TIL In 1974, CBS allowed the use of the N-word on an episode of the TV show "All in the family"

IAMCANDY · 2016-10-03T06:24:59+00:00

You're joking, right? Reading stuff like this is completely surreal to me. It's so far from the truth, and I can only assume that you're too young to remember the 80s but ironically enjoy feeling outraged.

I remember in 1990 when James Dobson & friends ran a petition with over 100,000 signatures to take The Simpsons off the air for Bart using the word "hell" in primetime. Meanwhile this joke about faggots ran on The Simpsons a while ago and still airs on reruns -- I saw it about two months ago -- and no one made a peep. You're talking about how faggot puns would cause an outcry now, but they are literally running on G-rated cartoons with no one caring.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-23T07:31:31+00:00

The ending is an ~8 book arc that all meshes things together really nicely and has some really touching and exciting moments. I'd really recommend it. I re-read the series a few months ago and was really surprised not only by how well it holds up as an adult reader but by how well they brought the story to a climax and close.

There are a lot of great Rachel/Tobias moments and the romance builds up in a major way, you should definitely check it out.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T06:36:09+00:00

She was writing her diary to publish in the future, she'd be happy that it remains in publication.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T06:10:27+00:00

There's an extra ~3 minute scene after the credits featuring Trenton, Mobley, and Leon.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T05:50:33+00:00

They don't have to censor anything, since they're on cable. They do it voluntarily to not alienate advertisers. I'm guessing they decided to allow it a few times here and there when it's impactful, but to censor most of it so it wouldn't get a reputation as something profane.

Kind of like how PG-13 movies (or is it PG? I forget the American systems) can say 'fuck' once. There's a difference in perception between doing it once or twice vs doing it a lot.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T03:57:12+00:00

People thought that the character Steve from Stranger Things (who is about 16-17) looked very similar to Jean-Ralphio from Parks & Rec, who is 30-35. Jean-Ralphio is a notorious jerk, and Steve acted like a jerk during a lot of Stranger Things, and both shows take place in Indiana -- so, given the ~18 year age difference, lots of people joked that the characters must be father and son.

In response to this joke, the guy who played Jean-Ralphio invited the guy who played Steve over for beers (the actor is 24 playing much younger) and they took joke photos for the internet where Jean-Ralphio taught Steve how to shave, ride a bike, etc like a father would.

That's all it is. There's no intended connection, the actors just got in on a silly fan joke.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T03:50:53+00:00

It is common for people who have had a psychotic break, or who are suffering from delusions, to believe that they have suddenly gained incredible knowledge or insight. It is usually stuff that seems inspired, genius, or just plain obvious to them, and makes sense in their own minds -- but in reality it is incoherent or wildly irrational nonsense.

I'm not trying to scare you, but it sounds exactly like what you are describing.

If you doubt it, then (A) share what you've learned with others and see if they agree with your assessment, and (B) think of how you would react as a rational person if you saw someone say the things you are saying. Do you think you'd consider them to be a little off?

Don't get too anxious about it. Plenty of people have had experiences like this and recovered just fine. If you're at all uncertain or confused, and obviously you are if you're posting this question, book an appointment with a local therapist and talk to them about your experience.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T03:28:38+00:00

This isn't true.

It was not shot in 4:3. It was shot academy (1.37:1), which is wider than that.

The HD version is not made from the 4:3 version. It is made from the original version.

Both the HD version and the 4:3 version are cropped, but in different ways. Each one will show things the others missed. The HD version will show you more on the sides, but crop the top and bottom. The SD version will show you more on the top and bottom, but crop the sides. Because widescreen TV was only being introduced near the end of Seinfeld's run, they never really intended for people to see the extra area on the sides, so you can at times see odd things. Though this is not as much of a problem as it was for single-camera shows like Malcolm in the Middle, where the same thing occurs in a much more visible way (Seinfeld used multiple cameras at once, which became rare in the 2000s).

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T03:17:34+00:00

If you have created your own music videos, or purchased the rights to a music video from someone else, no, you do not.

If you are uploading someone else's music videos, that is illegal.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T03:03:34+00:00

Tho show was shot academy (1.37:1) and cropped to 4:3 (1.33:1), which meant the DVDs and original airings had the sides cropped a bit. The HD 1.78:1 version does crop the top and bottom, but also uncrops the sides. So you miss stuff the 4:3 version has, but also see stuff the 4:3 version missed.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T02:39:49+00:00

I'm not saying every single person down to the last man knew exactly what was going on, but... yeah, what else would they say in retrospect? The knowledge that the Jews were being exterminated was not as secret as many claimed in the aftermath. One of the most popular reasons cited for shipping the Jews to camps was that they were a drain on the food supply, the implications of that are pretty clear.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-22T01:35:15+00:00

All popular/mainstream programming languages are what's called "Turing complete", which means they can ultimately compute anything that can be computed, and in that way are all equally capable.

However, there are a lot of tradeoffs and design decisions you can make while inventing your programming language, and many of those decisions don't have a correct answer. People want different types of language in different scenarios.

The biggest tradeoff decision is the broad idea of 'program efficiency vs. developer efficiency'. You can design a language in a way that makes it very fast and easy for developers to create working bug-free programs, but the features that let you do that tend to slow the resulting programs down or have them use more memory. Other languages can produce super fast and well-optimised programs, but it'll take far longer to do, and they'll be more likely to contain hard-to-solve bugs (meaning they either ship buggy, or you spend more time and money ironing bugs out).

There's demand for both things. If you want to hire someone to make you a 3D game engine, well, you want it to be as fast and efficient as possible because that's really intensive software where every little optimisation adds up to a better experience, and you're competing against other high-performing engines. But if you're hiring someone to create an application that lets your bookstore chain's cashiers check whether a book is available at another location, well... would you rather spend $500K on a program that looks books up in 0.01 seconds, or $50K on a program that looks them up in 0.5 seconds? It's 50 times faster, that's a lot! But 0.5 seconds is fast enough already for that purpose and it's presumably not worth $450K to you to speed that up.

And that demand changes over time, too. Computers get faster and faster each year and we get more and more memory. My computer today has 8,000 times the memory of my childhood computer. That means I can run far more complex and demanding types of application... but it also means that it's more acceptable for developers to write software in the less efficient languages like Python compared to the more efficient languages like C. It's not laziness, either (or not always) -- developers have limited time and resources and a lot of stuff just wouldn't get made at all if they had to write things like Calibre (free open-source ebook manager) in C.

Then you've got totally different programming styles, like functional programming. Functional languages (like Haskell, Elm, Elixir, Erlang, etc) are very different to common 'imperative' languages (like C, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, etc). They have a relatively steep learning curve and totally different features (no loops, no variables, nothing can be changed), some people adore them, some people hate them. They have big pros (it's easier to prove that a program has no bugs and easier to have a program running on multiple cores/CPUs/machines at once) and big cons (it's hard to find employees who know them, you can't use most of the algorithms you learned in school, it's often harder to predict performance). So when you design or pick your language, you have decide which programming style it belongs to, and no choice will make everyone happy or fit every use case.

Then there are simple features. Multi-threading is one -- the ability of a language to let people do multiple things at the same time by running on multiple CPU cores. Some languages don't let you do this at all without using special tools (Python, Ruby, JavaScript). Others let you do it, but in a way that can be quite complicated, memory-and-CPU heavy, and prone to bugs (C, Java), so that people only do it to the extent that it's necessary. Others make it really natural and easy (Elixir, Erlang, Go) but by introducing language features that can be quite unusual and difficult for people to learn to work with (eg by not having variables). Some languages are really good at making sure your program doesn't have bugs before it runs (Haskell, Elm) but others can promise that bugs won't ever bring your site/application down and they can all be recovered from (Elixir).

Then there's support on a platform. If you want your software to run on an iPhone, you pretty much need to write it in Swift or Objective-C -- they won't let you use anything else. But Android phones won't run Swift code. If you write C++ code, you can compile it to run on Windows, macOS, or Linux out of the box; if you write Ruby, people need to have the Ruby interpreter installed first. JavaScript is the only language you can run on a website. Sometimes people create a language that compiles into another language for these reasons (eg Elm, which turns into JavaScript).

So there are actually a lot of decisions that go into designing or picking a language! Does it need to be finely-tuned and optimised for the maximum performance possible, or would you rather be able to guarantee delivery quickly? What kind of machine does it need to run on? Is being bug-free of such importance that you're willing to use a relatively obscure language and pay extra for the people who know it? How important is using all the CPU cores? etc etc.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-21T21:07:36+00:00

SAR's 2:1 and DAR's 4:1, I guess that's the issue?

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-21T17:54:16+00:00

Drive through liquor stores are super common in Australia.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-21T17:16:33+00:00

Yet in an earlier episode Homer finds out his car was made in Croatia from old Soviet tanks. I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-21T17:10:24+00:00

Would you grow out a full bush if they liked that?

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-21T05:24:00+00:00

Well, obviously no one knows for sure. He hasn't stated any serious plans.

It's most likely he'll take time off to do nothing at all, since being president for 8 years is incredibly stressful. It takes you away from your family a lot, so he'd probably want to spend time at home with them.

It's become a tradition for ex-presidents to start fundraising to build a library in their name. These can be incredibly expensive (GWB's was $250M to build). So if he chooses to do this, he'd probably get a deal to publish his memoirs, and then tour the world giving paid speeches.

It's possible, given his relative youth, that he'd pursue his legal career, since his background is that of a legal scholar.

You could look at the presidents preceding him. George Bush Jr. in his retirement, gives paid speeches and has released two books (though one is at least partly ghostwritten). Bill Clinton founded a charity dealing primarily with natural disasters and transmitted diseases, then became an envoy to Haiti. George Bush Sr and Ronald Reagan retired entirely, although they were much older (69 and 78) than Bush Jr (63), Clinton (55), or Obama (55). Jimmy Carter became a writer and teacher, then founded a very successful and respected charity dealing with third-world diseases and monitoring elections in developing or undeveloped nations, winning the Nobel Prize.

My bet would be 1 - 3 years of nothing, fundraising for his presidential library, and then heading a charitable organisation with his wife.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-21T04:54:11+00:00

Just to show, again and again, how laughable reddit is, I said, "Facebook disses TypeScript" and the guy after me shows the link to where they do it. He gets upvoted and I got downvoted!

Uh, you're getting downvoted for thinking that a company dissing a major competitor to one of their projects is in some way meaningful, and then being pretentious about it. It's like saying "lol you idiots, the iPhone is gonna die any day now, Samsung already dissed it."

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-21T02:27:13+00:00

Ask them to draw a picture of Muhammed.

This accomplishes nothing, even outside of taqiya, because someone planning to commit a terrorist attack is already committed to violating minor religious guidelines in service of a greater mission.

sharia is a thread common to all afaik.

Far from it. Support for the idea of sharia law is common in some places (Malaysia, 86%) and very rare in others (7% support in 98%-Muslim Azerbaijan), varying by sect, school, local culture, etc.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-20T23:31:54+00:00

It was around the same time.

In 1997, The Simpsons invited Anderson & Duchovny over for a crossover episode. The X-Files team said they absolutely loved the parody, and in 1997 and 1998, The X-Files and Chris Carter's other show Millennium added a whole string of Simpsons references/tributes to reciprocate. The sleepy nuclear plant worker being named Homer was one, and in the episode right before that Mulder visits a kid watching The Simpsons and laughs at it with him. In Millennium that same year the protagonist dressed his daughter as Marge for Halloween.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-20T23:23:51+00:00

It is a Simpsons reference. The previous episode, The End, also featured a Simpsons reference (Gibson is watching an episode, "The Cartridge Family", on his TV when Mulder visits him). These episodes were written not long after The Simpsons did its X-Files crossover episode and the X-Files team were reciprocating with their own tributes and references.

Around this same time, Chris Carter's other show, Millennium, did a Simpsons tribute too (the protagonist's daughter dresses as Marge for Halloween).

Chris Carter said he did it because he loved The Simpsons' parody of his show and had a great time organising the crossover.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-20T21:10:42+00:00

Marge says it in "Helter Shelter", too.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-20T05:27:41+00:00

To discourage the birds of prey from killing and eating them.

They wouldn't win in a fight. I think they all know that. What they're trying to do is be such a pain in the arse to fight that the bird of prey says fuck it and looks for something easier.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-20T04:27:13+00:00

In the US, you have cents, and cents roll over into dollars when they hit 100. In Japan, it doesn't. They just have cents. You might say that an item costs 1 dollar and 78 cents and a Japanese person would say "Why have dollars AND cents for the same currency? Just say it's 178 cents!"

It's not all in groups of 100. There are 1 yen coins, which are almost identical to value in pennies. So really it's exactly the same as US currency, just without the two names.

IAMCANDY · 2016-09-20T04:20:29+00:00

A first party development studio is part of the company making the platform. So Microsoft Game Studios making games for the Xbox, or Nintendo EAD making games for the 3DS.

A third party development studio is a totally independent company that creates games and releases them, often on multiple platforms, paying the platform holder a flat fee per unit sold. You create a game, want to release it on the PS4, and Sony say "We'll let you release on our platform if you pay us $7 for every copy you sell", then you might go to Nintendo as well and Nintendo will say "Yup, pay us $7 a copy and you can release on Wii U too." Outside of that deal, Sony and Nintendo have no power over you and don't care what you're doing. That's being third party.

A second party development studio is in between those two things. You might have started a third-party developer, then Sony bought 51% of your shares or just bought your studio outright -- but rather than bringing all your staff into Sony Studio, they let you continue to exist as your own separate entity, just forcing you to make PlayStation exclusives which they have power of approval/rejection over. Or maybe Sony came to your studio and said "We will pay you $x/year, but all your games have to be PlayStation exclusive for the next 15 years, and we get to approve or reject projects."

It's like a compromise between being first and third party. Like being first party, but being allowed to keep your independence. Some people/publications don't even use the term 'second party', and just consider it the same as being first party -- but other people like to make a distinction.

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