🔗 Quick links thread
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@boomzilla said:
@Lorne_Kates said:
Since when?
Since your mom.
Look, you were the guy trying to get a lynch mob going, not me. You're not as old as me, what's your excuse for poor memory?
It can't be a lynch mob. Gov Snyder isn't black.
Lynch posse? Lynch homeboys?
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More talking about solar freakin' roadways.
@https://www.equities.com/news/france-s-solar-roads-plan-a-costly-inefficient-boondoggle said:
The French government has revealed plans to install some 1,000 km, over 600 miles, of solar roads using the Wattway system, [...] This is, by far, the most practical and realistic stab at the concept thus far. However, the evidence seems to suggest that this is a massively expensive boondoggle, putting government funds into an inefficient and expensive form of solar power, despite readily available options that are clearly and obviously superior.
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A look at Wattway’s FAQ section reveals that the company is anticipating a cost of €6/watt-peak for
Wattway. For comparison, the installed cost of solar plants in Europe is currently in the €0.80-1/watt range. Rooftop arrays are two to three times more expensive, but costs still typically come in at about half what Wattway is at.[...]
Building solar arrays on empty roof space is a much more cost effective method than a solar road is or will ever be. And building utility-scale solar plants is a significantly better option than that.
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On second thought, I should have posted that link in the Bad Ideas Thread
It’s difficult to ignore the tortured logic on display here: “If we spend a lot of money on this bad technology, in a few years, it might be almost as good as the good technology we could just as easily invest in today.” [...] If anything, projects like this stand to hurt the expansion of solar energy, not help it.
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###1995 IBM Aptiva build, 66mhz 486DX2 to i7 6700k!
Guy converts an old PC case into a modern gaming PC. I especially like his floppy-lookalike SD card reader.
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i'm impressed with almost everything about that build.
in fact the only thing i'm not impressed with is his choice of graphics card.
ATI? seriously?
Nvidia is the way to go man. Nvidia for lyfe!
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You know the other day I was thinking, "man. Life just isn't worth living without a 3D photo viewer application on my desktop."
As if reading my mind, NVidia installed one for me! Like they do every time you update your drivers and you can't block or blacklist at all! Yay NVidia!
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Like they do every time you update your drivers and you can't block or blacklist at all!
really? Every time?
have you tried unchecking the little box that says you want to install the photoviewer application?
or did you accept the defaults so you could complain when the defaults weren't the settings you wanted?
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I think you're taking my post in the wrong spirit. Try pulling the stick out of your ass and reading it again.
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If your post was sarcasm, i think i nailed it.
if your post wasn't sarcasm maybe you should start indicating when you use sarcasm and when you don't because frankly my dear, i can't tell the difference.
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###Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster
TLDR; if you don't have google scale problems, you don't need google scale solutions.
Now I just wonder how faster would a custom application be than his shell pipeline.
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I think I broke it:
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Nope. Each pink piece is another unsolved puzzle.
Unfortunately you can see how they fit together pretty quickly and solve them without even really looking much at the actual colors:
All the solved pieces are locked into place. I'm about 95% certain that all the pink pieces are in the right places too, but they won't lock until they're solved.
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So much for freedoom loving crazies
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OSS developers discover you can't exchange github stars for food.
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Why would a web server need to support Markdown?
EDIT: I guess what they mean is you can put a .md file and tell Caddy to host it, and it has internal code to convert it to HTML. That seems like a huge waste of their effort, but whatever. I guess it's a feature worth advertising. Even if it's way out of scope for a web server.
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It does?
I'm just looking at its homepage. I hate people who write long blogs like that, 5,000 words about "Caddy", and not once does he attempt to explain what Caddy is!. So you have to find it elsewhere, which I did, and it has "Markdown support" as a bulletpoint. (The rest of the stuff in its feature grid makes sense. And it's nice that it'll just automatically pull a HTTPS cert if you don't have one specified. I'm a fan of that.)
The funny thing is he also claims it's a huge improvement in user experience, but he doesn't bother to explain what his own product does in his own blog post about his product. So it's like on one level he understands the need for user experience, but then utterly fails to apply that understanding to his own writing.
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Caddy is a web server that makes it easy for writers to work on their articles offline. Whether it's HTML, Markdown, or even a WordPress blog, Caddy can serve it up to your browser. Caddy can be used both on your own computer and your public web host.
I think that's the use case for markdown: bloggers who don't want to learn HTML but want simple markup in their articles.
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Well ok but I still say that doesn't belong in the web server.
It should serve content, not interpret or transform it.
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PIN Analisys
a guy got a database with millions of PIN passwords and did a bunch of statistical analisys on it.
(skip the first part and got to the "back to the data title")
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From the top answer:
When they use metrics that sound good at first, but don't actually mean what they're trying to suggest.
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This video seems to be linked all over the site today. What's up with that? It's hype so much I almost can't wait to get home and watch it!
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It's hype so much I almost can't wait to get home and watch it!
It seems to be very black and full of the text “The uploader has not made this video available in your country.” That's boring after the first few minutes…
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That's boring after the first few minutes…
Oh. You mean you don't get the
alien messagesstatic with that message?
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###Rybka (Computer) vs Hikaru Nakamura
I'm not big into chess, but this game is fascinating. A grandmaster beats one of the strongest chess AI-s at the time (8 years ago) by exploiting its programming and forcing it into silly mistakes.
UPDATE: Here's a video explaining it.
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###Mother Theresa to be made a saint, reminder why she shouldn't
A guy on reddit compiles a list of reasons why Mother Theresa doesn't deserve the stellar reputation she enjoys in some circles.
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Does she have a miracle?
EDIT: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35129463 Just recognized in December. Huh.
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>When they use metrics that sound good at first, but don't actually mean what they're trying to suggest.
Of course, it's often difficult to tell if they have deceived themselves as well or if they really understand the statistics well enough to realize what's going on.
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The Strict Aliasing Situation is Pretty Bad
A lot of C code is broken under strict aliasing. ...
If I were writing correctness-oriented C that relied on these casts I wouldn’t even consider building it without -fno-strict-aliasing.
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Basically, the FDIC encourages banks to make employees take 14 day vacations and have other people assume their duties while they're gone. This is because embezzlers need to be around to keep their activities hidden.
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Basically, the FDIC encourages banks to make employees take 14 day vacations and have other people assume their duties while they're gone. This is because embezzlers need to be around to keep their activities hidden.
I worked in 3 banks, can confirm.
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I think I found another club member:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/4bc6tp/simulating_collapse_in_fate_of_the_world/
A guy on reddit plays an indy simulation game about global warming, and posts his finding. Spoiler warning: humanity is screwed. At least if this simulation is correct.
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If space was filled with air, Sun would be as loud as standing next to a train horn. Fascinating idea.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSS3H3hpQfI
This episode of Seconds From Disaster is fascinating. Pretty much everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
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@cartman82 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_de_Lyon_rail_accident
The wiki article, all of the information without the stupid re-enactments.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
The wiki article, all of the information without the stupid re-enactments.
This article is like someone watched the TV show and wrote down all the points they made during the reenactment, one after another.
Or maybe it was the other way around (shrugs).
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Physicists Send Particles Of Light Into The Past, Proving Time Travel Is Possible?
It is simulation, but does not sound too crazy
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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
If we see ‘lines of code’ as ‘lines spent’, then when we delete lines of code, we are lowering the cost of maintenance. Instead of building re-usable software, we should try to build disposable software.
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Nintendo’s first mobile app is a Kafkaesque exercise in madness
Wtf is Nintendo doing?
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@dse That has to be the most obnoxious onebox I've ever seen.
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@Yamikuronue is that monstrosity. When I posted it did not onebox it! I swear to the holly Spaghetti!
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@dse Yeah, I remember reading it. Ben reactivated our onebox plugin since then. Let's see if I can break it..?
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http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-microsoft-future-ai-chatbots/
Actually this is a better picture :--) and a better title would have been:
Filed Under: The ultimate battle between Microsoft Clippy and Google Deepmind
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@dse said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella bets big on artificial intelligence that will be fast, smart, friendly, helpful, and (fingers crossed) not at all racist.
So Microsoft thinks bots are the Next Big Thing.
I don't think so. I don't want to fucking talk to computers. Only an extrovert would dream of such a world.