In my day, ports had fuses so the worst you'd do is fry a single port, or possibly pair (gang?) of ports. In the 90s when USB started becoming popular, shitty products that caused shorts and fried USB ports were so common that various types of protections on the ports was a well-advertised feature of motherboards. Enough to get a broken Chinglish call out on the features panel on the back of the box or on the inside flap.
Nah. He's right. The current notation is bullshit. It looks like standard algebra and people try to manipulate the symbols as such. I mean, you could shorten d/dx to 1/x, right?
It's well known to most students who took a calculus course and then took the next level calculus course. Suddenly your d and dx start doing weird shit, and they can't do other shit you've been told to do with them, then you find yourself questioning WTF the d or the x actually mean, and then you wonder why you never thought d/dx was just 1/x, and you realize your teacher / professor can't explain it either.
If you don't grok the fundamental theorem of calculus, you'll never grok d/dx and the bullshit that has been done with them. If you do grok it, you learn to ignore the bullshit and separate those symbols from the rest of the algebraic manipulations they're mixed up in.
The d, dx, dy, etc. are not things to be generally operated on. Writing the second derivative as d^2 / dx^2, or worse, d^2y / dx^2 is doubly absurd. (I'm using the ^ to denote supersripting, not exponentiation.)
d represents the instantaneous rate of change (which itself is a flawed concept - a rate of change cannot be instantaneous as a rate depends on the passage of time), dx represents that instantaneous rate of change of x. d/dx represents the instantaneous rate of some value, possibly some value dependent on x, with respect to the instantaneous rate of change of x. dy/dx, dv/dt, etc. are all the same deal. That rate of change of some variables with respect to other variables.
What is that instantaneous rate of change? The slope of a line (plane, or whatever if you've got more free variables) tangent to your function at a given point, presuming such a thing exists.
How do you determine that tangent line? You take the target point and some point h past it ((f(x) vs f(x+h)) (or before it!) and determine what the line does when you consider h approaching 0. You make sure you can define that shit from both ends and both ends agree. If that works out, have a limit, you've got a derivative, and baby, you've got the fundamental theorem of calculus goin'.
Whoever tried to slap that shit together as a fraction or take shortcuts and try to manipulate those symbols in a way that looks sort of like algebraic manipulation is a clown. Trying to fix that is going to be an uphill battle, but using more of the busted notation isn't really the solution.
(and a store can always refuse to sell to you, unless you can show illegal discrimination)
Refusing to accept cash would disproportionately affect a certain protected class in the area. Therefore even though it's completely fair, makes no determination based on a protected class, etc., it's still illegal. See building codes in the death trap tinder boxes in San Francisco.
I have never seen a "bank card" without the Visa or MasterCard logo. In America, a "bank card" is a "debit card". You have to fight tooth and nail to get a "bank card" that isn't a debit card, and in many cases they're incapable of providing such a thing.
They look at a small sample of them, or anything that an automated check flags as flagrantly bullshit, then they put the screws to you.
The vast majority of returns are never looked at by any human, and no machine is doing any sophisticated logic. They have income reported to them and they determine what you owe, if you report that you owe significantly less, you get flagged. If you're not flagged by those basic sanity checks or flagged for random sampling, you're in the clear.
It's not even that the ad revenue is enticing. It's necessary.
If Netflix has a successful show, or licenses one, then its success makes it more expensive.
Licensing agreements demand viewing data, and when Netflix reveals something has been watched 20 million times, they'll want more money for the next agreement. Or they'll want money per view.
For Netflix's own content, they have to pay to produce it. When actors learn that their show or movie is successful, they demand more money for the next season / the sequel.
The bottom line is that more views means more cost, but not more revenue. Their only option is ads, premium content on top of the subscription, or eventually crumbling under the weight of their debt.
That interview as amazing. You can excuse anything Jack says with the "he's the head of the company, he doesn't know the details" bullshit, but Vijaya exposed their BS time after time after time with her responses.
The law is very clear. Why do you think protests can happen in a parking lot even if it's privately owned or operated?
Why do you think religious nutters and cultists filled the airports up until we violated the constitution in the name of security to kick them out? The movie Airplane! has a great gag on this.
If a space is publicly owned, publicly operated, or generally available to the public, then it's a public space.
Correct. I'm Fry levels of shocked that the modern left (you can't call them liberals anymore) has done a full 180. They hate free speech, and cry about fascists while being fascists themselves.
Anybody who operates a platform is entitled to decide that a bunch of lunatics spewing all kinds of stupid conspiracy theories and hate can go elsewhere to express themselves.
Not if that platform is sufficiently public. The concept of a privately owned or privately operated public space is well established.
Otherwise, every university, library, park, street, sidewalk, etc. would be leased to an NGO for operation and no protest would be allowed anywhere.
Bullshit. A total, Wild West anarchy is NOT good for society. Take a look at the fucking antivaxxers as a prime example.
You're wrong. And the wild west wasn't the wild west you think it was. What's wrong with anti-vaxxers? You disagree? You think they're ideas are wrong and harmful? So what? They should be free to be wrong and free to spread their ideas to any who disagree with you.
but they don't have "a right" to spreading fakedick inbred failed ideologies that the FBI rightly calls domestic terrorist faggot shit if the corpos say no.
Yes, they do, if the corporations are deemed to be operating public spaces. The idea of a privately owned or operated public space is well established.
You're an idiot. They did exactly that, then turned around and said "SEE?? We need more H1B visas so we can hire expertise we just can't get in the US!!".
Then they fired all but a handful of their US staff.
From an analysis perspective, you can, in fact, only look at jobs lost.
If you're a retard, sure.
If you fired 7 out of 100 in year 1 and fired 9 out of 150 in year two, comparing 9 to 7 is retarded. Failing to look at how many of those 7 or 9 stay unemployed is retarded as well.
The video game industry ALWAYS lays people off in large numbers.
Thanks for developing this billion-dollar-budget AAAA title! We've sold 8 million copies and people are buying $5 skins like crazy! We're firing 90% of you and keeping 10% on for patches and new skins.
And that's to be expected. When a crew wraps on a film they don't keep getting paid for not working on that film.
What's less normal is when a mega publisher shuts down an entire studio after a game under performs, or after some nontroversy. But this, too, is understandable. You close the studio so you have less baggage to deal with. You they start up a new studio, give it the IP the old studio had, and hire the people from the old studio who were actually pulling their weight.
This all boils down to the simple fact that you can't look at the number of firings, layoff, or hirings. You need to look at the unemployment number as a whole (either nationally or within an industry). Basically, this story is meaningless bullshit.
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"Adults" don't spank it to video game cartoons
Of course they do. I dare you to get between a weeb and his/her waifu/husbando.
In my day, ports had fuses so the worst you'd do is fry a single port, or possibly pair (gang?) of ports.
In the 90s when USB started becoming popular, shitty products that caused shorts and fried USB ports were so common that various types of protections on the ports was a well-advertised feature of motherboards. Enough to get a broken Chinglish call out on the features panel on the back of the box or on the inside flap.
They already intercept and read every single packet that touches a router in any western nation. AT&T has a massive building dedicated to NSA taps.
Nah. He's right. The current notation is bullshit. It looks like standard algebra and people try to manipulate the symbols as such.
I mean, you could shorten d/dx to 1/x, right?
It's well known to most students who took a calculus course and then took the next level calculus course.
Suddenly your d and dx start doing weird shit, and they can't do other shit you've been told to do with them, then you find yourself questioning WTF the d or the x actually mean, and then you wonder why you never thought d/dx was just 1/x, and you realize your teacher / professor can't explain it either.
If you don't grok the fundamental theorem of calculus, you'll never grok d/dx and the bullshit that has been done with them. If you do grok it, you learn to ignore the bullshit and separate those symbols from the rest of the algebraic manipulations they're mixed up in.
The d, dx, dy, etc. are not things to be generally operated on.
Writing the second derivative as d^2 / dx^2, or worse, d^2y / dx^2 is doubly absurd. (I'm using the ^ to denote supersripting, not exponentiation.)
d represents the instantaneous rate of change (which itself is a flawed concept - a rate of change cannot be instantaneous as a rate depends on the passage of time), dx represents that instantaneous rate of change of x. d/dx represents the instantaneous rate of some value, possibly some value dependent on x, with respect to the instantaneous rate of change of x. dy/dx, dv/dt, etc. are all the same deal. That rate of change of some variables with respect to other variables.
What is that instantaneous rate of change? The slope of a line (plane, or whatever if you've got more free variables) tangent to your function at a given point, presuming such a thing exists.
How do you determine that tangent line? You take the target point and some point h past it ((f(x) vs f(x+h)) (or before it!) and determine what the line does when you consider h approaching 0. You make sure you can define that shit from both ends and both ends agree. If that works out, have a limit, you've got a derivative, and baby, you've got the fundamental theorem of calculus goin'.
Whoever tried to slap that shit together as a fraction or take shortcuts and try to manipulate those symbols in a way that looks sort of like algebraic manipulation is a clown. Trying to fix that is going to be an uphill battle, but using more of the busted notation isn't really the solution.
(and a store can always refuse to sell to you, unless you can show illegal discrimination)
Refusing to accept cash would disproportionately affect a certain protected class in the area. Therefore even though it's completely fair, makes no determination based on a protected class, etc., it's still illegal. See building codes in the death trap tinder boxes in San Francisco.
I have never seen a "bank card" without the Visa or MasterCard logo. In America, a "bank card" is a "debit card". You have to fight tooth and nail to get a "bank card" that isn't a debit card, and in many cases they're incapable of providing such a thing.
your browser communicates via bluetooth with your phone
Hard pass.
Ah yes, carry quadruple your fuel / battery. That'll be efficient!
They look at a small sample of them, or anything that an automated check flags as flagrantly bullshit, then they put the screws to you.
The vast majority of returns are never looked at by any human, and no machine is doing any sophisticated logic. They have income reported to them and they determine what you owe, if you report that you owe significantly less, you get flagged. If you're not flagged by those basic sanity checks or flagged for random sampling, you're in the clear.
It's not even that the ad revenue is enticing. It's necessary.
If Netflix has a successful show, or licenses one, then its success makes it more expensive.
Licensing agreements demand viewing data, and when Netflix reveals something has been watched 20 million times, they'll want more money for the next agreement. Or they'll want money per view.
For Netflix's own content, they have to pay to produce it. When actors learn that their show or movie is successful, they demand more money for the next season / the sequel.
The bottom line is that more views means more cost, but not more revenue. Their only option is ads, premium content on top of the subscription, or eventually crumbling under the weight of their debt.
Nononono. It's called "Netflix needs to take on even more debt to pay Winona Ryder for Stranger Things Season 3".
That interview as amazing. You can excuse anything Jack says with the "he's the head of the company, he doesn't know the details" bullshit, but Vijaya exposed their BS time after time after time with her responses.
It'll be exhibit A when this shit goes to trial.
The law is very clear. Why do you think protests can happen in a parking lot even if it's privately owned or operated?
Why do you think religious nutters and cultists filled the airports up until we violated the constitution in the name of security to kick them out? The movie Airplane! has a great gag on this.
If a space is publicly owned, publicly operated, or generally available to the public, then it's a public space.
Correct. I'm Fry levels of shocked that the modern left (you can't call them liberals anymore) has done a full 180. They hate free speech, and cry about fascists while being fascists themselves.
Anybody who operates a platform is entitled to decide that a bunch of lunatics spewing all kinds of stupid conspiracy theories and hate can go elsewhere to express themselves.
Not if that platform is sufficiently public. The concept of a privately owned or privately operated public space is well established.
Otherwise, every university, library, park, street, sidewalk, etc. would be leased to an NGO for operation and no protest would be allowed anywhere.
Bullshit. A total, Wild West anarchy is NOT good for society. Take a look at the fucking antivaxxers as a prime example.
You're wrong. And the wild west wasn't the wild west you think it was. What's wrong with anti-vaxxers? You disagree? You think they're ideas are wrong and harmful? So what? They should be free to be wrong and free to spread their ideas to any who disagree with you.
but they don't have "a right" to spreading fakedick inbred failed ideologies that the FBI rightly calls domestic terrorist faggot shit if the corpos say no.
Yes, they do, if the corporations are deemed to be operating public spaces. The idea of a privately owned or operated public space is well established.
No touching!
They won the house in a historic blue wave (historically weak, as your typical midterm election flip on a new president is much stronger).
196000 jobs added last month.
You're an idiot. They did exactly that, then turned around and said "SEE?? We need more H1B visas so we can hire expertise we just can't get in the US!!".
Then they fired all but a handful of their US staff.
From an analysis perspective, you can, in fact, only look at jobs lost.
If you're a retard, sure.
If you fired 7 out of 100 in year 1 and fired 9 out of 150 in year two, comparing 9 to 7 is retarded.
Failing to look at how many of those 7 or 9 stay unemployed is retarded as well.
The video game industry ALWAYS lays people off in large numbers.
Thanks for developing this billion-dollar-budget AAAA title! We've sold 8 million copies and people are buying $5 skins like crazy! We're firing 90% of you and keeping 10% on for patches and new skins.
And that's to be expected. When a crew wraps on a film they don't keep getting paid for not working on that film.
What's less normal is when a mega publisher shuts down an entire studio after a game under performs, or after some nontroversy. But this, too, is understandable. You close the studio so you have less baggage to deal with. You they start up a new studio, give it the IP the old studio had, and hire the people from the old studio who were actually pulling their weight.
This all boils down to the simple fact that you can't look at the number of firings, layoff, or hirings. You need to look at the unemployment number as a whole (either nationally or within an industry). Basically, this story is meaningless bullshit.