:fa_twitter: Tweed :fa_twitter:
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First, listen to the original:
https://youtu.be/4OVpyKOQElc?start=7m38s&end=8m12s
7:38 to 8:12.
Now, listen to...
MEMES.wav (5212 KBytes)
(Two copies of the same audio clip, pick whichever one loads first)
https://www.riking.org/webm/MEMES.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84802091/MEMES.wav
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That is a remarkable sound.
He remarked, upon listening to the sound.
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Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.
Rule 2. Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. (Even if n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)
Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they're much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.
Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Ken Thompson rephrased Pike's rules 3 and 4 as "When in doubt, use brute force.". Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS. Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. Rule 5 is often shortened to "write stupid code that uses smart objects".
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Rules of Optimization:
Rule 1: Don't do it.
Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet.
Filed under: ONEBOXXXXER!!!, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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For those who don't know who Rob Pike is:
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That one is huge. I posted a 440 byte one a week or so ago.
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28 thousand bytes isn't big. You know what's big? A million bytes.
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I'm not impressed until you own at least a mebibyte.
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THAT JOKE LOOKS FAMILIARR!RR!R!
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I think @riking told @ben_lubar that he's going to steal that joke for his twitter.nope, I was wrong, that happened when he stole a different joke.
(Of course, something I typed caused a keyboard shortcut to activate in discfarce which warped me to an entirely different topic.)
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OH LOOK WHAT JUST HAPPENED: (when editing the above post)
Also, this post got 500ed the first 100 times I tried to post it.
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something I typed caused a keyboard shortcut to activate in discfarce which warped me to an entirely different topic.
I keep somehow losing focus right as I hit the backspace key and navigating the page. But the composer stays open.
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I keep somehow losing focus right as I hit the backspace key and navigating the page. But the composer stays open.
Might be a bug with keyboard hijacking stuff as well. I had a similar problem when testing Vivaldi - it uses the old Opera 12 shortcuts, including CtrlZ for "undo close tab" (CtrlShiftT in other browsers).
Whatever Discourse is doing to this editor managed to break it in such a way that it both undid my changes in editor and reopened last closed tab.
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happens to me on mobile ALL the time...
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Russian computer: "Enter password"
Me: "Beef stew"
Russian computer: "Password not stroganoff"
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.@k8em0 Infosec Woman Bingo:
— Assumed to be in wrong place
— Mistaken for a different woman
— Asked if you saw your own talk
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Image is readable if you click it
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Wait, people run antivirus programs on non-executable text files?
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Wait, people run antivirus programs?
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A couple is walking in St. Petersburg Square on Christmas eve. They feel a slight precipitation.
The man says, "I think it's raining."
The woman disagrees, "No, it's snowing."
"How about we ask this Communist officer here? He is always right!" exclaims the man. "Officer Rudolph, is it raining or snowing?"
"Definitely raining," replies Officer Rudolph before walking off.
The man turns to his wife with a smile. "See? Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear."
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Paging @Groaner...
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Is that just funny lighting, or is that a dent in it's head?
Probably a dent. Headdesk inflicted, no doubt.
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Reminds me of this:
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paging @accalia
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as piracy, is in fact, unauthorized copying, or as I've recently taken to calling it, unauthorized sharing. Piracy is not the act of obtaining an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work, but rather robbery or criminal violence at sea.
Many computer users make unauthorized copies every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the act which is widely performed today is often called piracy, and many of the people who do it are not aware that it is basically copying, and not stealing.
There really is a piracy, and some people are doing it, but it is just robbery at sea. Piracy is an act of theft: an action at sea in which goods are forcefully transferred from one ship to another. Piracy is important to be aware of, but unrelated to unauthorized copying; it can only function at sea. Piracy is normally not used in combination with unauthorized copying: the two acts are basically seperate. All the so-called piracy is really unauthorized copying.
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Piracy [...] can only function at sea.
Have you not seen The Road Warrior? I would suggest to you, sir, that the attempt to steal the gas truck was an act of attempted piracy. (Although hijacking might be a more appropriate term.)
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Besides -- the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that copyright infringement is not theft...so why do people still conflate the two?
There really is a piracy, and some people are doing it, but it is just robbery at sea. Piracy is an act of theft: an action at sea in which goods are forcefully transferred from one ship to another.
Yeah, the seas off the Horn of Africa are a messed-up place to be...although sometimes, even the pirates get caught with a case of the dumbs.I really have no clue what sort of brain worm makes them think they can go up against a warship and win...
(Although hijacking might be a more appropriate term.)
Yeah, that'd be a hijacking, alright.
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Besides -- the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that copyright infringement is not theft...so why do people still conflate the two?
Because of all the PR spin applied by the music and movie industries that have bludgeoned it into the minds of a whole generation
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that have bludgeoned it into the minds of a whole generation
Heh, yeah, like that ever happened. If anything, you'll find people arguing piracy is nothing wrong because the movie studio gets to keep their copy, missing the point by several astronomical units.
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Heh, yeah, like that ever happened
This used to be on every DVD sold in the UK for at least a decade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU
And you were't always able to skip past it.So I'd say yes, it was bludgeoned into the minds of a generation.
Funny really; a trailer that uses scare tactics to combat copyright infringement, has had its copyright infringed…
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This used to be on every DVD sold in the UK for at least a decade:
And it was ridiculed to hell, then back, then to hell again, and I doubt it worked as anything else than comedy material.
Sooo, my point still stands.
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And you were't always able to skip past it
When I still watched actual physical DVDs I used to rip them and burn copies with the adverts and piracy warnings removed. As much because I could as avoiding the warning TBH
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And it was ridiculed to hell, then back, then to hell again, and I doubt it worked as anything else than comedy material.
Among those of us blessed with the talent of critical thinking, that is indeed true. The problem is, a lot of people lack this crucial skill. And quite often they end up as politicians, or CEOs with way too much money to burn.Still, at least that particular trailer was less annoying than the handful of DVDs that had an 'FBI Anti-piracy Warning', saying it's a 'federal crime' with fines of '$50,000' or something equally ridiculous. Yeah, because that's going to fly in the land of tea and crumpets…
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Among those of us blessed with the talent of critical thinking, that is indeed true. The problem is, a lot of people lack this crucial skill. And quite often they end up as politicians, or CEOs with way too much money to burn.
And what do you propose for those who are not blessed with the talent? "We know we probably won't catch you, and it's not really stealing, but look, if people keep copying stuff, then movies will become more and more unprofitable for studios, eventually running them out of business"?
Sure, the ads are exaggerating and somewhat BS, but at least they're maaaaybe simple enough for those who actually can't see the bigger picture and only see "free shit vs. paying evil corporations".
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I'm not advocating
piracycopyright infringement; I'm all for paying the right price for something. Yes, I do indulge in a littlepiracycopyright infringement, but that has led me to buy stuff that I would otherwise have never bought; I would estimate at least a quarter of my DVD collection has be bought because ofpiracycopyright infringement.But I can only extend my sympathy so far; after all, if you get treated like a criminal, then that reduces the guilt you feel when you actually do something criminal.
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When I still watched actual physical DVDs I used to rip them and burn copies with the adverts and piracy warnings removed. As much because I could as avoiding the warning TBH
I used to do that from time to time: rent a DVD, rip it, watch the ripped one so I could skip the warnings and other unskippable bullshit, and then throw the ripped disc away.
Then I got tired of the extra time it took, heh.
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Okay, good for you. Though I still find it quite ridiculous that people bother to pirate in a country where you can buy a CD for an hour's worth of work.
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Though I still find it quite ridiculous that people bother to pirate in a country where you can buy a CD for an hour's worth of work
What if I want to listen to two CDs an hour?
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There does seem to be a fair bit of 'entitlement culture' creeping into the UK psyche at the moment…