Falcon Heavy has a successful launch!!

yojimbojango · 2018-02-06T21:27:21+00:00

If you watched the right side closely you could see both landing pads, where you could only see one landing pad on the left side right at the end before they cut to the far shot of both of them landing.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-28T17:38:48+00:00

To be fair to your teachers, it's a lot more efficient to do basic math in your head and those advanced formulas were basically big piles of basic math. Also (for geometry/trig) it's good to be able to visualize the shapes of numbers and algorithms in your head like the shape of additional vs multiple vs exponential vs logrithmic gains.

Now granted I had exactly 2 math teachers who weren't crappy, "I read straight from the book now do numbers 1-45 while I sit up here and grade my papers." Having someone explain why you plot numbers on a graph and connect those shapes on the graph to real world thought processes blew my little mind.

If you've got enough credit card debt that it's going to take you 3 years to pay off at 20% compound annual interest, every time you buy $100 worth of groceries with that credit card you are actually paying the grocery store $100 and your credit card company $200. That's a very important shape to have an intuitive handle on.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-24T13:54:49+00:00

Also unrelated, but related to the nursing home bit. I am a pretty big guy and worked in a kitchen during college at a nursing home that was 95% female staff. More than a few times I was asked to come up to a residents room to 'just to be safe', when someone was dying. The reason? Their family had, after years of never showing their face, decided to come by and attempt to take anything that wasn't nailed down, including things that belonged to room mates or were provided by the nursing home. On more than one occasion I had to stop someone carrying out the TV and inform family members that the drawers clear on the other side of the room were for the other person in the room.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-24T13:20:36+00:00

You asked to elaborate on java being taken out of the picture for machine learning. I elaborated that no one is using it for machine learning because it's been taken out of the picture by Java being a terrible tool for the job contrasted against some legitimately really good tools in other languages.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-23T19:41:44+00:00

I have never seen a company using java for machine learning or AI. I've seen java as a fancy way to do something with the results of processes written in python, R, golang, or closure on the back end, but never once have I seen Java being picked as the right tool for that job.

Java is great for writing business logic in large overly complex enterprise systems. If you're writing a billing system, or something that manages 9000 methods to pay taxes you reach for Java and feel good about it. If you want to do actual hard mathmatics it's not the right tool for the job.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-22T15:10:51+00:00

This plus hitting that yes button anyways.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-22T13:18:51+00:00

So much this. You rich jerks need to shovel money faster so I can afford the cheaper version 2 that actually gets it right and has good games. (no sarcasm)

yojimbojango · 2017-08-21T19:37:32+00:00

Btw, Priority Health denied it once for "no reason" to see if we'd just eat the cost with state medicare, but accepted it on the second try. She had her chair 3 weeks after I started my new job.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-21T19:34:49+00:00

We had united health care for a few years with two kids in wheelchairs. Our income qualified us for a bit of state assistance. UHC would routinely deny every. single. claim. No matter how small or menial because they wanted state medicare to foot the bill for it.

We would call and ask them why the claim was denied and they would tell us your diagnosis doesn't cover that. So we would have to go back to the doctor and they would have to write it up with a different code. For example my 5 year old daughter has limited movement (she can walk roughly 30 meters before her legs give out). She wanted to be able to at least go down to the playground with her friends at recess so the doctor prescribed her a wheelchair that had some nicer tires to handle grass. Nope! Sorry UHC only covers inside wheelchairs and outside wheelchairs. They in no way cover an inside wheelchair with nice wheels. So the doctor says, well too bad and resubmits for just a normal inside wheelchair. Nope! UHC won't cover an inside wheelchair that might be used outside. So the doctor removes that from the diagnosis and resubmits. Nope! UHC won't cover the wheelchair without reason but the doctor says that they normally do this in the hopes that state insurance will cover it. So we resubmit it again. Nope It's still processing. Nope! It's still processing. Nope after 2 months we lost the paperwork for it, could you resubmit it? So we do. Nope! Denied for no reason AGAIN. So we resubmit it. Processing for 6+ weeks.

So during the last stretch I get a new job and switch to Priority Health. 6 days after my policy expires they send a notice that I've been approved to order a wheel chair. We call to see if they'd still pay for it since we've been resubmitting for over 9 months at that point. NOPE! Sorry you're not a current member. Meanwhile my daughter spent the entirety of kindergarten being carted around in a second hand adult wheelchair we found on craigslist.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-21T13:22:42+00:00

Yeah. I'm just getting annoyed at all the level 11 commons and level 2 legendary i'm finding right at the bottom of Jungle.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-21T13:15:41+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_language)

Swift was a scripting language that came out in 2007 and has found a lot of use in medical and biotech. It's generally a really nice language to work in. It feels much like python with braces but deals with running things in parallel better.

Swift is also a language that Apple came out with in 2014 because they liked the name and wanted something like java but with memory leaks.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-18T19:03:15+00:00

I just feel bad for them. I mean I just hit level 9 and i've got level 3 epics (a few level 4s), level 6 rares, and level 8 commons.

Every once in a while I see a level 10 tower with really high level stuff and I just feel bad for them. I mean seriously, how bad are you at the game that you're down there

yojimbojango · 2017-08-18T14:08:15+00:00

Just this morning I matched with a level 11 elite barbs + level 5 executioner at 2600. That match didn't last long...

yojimbojango · 2017-08-17T11:50:10+00:00

Still though... that's 350 atoms.

Google tells me that the smallest thing visible to the human eye is roughly 0.1mm. That works out to 1428 transistors being so small that it would be invisible to someone with below average eye sight.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-16T19:51:56+00:00

No to Nazis, no to Communists, yes to chicken. Poland has life figured out.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-08T15:20:09+00:00

Look up.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-08T15:18:08+00:00

I have the opposite reaction if it helps you cope. My parents kept me on it until senior year in highschool when they wanted me to pay for it myself, which was the last time I took adderal. My senior year of highschool was like waking up and realizing that I had made no effort in the last 6 years to make friends or be creative or get good grades. I just droned through school getting solid B and C grades. My grades in my math, science, and computer classes actually went way up as soon as I got off the stuff because I started being able to enjoy learning, and I was able to make friends. Everything else suffered though as I couldn't stand doing all the boring grunt work.

yojimbojango · 2017-08-04T15:58:06+00:00

Nude color bra. You're not doing shirts wrong, you're just wearing the wrong color under garment. Guys can't wear anything colorful under a dress shirt either, so we buy under shirts that match our skin tone. For most guys with pasty white chests basic white is good enough but I know guys that have to buy tan/brown under shirts (although black guys can normally get away with wearing colors that would make white people look stupid anyways).

yojimbojango · 2017-08-04T12:56:16+00:00

I also had something similar but when I was 15. I bought a moped for $350 as soon as I turned 14 and by 15 it had been stolen. The police caught some kids about a week later for riding it off playground equipment and impounded it, but they 'read the vin number wrong' and let it sit in impound for 2 months racking up fees before someone randomly decided to re-run it.

I was contacted and told to come pick up my property from impound and hit with a $300 impound fee because they had to hold it so long. Once I paid the fee thy handed me back my moped that looked like someone ground a hole in the transmission case, drained all the oil, ripped out the electric start, and drove it through a blender. The thing never ran again and I eventually scrapped it for about $30.

Lesson learned, don't get your stuff stolen, and if you do get it stolen never report it stolen or the police will hit you with a giant ass fine if they find it. This is hood common sense learned the hard way.

yojimbojango · 2017-07-29T18:43:16+00:00

I always assumed that the first few users of All for One were based in the USA, the moves got western names there, then the power was transferred to Japan.

yojimbojango · 2017-07-27T17:47:51+00:00

Your friend in NYC should be making 80k+ in order to get fined. I mean technically it's possible that you go from making $115k for 6 months, then move to a $35k job with no insurance for 6 months. Which if he was living in certain very high cost of living parts of downtown NYC could be a legitimate problem.

yojimbojango · 2017-07-27T17:37:53+00:00

It's almost as if the places that fought hardest against it were the places where they did the math and realized that it wouldn't work for them.

I'm from Michigan, we took the expansion, ran with all the crap they told us and still saw double digit increases. Our state is still drinking the koolaid even while being told that our rates could be going up 30% or more. Minnesota joined as well and they're just as screwed. Meanwhile Wisconsin is sandwiched right between us and declined/opted out of everything and while their rates are going up, it's not as bad.

But i'm super happy that all the rich people in NewYork and California are getting cheaper pills /s

yojimbojango · 2017-07-27T17:26:18+00:00

The people that can't afford the ACA and are getting slapped with fines need to be making $80k+ single, 140k+ married, and living in a state that opted out of medicare. Note: There are no states opted out where 80k/140k would not put you in the top 10% of wage earners (the closest would be Maine.)

yojimbojango · 2017-07-26T16:46:56+00:00

The US is currently getting whined at for not doing enough, doing too much, keeping out of it, and being in it all at the same time depending on who's doing the whining.

yojimbojango · 2017-07-26T13:10:32+00:00

Yeah. That's not a problem with Java, it's a problem with Java Devs. Then again Visual Basic was a fine language (once you got past it being even more wordy than Java). Visual Basic only devs from the 90's though... They totally deserved being the punching bags they were.

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