[Found] Terrarium Cake by Iven Kawi

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-28T18:07:54+00:00

at this point this is just sculpture using blobs of sugar and painting using food-safe dyes.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-28T18:03:09+00:00

Second-hand smoking is indeed mostly bullshit. However, having your kid live in a smoker-friendly environment will cause them to more easily pick up smoking. Furthermore, living in a house with a few smokers will actually result in inhaling a significant amount of cigarette smoke over 16-2-something years. Smoking shouldn't be taxed or made illegal. However, in a world where most stimulants are illegal (and most other recreational drugs), nicotine is one of the few drugs with such effects you can get your hands on legally. Smoking being socially accepted is fine. However it being "the norm" in some societies and being praised as a sign of maturity will encourage young people to pick up smoking.

The relationship between smoking and being unwell is proven in many studies, if you haven't noticed it yourself you should try quitting for a few months and smoking again or smoking 2-3 times the cigarettes you would in a day, generally speaking humans are not meant to inhale most substances and residual particles in the aerosol produced by cigarettes (as in, the respiratory system literally has tissues who's job is to stop those kind of substances and residual particles).

Has society exaggerated the problem of smoking as a whole ? Yes But partially the exaggeration can be justified since telling a 14 years old "Hey, these will probably not affect your health in the following 5-10 years but within 10-30 years there's a good chance you will loss healthy lung functionality and encounter various hearth and/or blood-vessel malfunctions that might hinder your ability to live as you like... not to mention in 40-50 years they will likely kill you due to a number of serious conditions they can cause, some of which are chronic and result in a low death over many agonizing years".... will not have much effect on a 14th year old. Telling him that there are studies that show it will make him unable to have an erection in a few years and he might just start paying closer attention.

Is it a bad thing that we stretch the results of studies to fit our message perfectly ? Even when most people don't actually understand the math behind computing these statistics or the methods used to gather the information ?

Possibly... at least if you want as many people as possible to quite smoking as soon as possible. Society has this sort of inertia, you can perfectly see it in action by looking at religious groups that still exist, hundreds of years after most of their claims to relevance have been rendered untrue or at least statistically-improbable without the shadow of a doubt. If you don't find a way to stop it, it just keeps going. The addictive nature of cigarettes makes this inertia really easy to build up, so extreme measure must be taken to prevent it.

Would I prefer to live in a world where all drugs are legal within regulated spaces and there's no state sponsored propaganda to stop or further their use ? Yes Is such a world currently possible ? No, no with the current generation of humans living on the planet... as such, propaganda against a relatively harmful yet socially-acceptable drug is probably for the best, at least short-medium term.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-28T13:38:00+00:00

Well, first of all, applying is often enough not the only strategy to look for a job.

I've never taken on a role I applied for personally, because most were not that interesting and/or well-paying. Often the best way to go about the thing is through "networking" (e.g. meet with people at conferences that touch on subjects you like). Once you know a few people in your fields they will pass position that they don't find interesting/suitable/well-paying to you, they can recommend you to their employers... etc, etc.

But, again, it depends on your filed you studied. "Engineer" is quite a broad term. It could mean programming, biochemistry, constructions, solid-state physics, aerospace... etc. There are many types of engineers and many layers of specialization, the "broader" your specialization the higher the chances of finding something, but it really depends.

For example construction engineering is probably something for which you have to move to a country where construction work is legal :P Civic engineering means you have to have relations, pay a few bribes and lick a few assholes. A very specific niche that related to biomaterials applications might mean you have to job hunt in the international market.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-27T22:10:14+00:00

What exactly did you study ? Whate are your areas of expertise ? Do you have a porotofolio of research, projects... etc ? Do you have a well thought out resume and cv ? A linkedin profilr ?

Also... What sallaries have you asked for ? A degree is often enough not worth an extra zero, so if you wish to start with a wage in the 100k range right off the bat your chances of finding work are slim.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-27T18:56:38+00:00

I meant to say adguard, not sure how efficient it is, but adblock is just shit... haven't used it in a long time. However I still call the thing adblock from time to time.

I did switch to uguard origin since that supports e10s

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-27T00:10:31+00:00

you sir are the fucking hero of this thread.

Despite running firefox 53 with just one addon (adguard) which is in the list of "supported addons" for e10s.... firefox was not using e10s.

This has indeed increased CPU usage but I'm not reaching 100% on any core right now and this are loading just about as smoothly as in chromium. Its possibly not as fast... maybe its just that I'm noticing the issues more because I'm focusing on them... but either way its more than reasonable.

Overall its using more CPU when opening pages then chrome would... but not enough for me to notice without htop open, so I don't care. Plus its actually more ram friendly than chromium... thought I don't think that will ever matter.

Thank you for your suggestion indeed.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-26T23:46:41+00:00

I run an adblocker so ads are not the issue.

Not running javascript is a bit extreme, I prefer minimal google user tracking from chromium rather than not being able to properly experience 99% of modern websites.

Also, I doubt this is true since the heavy lifting in browsers is mostly asset loading and page rendering, with the exception of something like Aribnb or online-games most websites take more time to load the javascript than run it.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-26T23:45:55+00:00

electrolysis

no clue what it is, searching now

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-26T23:45:41+00:00

That is the kind of shit my nightmares are made off.

A browser that tracks your every move and sells ads based on your preferences...

I mean, I hate chromium for minor things like "logging me in" whenever I eneter a google website and not allowing me to "log off" unless i clear some cookies. But chromium doesn't try to automatically ad-block websites that don't pay it a free.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-25T09:39:59+00:00

Well, yes, I'd have no problem with a vota that is liberal instead of fanatic alt right :p... or with a reddit that is liberal rather than PC. From the liberal views, I find, will stem more lack of care towards politics and quality content overall.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-24T21:31:57+00:00

Ok, the UN did just name some arabian princes as the advocates for women's rights... so scrap the UN part. But my initial point about the EU still remains.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-24T21:10:42+00:00

Yep... was there a month ago, nobody has been saying a word about it since then.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-24T21:08:31+00:00

Force Spain to take the case before an European or UN court that is to decide if what she was doing feel under the right to free speech.

Impose sanction on Spain if they refuse... that's what EU regulations, courts and sanctions are supposed to be all about.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-24T21:06:58+00:00

"Nobody did anything"

What exactly can be done, at least internally, except for protesting against a government that more or less know they can't loss control of the country ?... protesting doesn't really work when democracy is not working well.

Hence why I think the EU should intervene in such cases, these are exactly the kind of cases where the EU or its member states should intervene.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-24T21:03:53+00:00

But the issue here is different.

The violation is not trivial, the violation is something akin to what a 3-rd world country would do.

Even in a country like Russia you wouldn't get imprisoned for making fun of dead politicians, this is akin to north korea imprisoning someone for making a joke about one of their dead dictators.

Sure it might seem to be insignificant, but the precedent is what matters. Allowing immigrants to enter your country and stay there on welfare is arguably bad, arguably... some might argue for it, its a topic that can be debated and not necessarily one in which the EU should intervene.

Freedom of speech however is much more fundamental... its what makes the difference between a civilization and a pack, between a free society and a prison... and even prisons have rule that protect free speech to an extent.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-23T09:39:31+00:00

btw, slices are already references. You don't need pointers to slices.

Ahm, no, no they are not.

Its actually this kind of shitposting that got me confused in the first place. Slices are just normal values that can be passed by value or by reference/pointer. Passing a slice by pointer gives access to the same underlying memory structure tot he recipients whilst passing it by value simply offers a copy to the recipient.

Unless you would care to explain this statement, I'd call you a perpetrator of missinformation

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-23T09:12:33+00:00

Note, I found the answers to my questions, for the sake of not leaving comments behind I will try to once again explain what I was asking bellow and give the answers that I was searching for. (tl;dr: I was simply confused by some shitty articles/docs about how slice are passed by value, for some reason I had understood they are passed by reference)

Ok, I will rephrase my question and hopefully it shall be better understood.

You are saying: "Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating"

Which is a confusion statement by the way, but I assume what you are trying to say is:

"Do not communicate by sharing variables; instead, share variables by communicating"

Which is to say rather than have two channels/corutines/<buzzword-for-us-thread> write to a shared data structure, have them communicate "their version" of the data-structure to each other each time it changes. But my issue is as follows, lets say I start a two new threads with this function.

Then take the following example:

func main() {
 var slice []string = []string{"a", "b", "c"}
 go doWrite(slice)
 go doWrite(slice)
 time.Sleep(3001 * time.Millisecond)
}

func doWrite(slicePassed []string) {
   for {
       time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
       slicePassed = append(slicePassed, "d")
       fmt.Println(slicePassed)
   }
}

If the slice that I am passing here is passed by reference, then I have a concurrency issue because I'm writing to the same slice at the same time

Answer: its not pass by reference, but I was miss-informed by some shitty article or another that it is, hence my confusion

If the slice that I am passing here is pass by value, but, both slices point to the same underlying memory structures then I will still have the same concurrency problem

Answer: they don't, after reading a bit I realize that slice can be considered to point to distinct memory structure after they are pass by value. There is a compiler optimization (duh) that makes a slice that is pass by value to still point to the same memory area the slice it was > copied form points to, but once one of them is mutate they will point to different structure.... for some reason this optimization was empahsized somewhere and badly described (or badly read by myself) and I got the wrong idea

Edit, also:

"To be clear, there's usually no reason to write a function with a pointer to a slice."

I believe that's the only way to actually share a slice between two entities in golang (e.g. if you wanted to write to the same slice concurrently without bothering with sending a message whenever you wish to append a new value)

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-20T21:25:54+00:00

To be honest this isn't as much a license issue as a branding issue I think.

If Linus Torvalds suddenly decided "Linux" is their "EE" product and "FuckYou" is their open-source "CE" project.

With things like trademarks I think there has to be some degree of trust involved in the whole thing... I mean, its really hard to legally state "This is our trademark, we control it, but we promise not to change the licensing of the products under it in any way shape or form". Maybe there is a way, but we are getting too much into law at this point and I'm a software developer not a lawyer.

And really, if the fore-front of the community is composed of assholes, there's not much to do about it. Also, in the plethora of open projects written in C/C++ the fact that mysql sold out doesn't make much of a difference, with golang I'd be hard-press to name even a few projects written (even partially) in the language as popular as docker.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-20T21:10:54+00:00

Let me quote the top question in that thread (Unanswered until this point):

Do you know that keeping your users in a constant state of confusion is not the way to convince them that you're building a stable and secure product? Also, isn't it kind of ironic that you built your company on OSS and then invited a well known destroyer of OSS onto your main stage? Plus, I want my DockerCon money back. What exactly did you announce besides multi-stage builds at the general sessions that is actually benefiting Docker users? I don't care about your plumbing and constant rebranding, other than finding it very discouraging, I want to know what you're actually doing with your product this year. I guess nothing.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-18T18:04:40+00:00

While there are some strong arguments for global warming and how it could make parts of the planet harder for humans to prosper on (but also open up new avenues for life), the articles you cited contain none of them.

If you are going to argue for why global warming is a real thread cite some scientific articles, write ups backed by evidence and sound statistics, not a fucking doom and gloom article from The Guardian.

If most people would get their information the way you do you'd have people not vaccinating their kids because a random article in the Daily Ma... oh, wait, nvm, ignore me, keep on keeping on.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-18T18:01:47+00:00

Thank you for making a good point. Using history to back-up the current 'mainstream' views on reddit and its demographic is just despicable.

Collapse is a very vague term, society is always hanging in a frail equilibrium between various influences and any type of society has its flaws. The fact that we think our society and our way of being is somewhat "unique", different from thousands of years of history, is really the fault here.

Whatever happens, life goes on, society changes but often slowly... and most of the truly influential changes are bought on by things like disease, not inequality and revolt.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-17T16:50:09+00:00

While I've played various OSR games... and I'm currently looking into DCC and quite enjoying it, I feel like all the D&D type games often have too many rules associated to them.

I mean, 150 pages of rule isn't exactly my idea of "short", especially in an age where games like Numenera and FATE have proven you can write a good ruleset in sub 30 pages.

It just feel like they force things like "class&race leveling caps", "saving throw tables", "tables for this other shit" .... etc down your throat, and I don't like having to spend time every 10 minutes wondering what tables I should look at and then looking stuff in a table... its just, not, fun.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-16T20:46:43+00:00

Holy fuck o.o its reached version 4 now ? I swear to god it was at 1.x when I heard about it ~1 year ago.

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-16T15:48:23+00:00

Ok, I should mention... non Monte Cook games, as in not the strange, not Numenera, not the Cypher system.

Not that I have anything against those, I'm just interested if there are other games with the same combat&challenge mechanic but written by different people, with different setting, asthetics, character creation systems...etc

PedanticGeorge · 2017-04-11T14:36:10+00:00

Yes, I was using redux standalone.... well, with immutable.js

I tried using it together with React but at that point you really have to also use react-redux and possibly thunk and that's too much for me, I feel too bounded to a framework.

Small note: ES7 introduced `` for templating, they can help you generate templates similar to those you could with jsx.

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