearing the election results, most of us would have dropped dead from heart attacks.
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Because of [Android's] MIDI production system; their system has too much latency in it (goes on to say they're going to port it to a browser-based system).
If home Internet/LAN/WIFI pre-dated the existence of the concept of a physical space that a library currently uses, what would the 'library' be invented to provide? A few ideas:
The concept that alignment describes behavior along multiple axes and how the differences between wisdom and intelligence are explicitly called out, are a couple things that shaped my perspective on the world.
That's really not fair to rats, considering the research results showing their empathy for their fellow rodent.
If I had a nickel for every "consultants by the pound" pitch where they sent in just barely competent coders for me to review,
Finally, an argument for obesity!
Huh? You don't have two infinite lengths of wire lying around? They're fairly easy to get; you just take one infinitely long wire and cut it in half.
No, then you'd have two semi-infinite lengths of wire.
Oh wait, you meant lengthwise. Got it.
Their presentation makes analogies between "reactive programming" and spreadsheets and specifically references the power of "chaining" to have multiple functions firing as the result of changes.
Sort of an off-topic question -- why is Excel the chosen programming 'language'/model for non-programmers? Are there design concepts that come into play to assist the non-programmer or any human when you lay out your data/variables visually?
how much junk the average welfare case buys that isn't healthy food. Also watch how much cash they bring in to buy cigarettes, liquor, or gambling merchandise (lottery/lotto tickets, etc). It's fucking pathetic.
Just some food for thought. I personally dislike many aspects of government handouts, but between the poor and the financial institutions, I'd rather it go to the lazy degenerates who don't have the power to fuck up the economy, than the ones who DO :)
In this case, it seems to ending up in the hands of small local businesses (assuming the convenience store isn't just an appendage of some national chain), probably staffed by residents of the surrounding community.
Not the best situation, but it at least ends up keeping the money in the local neighborhood economy.
I find it impressive for several reasons: the bird is moving fast, the fish is moving fast, and the refraction caused by the (moving)water/air boundary has to be accommodated by a fish with a brain the size of a politician's. This is so difficult, in fact, that I find it amazing the fish had ever developed this capability.
Fishes brains are wired to see "bird" but think "bribe".
The article (sorry, TFA) says they witnessed twenty such catches per day. Yet the only video they captured was the one linked? [Strokes chin skeptically...]
Google Glass to the rescue?
Connect the machine to a massive database which contains data about everyone, so that the robotic killer can just check a "life-long naughty" list, and confirm the identity of the target based on her previous collected behavior (and carried electronics). You don't even need constitutionally protected data, metadata should be enough. There. No human needed, you can get perfect killers cruising the world for enemies of the state autonomously. Feel safe?
Robot Santa! Is it Christmas again already?
Or even better, "I'm scientifically helping people mend their broken hearts."
Because this is one example of what happens when this occurs.
Pretty sure it wasn't meant for you (or me).
Obviously -- 64 cores should be enough for any one person.
There are things I'd like, for example a GUI object browser.
I know Emacs has a common-lisp extension library, but I'm not sure what you're referring to by 'objects' in Emacs.
Well, they wouldn't be so mean as to hit a guy with glasses.
... We no longer invent. We no longer explore. We are content to sit on our wider and wider asses and make rude noises from the back of the class while our beloved government spends $600 million in a failed attempt to build a web site.
Well, and to also sit around comfortably while remotely exploring the next frontier into this decade thanks to the quality of our engineering.
A 500 micron thick liver isn't going to process much alcohol.
I suspect this individual would disagree, and would heartily welcome this scientific advance.
...even including devs, Linux may as well run on caffeine and enslaved pixies for all we passively know about the internals.
Aapo Veden Vaki: I think they're on to us!
Irja Piru: We'll have to deal with that later -- we're out of Jolt, and the espresso machine's having problems again.
If I'm going to denounce my government's actions, I want the police to come. I want to be arrested, charged, and put on trial. And then I want a jury of twelve Americans to look me in the eye and say "You did wrong by us." And if I'm really sure this is a matter of human rights... I'm also really sure at least one of those twelve people is going to say: "You're right. The government was wrong."
You're going to get a lot of vitriol for this, so I'll just say this -- this organization broke a lot of laws and operated outside explicitly established court procedures in many cases. Why would they then choose to follow due process in prosecuting someone who in particular so thoroughly embarrassed them by bringing those same behaviors to light?
3 hot meals and a cot in a concrete cell is exactly where he needs to be if he really believes what he's shovelling.
It seems like he's living something like a modern-day equivalent of banishment.
With an honest president, this guy would get a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I thoroughly believe this, but it's too bad none of us will live to see that happen. On hearing the election results, most of us would have dropped dead from heart attacks.
metric paper sizes are the correct ones and everything else is stupid.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which the margins on this A4 sheet of paper are unfortunately too narrow to contain.
You should wash your hands long enough to sing Happy Birthday(c) twice.
That's long enough to scrub off the bacteria. Also, entirely coincidentally, long enough for the RIAA to get a fix on your position.
Remove the package from the equation, and finally we can automate and/or outsource ding-dong-ditch.
Live music on a flight? I'd pay extra for that.