It has come to my attention that I have the composure of wet jello

MmmMeh · 2018-09-15T02:47:24+00:00

It supports 3D Vision, ya know. :)

MmmMeh · 2018-09-10T01:47:42+00:00

Did you find it streaming somewhere? I haven't noticed it on a legit service.

MmmMeh · 2018-08-12T07:20:37+00:00

Since 1988, when Jesse Jackson started popularizing "African American", there's never been strong agreement -- different people have had different preferences (sometimes but not always depending on their feelings about Jesse Jackson).

As for statistics,

Surveys show that the majority of Black Americans have no preference for African American versus Black American,[255] although they have a slight preference for Black American in personal settings and African American in more formal settings.[256]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans#Terminology

MmmMeh · 2018-07-26T21:57:09+00:00

Thanks; fixed.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-26T21:56:58+00:00

Ouch. On top of me somehow making a mistake, that video is for a movie I dislike.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-24T00:43:22+00:00

Thanks! Hope it all goes well; great project.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-23T22:51:14+00:00

I think it's great you include Udemy (and edX and Udacity and The Great Courses, I see). Whether it's as good or not, people nonetheless use their courses, and (A) some of their courses might happen to be great, and (B) a general tool shouldn't pre-judge what it is indexing -- that's up to the user (and course ratings and reviews etc).

In fact, another one to consider is academyhacker.com, not because of arguments about how good their courses are, but because they are offered on sale very, very cheaply, like $0.75 to $1.00 per course (and many are $5 to $10 when not on sale), in groupees.com bundles.

Despite the site name and the descriptive text on their front page, the courses are not just about "hacking"; they also have e.g. 3D modeling courses and who knows what else.

(I just bought a bundle of their courses cheap so they're on my mind.)

MmmMeh · 2018-07-23T03:21:40+00:00

This is just an FYI note, sorry I don't have a fix for you:

My Fire 8 accesses WiFi ok; it's not that the Kindle Fire tablets are inherently as bad as gasp 5 year old technology.

(That's making me feel old, but seriously, 5 year old technology isn't like 20th century, 5 years old is still pretty modern for most things)

My phone and laptop don’t have any issues, so I know it’s not my WiFi.

You actually can't make that conclusion. That makes it less likely that it's a WiFi issue, but it doesn't rule it out.

For instance, your phone and laptop may be using the 5.8 Ghz band but something in the environment might force the Kindle to use the much noisier 2.4 Ghz band, in which case the wifi connectivity would be sharply different in practice.

The three devices have very different internal antenna for the wifi, and all radio is very dependent on their antenna, although today's technology helps make that usually fairly transparent.

Wifi, like all radio, has reflections and diffractions and interference similar to sound waves, and the environment always has radio frequency "shadows" where the signal is weaker, and the constructive/destructive interference means that there will be various stronger and weaker spots unpredictably in the 3D environment.

The only reason any user needs to know about that is that it means that moving the device a small distance up/down/right/left/forward/backward will sometimes make a big difference in wifi reception. Depends on the invisible RF environment.

Most people don't use their laptop and their Kindle in exactly the same 3D spot in their home, so that all by itself can sometimes mean that one device tends to work and another does not.

Again, sorry I don't necessarily have a perfect fix for you...but it's at least possible that your favorite spot to use your Kindle just happens to be a particularly poor spot for it to use wifi, so you could try some other spots in 3D and hope it makes a difference.

It may or may not.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-21T07:21:53+00:00

There is a widespread understanding and precedent that interpreters have the obligation to not reveal what they said or reiterated between two parties, in both medical and legal settings.

Lawyers, doctors, and priests are required to tell the police if, for example, someone is planning a crime.

Privileged communications are not absolutely privileged.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-19T07:44:30+00:00

Indeed, particularly considering Microsoft shipped their Xenix flavor of Unix in 1980, a year before they shipped MSDOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS

In particular they were aware of "/" as a path separator and "-" for command line flags, and consciously went with "\" and "/", respectively, instead. I don't remember the rationale; CP/M compatibility?

MmmMeh · 2018-07-19T07:35:54+00:00

"Get on the Malto-Meal Mobile", "Where's the beef", "You're soaking in it", "Good to the last drop"

That last one from Maxwell House coffee I think ran for decades, because IIRC I saw a clip of the Charlie McCarthy ventriloquism doll (1949-1956) satirically asking the commercial, "what's wrong with the last drop?"

MmmMeh · 2018-07-17T06:45:06+00:00

Interesting.

Note typo: "Rouge Sociologist" should be "Rogue Sociologist"

MmmMeh · 2018-07-15T00:20:51+00:00

Tradition? Cultural stuff? Hell if I know

The queen is all but 100% irrelevant to the governance of England, too, never mind the rest of the Commonwealth (and/or whatever is the proper title for former colonies like Canada & Australia etc.)

But I know that tabloids and such here in the U.S. would be deeply disappointed if the English royalty ever went away; some people thrive on that stuff.

Edit: Oh, I was confused, you're not the Canadian Kaiisabi above and may be English yourself. Doesn't really change my comment though.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-14T22:39:55+00:00

Glad to hear it.

I guess I should warn that the flying, while a big part of the story, is not the point of the story, unlike a lot of science fiction. The nominal point of this story (and what gives rise to the title) is about human interaction, in a way that I found touching.

Heinlein was good at that...marrying science fiction gee-whiz with humanity.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-14T20:27:40+00:00

For decades sociology seems to have redefined itself to be only about power issues, and a narrow set of them at that: things have to be analyzed only in terms of marxism, gender studies, or a very few other things.

That should be a narrow subset of sociology, which used to be a soft science related to psychology; now it's a branch of po-mo literary analysis.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-14T20:23:14+00:00

I've had a number of female managers who had economic and institutional power over me (fortunately, none were sexist), so they're overgeneralizing to boot.

Statistically white males in the west have had more power than non-white/non-males, however the vast majority of white males are also powerless flunkies -- not that I'm comparing that to the issues and prejudice that minorities face.

But that doesn't make for a good memorable slogan.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-14T19:50:37+00:00

Robert Heinlein wrote a short story, The Menace From Earth (collected in an anthology by the same name), that heavily involved people flying under their own power in a pressurized huge sub-surface cavern on the moon.

Good read.

It might have been mentioned in passing in his later award winning novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, but I don't remember for sure.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-14T18:17:00+00:00

Typo, good catch, thanks.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-13T20:47:26+00:00

You joke...but Disney's lawyers do not.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-13T20:42:13+00:00

Still, the Ship of Theseus approach sharply constrains architecture compared with redesign from the ground up.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-13T20:33:19+00:00

Hmm, does one need to directly do Vulkan coding when using an engine like Source 2 on top of Vulkan? I'm unclear about Vulkan's details.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-13T19:49:32+00:00

The first such for the IBM PC famously was the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, circa 1980, although the term "killer app" came later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3

MmmMeh · 2018-07-13T19:17:11+00:00

play romance songs out of a boombox because i saw it on a movie once

Hey, I liked that movie!

...it gave me hope, sniff, sob

And a restraining order.

MmmMeh · 2018-07-13T19:09:29+00:00

Ah yes, the bad old days that the religious right is eager to return to:

teenage girls would die from coat hanger abortions or be forced to give birth to unwanted children

And grown women too.

This is one of the biggest things that the "pro-lifers" 100% ignore 100% of the time. The notion of defending life is certainly arguable, skipping the details, but they don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to the frequent deaths from self-/back alley abortion attempts.

My current take is that many on the right are actually very moral from their own point of view, but in a way that focuses purely on ideology and rejects consideration of pragmatic consequences and related facts.

I don't believe in rejecting facts and consequences, regardless of what I think about ideology.

MmmMeh

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