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I never used an adblocker until recently when Youtube started showing those fucking World of Tanks ads and ads for similar games from the same fucking company.

Many of you don't understand how that could be a huge nuissance, because your systems are powerful enough to shrug it off, but for my old system, those fucking ads would freeze up the UI of the page.

Even with my new system, many of the ads offered enough of a slowdown to the experience of using many sites on top of sometimes causing the system to crash completely that an adblocker became necessary.

Oh, right. I can't believe I forgot about intonation ... I should really get out and talk to people via voice more ...

This is the first time I actually read all the way through an article on assembly. It was nice and concise. Granted, I'll probably forget this until the next article (due to focusing on other studies), but thank you none the less.

By non-verbal do you mean like ambient sound? Dogs barking, child yelling, garbage truck garbage trucking? I don't know. If they can do voice, then it might be possible to do ambient sounds of there is a separate nets trained with a library of ambient sounds where it's tuned not to be the same every time the sound plays like how when you have tiled graphics, there are algorithms that remove the unnatural sameness from one tile to the next.

This could have interesting implications for Foley-artists of the 21st century.

How likely would such a tech help lower budget companies who want to implement voice communication within their software, say for video games or similar?

Hmm, now this has me wondering what implications this has for voice acting as well.

EDIT: We can call the ambient sound symbols sent over the wire "Soundmojis" or "amojis" or "audiomojis"

How much Bandwidth is consumed from voice communications such as when speaking to someone on Skype or over the phone, vs. the same words transmitted via text?

Perhaps future communication applications can have a WaveNet on either end, which learns the voice of the person you're communicating with and then only sends text after a certain point in the conversation?

I'm coming at this from a point of ignorance though, so correct me if I've made erroneous assumptions.

Lmao, yeah, that second paragraph is spot on.

If there are 25,000 users in a community, then it's not "your" community.

Ah, I see. No, I learned programming eons ago with a "Logic of Programming" course at my local community college where the book in question made heavy reference to mainframe programming and came with a stencil for flowcharts. There was no actual coding involved when learning the concepts, just tediously produced flowcharts and ample use of a sketch pad / eraser. Kids these days would be better off learning in a similar fashion.

Well, fuck. I stand corrected.

My Dad says shit that he makes up in his own head by reinterpreting what others have told him and I just believe him without bothering to verify unless I know it's incorrect; and even then sometimes I just don't bother.

For instance, in this case he probably saw or heard the term LASIK so much by advertising that it just stuck in his head and he glazed over whatever the doctors were telling him when he went in, and he's been repeating that same thing ever since. I believed him, because I don't have eye problems and was never curious enough to look further.

Shame on me.

"At least then I know that I put it in a machine physically, which gave me psychological comfort, but no actual verification that my vote was counted."

^-- Fixed that for you.

But seriously, at some point, unless everyone sticks around to watch everyone else's votes being counted, there has to be some level of trust with the system. The only thing we can do better is to make vote counting machines' code open sourced and have the code signed with a trusted Public Key Infrastructure of some sort.

Better than being blind.

My dad had been just letting his cataracts go, since he's the stereotypical stubborn person who doesn't like to go to the doctor till it's too late. So, one morning he woke up and panicked because he was effectively blind.

He somehow managed to get a hold of my sister (I was away from home; she lived in the same neighborhood luckily) who helped him get an appointment for LASIK. Long story short, he ended up with nearly 20/20 vision afterwards.

I feel like I'm the only one who learned Python from the official site's tutorial page:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

I found it really helpful.

:O

Is that really the case though? I mean, I'm no longer a customer of Mavis Beacon, Mario Teaches Typing, and Dino Park Tycoon ...

1) Drink your caffeine like you would be taking a medication (i.e. regular doses at regular intervals) 2) Don't consume too much caffeine.

I drink 4 shots of espresso in the morning and 4 shots later in the evening. I used to drink 12 shots total (4 shots, 3x/day), but began to notice that I was suffering from adrenal fatigue where I could function even less if I didn't get the first dose in and each dose didn't last as long at keeping me wakeful, so I cut back to 2x/day.

Along with that, have a proper diet which may include certain supplements (Vitamin D, B12, fish oil), and make sure to get exercise in at least 3 times per week focused, and get up and walk around every so often, doing air squats or something, or simply take a walk around the block.

Agreed. Furthermore, your toddler can't accidentally kill themselves or others by playing on your keyboard and sending out encrypted reply-alls.

I wonder how long it will take to get to this point with self-driving cars (Automatic-automatic?) vs. manual-automatic vs. manual-manual.

Well, one could argue that cryptographic hashing is like encryption which isn't meant to be reversible.

Bitcoin is has a supply limit, so that taken together with it's technical features such as a proof of transaction and digital-ness makes it highly valuable in an economy where more and more transactions take place in the digital rather than the physical space.

I'm sure there's a better answer, but that's the best I can muster with my current knowledge on the matter.

I think a better question is "given the rarity of bitcoin, why wouldn't people value it?"

Also, as for the confidence thing, bitcoin is no different than anything else in our economy. Our economy is built on confidence.

Recently towards the end of the election I went through my feed blocking various news sites from even appearing; left or right, but especially many of the sites found in the link above.

That being said, seeing the sites from the link above, it seems like there are more tabloid/fake sites being shared by the conservative side of the isle. I wonder if this has anything to do with those Macedonians and similar people that took advantage of the fearmongering of Trump to make a profit or if those sites have always been around.

You do realize that what the great renaissance intellectuals created, the right wing in the united stated looks down upon and scoffs at, right? They hate anything to do with art or culture unless it's their version of Christianity.

This is the same attitude of Boko Haram.

The left wing doesn't dismiss the great cultural achievements the west has created, but we try to create space for them within a nation known for accepting immigrants, rather than forcefully imposing our culture on them, which seems to have failed so brilliantly in places like France.

The politicians trivialize this shit, because they pander to the voters. The left embraces other cultures because we're sick of getting Christianity shoved down our throats.

Or better yet, learn C, C++, CUDA, MPI, Python, and R simultaneously.

Considering the current state of gerrymandering, it seems like it was a good move.

Some examples here:

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-donald-trump-...

Confirmation biasception?

Wait, so every time someone makes a citation on wikipedia it causes Archive.org to archive that URL? This seems like it could be abused by a malicious agent, no?

How to Design Your Own House: Step 1) Pay an Architect to design your house.

Then maybe double it and eat 2 slices; problem solved.

Did you even bother to read the article? You say that you think the term is ambiguous and this article is here exactly for the purpose of elucidating the idea of Fascism as it appears in it's obvious and not so obvious forms.

You say people are quick to throw around the term, yet you're equally quick to disregard those who see some very obvious similarities between Trump's style of campaigning and the rise of various fascist leaders.

These clues are not subtle in Trump's case. It's mind boggling to think that people do not see them. It's like watching Blue's Clues with the audience of children yelling "THE CLUE IS RIGHT THERE!" and Steve is completely oblivious for the whole episode. In the end Blue dies because Steve is ignorant. Blue is our Democracy. You are Steve.