• CIPWTTKT&GC v0x24 (v36): That Ain't Thermal Paste
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my steam download speeds are so slow right now that i'm about to drive across town to get the game on a flash drive from my friend.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;48001546]I don't like discussing SJ when I constantly attempt to keep myself as neutral as possible, but, bleh. I have a fairly tight circle of friends online [I](hey hi, if you're reading this, try and talk to me before straight-up dropping off my radar, I truly do like you)[/I] and there tends to be a lot of one-upping and figurehead-mentioning whenever any SJ topic comes up. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, and I wouldn't call it a race for the least privilege, but it's the topic that draws the most attention and discussion, among sets of peers as well as the entire circle. And yeah SJ has been going in a downward spiral at least as big-names who get attention and even financial help based entirely on it. It's gone from hating on MRAs, to hating on LGBT allies, then cis gay men, then cis gays, and it's rapidly collapsing on itself because the communities are running out of [I]increasingly more helpful[/I] groups to dislike.[/QUOTE] can't forget hating white people and skinny people
Why the hell aren't DVI and DisplayPort the widespread, easily-available standards they should be. Fuck HDMI. [QUOTE=Sand Castle;48001556]can't forget hating white people and skinny people[/QUOTE] The white people thing is really disgusting, and it's worse when it's coming from, well, other white people. It's the new "jerks". You don't hate "jerks", because it's not immediately obvious who is a jerk and who isn't, so you need something more general, and so you use "white people".
[QUOTE=latin_geek;48001565]Why the hell aren't DVI and DisplayPort the widespread, easily-available standards they should be. Fuck HDMI. The white people thing is really disgusting, and it's worse when it's coming from, well, other white people. It's the new "jerks". You don't hate "jerks", because it's not immediately obvious who is a jerk and who isn't, so you need something more general, and so you use "white people".[/QUOTE] Its really weird, at both my jobs we have HP Elites and they all have VGA and Displayport (some even have dual DisplayPort). But its notoriously absent in the consumer market. Its a bit frustrating. On a related note, someone in one of my classes that having displayport on laptops was useless and they should just use HDMI. I wanted to slap him silly. At least DisplayPort to X adapters are stupid cheap.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;48001565]Why the hell aren't DVI and DisplayPort the widespread, easily-available standards they should be. Fuck HDMI. The white people thing is really disgusting, and it's worse when it's coming from, well, other white people. It's the new "jerks". You don't hate "jerks", because it's not immediately obvious who is a jerk and who isn't, so you need something more general, and so you use "white people".[/QUOTE] i love hdmi for the simple reason that it's easy to plug in and on everything imagine a world where everything connects with two prong power and hdmi -- both of those are very easy to deal with and you could only have 1 hdmi cable and 1 power cable to plug in to any device as necessary
DP also does audio, though it's rarer for the manufacturer to implement it. I believe Thinkpads do, which are also business-oriented like those Elitebooks. USB3 (not even C), some form of combined display/audio and power would be enough nowadays, yes. You could probably leave USB behind and do everything wireless, but that adds cost and batteries to peripherals. Ultimately I guess it comes down to cost, then convenience, then quality. Same reason low-end western TVs used composite instead of glorious RGB SCART, or even S-Video.
I really hate SMS because it's saved on whatever phone the SIM card is on so if the SIM card is moved across devices, SMS are littered everywhere. I wonder if there's some SMS syncing app to sync between 2 or more phones.. Or you know, everyone uses Internet-based chat clients, then this always happens [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png[/img]
[QUOTE=latin_geek;48001565]Why the hell aren't DVI and DisplayPort the widespread, easily-available standards they should be. Fuck HDMI.[/QUOTE] HDMI is a fine replacement for single-link DVI - same signal, better physical connector. DVI is actually kind of crap as a physical connector. And if it weren't for DisplayPort, I think DL-DVI would have been replaced by HDMI Type B. DisplayPort really should be a lot more common, though. HDMI needs to stick around as a secondary standard for a while, due to all the fixed-function devices that output it, but DP should be the new primary.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;48001619]DP also does audio, though it's rarer for the manufacturer to implement it. I believe Thinkpads do, which are also business-oriented like those Elitebooks. USB3 (not even C), some form of combined display/audio and power would be enough nowadays, yes. You could probably leave USB behind and do everything wireless, but that adds cost and batteries to peripherals. Ultimately I guess it comes down to cost, then convenience, then quality. Same reason low-end western TVs used composite instead of glorious RGB SCART, or even S-Video.[/QUOTE] I mean eventually we got component, but it wasn't a thing except on higher end TVs and very late 480i CRT's.
I really liked the fact that DVI had thumbscrews. No matter how much people hate thumbscrews for being impossible to remove there's nothing more annoying than a loose cable. YES, I AM LOOKING AT YOU, ETHERNET CABLE.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;48001636]HDMI is a fine replacement for single-link DVI - same signal, better physical connector. DVI is actually kind of crap as a physical connector. And if it weren't for DisplayPort, I think DL-DVI would have been replaced by HDMI Type B. DisplayPort really should be a lot more common, though. HDMI needs to stick around as a secondary standard for a while, due to all the fixed-function devices that output it, but DP should be the new primary.[/QUOTE] I would agree HDMI is a good replacement, HOWEVER, the type-A connector is structurally weak. I've never had any other competitor connector break more than it. I've almost lost HDMI ports on devices due to it (Needlenose plies are my saviour). You're never gonna get that from DVI. [editline]19th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=pentium;48001647]I really liked the fact that DVI had thumbscrews. No matter how much people hate thumbscrews for being impossible to remove there's nothing more annoying than a loose cable. YES, I AM LOOKING AT YOU, ETHERNET CABLE.[/QUOTE] I've found boots that cover the little clip at the top cut down on them breaking SO MUCH.
so why is the thread icon games
Because thread icons literally don't matter [editline].[/editline] Oh and this was before the addition of the hobbies icon.
Back when VGA got standardized, the cables where like 3 times as thick and heavy, and hard to bend. Now a days a snugly fitting HDMI or Displayport cables seems to be more then enough, even if you for w/e reason wiggle your monitor around a lot.
[QUOTE=Squarebob;48001479]They are false gods though that abuse that status to enslave millions of people...[/QUOTE] What defines a god though? [quote]High technology is indistinguishable from magic.[/quote]
[QUOTE=nikomo;48000780][URL]https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941[/URL] Fuck I'm all out of popcorn, this is going to be good.[/QUOTE] Sometimes I wonder if those people are unemployed to find enough time to spam these issue trackers for hours. IMO everyone is an idiot in there. The Dev's for actually interacting with them about their feelings on a platform meant for reportig code-related issues. And the witchhunters for you know, finding another project to hunt on. [editline]edit[/editline] And boy am I glad I'm a proprietary software developer.
I currently have 1 OSS project, and it is under a different name, for a small audience (Arma 3) and not really known all that much. It would probably have quite some attention since it fills a very useful niche which does not really have a good addon, but I can't be assed to advertise it. It's also on Bitbucket only since I use bitbucket for pretty much everything (Cause unlimited private repos) and I'm an atlassian shill, and it works as a deterrent for those people since they are mainly found on Github, which is pretty convenient.
Fuck me. 10Pm-midnight maintenance window to swap an old router and switch for a 4331 with integrated switch expansion turns into a 5 and a half hour troubleshooting session including a 2 hour phone call to Cisco. I think I'm just going to stay another 2 and a half hours to monitor shit and call it my 8 hour Friday shift.
Wow the WiFi doesn't reach my bedroom here in France so I can't use my chromecast and I can't use any computer thingy in there either.. Can I do a WiFi repeater thing on my android phone? tried fqrouter2 already but it didn't seem to work
The one in the right looks like a torture device... Or a kinky sex aid
Spiky butt plug doesn't appeal to you?
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48003464]it does not[/QUOTE] You are weird.
Oh dear what did I wake up to. [QUOTE=gman003-main;48001442]"If you just base staffing decisions on capability to do the job, with no consideration for the impact they will have on your reputation, you will end up with a cadre of highly-skilled assholes who will likely try to maintain their position by excluding others" (Logical flaws: what people do on their own time does not impact the project, and ultimately meritocracy *is* the best method of making staffing decisions. Other factors besides simple ability at the primary task do need to weigh in, but ultimately the best person for the job is whoever can do the job better than everyone else)[/QUOTE] Social justice advocates do not [I]want[/I] to optimise for profit or project success first, see the next point (Besides, [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20140618142018/http://blog.42floors.com/interviewing-at-a-startup/]the meritocracy really is a lie[/url].) [QUOTE]"Rich white people can spend more time writing code to be used by other rich white people" (Logical flaw: no evidence provided for "homogenous consumers". I'm pretty sure plenty of minorities of all sorts use Opal, but I'm also pretty sure that few of them track down the private lives of all the contributors to examine their political beliefs.)[/QUOTE] Do you really need strong statistical evidence that maybe poor people and those who somewhat regularly face some amount* of discrimination** might have a slightly harder time using and contributing to open source software (or formally studying programming/CS) because they might need a little more effort and have less money and free time to live their lives? To come back to the first point, even with fully meritocratic hiring, in modern western society women and members of minorities will on average be picked less than they "should" be because they have greater barriers to both gaining and proving their merit. And the social justice advocate's position is that you have a [I]moral obligation[/I] to work against that. It doesn't say anything about what is the best hiring strategy for making the most useful product*** or making the most money. *: Argue about the extent all you want, but I think you'll find it pretty hard to prove that in modern society everything is peachy and there is no sexism, racism, homophobia or transphobia to be found anywhere. **: Don't take this to mean "misandry don't real", but it should also be pretty obvious that the groups social justice advocates call privileged are in general less affected by discrimination. ***: Admittedly there's also some arguments to be made that diversity makes for a better working environment and a richer and more, well, diverse collaboration, but it's not the core justification SJ advocates have for their views, but instead a rational argument intended to convince people who disagree with those views - one that is not made here. [QUOTE]"YOU'RE BEING RACIST wait I mean SEXIST wait I mean TRANSPHOBIC yeah that's what I meant" (Logical flaw: failed to prove "privilege" on the part of the Opal developers, failed to prove any discriminatory behavior of Opal developers in their role as Opal developers)[/QUOTE] It doesn't really matter that @elia didn't make those statements in his capacity as a developer; hearing he made them at all is gonna offend some people and push them off anyway. You might say "well that's not his fault, it's not his responsibility not to put people off working with him" - and I would agree - but again this is a subjective moral value. So in short, most of the logical flaws you stated are logical flaws only if you try to combine them with [I]your[/I] views. In the context of social justice ethics - and I'm just gonna assume that you agree with me that there's no such thing as objectively true moral values - those statements do make sense. There's of course also a lot of stuff in SJ that is either unproven or disproven, but that's mostly [I]details[/I], and there's a shitload of intellectual dishonesty. But you can say that about most if not all political movements (and it's not like they're monolithic hiveminds either), but much of the core SJ theory would appear to be correct. Also note that the text Cold cited is really just ranting - it's not even [I]making[/I] an argument, it just kinda assumes the reader already agrees :v:.
I, too, like to computer.
I don't know about you guys, but it sure is good being a middle class white male aged 18-24 living in a first world country [editline]19th June 2015[/editline] [img]http://i.imgur.com/W114gQX.jpg[/img]
E-Feelings are serious business. Also 21 year old CIS white male Software engineer in first world country reporting in.
Man, if your last name was "Hink".... :v:
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[QUOTE=DrTaxi;48003720]Do you really need strong statistical evidence that maybe poor people and those who somewhat regularly face some amount* of discrimination** might have a slightly harder time using and contributing to open source software (or formally studying programming/CS) because they might need a little more effort and have less money and free time to live their lives? To come back to the first point, even with fully meritocratic hiring, in modern western society women and members of minorities will on average be picked less than they "should" be because they have greater barriers to both gaining and proving their merit. And the social justice advocate's position is that you have a [I]moral obligation[/I] to work against that. It doesn't say anything about what is the best hiring strategy for making the most useful product*** or making the most money.[/QUOTE] Your points are well-made but irrelevant. She accused the project userbase of being homogenous. Not just "one group more prevalent", "homogenous". Even treating that as hyperbole, I would only consider that statement true if one statistical group absolutely dominates the userbase, with a 99%+ supermajority. That is NOT a statement one can make and have assumed accurate. [QUOTE=DrTaxi;48003720]It doesn't really matter that @elia didn't make those statements in his capacity as a developer; hearing he made them at all is gonna offend some people and push them off anyway. You might say "well that's not his fault, it's not his responsibility not to put people off working with him" - and I would agree - but again this is a subjective moral value.[/QUOTE] The core disagreement seems to be that SJWs are literally trying to be the thought police, exiling anyone who does not think the way SJWs tell them to think, while the developers consider someone's personal life personal, and as long as that personal life does not affect their "work" life, they are completely separate. I think it is fairly obvious which side in that disagreement has more valid points.
Man, OSX Yosemite is so nice and butter-smooth. I'm really tempted to just ditch my Acer and get an rMBP15, but I'm having trouble justifying paying over three times the cost for something that barely constitutes a performance upgrade.
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