Comment That's pretty cool (Score 4, Funny) 116
162 C below zero
162 C below zero
Zero for 6.
erm. 6 for 6, given he was quoting 'harmful assumptions'.
Next it's not that hard to develop mathematical techniques to analyze text and language in posts
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Budget projects much? "Doable" and "easy" are not the same words. I'm guessing one person out of a hundred in the general population could take a reasonable stab at developing such an algorithm, and only one person out of a thousand could be considered a natural talent.
The first 20% of the work gets you to sqrt(sqrt(7e9)) as your mean perplexity, which is simultaneously impressive and yet not terribly actionable. And then the difficulty curve shoots off into the exponential regime.
Mwahhhahaahaaahaaaa!
-- Eric Schmidt
What are they going to do, install a rootkit on my computer to prevent me from downloading stuff? Who thinks up this stuff?
The documents DEMAND that the the press DESTROY SONY!
Why, to the shadowy figure stood behind you with a beautifully crafted knife to your throat of course.
Bull. The majority of pedophiles transition between fantasies to actual rapes
You, err, have actual evidence of this?
The pattern is well known to law enforcement and mental health professionals.
Law enforcement find that people they arrest for raping small children also have fantasies. Big fucking surprise. Still doesn't follow that A causes B.
The only realistic alternative for allowing pedophiles to be free is to force them to have absolutely no contact with children.
This is quite tricky, given most pedophiles come under the category "Parents".
What if Google includes click-through rates by users in its search rankings?
People in Spain wont be clicking through links to Spanish news sites via news.google.es so Google will algorithmically have no choice but to deprioritise those sites in comparison to e.g. Mexican ones.
Of course, we're both assuming that Google are even allowed to link to Spanish news sites in search results - when I search google it shows me an excerpt of the matching text; if Google have to pay the news sites to include that then it's illegal for them to include those sites if they haven't paid.
Personally I take the view that it's Google's website, Google's index and Google that succeed or fail by whether the results they show meet the needs of their users. So let them make the call and not politicians.
On what grounds?
If I set up a website that offers direct access to every EU government citizen portal but for Spain merely links to cunts.org how am I breaking the law?
why still buy a HDTV when 4K's are becoming the norm
Lack of 4K content - now, and for at least five years until they work out how to deliver it.
What, you _like_ upscaling artefacts onscreen?
Luckily those of us that are merely aware of Office Space and don't abjectly worship it get to laugh at the intentional misquote that has meaning to people that haven't ever seen the fucking film because lets face it, PC Load Letter was only in Office Space because every poor shit that's ever worked in an office in the 90s saw it at least once. Usually once a day, or more.
Subverting it into the 3D printer era isn't even a new joke, but clearly it's passed you by nonetheless. Don't worry, someone will buy you a red fucking stapler for christmas.
Only by socialists.
Today's people living in poverty have wealth I could only dream of as a child. Shit, people in poverty in the UK have colour television, cars, new clothes.. Very much unlike my childhood.
Absolutely - but they can replace software engineers with some cheap as shit grad in India who will deliver _something_, so the choice is simple: Deal with the shit and deliver anyway, or watch the job go offshore.
Just because you have the fortune of regulatory protection doesn't diminish the skills and capabilities of people using the title software engineer, and doesn't mean that their job is as easy as yours. Any cunt can build a sewer, there's been a couple of millenia of practice to learn from.
You deal with the fucking impossible demands placed on software engineers and offer liability.
Built any bridges recently for which the budget was cut halfway, you were forced to use chocolate fudge instead of cement, the location was switched every two weeks and the timescales halved, and delivered a working bridge nonetheless?
No? Fuck off back to your pitiful superiority complex then you egotistical shit.
My impression is the regret in taking these drunken pictures happens years after the fact, when the drunken college scene has been left behind, and the poster now has a family and a 9-to-5 job and they want to distance themselves from that past.
It shocks me how rarely the cultural underpinnings are made overt in these scenarios. What you depict might actually be the case in America, but I suspect it will be different in France, where when a search pulls up no college revelry whatsoever, cultured individuals might begin to seriously doubt your breeding and character.
Whether posting photos of regular drunkenness counts as bad judgement has a circular basis case. If you get yourself photographed draping and drooling over some chick who looks none too impressed with the group grope, there might be some legitimate flags raised. Multiple binge-ups during school session might also raise eyebrows, even in France. It sure won't accentuate that embarrassing C- you received in Economics 101 because of the "family crisis".
Daryl Hannah's distal indecency. In America, s/irony/context/g.
(I had forgotten that this clip also contains some good geek humour, though slightly dated and with just a hint of cheese.)
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