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Posted on 19-10-27, 13:57 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with. (revision 1)
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Post: #661 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Posted by Kawa I am sorry, I did not mean it that way. To be perfectly clear here, you do not form a member of that clientele – I am talking about the people who pay good money to take an "online course" in Java and then proceed to use their newfound "skills" on fiverr. Although I must say, I am surprised that you would use VS Studio. If you're making C# applications, I concede that it is more or less your only option, but that's my point entirely - C# is simply not suitable for serious applications, being (in practice) limited to one platform and having lots of other unpleasant characteristics (needs runtime, atrocious performance, unpredictable). Its primary virtue is interfacing very well with the Windows GUI, and for education it's probably the least bad option for making GUI software. Not that newbies should be making GUI software or using IDEs or dynamic languages anyway; it impedes learning and teaches bad habits. C# is a solution to the problem of "how do I quickly create a Windows and Windows-only GUI application," but this is generally not a problem you're supposed to have very often. Using it for other languages than C#, man what are you doing? (I have no idea about C# for webapps which you used it for, although it does sound like setting yourself up for a world of pain. Personally I would just use PHP or C–both perfectly standard languages.) It ought to be pointed out that the venerable Satoshi did use Visual C++, and he clearly knew what he was doing. Although maybe things were different back in 2007–who knows? Posted by CaptainJistuce Vim is a nice piece of software if you know how to use it. It does have a bit of a learning curve though, I'll give you that. Newbies should start with notepad, and then be allowed to use Notepad++ after a few months, after that they could go on to vim as they please. If you want an IDE, my personal recommendation is Pelles C. EDIT: options -> option There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-15, 15:30 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #662 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Posted by tomman Isn't it just market segmentation? The real high-end phones have to be thin, so they remove all that stuff. Whereas for the low-end phones functionality still takes the hotseat. The obsession with thickness is absurd, but clearly there is some good reason for it, or else they wouldn't make them that way. Like, there are mid-range or even low-end Chinese phones (which, I still maintain, are not called that in common parlance) which have batteries of 10000 mAh, like the $140 Oukitel K7. In comparison, a $700 iPhone 11 - the latest model - clocks in at a measly 3110 mAh, and probably has a CPU which uses way more battery to boot. There's also the secondary gain of removing memory card slots, which is that you can extract a premium for storage, both from iCloud and overcharging for flash. Nobody in their right mind would pay $50 for 64GB of flash when a 64GB MicroSD card is $10, but take away that option and they have no choice. Likewise, a pair of AirPods are $150 - if all who buy headphone jack-less iPhones buy AirPods, then they can cut the sales figures by up to 20% and still get it to work, assuming those who get priced out would be buying 64 GB phones. And that doesn't even factor in the revenues from the Pro models, or the vendor lock-in effects (good luck using your expensive earbuds with an el-cheapo Xiaomi-brand phone). Considering the poor people were priced out of that segment long ago anyway, it's just a sensible way to squeeze more money out of their main base. I mean, they cannot do exponential growth anymore with the death of Moore's law, people won't voluntarily upgrade, and it's illegal to force them to, so the only way to stay in the black is to sharply raise prices. Your feature phone clientele are far less profitable for the carrier by virtue of not using any data and not paying for their phone monthly, so that's why they do that. New feature phones are just a way to try to get that user-base to get an usage profile similar to the more profitable smartphone users. As an aside, I know zero people under the age of 50 who listen to the radio using an actual physical radio, or watch TV using an actual physical TV, save perhaps for special events. They might stream streams of it online on their phone, but really there is no point when Netflix has a far better selection of content. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-16, 14:24 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #663 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Posted by tomman Yeah but that's the whole thing - either they do it, or they don't and get replaced by someone who earns more money. It's kind of like that Batman quote, if you will. So the end result is always the same; the stable configuration is the one which extracts the most money from the consumers. Generally, the segment you're describing would be filled by mid-range Chinese phones, which are often half the price of Western brands for equivalent feature sets, since they don't have the incentives Apple and friends have to gouge consumers. So it's not like such phones don't exist, they just aren't profitable to make for big brands. Posted by wareya You might have a case there, I didn't think of that. Although with most newer cars, you can connect a phone without additional equipment, and in such cases people rather play Spotify than the local radio channel. Posted by tomman Only in LatAm, I reckon. A bus driver playing music here would be promptly fired. Buses are silent, save for the intercom. Some (very few) stores and gyms play radio, and their proprietors might be under 50, so that might count depending on your definition of "listen". But most places use Youtube or Spotify. Posted by CaptainJistuce It is not, it is the industry-standard terminology! I have never seen anyone outside this board find it offensive. What next, the informal name for Threadripper CPUs is offensive too? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-17, 13:48 in Anticipating near future [politics] (revision 1)
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Post: #664 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Posted by kode54 Isn't the premise of democracy that people hear arguments from many different sources, some of which are lies and some of which are not, and are able to use their powers of reason to decide for themselves with which ones to agree? All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. If you're saying that people are unable to tell right from wrong and that some sort of action against these lies is thus required for a "functioning democracy," then what exactly is the point of voting? Posted by BearOso It seems then as if being "truthful and respectful" is not an efficient way to go at politics. I think you dislike these figures because they go all-in and obtain results. The fact of the matter remains that the skilled politician is the one which manages to advance his or her cause, and both of these figures have done far more for their movement than has been accomplished in the past half-century. I mean, people claim they are new and revolutionary, but this is not the case at all - many politicians have attempted to accomplish the same goals and failed, fading into utter irrelevance. It's far better to go all-in and sort out the paperwork later than to get mired down in paperwork, fail, and then cope with that you at least did things by the book. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-17, 20:34 in Anticipating near future [politics] (revision 1)
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Post: #665 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
But both democracy and feminism have far stronger goals than that. Why else would they have had it presented as the ultimate, overriding goal? I remember vividly it being taught in schools and how the French Revolution was a victory for human rights, etc, etc. To take a trivial example, what then is the point of universal suffrage democracy? Surely, if the only point is to prevent absolute monarchy, then it would suffice with a far more limited system in which some subset of the population once every four years got to vote whether to dissolve the government or not. For instance, why would you bother holding referendums? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-18, 00:13 in Anticipating near future [politics] (revision 2)
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Post: #666 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
You are right, but certainly they may be advanced with some particular end goal in mind. And indeed the broader movement, such as the movement to abolish the 'goto' statement may have some particular end goal in mind, which might also be different from the stated such goal - in this example, as described in the link, the move to structured programming and not actually the cessation of the goto statement, which by the way is a perfectly fine control flow construct and a sorely underrated one. Kids are learning to code and they start off by throwing ten different types of loops at them when they hardly grok control flow, then they go on to introduce them to map and generators and all sorts of nonsense. This is wrong and incompetent. They should learn the basic concepts first, then make programs and get a general feel for debugging, and then they can be introduced to the exotic kinds of loops. It's a shame all the alleged "beginner languages" (Python, Javascript) sorely lack these facilities - indeed, Python doesn't even have a goto statement. Perhaps indeed there should be a return to teaching them the very ropes using BASIC. It feels barbaric, but I don't think we have much of a choice. Failing that, at least the exotic loops should be introduced gradually, as such; wk. 1: environment and whatever wk. 2: the goto statement wk. 3: the while loop wk. 4-7: general programming and such wk. 8: exotic loops /rant There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-18, 14:41 in Anticipating near future [politics] (revision 2)
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Post: #667 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Yeah they just glossed over that part, like when they talked about Darwin in biology class and claimed he played an important role in debunking scientific racism but just had the poor fortune of living in the wrong age, or about Athenian democracy or the Russian revolution or really any of these concepts. You could claim it is just a matter of retconning and that nobody is expected to take it seriously, but that seems a bit cynical, even by my standards. Although it probably would be a far better use of everyone's time to spend school hours teaching outright absurdities with absolutely no basis in reality, Cunningham's law and all. Posted by BearOso Results in getting elected, that is. He's revitalized the conservative movement, which is about the sum total of his achievements thus far. I agree that he has been incompetent with regard to implementing his desired border policies, that border security could be achieved without a wall or additional funding (in fact without funding at all) with only minor legislative tweaks, and that he has failed in most of the rest of his agenda as well. Some of the blame rests on his advisors, although his notoriously poor taste in them was priced in from the get-go. It's inaccurate to characterize him as having "support of both houses" - he was held back by traitors within his own ranks, and never controlled both the Senate and the House at any given time. I still maintain that he revitalized the Republican party. Had he not done this, the West would have found itself in a far more precarious situation looking forward than it does today. So we are still looking at a net positive sum total. As for the impeachment, why finish it quickly? As they say, never interrupt your opponent while he is making a mistake. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-18, 18:18 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #668 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Posted by BearOso What, you haven't read all the stories about the "new Republican Party in the age of Trump" and whatnot? Before Trump, it was essentially sliding into convergence. It had caved on issue after issue, and on many points was already indistinguishable from the Democrats. This is the first time it reverts this decline, however slowly. If it doesn't, then it's doomed to fall into irrelevance as a national political force. With the current state of affairs, such a development would likely be permanent. That is what I mean. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-18, 21:04 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.
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Post: #669 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Realistically, archive.org should have it all. On another note (although maybe that is for the web developer hate thread?), Bloomberg has gone down the drain. I go to the website. Immediately, I get the cookie modal. No, not a footer, a bloody modal. Click OK. They then top off with not one, not two, but six (!) captchas. The page then just refreshes. I try again. Eventually, I get told that I've been blocked from the captcha (!!) for "automated queries". The strangest part is that I was just trying to visit their front page. Shouldn't all of that be static anyway? Rubbish. And they used to be one of the good ones. Et tu? I guess that leaves FT and ZH. It seems like more and more news websites are going down the shitter in this manner. I hope Sci-Hub rolls in and solves the problem. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 00:08 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #670 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
How rude. I stay reasonably well-informed on current affairs. You're free to tell me what specific characterization it is you object to. Republicans caving on immigration and other social issues? That border security could be accomplished for $0 with only the support of the House and local judiciary? Trump being a staunch social conservative? RINO politicians like Mitt Romney and Mrs. John McCain expressing how they feel the party is no longer theirs? Republican candidates slated to become unelectable within the next half-century? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 01:19 in Computer Technology News/Discussion
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Post: #671 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Posted by tomman I don't follow. Does this say anywhere in the article explicitly, or is it just your inference? If so, that would be the end of users casually choosing to bypass censorship, like in Turkey when they spray-painted "8.8.8.8" on public places. I guess we will have no choice but to rely on browser makers to override static system DNS then. (Tomman's paradox: If a system hardcodes DoH, is it justifiable for an individual application to fall back to application-level classic UDP DNS?) Posted by tomman Isn't this something that should be described in the past tense? Firefox has about as many MLOC as the Linux kernel. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 01:47 in Computer Technology News/Discussion
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Post: #672 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
What's it mean then? DNS censorship is an actual and real issue, and relying on the OS settings which are nearly always misconfigured is a disaster in 99% of cases. I don't get when it ever would make sense to do it. It's as stupid as "OS proxy settings," and people haven't taken those seriously for many years now. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 01:49 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #673 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Surely you at least agree on Trump being a staunch social conservative? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 08:49 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Post: #674 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
>He’s definitely not socially conservative. That's a strong defense of gender roles. >[S]ocial conservatism arose as a response to [...] [the] civil rights [movement], the abolition of the death penalty, LGBT rights and abortion He's certainly very conservative on most aforementioned matters. More importantly, on those issues where most already caved. To vigilantly defend the uncontroversial isn't hard, resisting pressure on the controversial is. Saying Pence et al are conservative overlooks the macro: Romney started arguing about binders; Trump stated outright: you'll have equal pay if you do as good a job. >He's gotta be SOME kind of conservative because the liberals hate him! >... >Oh, so do the conservatives? Well, shit. Maybe he's just a terrible human. Him drawing the alleged conservatives' ire shows my point - he stands up for what they'd abandoned, and does so well, unlike e.g. the 1964 attempt, thus forcing the GOP (who being politicians are invertebrate) to go along. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 08:53 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with. (revision 1)
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Post: #675 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
Now is the perfect time to download and archive their BIOS files for all their boards and maybe host them on VOGONS drivers website. You damn idiots! We already have a solution for this, and it's called archive.org. Seriously, put it in an archive people can use, not on your obscure forum. That is, go through all the links, and GET web.archive.org/save/XXX, et voila, preservation work done in time for tea. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 09:05 in Computer Technology News/Discussion (revision 2)
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Post: #676 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
I'll have to double-post, since editing my post would be rude now that it has been responded to.Posted by kode54 Yes, but alas, in most cases this is the wrong behavior. The ISP upstream is in 99% of cases horribly broken. Garbage in, garbage out. The sensible default is to fix the error in the 99% of cases and have the 1% pull a manual override ("Yes, my router isn't misconfigured"), not the other way around. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 12:10 in Linux + FPGA + RISC-V = self-hosting libre hw/sw stack
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Post: #677 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
That's interesting, but how does he know the FPGA doesn't have any backdoors? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 12:12 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with. (revision 1)
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Post: #678 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
EDIT: just a tad slow There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 12:15 in Computer Technology News/Discussion
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Post: #679 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
They are not. Besides, there's nothing wrong with phrases such as "null and void". I don't object. But DoH has nothing to do with this. It's a complete non-sequitur. Call it whatever you want, but it would solve the problem. To be clear here, I'm suggesting a solution like Certificate Transparency for DNS. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-11-19, 12:34 in Linux + FPGA + RISC-V = self-hosting libre hw/sw stack
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Post: #680 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1553 days Last view: 1551 days |
How do you know that though? It's an integrated circuit, it's not possible to audit it. They could burn literally anything they please into it and you've have no way of telling, short of decapping it. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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