Comment Re:I guess I'm already dead? (Score 1) 88
If that means I lose one of the 80-90 years I'm likely to allocated given my current health,
It's likely more like a decade than a year you'd lose if you don't get enough movement.
I'd recommend looking around and seeing if there's some activity you think you'd like or at least don't actively dislike and then try it out.
If you're social, there are many group activities, where the social aspect can outweigh the negatives.
If you're solitary and like to think, there's walking, running and some other activities where you can be solitary and not concentrate on the activity.
Myself, I've been doing self-defense (Jujutsu) for 15 years and have been an independent trainer for 5.
I love giving kids' classes: they haven't been beaten down by society yet - I try to give them self-defense against that, too.
P.S. I'm in my mid-60s.
Comment People still use Reddit? Why? (Score 1) 89
Comment Boycott Amazon! (not because of this) (Score 5, Insightful) 37
Yes. If you are a seller who wants to be in their recommendations, you must not offer your product at a lower price anywhere else AND you have to spend a lot of money promoting your product on Amazon (on average 25-30% of the product price).
That means you have to pay more because of Amazon, regardless of where you buy the product.
And when you do buy at Amazon, Amazon takes the lions share of the profit.
Amazon also has extremely unfair labor practices.
Boycott Amazon.
Also beware of dropship re-sellers: when you buy from them, they will turn around and have Amazon ship it to you, pocketing the difference and you end up having spent more money and bought from Amazon anyway. Depending on what you are buying, buy local or buy directly from the manufacturer when possible.
Comment Re:Interesting use case (Score 1) 37
Comment Re:Secular (Score 0, Troll) 133
That said, I don't think Bernie, AOC, or her squad are sellouts. A clear minority, but not negligible.
The difference between red and blue is currently between fascism and an unacceptable, but non-fascist status quo.
I'll take the non-fascists, please: I don't like people being kidnapped by masked thugs and sent to concentration camps.
Comment Re:That won't work (Score 1) 48
I'm serious: I am interested in what leads you (and many others) to that conclusion, when, at least on the surface, it appears obviously partisan.
Comment Re:The purpose of a trigger warning (Score 1) 155
Any misuse by the audience, whether to seek out or avoid labels, should not affect the usefulness for the actual target of the trigger warning.
Comment The purpose of a trigger warning (Score 5, Insightful) 155
That is totally off-base!
A trigger warning is for people who have trauma that may be triggered by the content. Most people don't have serious trauma (at least I hope so).
If people want to use it as a guide, that makes no difference to its usefulness to those that need it.
Comment Re:Spurious (Score 2) 84
Comment Re:Software should be "simple and disposable ... (Score 1) 48
Whether a GUI or CLI is easier for you depends on your history. Either way, your code is implicitly hiding something, otherwise the user/programmer would just be using the "bare metal" your code is built on.
Make sure what your code hides isn't something your user needs to see, that they can easily see and change anything they may need to. I'm suddenly feeling the urge to expound on how, but I think that's enough for now.
Comment Re:ridiculous (Score 1) 103
Voters need to be on the rolls regardless of whether or not they have photo ID.
That means, in clear text, that your cited example of "voter fraud" cannot be voter fraud - it can only be election fraud.
Something that voter ID will not help with.
Comment Re:Template (Score 1) 360
Comment Re:Template (Score 1) 360
Our system goes a little further and we've had pretty good success with it: send them a link beforehand where they can enter the bug. Make the important fields required and don't accept bug reports any other way. Some of the users then just stop sending in bug reports and some fill things in with meaningless information, but generally the quality of the reports went way up.
Submission + - Forty Years of P v NP
The theorems suggest that Tautology is a good candidate for an interesting set not in [P] and I feel it is worth spending considerable effort trying to prove this conjecture. Such a proof would be a major breakthrough in complexity theory.
And thus Cook formulated what was soon to be called the P versus NP problem. The rest is history.
Here's the 1971 STOC Program (there were 143 attendees)and what that sacred ground looks like today.