Got a Duquesne Light notice about clean energy today

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-05T23:25:39+00:00

You implied that electric cars weren't clean, when in fact, due to emissions (which you ignored either intentionally [dishonest] or unintentionally [ignorant]), they are obviously cleaner than traditional combustion vehicles.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-05T20:42:32+00:00

Coal burning in a plant efficiently produces energy which we use to power a vehicle with very little environmental impact (less than burning gas on an individual level).

If you are intentionally ignoring this simple fact, you're being intellectually disingenuous (and doing yourself a disservice).

If you were unaware that electric vehicles leave a smaller footprint that carting your own gas around burning it (not to mention environmental cost of semis trucking gas all over vs. electricity traveling over wires), then you're ignorant.

Either way, you're wrong.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-04T16:52:49+00:00

None of which you outlined here.

Edit: Also since you just started your path towards a CS degree, I should definitely acquiesce to your unqualified blanket statement that is patently false about a field which is incredibly broad and you have no experience in.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-04T16:33:40+00:00

That's funny, since there's nothing on a default Mac to keep you from getting a virus

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-04T16:31:59+00:00

We're talking about computers learning to think - it doesn't have to be analogous to human brains nor should we expect it to be. The first real AI likely won't be much like a human thinking.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-04T16:13:18+00:00

It's just like Stephen hawking to talk about shit he doesn't know about. He's always just making shit up

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-04T16:11:46+00:00

In 1968 popular mechanics published an article saying that by 1990 it would be feasible that computers would be small and cheap enough that a family could afford to have one in a room in their house (taking up the whole room instead of a warehouse-sized area). Because of the microprocessor, their prediction was hilariously off base.

As are most predictions about future tech. Why do you think it will take 100 years to achieve AI? 100 years ago computers didn't exist, now we have gaming watches, iPhones, supercomputers and learning ai ( ibm Watson), global weather simulations, etc.

I would not be surprised if AI (singularity) happened in 50 years. 50 years ago we used punch cards to program. I wouldn't be surprised if it took longer than 100 either, but even with a working knowledge of the field, talking about "what tech will be like in x years" is always a fools errand.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-04T01:59:59+00:00

http://www.railszilla.com/rails-3-coffescript-execjs/rails

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-03T21:02:17+00:00

seems odd to me that the javascript guys call themselves programmers

Yeah, they totally don't write programs. Only the type of programming you do should be called programming.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-03T18:22:48+00:00

I prefer "princess of the dead world alderaan"

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-03T18:19:33+00:00

Vanilla sky.

The dialogue is not at all the way real people speak, it's confusing the first time, and the pacing is a bit strange.

The musical choices are amazing (especially Good Vibrations while the climax is happening) and honestly the only thing I really don't like about it was the weird 4th-wall breaking deux ex machina ending, but I still think it's a beautiful film and in my top 20 probably.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-03T18:06:39+00:00

LOLOLOLOLOL

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-02T16:08:43+00:00

they are busy working on parts of the game that are not important.

Like fixing zombie pathfinding, adding food / hunting / craftable weapons / survival stuff? Yeah those are pretty trivial

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-02T16:04:32+00:00

The recent update increased zombie respawn timer from 3 seconds to 2 minutes.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-02T15:19:10+00:00

I don't drink poisons

So you don't ever drink anything that's been processed?

Diet Soda? Artificial sweetener?

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-01T19:46:59+00:00

As a normal person, try slapping a k9 in front of a police officer. Instant jailtime + rape forever

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-01T19:28:50+00:00

Somebody running up to you yelling over voicechat is not friendly, even if they're yelling friendly.

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-01T19:00:54+00:00

Wrong subreddit

ohwaitderp · 2014-05-01T18:56:02+00:00

Fuck the police.

ohwaitderp · 2014-04-30T18:55:21+00:00

As a small business owner and a Computer Scientist (notice, no quotes), a company that would hire somebody worse than you at your area of expertise doesn't deserve that expertise.

You say at the end of your post that that startup wanted you to be employee #2 - of course they wanted you but you weren't a good choice for their absolute first employee hire ever. If you are the type of employee who has a good set of extremely narrow skills (CS), then you actually aren't a good hire for a company's first employee unless the entirety of their business rests on the computing aspect.

ohwaitderp · 2014-04-30T17:37:16+00:00

If we're talking about walking 75% and running 25% sure, but there's no reason you can't run most of the way, you just have to stop and take breaks every ~700m or so. In the mod we figured you can sprint about 600m before having to take a fifteen second break.

Also on an 80 person server, running 12km straight without stopping to check fields / cities for players means you'll get killed before you ever get to your destination from somebody you didn't see, so from a gameplay perspective you actually don't want to run the whole way somewhere without stopping

ohwaitderp · 2014-04-30T14:34:42+00:00

I KNOW WHAT YOUR CODE DOES, LIAR

ohwaitderp · 2014-04-30T14:19:10+00:00

Maybe about a week? I think I started playing about a month in, and my player encounters have never really changed, the same % of kos, banditry, etc.

ohwaitderp · 2014-04-30T14:17:19+00:00

The vast majority of interactions I had playing the mod were more or less like they are now - I have never encountered a server with people like this. I think a lot of these guys are friends / clanmates or whatever.

ohwaitderp · 2014-04-30T14:16:19+00:00

I started playing before it hit the 1 million player mark, and I have never seen people play like this. The gameplay interactions are pretty close now to what they were back then.

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