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2015-11-27 at 3:17 AM UTC in I have a math problem for yall niggasI was thinking circle centered at (6,6) at first because the shape of the board but that doesn't work out. Then a rotated ellipsis but I couldn't find parameters that fit. Still don't have a good solution.
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2015-11-26 at 8:55 PM UTC in I have a math problem for yall niggasI have the following table (it was produced from the valid positions on a Yinsh board, if you care).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
a _ 1 1 1 1 _ _ _ _ _ _
b 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 _ _ _ _
c 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 _ _ _
d 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 _ _
e 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 _
f _ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 _
g _ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
h _ _ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
i _ _ _ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
j _ _ _ _ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
k _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 1 1 1 _
I'm looking for a function of two parameters that describes it, so like f(1,1) = 0 (because the cell at a(the first letter) and 1 is blank) but f(1,2) = 1 (because cell a2 is not). A big piecewise function is obviously cheating, if you can find something that fits everything but a1 and k11 that would be a little unsatisfying but would help in the practical effort. Behavior beyond 11 is irrelevant to me although it would be cool to see if there's a simple extension of the yinsh board somehow. -
2015-11-26 at 5:05 PM UTC in Happy Thanksgiving to All You Trigger Happy Warmongers in the United States!!Thanksgiving is the one day we abstain from ejaculating freedom on everyone else to gorge ourselves on turkey. We'll have extra tomorrow though, no worries.
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2015-11-26 at 3:19 AM UTC in What happened?
The BBS didn't need to be on dialup. The connection method is irrelevant. You can still run the pre-WWW terminal on a modern, high speed cable connection. Now be quiet and go count your beans, kid.
<a href="javascript:alert('lol/jk. die in a fire you old cunt');">yeah, that's a totally valid argument and addresses all the problems with such a plan. I'm sorry buddy, let's just be friends</a> -
2015-11-26 at 3:11 AM UTC in why are all the best video games based on biblical terms?Diablo and halo are the only one that are really "biblical terms", the rest are used outside of a biblical context all the time.
Also "morrowind" isn't mentioned anywhere in the bible. Though maybe moses' "the wilderness" could be translated as borderlands -
2015-11-25 at 5:34 AM UTC in What Games Are You Currently PlayingPirated FO4. It's aight, haven't gotten a lot of time to play though. I think I fucked up and went for a stealth build when I should have just gone full commando. I thought skyrim's much improved stealth system would translate but gun sneak bonuses aren't quite enough for reliable 1-hit-kills even on mooks but because they exist all sneaking is nerfed so playing melee-stealth is basically impossible. Guess it's my own damn fault for being an ammo jedi but whatever.
Also last weekend or the one before I played a game of Civ3, then Civ4, then Civ5 in like two days. Fun shit, I played so much 3 when I was a kid, playing it again was super nostalgic. -
2015-11-25 at 5:27 AM UTC in Dear America
What, you saw that in some study or something, probably funded by the CDC or NIH?
You leftys would believe anything if it was packaged and presented as if it was 'academic'.
Yeah, because when research shows that being around guns makes you more likely to be shot by gun, that must obviously be a leftist conspiracy, right?Firearms don't just leap up off the table and shoot people, they are literally inert objects unless manipulated.
Genetically engineered biological weapons don't simply spring into existence nor are they deployed of their own volition. This does not mean they are good things nor that everyone is A-OK to own them.In all my years on earth handling firearms, I have never had an accidental discharge, never once. Haven't even come close. If you are careful and responsible, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Aside from that being an anecdote (with a pretty hilariously obvious survivor bias) do you think everyone who owns a gun is always careful and responsible with them?To be fair, I do know some people that it scares the shit out of me that they have guns, but they are felons and shouldn't have them anyway. This one guy I know traded some pills for a hi-point .45, from a guy who was desperate and sick in withdrawal. Within an hour of acquiring it, he was messing around with it and accidentally fired it, and the round went through his headboard, his bedroom wall and through his living room, while his kids and wife were in the house.
Conversely, I do not know one, even one, legal gun owner who is anything less than responsible and respectful with their weapons.
Legal gun ownership is a good thing.
The problem with firearms is when niggers and felons get ahold of them.
see anecdote/bias comment above -
2015-11-25 at 5:05 AM UTC in ATTN: ANYONE WHO CARES
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2015-11-25 at 5:01 AM UTC in Is it weird that I never stuck anything up my ass?
I think I reverse image searched your avatar fairly recently, or maybe saw it somewhere else at size, and cracked up. I was thinking it was some girl who got acid thrown on her face in iraq or something. -
2015-11-25 at 4:31 AM UTC in What happened?
Biggest mistake was going to the WWW format. Many of us warned it was a fatal mistake. Jeff still got his way. He finally learned the lesson in the end.
I was going to point out that dial up BBSs are basically non-existent in 2015 while web forums are still largely successful in housing niche communities but then I realize this, like everything you post, is just bait trying to start up some BS so you can rub your dick over how "old sk00l" you are.
Fucking faggot -
2015-11-25 at 4:26 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
The HTC Consumer version may be available online in limited quantities soon. Both should definitely be available early next year, just a few more months. Are you sure you have a good idea of the shortcomings of the DK2, particularly compared to the consumer specs? You may end up disappointed.
What specifically? I mean resolution leaves a lot of room for improvement but I've yet to see an alternative I believe is going to be able to drive anything impressive at significantly better res. Jitter, if it's improved in the near future, is almost undoubtedly going to come as a software patch (can't attach significantly better sensors than what's on the DK2 to mass market electronics, improvement is going to come from better heuristic short-cycle hill climbing or other clever hacks). FOV issues are real but they're not a show stopper, especially since it's highly content dependent. I've used a DK2, loss of peripheral isn't half as bad as people make it out to be.
The VR device that can fully fool a human visual system trying to detect differences from natural vision is not coming out next year, or the year after, and likely not for many years following that. The interesting question is "does this provide a worthwhile experience", and I think the DK2 does, and better in most respects I give a shit about than competition. I can forget a world outside of my 20" screen sitting 3 feet away in a fully lit room representing maybe 40 degrees of my visual field, clearly perfection is not required here.[SIZE=18px]What if I told you…[/SIZE][SIZE=18px] she is 13.[/SIZE]
I'd tell you that pedofilic mental gymnastics attempting to justify and normalize wanting to violate children is more disgusting than the thing itself. -
2015-11-24 at 6:07 PM UTC in Psuedoephedrine as a stimulant/study aid?
Ephedrine is better than pseuoephedrine… but neither are meant for "studying" in my experience. Dont you have vyvanse?
Anything can be a study drug if you take enough of it. -
2015-11-24 at 5:45 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
I can see how thanksgiving is going to go
"oh wow congratulations on being sober for 6 months we are so proud of you"
"so why aren't you making 6 figures yet ?"
"why don't you have a girlfriend?"
At least there will be pie.
I'm going to spend thanksgiving around a bunch of depressed people all telling me they're sorry my dad's in the hospital. A fact I fully accept but could really do without being reminded of every twenty minutes, having to do though the awkward ritual of looking sad and saying thanks. Yup buddy, thanks for making me feel like shit again, really appreciate it, things are a lot better now that you brought it up and ended whatever modicum of contented distraction I was enjoying before.
Ehh, I know should be grateful people care, it's better than the alternative but it feels shitty.Im thankful for drugs,
Amen, wish some redskins would show up at my thanksgiving and share some peyote or something.http://motherboard.vice.com/read/real-drugs-virtual-reality-meet-the-psychonauts-tripping-in-the-rift
Fuck that sounds cool. Last time I was thinking of getting the DK2 someone talked me out of it, saying the consumer release was going to be this year for the holidays. Well that's not going to happen now, and the fucking things are cheap enough I don't know why I didn't just go for it and buy again at consumer release if there was a significant improvement. Just picked up some side work, paid in cash at a decent rate, good excuse buy myself a toy.
... and the DK2 is sold out. Fuck me. -
2015-11-24 at 4:17 AM UTC in Dear America
I love that it literally makes you seethe that people own guns.
Seethe? No. Actually the fact that me personally not owning a gun, even in a country where it's fairly common, reduces my chances of being shot significantly makes me chuckle more than anything. -
2015-11-23 at 3:30 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Very Freudian, in a way.
It is, isn't it? Like in general, the whole psychedelic experience has an odd flavor of childhood and proto-sexuality, more noticeable at higher doses. Makes me uncomfortable sometimes, it feels really awkward and vulnerable. Sometimes on a strong trip I'll think I have memories from before I could talk. There's this really interesting paper about a researcher who found a dude who was deaf and mute and never learned sign language, I read it years ago and I remember after finishing it I spent a lot of time for a week or two thinking about what it would be like to not have any language. The commentary on it I read before the actual paper argued that this pre-language guy not only lacked language but the fundamental mental concept of symbolism, that one thing could stand for another. Like what would a mode of thought without indirection be? If a thing couldn't have the essential property of standing for another in some kind of system. The notion of axiomatic shift between systems. It's really hard to think about, but sometimes an intense trip feels like that, like the reference/referent distinction breaks down and it feels very childish. Like some kind of intense solipsistic collapse of reality and the thing it seems to remind me of is very early childhood. 2spooky. -
2015-11-23 at 2:22 AM UTC in Do you think Jesues ever wacked off?
Then he licked it off his hand and spit it into Mary's cooch, thus keeping her a virgin.
[/MYSTERY SOLVED]
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2015-11-22 at 11:02 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
I'm guna buy some 1p-LSD and hope that helps.
If you don't mind AL-LAD instead lysergi is doing a 20% until the end of the month and they already have pretty decent prices. -
2015-11-22 at 6:31 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htm
I actually started reading this, got to:Finally, with a market economy being necessary for prosperity
threw up on my sleeve, and immediately closed the tab. The upside is that I can now reflect on it any time I need a cheap chuckle. -
2015-11-22 at 3:59 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Significant was the key word, which is subjective, unfortunately.
Take my example, bringing forward the discovery of antibiotics by a week. I maintain this is not something outside the grasp of even people of middling intelligence, a clever manager of an assembly line that noticed one step in reducing the manufacturing process of petri dishes should have reduced the price of same enough to have this effect. And the reward is a hundred lives saved. By what measure is that not significant?
Consider the significance you give your own life, and you probably give less than most but the fact that you haven't died yet shows you give is measurable significance (more than the costs of existing). Then multiply that by a hundred. That's how significant contribution to the future is, more significant than everything you've ever experienced combined. This is the ultimate ingroup bias, only the group consists exclusively of you. If you were actually able to think objectively, without bias, then you should give the same weight to the interests of others as you give to your own interests. Like if we operate on the assumption that humans have comparable richness of subjectiveness (and it would be incredibly arrogant to think otherwise) then no view that could actually consider itself objective should be able to differentiate between human actors in terms of significance of interests.But just look at the people around you, think about the masses, the average person!
The average person is a consequence of their experiences, your premise was that a person exposed to a certain set of experiences wouldn't be able to have a significant impact. There's a fairly readily available set of experiences that produce people able to make significant contributions, "normal science" is composed of many pieces of research by apt but not exceptional scientists (not that science is the only way in which we make progress).I'm not arguing you can't contribute anything meaningful, help humanity inch forward by being a cog, just that compared to the top fraction of a percentage what they contribute is orders of magnitude above that.
Sure, but why does it matter if someone does orders of magnitude better than you? When did it become a competition? If the level of contribution you do were the best humans could muster would that make you the happiest man on earth? You should be concerned about doing the best you can because that's the only thing you have control over, being as good as we can individually be is our only duty since we fundamentally can't do better.I remember you mentioning a while ago a study, although you may have said that it was often/usually misrepresented by (some/a certain type) in the tech/programming/com sci sector that showed the top x% programmers were y times more productive that the bottom z percent.
Right, they call it the "10x principle" or people who fit that description the "10x programmer" (yeah, it's that faggy). But I do have a definite sympathy for it, it's based in actual observations. God knows I see people who are a tenth as productive as others. I'll argue the split, I think it's probably a painfully visible low 20-40% who rather than being average (making the 10x programmer exceptionally rare and valuable) is actually just irredeemably shitty, below the actual average by a mile. But the interesting result there is that if people took the time to read a fucking book now and then they could stop being total dumbshits. Literally reading undergrad level textbooks and actually engaging with them is all it would take for know-nothing dipshits to come up to the level of competence it requires to be "good". And that should be encouraging! Not only is it possible for most to not be useless but the path from useless to not-useless isn't even that great. You don't need to discover relativity to do it, even the average joe is redeemable if only they would try. -
2015-11-22 at 3:16 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Lanny, you aren't hard science retarded, could we actually feasibly generate a magnetic field of sufficient strength at home, at a relatively affordable price, with an acceptable risk of death?
I mean if you want to generate a magnetic field with a specific (fairly low, if we're talking about "mimicking" what's natural to a human brain) intensity then sure, it's almost trivial. If you just need magnetism you can produce very strong magnets pretty cheaply (not like pocket change, but not too costly) but if you need high accuracy then it's different. MRIs (I've actually worked with before, incidentally) can produce very specific intensity/field direction (a caveat here, a specific directionality but only one within the field, but if someone ran these trials without a crazy budget and specialized manufacturing then that's what we'd expect this treatment involved) but they're very costly. They're also very strong in terms of the field they produce and the sensors (MRIs are only useful if you can take readings, presumably this TMS stuff doesn't require feedback), and software (absolutely fucking fascinating in its own right) would presumably represent a lot of a cost of an MRI machine. So I guess the answer is it depends on the the manufacturing process that presumably dictates the price of making an MRI machine.
But if you're asking if I think this has a snowball's chance in hell of turning out to be effective then I have to express extreme skepticism. Not only does "mimics the brains electromagnetic signals" sound painfully like a scam but the R in MRI stands for resonance. If you can't achieve resonance (have a device with a high level of field control) then the skull is totally opaque to imaging strategies (like CT). There would have to be a novel technique for skull penetration if something homebrewed (not an MRI and costing significantly less, even a well funded study would be unlikely to be able to develop this kind of thing) is used. I mean think about the actual mechanism of brain signaling via magnetism. Our atmosphere is very magnetically noisy, in the past but even more so now. We should be highly skeptical of a proposal for brain signaling via magnetism without an explanation of a shielding strategy and we seem to need to choose between the two here, if penetration via device is possible then we need to explain why other varieties of magnetism don't affect us in similar ways and if we deny effects of magnetism on the brain then we have zero reason to think this is an effective treatment.
