It's too bad I have no way to put those charts right next to each other. It's not like we can't predict what happens when infrared light streams through CO2-laden air. And there's no denying that we're the ones filling the atmosphere with it. They're both such easily verifiable claims. It's high-school level science. But when you suggest that our CO2 is causing the world to heat, somehow there's this mental disconnect.
I'd be interested in testing this. If you could provide me a high-quality lossless soundtrack, I'll encode it with different mp3 qualities. Then, I'll convert each quality back to a.wav file and put them on my website, and see if people can tell me which is which. Of course, it will have to be copyright-free. If you're interested, send me a mail at dmccallum9 (gmail address).
I'm seeing a lot of negative postings about unnecessary drugs and implying doctor's don't know what they're doing. I went through an episode about a year ago where if I tried to sleep my face would start burning. If I got up, it would fade away. I suffered on roughly one hour's sleep per night for a year before I went to see a doctor. The solution was to take one pill per day, and in a few weeks I was sleeping full nights again. It took years to recover though, because that level of extended sleep deprivation is very damaging. Even now, I'm still not quite as sharp as I was before.
When I look back I can see how stupid I was. I suffered that entire year, and had years of recovery, for nothing. Why? Because people who don't have a hot clue about psychology said that the doctors don't know what they're doing, the medicine is as bad as the disease, those pills are over-prescribed, etc. etc. But guess what? If your meds turn out to have bad side effects you can stop taking them, or just ask for different ones. Such a simple thing. And yet so many people who could benefit from them are turned away by fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Now that I've actually RTFA, as other people are saying he's a schizophrenic. Pretty cool operating system though, except for this:
TempleOS does not use memory protection. All code in the system runs at ring 0, the highest privilege level, meaning that a stray pointer write could easily crash the entire system. ... He argues that Linux is designed for a use case that most people don’t have. Linux, he says, aims to be a 1970s mainframe, with 100 users connected at once. If a crash in one users’ programs could take down all the others, then obviously that would be bad. But for a personal computer, with just one user, this makes no sense. Instead the OS should empower the single user and not get in their way.
This only makes sense if you're running one program at a time. But if you're running 20 or more programs at once, like a regular user, then a bug in any one of them can cause weird behavior in the others, and it's almost impossible to debug or fix.
I must say, that was an unusually well-written article. Good information level, not dumbed down, and the writer actually sounded like she knew what she was talking about.
Check out this nugget: Organisers of unauthorised demonstrations could be fined up to €600,000, with further €600 fines for disrespecting police officers, and €30,000 for filming or photographing them.
But putting a giant toaster in your basement to then circulate the heat around? I'm pretty much certain the laws of thermodynamics would say that's a terrible way of doing it.
No less efficient than any other central heating system.
For central heating, the existing solutions would work far better than inefficient electrical appliances generating hear.
There is no such thing as an inefficient electrical heater, unless you're venting the heat outside or something. Because all the waste energy is given off as.. more heat. Plus the heat given off by these appliances is free, since the server company is paying for it.
Free heat
It's hard to beat
Even with forced air
It works a treat
A disturbing trend I've seen is the tendency for a conference or publication to ask the author's recommendation for suitable people to peer review the paper! This largely defeats the purpose of the review, since the author can cherry pick reviewers he knows will vote to accept. Say, a colleague or associate. I don't think the "cherry picking" isn't even conscious most of the time. I mean, who else would you recommend? Someone you don't know?
The justification given by the publisher is that they need someone with the right expertise to correctly review the paper, since it may deal with extremely specialized knowledge. But I've found that asking authors for "peers" seems to be the default for many journals, rather than the exception. So you end up with these low-quality journals that boast a full peer review process, but seem to be full of papers of dubious quality.
But in the publish-or-perish world, any publication is better than no publication, so these journals persist, soaking up rejected papers or low-quality work.
There's an optimal pricing for most services. Take cable TV - lower the price and a few more people will buy in. But, not enough to make up for the lost revenue from lower prices. Raise the prices and you'll get more money, but not enough to make up for the people leaving your service. Your pricing can deviate around that "sweet spot", but not by a huge amount.
That's why companies instead try to make their services shittier, by inserting ads and reducing quality and so forth. People are more willing to put up with that. But if you legislate that they can no longer provide shitty service, it doesn't necessarily mean the prices will increase accordingly. Even if ISPs start lowering their data caps, people will likely perceive that as "paying more for less".
I can't help but see this as anything but a win for the consumer.
Any smart home setup that prevents you from using light switches is going to be painful. You should still be able to use all of the conveniences of your home, in addition to whatever smarts you're adding. Nothing else makes sense to me.
We cannot build a computer that can model a bug's brain activity
True, but we can create machines that can more or less do what insects can do. Look at self-driving cars: they can make simple maps of their environments, recognize multiple pre-programmed objects (signs, other cars, pedestrians), and navigate around easy obstacles. If we were able to control a beetle with a couple hundred kilograms of computer hardware and sensors, we could probably come up with something roughly similar to what the beetle already does.
Delayed gratification is not about increasing the amount of work you do, it's about being able to plan ahead. I saved up my dollars from a summer job working on my Dad's farm, and bought a computer for $1400 at the end of it. My brother spent his money as soon as he got it, but when I got a computer he wanted one too. So he got some kind of 'lease to own' deal, which he was still paying back years later, long after that thing was an obsolete piece of shit. Ended up costing him almost three grand.
Who ended up working more? This is not a trick question.
The only thing delaying gratification achieves is that you get less years and less opportunity to be happy.
The opposite is true. The ability to save money, to be financially responsible, and to study for an education all reduce the amount of work you need to do over your lifetime. And it will tend to be more enjoyable, satisfying work.
It all depends on how long you've been playing. (And how long you've been reading spoilers) For those who play for conducts, the most common conducts are:
Never changed shape.
Never polymorphed an item.
Never wished for an artifact item.
Never wished for a regular item.
Genocideless.
So you see lots of five-conduct ascensions, since these five are relatively easy to achieve. Easier than say, weaponless. Or pacifist.
(Seriously-- Gehenna without any genocide scrolls? LOL! As IF!)
Heh. I'm guessing this is about arch-liches. They're dangerous, but manageable if you have magic resistance. You just stand on the upstairs and beat them to...death. You can get magic resistance without wishing by: 1) sacrificing and trying to get Magicbane. 2) Playing a role whose quest item provides magic resistance. 3) Killing a gray dragon and making a suit of armor out of its scales. You can repeatedly loot the throne in the Castle while confused to attempt to summon a dragon, but their scales drop rate is lower than normal.
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I know what you mean. I always take a taxi instead of driving myself. And I make sure the restaurants I eat at don't have automatic dishwashers.
Agreed.
Yearly Temperature
CO2 levels
It's too bad I have no way to put those charts right next to each other. It's not like we can't predict what happens when infrared light streams through CO2-laden air. And there's no denying that we're the ones filling the atmosphere with it. They're both such easily verifiable claims. It's high-school level science. But when you suggest that our CO2 is causing the world to heat, somehow there's this mental disconnect.
I'd be interested in testing this. If you could provide me a high-quality lossless soundtrack, I'll encode it with different mp3 qualities. Then, I'll convert each quality back to a .wav file and put them on my website, and see if people can tell me which is which. Of course, it will have to be copyright-free. If you're interested, send me a mail at dmccallum9 (gmail address).
I'm seeing a lot of negative postings about unnecessary drugs and implying doctor's don't know what they're doing. I went through an episode about a year ago where if I tried to sleep my face would start burning. If I got up, it would fade away. I suffered on roughly one hour's sleep per night for a year before I went to see a doctor. The solution was to take one pill per day, and in a few weeks I was sleeping full nights again. It took years to recover though, because that level of extended sleep deprivation is very damaging. Even now, I'm still not quite as sharp as I was before.
When I look back I can see how stupid I was. I suffered that entire year, and had years of recovery, for nothing. Why? Because people who don't have a hot clue about psychology said that the doctors don't know what they're doing, the medicine is as bad as the disease, those pills are over-prescribed, etc. etc. But guess what? If your meds turn out to have bad side effects you can stop taking them, or just ask for different ones. Such a simple thing. And yet so many people who could benefit from them are turned away by fear, uncertainty and doubt.
My guess is that IPv4 will be functionally dead within 5 to 10 years:
https://www.google.ca/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Free IPv4 /8
IPv4 address daily assignment rate
Now that I've actually RTFA, as other people are saying he's a schizophrenic. Pretty cool operating system though, except for this:
TempleOS does not use memory protection. All code in the system runs at ring 0, the highest privilege level, meaning that a stray pointer write could easily crash the entire system.
...
He argues that Linux is designed for a use case that most people don’t have. Linux, he says, aims to be a 1970s mainframe, with 100 users connected at once. If a crash in one users’ programs could take down all the others, then obviously that would be bad. But for a personal computer, with just one user, this makes no sense. Instead the OS should empower the single user and not get in their way.
This only makes sense if you're running one program at a time. But if you're running 20 or more programs at once, like a regular user, then a bug in any one of them can cause weird behavior in the others, and it's almost impossible to debug or fix.
It seems like there's some kind of mental illness there. Check out his twitter feed: templeos
If you only sudo the commands that need it, you minimize the odds that one of the commands that don't need it will Bork your system.
I must say, that was an unusually well-written article. Good information level, not dumbed down, and the writer actually sounded like she knew what she was talking about.
I'm shocked.
I had no idea it was so common to confuse the p-value with the magnitude of the effect being studied. I haven't seen anything like it in HCI.
Check out this nugget: Organisers of unauthorised demonstrations could be fined up to €600,000, with further €600 fines for disrespecting police officers, and €30,000 for filming or photographing them.
That's why I have the Tab key insert 4 spaces for me. That, plus an auto-indent that also uses spaces, lets me get the best of both worlds.
Reminds me of a South Park episode, 'Taming Strange', where they computerize the entire school:
https://southparknewsnow.files...
But putting a giant toaster in your basement to then circulate the heat around? I'm pretty much certain the laws of thermodynamics would say that's a terrible way of doing it.
No less efficient than any other central heating system.
For central heating, the existing solutions would work far better than inefficient electrical appliances generating hear.
There is no such thing as an inefficient electrical heater, unless you're venting the heat outside or something. Because all the waste energy is given off as.. more heat. Plus the heat given off by these appliances is free, since the server company is paying for it.
Free heat
It's hard to beat
Even with forced air
It works a treat
We need coal to be GONE.
We're working on it as fast as we can.
A disturbing trend I've seen is the tendency for a conference or publication to ask the author's recommendation for suitable people to peer review the paper! This largely defeats the purpose of the review, since the author can cherry pick reviewers he knows will vote to accept. Say, a colleague or associate. I don't think the "cherry picking" isn't even conscious most of the time. I mean, who else would you recommend? Someone you don't know?
The justification given by the publisher is that they need someone with the right expertise to correctly review the paper, since it may deal with extremely specialized knowledge. But I've found that asking authors for "peers" seems to be the default for many journals, rather than the exception. So you end up with these low-quality journals that boast a full peer review process, but seem to be full of papers of dubious quality.
But in the publish-or-perish world, any publication is better than no publication, so these journals persist, soaking up rejected papers or low-quality work.
There's an optimal pricing for most services. Take cable TV - lower the price and a few more people will buy in. But, not enough to make up for the lost revenue from lower prices. Raise the prices and you'll get more money, but not enough to make up for the people leaving your service. Your pricing can deviate around that "sweet spot", but not by a huge amount.
That's why companies instead try to make their services shittier, by inserting ads and reducing quality and so forth. People are more willing to put up with that. But if you legislate that they can no longer provide shitty service, it doesn't necessarily mean the prices will increase accordingly. Even if ISPs start lowering their data caps, people will likely perceive that as "paying more for less".
I can't help but see this as anything but a win for the consumer.
Any smart home setup that prevents you from using light switches is going to be painful. You should still be able to use all of the conveniences of your home, in addition to whatever smarts you're adding. Nothing else makes sense to me.
Because there's a Linux poll there about kernel numbers. Do try to keep up with the conversation.
We cannot build a computer that can model a bug's brain activity
True, but we can create machines that can more or less do what insects can do. Look at self-driving cars: they can make simple maps of their environments, recognize multiple pre-programmed objects (signs, other cars, pedestrians), and navigate around easy obstacles. If we were able to control a beetle with a couple hundred kilograms of computer hardware and sensors, we could probably come up with something roughly similar to what the beetle already does.
Delayed gratification is not about increasing the amount of work you do, it's about being able to plan ahead. I saved up my dollars from a summer job working on my Dad's farm, and bought a computer for $1400 at the end of it. My brother spent his money as soon as he got it, but when I got a computer he wanted one too. So he got some kind of 'lease to own' deal, which he was still paying back years later, long after that thing was an obsolete piece of shit. Ended up costing him almost three grand.
Who ended up working more? This is not a trick question.
The only thing delaying gratification achieves is that you get less years and less opportunity to be happy.
The opposite is true. The ability to save money, to be financially responsible, and to study for an education all reduce the amount of work you need to do over your lifetime. And it will tend to be more enjoyable, satisfying work.
Or perhaps every local network is required by law to have a government-approved server running at 10.76.1.11.
I believe this is a ploy to make them keep their sexuality a secret. They'll keep driving, but it will be against the law to tell anyone they're gay.
Torrents... I see what you did there.
It all depends on how long you've been playing. (And how long you've been reading spoilers) For those who play for conducts, the most common conducts are:
Never changed shape.
Never polymorphed an item.
Never wished for an artifact item.
Never wished for a regular item.
Genocideless.
So you see lots of five-conduct ascensions, since these five are relatively easy to achieve. Easier than say, weaponless. Or pacifist.
(Seriously-- Gehenna without any genocide scrolls? LOL! As IF!)
Heh. I'm guessing this is about arch-liches. They're dangerous, but manageable if you have magic resistance. You just stand on the upstairs and beat them to ...death. You can get magic resistance without wishing by: 1) sacrificing and trying to get Magicbane. 2) Playing a role whose quest item provides magic resistance. 3) Killing a gray dragon and making a suit of armor out of its scales. You can repeatedly loot the throne in the Castle while confused to attempt to summon a dragon, but their scales drop rate is lower than normal.