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2015-07-30 at 6:58 AM UTC in mixing beer with spice is literally jesus christpraise based god, nigga
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2015-07-30 at 6:58 AM UTC in mixing beer with spice is literally jesus christ
"literally jesus christ"
you should mix some sugar with your spice, and then throw in everything nice. VOILA
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2015-07-30 at 2:04 AM UTC in We conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
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2015-07-29 at 6:18 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionI'm a bit on the green side to have a reasonable chance of landing a good job at one of the interesting tech giants. There's kind of this image of the young tech scene but by the time a company establishes itself as being able to sink major dollars into R&D type stuff it doesn't make sense to gamble on hiring employees without a lengthy track record. Apparently the average age at google (of employees they actually care about) is like in the 40s. As for startups, there are some cool ones out there but the vast majority are some stupid shit. Blue collar programmers who forgot algorithms when they graduated are boring and mildly depressing but dumbshits playing the startup lottery and droning on about all the "innovation" in their boring as shit app actively cheapen the craft. Given enough time to hunt and reverse interview I could probably find a startup worth my time though. Probably a good idea to do that while it's still feasible/fun to work the long hours that come with the startup scene.
It's a shame I don't have a background in economics, there's some really interesting technical work involved with high frequency trading, but then cost of operation is so high they're probably as selective as large tech companies are. -
2015-07-29 at 4:23 AM UTC in asian woman dies while saving her son, she gets sucked into an escaltorHoly shit, getting ground up in an escalator was like my #1 fear as a kid. Fucking horrifying.
Did she actually get sucked into it through, or did she just fall through the platform? -
2015-07-29 at 4:19 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionMaybe after this job I'll go back into academia. Go for an advanced degree and kick around on the tenure track for a few years. It would cost me in pay but I find a lack of stimulation on the day-to-day has some shitty health consequences. And by health consequences I mean I drink way more than I should.
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2015-07-29 at 4:14 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
lol wut happen wiff atNt
I got this work phone number years ago, after I left I just kept paying my part of my former employers phone bill so I didn't have to fuck around with transferring it. I've changed phones many times over and use it exclusively as a personal number these days. Old employer is changing carriers so I have to transfer it. I called in to ATT, went through the process of setting up a new account and transferring the number, everything seemed to go well, the usual price gouging was expected so no big deal. But the dumb indian cunt couldn't speak good enough english to take down my email address correctly so now I can't confirm the transfer (confirmation link is sent by email) and I don't have a bill and they didn't tell me the account number so the braindead fucks are telling me there's no way I can correct my email. I can't make a new account though because I already have one they tell me, just one I have absolutely no way of accessing. So I guess my number is vanished into the air and they're going to be billing an account every month that I can't pay on. Every time I call them I go in circles with lengthy holds between because none of those niggers know what the fuck to do. If this fucks up my credit I'm going to take those cunts to court.Lanny, have they actually created persistent memory: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3ewxl6/intels_new_storage_chip_is_1000_times_faster_than/
And do you know of a good site/page that lists the most exciting/significant computer developments that will likely be released in the near future? There are so many aspects, so much to keep track of.
High performance computing is strongly tied to economics, new memory tech doesn't mean that much unless it has the appropriate cost/performance ratio (especially persistent storage, it's not _that_ expensive to keep a DRAM array in voltage perpetually relative to very expensive/fast persistent storage). I mean it could be huge or it could mean nothing outside of very narrow applications, it all depends on manufacturing.
As for computer developments, I don't know anything that'd be up your alley. There have been a chain of sites (really only one at a time has held the "crown") since like the 90s mainly frequented by professionals. Reading those regularly would of course keep you up to date but there's a lot of stuff that's only interesting to professionals as well (lots of discussions of tools for actually making technology, career discussions, stuff like that). You could try reading the IEEE or ACM journals or something but again, they're very technical. -
2015-07-29 at 3:42 AM UTC in Shitty Technical JokesThe real joke here is Javascript's equality semantics.
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2015-07-29 at 1:47 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionI fucking hate AT&T so much, I haven't felt this mad in years. I would pay double my annual phone bill to get the chance the fucking murder any cunt who works those subhuman shits.
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2015-07-29 at 1:42 AM UTC in We conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
Shut up.
Looks like someone didn't read their SICP today -
2015-07-29 at 1:12 AM UTC in Shitty Technical JokesWhat do lumberjacks and theoretical computer scientists have in common? They're both interested in trees n log n (trees 'n logging)
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2015-07-28 at 7:48 AM UTC in getting back into programmingAssembly is kind of an off choice for a first language. In classical CS curricula you don't really learn asm to write asm, it's more to get a cultured understanding for how CPUs work. When I took the pair of courses that involved substantive amounts of assembly it was more of a mechanism to understand processor pipelining and compiler optimizations than it was really useful in the "now I can do something with assembly". Many universities actually teach MIPS assembly because it's pretty simple/elegant relative to x86 despite the fact that finding a MIPS CPU these days is very rare. If it's something that interests you then that's cool, I'm not saying you shouldn't learn it, but it's not really something you'll find a lot of practical uses for.
As for C vs Python, they're both common popular languages, pretty much equally suitable. I think Python is more forgiving and more "powerful" in the sense that you have fewer things to worry about like manual memory management and pointers but that's just my two cents. C is more of the lingua franca I suppose and there are some things that it's better suited to. Far more important than the respective strengths of the two languages is which you enjoy more or find more interesting. -
2015-07-28 at 7:19 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionNo, I guess I just mean The Bell Jar, don't know where I got "under" from. Maybe I was thinking of the line the title is drawn from. Anyway, if you can put the whole misogyny thing on the back burner for a bit I think you'd enjoy it. It was a vary cathartic experience for me.
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2015-07-28 at 6:36 AM UTC in I'm gheySounds pretty gay OP-bro-faggot-nigger-cuz-blood
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2015-07-28 at 6:10 AM UTC in getting back into programmingIt's better to dive deep into one language than know a little bit about several. People always say that and I doubted it when I was learning my first language but it's true, picking up new languages once you have relative mastery of one is really easy. Python is an excellent first language IMO because it's very flexible and you can probably get to writing useful programs quicker that almost any other language (except those in the same general niche al la ruby and perl).
As for materials, it depends on what language you're learning of course. For python Downey's Think Python is the book with the best (most interesting, useful, and truthful) content IMO but I've never met someone who's actually learned using it so it's hard to say if it's really pitched at a level it's intended audience will be able to handle. Pilgrim's Dive into Python it popular, widely used and well received. Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way is cargo cult programming and Shaw is a straight cunt but people like it for some reason. People are stupid for some reason.
And of course writing programs is the most import part of programming. Go make some shit, watch it collapse in on itself under the weight of a terrible design, and rebuild (or build something else). As far as I can tell that's the only way anyone has ever learned the craft. If you can think of things you want that you can build, that's even better. Building examples out of books can teach you mechanics but if you can assess your own stuff against what you want/need that's even better. -
2015-07-28 at 5:51 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Weed Smoker called it being passively suicidal. My death fantasies are pretty depressing and often center around isolation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_jar
"An example of a classroom science experiment involving a bell jar is to place a ringing alarm clock under the bell jar. As the air is pumped out of the sealed bell jar, the noise of the alarm clock fades, thus demonstrating that the propagation of sound is mediated by the air. In the absence of their medium, the sound waves cannot travel."
Have you ever read Plath's Under the Bell Jar? Good depression reading, only book that ever made me cry. -
2015-07-28 at 5:35 AM UTC in nootropics and a developing brain
Aw, sweet. Given a baby's low body weight, you should only need a small amount, in the milligram range, placed under his tongue 2 or 3 times a day. It should last a very long time, stored in the refrigerator. I'd start with only around 20mg, see how he responds and move up to find the optimal dosage, dosed with a micro measuring spoon/scoop for convenience once you know the weight.
How is someone supposed to measure response in an infant? Like they naturally develop greater cognitive ability over time so there is no baseline and unless the effects are just so mind blowingly extreme (which obviously is so unlikely to not be worth considering) then it will be almost impossible to tell the difference between the effects of the drug and natural variation among humans. -
2015-07-27 at 8:22 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionTook acid analogue
smoked weed
hazy memory and ~4 hours of time I can't really account for
and now somehow I understand GPU programming a lot better
I remember hitting the two hour mark, being like "this could be a little more intense" so I went and smoked and then laid down with some music. Then nothing, first thing I remember after that is sitting at my computer debugging IO for a render engine I don't really remember writing. Kind of cool but I don't think I like the way things go when I mix in weed. Gets kinda dark at times.
Oh, malice, I took 1g of phenibut beforehand. Definitely didn't interfere with the trip and the come up was a lot smoother than usual (more relaxed, kinda like a good buzz as opposed to the usual awkward stiffness of motion I usually get) but by the peak the anxiolytic effect was pretty insignificant relative to the trip. Might be hard to judge, like with any combo, but it didn't seem to have a noticeable impact on the experience after the comup. -
2015-07-26 at 9:18 PM UTC in The 2nd amendment
Japan is a strange case. as far as I know there are almost no shootings there, at all. Everywhere else has some degree of 'gun crime', even if at low levels.
I definitely think there's _some_ level of gun crime in Japan although it is almost unusually lower that other places, even places with low gun ownership rates. But that doesn't change my point, I think I can find other examples of countries with low rates of gun ownership and low gun violence and if we observe correlation there it would seem to demonstrate the social utility of policy that prohibits private gun ownership.Other than that, how can I 'admit I am wrong about gun ownership' when I have been immersed in gun culture my entire life? I have a gun right now within arms reach. And you want me to say 'Yeah, I was wrong, guns are too dangerous for normal puny non-elite citizens to handle…I don't know how I survived for so long in such an environment' ?
Seems pretty straight forward really, you just change your mind of the subject. I recently became a vegetarian and at the point I was convinced it was what I should do I had meat in my fridge. It's certainly possible to change your mind on something even when your upbringing was different from what you choose to believe.
But if you're saying that your experience contradicts an anti-gun-ownership position then I think you're wrong. I've never suggested that anyone who lives in a place with a lot of guns is fortunate to even be alive right now, that's just you blowing my position out of proportion. All I'm saying is that a world without private gun ownership seems to be, on the whole, better than one with. Whether or not you personally have experienced gun violence is irrelevant.And ok, I typed 'I will if you will'. I typed it. But I didn't mean it literally, and I didn't think you would take it literally. 'I will if you will' is a thing that people tend to say in informal debates or arguments, it is a rhetorical device used as a counterpoint to certain stated assertions.
Great, so we're in agreement it wasn't supposed to be taken literally. But if that's the case then why didn't you respond to my question about how you would take more examples of countries with low rates of gun ownership and low rates of gun violence? -
2015-07-26 at 8:59 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionAlso I don't think you could buy a top of the line system and get it delivered without a signature. Maybe if you bought it in parts but a good video card is still gonna run you like $300 or more, I don't think anyone would ship that without insisting on a signature.
