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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Not exactly other news today, is it?
No complaints about the NYT piece from *squints* 1938?
Anyway, happy people do not count time. I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
He said the Goebbels near-quote was just a "rhetorical coincidence"
I'm not sure why he seems to think that was a defense. If he'd said
, he would have passed as a a bit dumb or tasteless at worst; if it was a coincidence, it can only be that his ideas just happen to align so perfectly with Goebbels' that such a thing can happen.
Did you RTFA (
)?
"The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and it will be national, it'll be endowed with great capacity for emotional involvement and equally it will be deeply committed to the urgent aspirations of our people, or it will be nothing," he said.
vs
"The German art of the coming decades will be heroic, will be steelily romantic, will be unsentimentally objective, will be nationalistic with grand pathos, it will be both committed and unifying -- or it will be nothing."
Not seeing the big deal here, content wise.
He also used the same music, and they both were on a table with the president's picture framed above their heads. Nothing bad was said directly but the guy and everyone else know what he was doing.
Edit: correction, not the same music, but one that was said to be from one of Hitler's favorite composers or something
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
I asked her why one whole paragraph was identical with an internet source
Once in a group college assignment one guy put an entire copied page. I used Google docs version history to save the entire group from getting in trouble for that. His (bad) excuse was that the docs was just a draft at the time and that part wasn't ready to be sent.
I hated group college assignments (is assignment the correct word for this?)
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
I hated group college assignments
They can be good when the group is good, letting people experience a little fraction of what it is like to work with others (usually omitted otherwise, at least officially) and allow the group as a whole to synergise the varied skills of its members. I've heard of groups that split the task so that some people worked just on the code and others worked just on the writing up (OK, with shared planning at the beginning) and both subteams were happy with that.
You probably just hated the other people on your course. Or maybe they hated you.
(is assignment the correct word for this?)
Yes. There might be other words useful too, but âassignmentâ is ideal.
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@dkf In the last parts of the course, it was always someone that did the entire work alone and rest just signed their name. I took an strategy of doing a part I believed was fair, send to the group and wait for them to do something, if they do nothing, fuck that, I'm not doing it alone. The that blinked first and did everything ignored the part I sent most of the time.
That was probably worse because I barely knew any of them. As I did a few classes per semester (taking 12 years to get my undergrad or whatever you call it there), I was very out of sync with everyone else. And I was really tired of college at that point.
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@dkf I assign group projects for the express purpose of (trying to) showing students how to work together properly. And even then, each person ends up with an individual deliverable and an individual grade. I'm not going to let that one moron tank someone else's grade. Because screw that.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Zecc The multi-wavelength fiber one, yes, that definitely does.
The terahertz one is instead a complex device that starts with a laser and uses it to generate the desired radiation in plasma using a different mechanism.
You mean it uses light to stimulate plasma to emit and amplify radiation?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
They can be good when the group is good, letting people experience a little fraction of what it is like to work with others (usually omitted otherwise, at least officially) and allow the group as a whole to synergise the varied skills of its members.
And to see that sometimes someone won't or can't carry their weight and so the rest of the team has to figure out what to do about that. Sometimes that means doing their share of the work so that at least the whole project works. Sometimes it means leaving their part alone and polishing up the rest to be as close to perfect as it can be, even if the missing part is functionally essential.
@dkf said in In other news today...:
I've heard of groups that split the task so that some people worked just on the code and others worked just on the writing up (OK, with shared planning at the beginning) and both subteams were happy with that.
In the group projects I was assigned in college, the teams generally split up the work much like this.
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@dkf I assign group projects for the express purpose of (trying to) showing students how to work together properly. And even then, each person ends up with an individual deliverable and an individual grade. I'm not going to let that one moron tank someone else's grade. Because screw that.
For my group assignments, we would also, individually, submit a document that listed what part each person worked on, how much of the project we thought that was, as well as how well we thought each person did with their part.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
And even then, each person ends up with an individual deliverable and an individual grade. I'm not going to let that one moron tank someone else's grade. Because screw that.
I don't remember any particular group projects from college, but I do remember one from high school; I think it was History, or something like that. I don't remember details, but I think there were 4 or 5 people in the group. One did their fair share, one did rather more than their share (that may have been me; I don't remember), and the other two or three did pretty much nothing. There was only one deliverable for the whole group, which wasn't really satisfactory due to being far from complete, but the teacher figured out how much each of us had contributed and graded each individual on their own contribution or lack thereof. IIRC, I didn't particularly like that teacher (mostly because I didn't like the subject), but she was fair.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I'm not going to let that one moron tank someone else's grade. Because screw that.
Sure. We explicitly tell them that they must document who did what. It's mentioned multiple times, both in writing and told to them face to face. Those that don't, deserve what they get.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@dkf I assign group projects for the express purpose of (trying to) showing students how to work together properly. And even then, each person ends up with an individual deliverable and an individual grade. I'm not going to let that one moron tank someone else's grade. Because screw that.
If you don't like all of those pupils in a group, you can resort to your inner Machiavelli and give them, say, a total of 80% which they then have to allocate among themselves by a distribution of their own choosing.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
I hated group college assignments (is assignment the correct word for this?)
I remember calling ours a "group project". But that was something that was semester long. Assignments were generally shorter - a week or 2. (Of course this was 30 years ago...
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah The most pernicious thing about c is how, like radiation, it sometimes sneaks in where it's not supposed to
At some level it's near unavoidable, since the list of languages which are supposedly better than C/C++ and are also not themselves implemented in one of those two is exceedingly small.
:woosch:
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Stop Nuclear power, it's bad for the environment
People keep arguing about whether nuclear power plants are as "safe" as their proponents claim or not. When we could literally have a full-blown Chernobyl accident every 5 to 10 years and it would still kill far less people than the fucking smoke from burning coal kills today. Like they're not even in the same league.
Nuclear plats produce 10% of the world's electricity now while coal is just under 40%. So it's not unlikely we'd actually see more accidents than that if we replaced all the coal-fired plants with nuclear and reduced the 85 years of projected Uranium reserves to just under 20.
And it would have been just lovely is say Syria had gone down that road 20 years ago.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Google's recent changes to its search results, which have blurred the lines between paid and organic content
âIn the end, the searcher is going to engage with the results that most closely match (or appear to match) what they are looking for ... regardless of whether it is an ad or an organic listing,â
I know I'm probably highly atypical, but I try to avoid ads. If an ad matches what I'm searching for, I'll scroll down to find the equivalent "organic" search result, rather than "engaging with" the ad. Save the company the cost of the click-through, deprive Google of the click-through revenue, and (I wish) discourage the placement of such ads. It's not much effort; a company that's paying for prominent ads usually also has decent SEO, so their "organic" result is pretty near the top of the results.
Since I block ads in my router, I can't even use those faux search result links, because they go to an adserver with a redirect to the real page, so I just get "Nope, server doesn't exist!" back from the router.
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@Benjamin-Hall My first group project in uni was started with the handlers saying that if any one individual in the group failed, the group failed. I ended up in the largest group, so we had the highest expectations of delivery. Its just that 2/5 of the people in the group did fuck all.
We got the group assignment done (it was writing a pre smartphone game, because smartphones didn't exist).
Ours actually turned out better than most games you could purchase, solely because of me, another programmer and a third guy doing sound and graphics. It was a horrible, horrible hack but it was a game, and it was "fun". (As fun as cell phone games were back then)But man, that failing the entire group because of a single individual was a really shit move. And we had to cover for the people that never showed up at the reviews during the project.
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@dcon these were due 2 weeks after being requested, and could be completed in a few hours if everybody carried their own weight
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
and could be completed in a few hours if everybody carried their own weight
NARRATOR: they didn't.
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@Boner No, officer, that wasn't me. I don't drive
:grinning_face: :grinning_squinting_face:
, my plate is:grinning_face: ­ :grinning_squinting_face:
Filed under:
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The end of Windows 7's lifecycle gives Microsoft the perfect opportunity to undo past wrongs , and to upcycle it instead.
To the executives at Microsoft:
- We demand that Windows 7 be released as free software. Its life doesn't have to end. Give it to the community to study, modify, and share.
- We urge you to respect the freedom and privacy of your users - not simply strongarm them into the newest Windows version.
- We want more proof that you really respect users and user freedom, and aren't just using those concepts as marketing when convenient.
:bender_laugh.xps:
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In other news last weekâŚ
Finally, non-pterodactyloid trackways! These had been elusive for two centuries of research.
The paper isn't OA (
) so here's a twatter thread with some pretty pictures
But this replyâŚ
did you somehow miss all the times it explicitly said non-pterodactyloid?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
The end of Windows 7's lifecycle gives Microsoft the perfect opportunity to undo past wrongs , and to upcycle it instead.
To the executives at Microsoft:
- We demand that Windows 7 be released as free software. Its life doesn't have to end. Give it to the community to study, modify, and share.
- We urge you to respect the freedom and privacy of your users - not simply strongarm them into the newest Windows version.
- We want more proof that you really respect users and user freedom, and aren't just using those concepts as marketing when convenient.
:bender_laugh.xps:
What, is the their FOSS weather app broken? Did somebody there mistakenly predict that hell is about to freeze over?!
MS don't want you to use Win7 even if you pay for it. Why the hell would they release it as open source so more people would use it, for free, and copying Microsoft's IP? That is 100% against their corporate interest.
As much as I agree with the FSF's stance on FOSS and Microsoft's wrongdoings, this is just laughable because it will never happen and they have nothing to demand.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
and they have nothing to demand.
"We DEMAND you release it for FREE!!! Or we WON'T use it!"
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Large boulder the size of a small boulder
Make up your mind!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Large boulder the size of a small boulder
Make up your mind!
...the size of a tall boulder, a grande boulder, or a venti boulder?
(Edit: and now the word "boulder" looks like a made-up word to me. Thanks a bunch.)
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@da-Doctah Then there's the Bolder Boulder.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Large boulder the size of a small boulder
Make up your mind!
...the size of a tall boulder, a grande boulder, or a venti boulder?
"Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages."
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Windows 7 be released as free software.
Uh, I mean, the activation protocol has been reverse engineered since forever, why not just make it official?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Large boulder the size of a small boulder
Make up your mind!
You see, its size changes depending on the time of day...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Large boulder the size of a small boulder
Make up your mind!
Also, not completely blocking the road...
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@lolwhat the post said blocking the lane, not blocking the road, actually.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat the post said blocking the lane, not blocking the road, actually.
It says that now...
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
keep it up Intel.... please.
a few more of those and we'll see some serious movement in the server space away from Intel CPUs to AMD Ryzen based CPUs and i really want to see you have serious competition across all product spaces.
:-D
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
(Edit: and now the word "boulder" looks like a made-up word to me. Thanks a bunch.)
That she was a little boulder!
What did the shy pebble wish for?
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
a few more of those and we'll see some serious movement in the server space away from Intel CPUs to AMD Ryzen based CPUs and i really want to see you have serious competition across all product spaces.
We have a colleague here who claims AMD has been significantly more performant for a couple of years already anyway (he is researching some optimization algorithms, so he should know, but he's also somewhat out of touch with reality, so I am not sure how much to believe him).
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
a few more of those and we'll see some serious movement in the server space away from Intel CPUs to AMD Ryzen based CPUs and i really want to see you have serious competition across all product spaces.
We have a colleague here who claims AMD has been significantly more performant for a couple of years already anyway (he is researching some optimization algorithms, so he should know, but he's also somewhat out of touch with reality, so I am not sure how much to believe him).
for personal desktops, at this point therre is literally no reason to go intel over AMD right now. Current Generation Ryzen chips out perform the intel chips at equivalent pricepoints all the way up to the "you are a stupid enthusiast that wants the absolute most powere possible even though the chip that costs a third of what this one costs would work just as well for you. do you really need a computer worth more than your car?!" levels.
maybe Intel will come out with a chip that will claw back at least the performance numbers (if not the price) in Q4 of this year.... but based on how they'e handled their launches since Ryzen1 lauched (shitting their pants and trying to manipulate timings of releases to prevent journalists from comparing it to ryzen launches) i somehow doubt it.
so yeah. if you're building new right now. go ryzen. if you have intel and just want a small upgrade.... well intel's going to be cheaper if you just want to upgrade the chip, but if you're replacing the mobo too...... go ryzen because at that point you can get better overall performance for less. and at that point why wouldn't you?
the ONLY thing to watch out for with Ryzen is that unlike Intel chips where faster RAM won't make a difference in speed outside of synthetic benchmarks Ryzen chips have a different architecture that FUCKING LOVES faster RAM. go as high on those ram clockspeeds as you can for massive increase in performance.
It's not like you get bad performance at stock DDR4 clockspeeds, it's just that you get big gains in performance because of how ryzen works if you overclock your RAM.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
"Donât take these things for granite."
The whole thread is pure win.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
a few more of those and we'll see some serious movement in the server space away from Intel CPUs to AMD Ryzen based CPUs and i really want to see you have serious competition across all product spaces.
You know what would be even better competition... moving to ARM!
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@anonymous234 We've had that âwhy mobile web apps are slowâ article linked somewhere. Important part of its argument is that ARM just does not scale the way amd64 does. So moving to ARM not really likely.
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@Bulb I'm the one who linked that, and I actually found that the least persuasive part of the argument. It basically boils down to "Intel is way ahead in R&D in this area and there's no way ARM will ever catch up".
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
factclaim that has been cast in serious doubt by the above discussion, yesâŚ