BubRoss

Does anyone ever desolder their parts?

You realize a barrel jack is just some metal of a certain size right? Calling a barrel jack proprietary because dell added crazy things to their own power supplies is nonsense. Barrel jacks have been around and sold individually in bulk for half a century.

> It more than "looks bad", it actively stifles conversation and keeps it at probably around the "ad hominem" tier of disagreement

If it happens a lot and without a given reason it certainly does, but it isn't such a black and white issue that it has to be stopped at all costs. When someone points out very suspicious patterns over multiple names, comments, similar threads that are more likely to have astroturfing or bots etc. and mods pop in to say not to talk about astroturfing and bots because it doesn't happen, that's not helping keep the site to a higher standard.

I don't doubt it is a priority and people are working on it, and I don't think the reply here that has no examples is worthwhile, but an all or nothing attitude doesn't help, because it is the reality of the internet.

That makes zero sense. I'm not dropping comments that have already been upvoted into negatives in seconds and I don't have a user name of random letters a few months old with only 4 or 5 comments, all defending the chinese government in heavily commented threads about a story critical of the chinese government.

There are a lot of statistics that can be analysed to indicate a bot. If you start with extreme cases and catch 'real' people it might be for the best.

Think about an account that is active 24/7 every day all year, or one that fires off multiple actions per second for long periods of time.

Beyond that, having a limited vocabulary, repetitive phrases, consistently accessing the same thing every few minutes, etc. are all low hanging fruit.

The voting and posting activity on threads heavily critical of the chinese government have seemed very suspect to me as well. Many of the names defending the government having post histories of only government defense and "what about other country" while votes end up going through cycles of rising gradually and being downvoted all at once.

I think this is a toxic rule to have. Baseless claims don't help anything, but telling people not to talk about something because it might make the site look bad is gross.

It would be much better to show useful statistics to convince people that bots are kept to a minimum.

iostream hasn't had a lot of success inside C++ either. Operator overloading is one of those features that you wish for when you don't have it. Besides standard math operators, assignment also ends up playing a major role in making data structures behave well when managing resources.

It can be abused but most of the time is extremely convenient. Iostream and boost set a terrible example however. Boost especially goes into the deep end on templates, operators, crazy dependencies, unacceptable compile times etc. It really isn't fair to judge modern C++ on boost. Instead of being batteries included, boost is now more a last resort.

Poisson disc sampling is a brute force technique and isn't an analytic method for packing. Any sample pattern can be relaxed if you are finding neighbor points and using multiple iterations. Poisson sampling is just trying and rejecting many samples based on their neighbors' distances, there aren't any deep principles being used.

It is a lot like a bubble sort in that it is O(n^2) and is useful in practice on tiny sets and as a benchmark.

(Also that link is very cool, but it looks closer to n-rooks / latin hypercube sampling in that it used a grid, which means it won't work in higher dimensions)

When Trump leaves office he will be open to an enormous amount of investigation, litigation and prosecution. I don't know how probable it is that he tries to stay in office, but I don't think it is zero. Twitter planning around that possibility seems be less likely.

None of what you said was about what he said, which was about high powered rifles.

They work even better here I would say, people just eat them up. The shorter and more ambiguous the title, the better. No description necessary and you can link straight to a press release.

First, start by making a giant empty class heirarchy in java. Once you have created a dozen classes that inherit from each other, but not yet made any variables or functions, send it right over, your work is done my man.

A company that hires people for those reasons is rotting itself from the inside. I don't buy things based on how hip the employees are.

Interesting, what are they?

He didn't say there wasn't talented people elsewhere. The title says anyone can take your job, and he drew a line between looking globally to save money and getting what you pay for. You seem to be bringing up counter points to something that wasn't said.

Soundforge on a 486 100Mhz was already pretty fast at editing a single track of audio. It's amazing how much heavy frameworks have warped our perception of normal interactivity.

Amazingly, it is still less of a scam than Lacie hard drives.

How would that work and what would that accomplish?

Then why did you offer? You aren't confronting anything directly, everything you are saying here is indistinguishable from any other PR agent replying but dodging questions to seem like they are transparent.

You didn't answer either of his questions.

Are you really trying to take credit for a flimsy correlation between facebook usage and polarization (in some countries, though you didn't say which ones or how many compared to other heavy use countries)

The names Adolf, Hitler and his moustache aren't making comeback any time soon either, that's just reality.

This definition you have concocted isn't real. Just because everyone stops what they are doing and starts bailing water out of a boat doesn't mean the boat isn't flooded.

You can't hallucinate some new definition for being overwhelmed and then say New York hospitals weren't overwhelmed. That is not rational.

If you forget your iTunes password you have to book a new room.

You would have to be resizing a tremendous amount of images to overwhelm a $2k server.

You are doging the question, maybe because you realize that you can't answer it without lying or contradicting yourself. Do you agree with the fact that you are compelled to wear clothes? After all a mask is essentially clothing.

What about wearing pants? Is wearing pants a compelled action?

If you drive a car you are legally required to have liability insurance.

That is an insane redefinition and goal post moving.