Pre-cooking food at low heat for a period before slapping it on the grill can cut down the time needed to cook it as well as limit how much burnt material is produced.

Except, by doing that, you've ruined the whole reason we barbecue things - Because we want that thin outer layer of charring.

Yes, we have plenty of ways to cook foods without forming PAH, acrylamide, or the other carcinogens-of-the-week. We could boil everything. We could microwave everything. We could bake everything on low heat while basting to keep the surface moist. Those will all pretty much prevent the formation of all the nasty chemicals we worry about in our barbecued foods. They all take less effort than barbecuing, too - A typical cookout basically requires someone manning the grill continuously to cook up a steady flow of burgers and hotdogs; vs throwing 10 lbs of dogs in a big boiling pot and having enough cooked to feed a small army in under ten minutes.

We grill things over open flame because all those nasty carcinogens make it taste better. Simple as that.

TFA contains no actual information, just an assertion that the interaction between poorly-described models of "biological" systems might kinda possibly maybe make them money because the world needs car door key fobs, or something like that.

Deep.

Seriously, this looks like a solution in need of a problem - And worse, a "solution" that breaks a critical aspect of existing functionality, namely, "human readability".

Instead of making note of a few key points in the message, this will require taking a picture of the screen just so you can "automatically" Google the meaning of an unintelligible pattern of dots. WTF, guys, in what world do you consider that an improvement?

It also ignores the reality of Linux's dominant niche - Not as end-user desktops where poor widdle grandmas might get confused by all that technical information; but rather, as servers-on-the-cheap. And where do servers live? In the server room. I don't know about how your company does things, but many (including mine) don't allow cameras in the server room, and that includes cellphones. And I don't even work for any sort of especially high-security company.

If you really want to make panics more intelligible, just reduce them to the few items of useful information they actually contain - No stupid register dump, no stack trace, no list of a dozen maybe-related-but-almost-never-really modules. List the type of panic, the faulting module, and just the top of the call stack. That alone provides the level of detail most people can do something about - "Looks kinda like that new video driver blew up, better roll back and see if the problem goes away". Anything more than that only matters to kernel devs, and for that, we have debugging and verbosity command line options they can set.


TLDR: If, by default, a panic scrolls a 40x25 text screen, you've failed. Adding the requirement of a smartphone and internet connection only makes it worse.

Do not feed the trolls.

Cough. Your freedoms end where other's begin. Cough.

So far, virtually all the discussion on this topic has centered around the rights of the victim. I apologize for responding to you personally, but you have the most visible post continuing the "wrong" discussion here. :)

The problem here has nothing to do with whether or not we should condemn the concept of "revenge" porn, but rather, whether a website should bear liability for content posted by a third party. That should scare the hell out of all of us, liberal or conservative, pro-porn or feminist, rich or poor.

Look beyond porn for the implications of this - Should Amazon bear criminal liability for allowing a joking review that says "this blender turns lead into gold" to remain? Should Yelp need to fact check every single review of some rat-trap motel or suffer liability for defamation? If a blogger dares to criticize Italian or French judges for their sham of a legal system, should Wordpress' CEO (or given what I just said, Dice's CEO) go to prison? And those don't even get into the issue of search engines, where literally everything on the internet can show up - Do we really expect Google to bear the burden of making sure no one has posted something incorrect or illegal on the entire internet?

If so... Goodbye, Internet (at least in the US - Which still effectively means "Goodbye, Intenet"). Section 230 means more than a loophole for pesky websites to intentionally look the other way - It makes the entire concept of public participation in a shared discussion possible.

So you mean, he didn't admit to a variety of felonies in public?

Shocking.

Magma.
Molten ice.

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Are all the childless people really making more of a difference? I didn't know that clubbing, going to the movies, and trying to get laid really was that effective at motivating political reform!

We also vote, and have the disposable income (that in your case goes to crap like paying for all those antibiotics you keep ruining as placebos to treat viral ear infections) to contribute to our preferred candidates. And hey, the USSC actually just raised we mere humans to the level of corporations as far as "money as free speech" goes!

That said, let's not get sidetracked by the breeder-vs-DINK arguments. We have one very simple, fundamental problem with getting scientifically-literate people in office:

None run.

We have, as a nearly unanimous pool of candidates, complete fucking morons (with nice hair, oh and "ironically" enough, a median net worth in the eight digits). So whether we vote for Tweedle-dee (D) or Tweedle-dum (R), we still all lose.

Hackathons are great, but there are easier ways to find jobs.

No, actually, I would very much have to disagree with that.

I got my first job out of HS (over two decades past, now) in a "hackathon" for a scholarship with a bonus summer internship (which evolved into a "real" job once I graduated, though I earned that part, it didn't come as part of the package).

Although I eventually moved beyond that job, I have honestly never gotten another job that easily since then. And suffice it to say, having won that scholarship and internship, I have a reasonably impressive resume.

If you can actually code well, "hackathon" style contests let you prove it, simple as that. No stupid psych questions that HR forces interviewers to ask, no stress on whether to dress up or down to "fit" to corporate climate at your target company, no "you match our listing perfectly but we really meant to hire someone internally and just posted the ad to meet funding-requirement-X". Just show off your skills, and call it good.

If, however, you can kinda sorta do some things with computers at your Uncle's company... Don't bother, and invest in a better suit..

You want to know how to make ads acceptable?

Permanent incognito/private browsing mode + Adblock + Ghostery + click-to-play + DNT (yeah, you all ignore it anyway) + a vanilla user agent. Make them the default for every browser.

Marketers take heed: Ads no longer server the purpose they once did. Every time you manage to sneak a clever ad past my technical defenses, you piss me off about your product/company/campaign.

You want to get my to buy Pepsi? Advertise for Coke. Simple as that.

If you were asked to do something then fucking do it. Any sticker shock is the CTOs problem to explain.

In spirit, I agree with you.

In practice, I write two kinds of in-house app on a regular basis - Integrations, and reports (yeah, I know, reporting doesn't generally count as an app, but compiling the data that goes into them behind the scenes very much does). How exactly do you move an integration that hits two (or more!) local servers, which may well contain sensitive (even in the PCI/PII sense) data, to "the cloud"? And for reporting, the task sounds simple until you ask "reporting on what?" Unless you want response times measured in hours or days, that would includes a hidden requirement that I also build a complete mirror of my local data warehouse in the cloud. Even ignoring the cost of that much storage, bandwidth rapidly becomes an issue when talking about trying to keep hundreds of gigs of data as close to realtime-fresh as possible.

So no, you can't always just "fucking do it". The FP likely understands that, and simply hopes to use price as an argument rather than patiently explain to his CTO why playing "Buzzword Bingo" doesn't make a viable long-term IT strategy.

Almost a decade ago, I had the pleasure of playing Quake (II or III, don't recall) on a "real" VR setup produced as a one-off toy by the IBM R&D boys... And while I won't claim it had a "full" field of view, it had a wide enough field that I stopped noticing the shortcoming within about 30 seconds.

Given the advances in display tech in the ensuing 10 years, yes, we damned well could have fully immersive VR goggles, with a resolution high enough to make them close enough to "native" not to matter. As for game-specific support, unnecessary, for the most part - We've had games that support real 3d hardware since before the first Doom (any OpenGL or Direct3d game requires nothing more than rendering to two "cameras" approximately eye-width apart).

The real limitation for 3d games comes partly from the inputs (most games don't support 3d gyroscopic data as an "input" device), and the physical environment for the player. Go ahead and try playing your favorite 3d FPS with a VR headset in an uncontrolled environment without injuring yourself. I can tell you from my experience a decade ago that I bounced off the great big Nerf rails of the VR "tank" over and over and over and over...

You should read economic theories that compare metallism vs. chartalism.

I have some familiarity with Knapp's work. He conveniently glosses over what happens when a government's spending grows at a higher rate than inflation of its issued currency, however. Fortunately, we have several modern examples of that... Greece, Cyprus, Ireland... Great clubs to join - They all have awesome beaches, right?

Chartalism "guarantees" the USD only while we keep our spending and foreign debt within certain bounds. Beyond that, we may as well use oak leaves as money for all the value the USD will have.

2: They have a very well made system for hunting down people who are actual people versus dummy/sock puppet accounts that get squashed.

And yet, my chinchilla still has an account. Which has never (age adjusted into human years) lied about its chinchilla-ness. Mighty fine police work there, Zuck!

4: They created the "commodity hardware, have the backend application do all the redundancy" where the fault tolerance is in the top of the stack

Yeah, Google wants a word with you...

5: They have the best behavioral reporting and profiling tech out there. Want to check if people 18-25 are interested in your new widget? Easily done by a FB trial balloon.

Except for 18-25 year old chinchillas, of course? Pssst - Mr. Spikey doesn't want your damned mortgage. He owns his own 24x36 Habitrail module, free and clear..

6: FB advertising is one of the few channels that work. People turn off their TV, but the FB ads will still come to them no matter what.

Seriously? Sad. Adblock and Ghostery, and Mr. Spikey hasn't seen a FB ad in years


Beside which, Mr. Spikey really doesn't count as old enough for Facebook. Only middle-aged soccer-moms still use it (and force their kids to do the same just to respond once in a while to keep up appearences). Facebook jumped the shark half a decade ago. That said, soccer moms have money, while their kids do not, so +1 to Zuck on that count. Still... A dying medium. With the failure of King, shorting Facebook seems like a no brainer at this point.

So the photos of him in an SS helmet are also not true, the proof being that the pictures were in the New Zealand media proves it never happened?

So all those all those old guys dressed in confederate regimental attire every July 3rd on a nearby hill (deeeeply North of the Mason/Dixon line)... I should suspect them as secessionist scum, rather than just the original LARP'ers?

For some reason, people really get into military history. And like it or not, Uncle Adolf ran the biggest game ever.