engeljohnb

8 ms·

61.
by engeljohnb 6mo ago
You find a primary source. If I want to know "Did Christopher Columbus believe the earth is flat?" I could read modern day articles about it, but I'm going to ignore any that don't include direct quotes from either him o
62.
by engeljohnb 6mo ago
Not who you asked, but Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" is an excellent book about polluting your brain. As for my personal experience, internet comment sections will pollute one's brain. Filling your brain wi
63.
by engeljohnb 6mo ago
I'm from Indiana. I'm not an expert, but I do travel across the US for work, and here's a few things that are normal to me but weird to others. "Your car needs washed" instead of "you need to wash your car&quot
64.
by engeljohnb 6mo ago
Therefore, you can dismiss whatwever claim is being made. That's the reason to ask for the source: so you can judge whether it's reliable.
65.
by engeljohnb 6mo ago
Go ahead and name one then. I have this feeling you won't.
66.
by engeljohnb 6mo ago
The words "scale back to" are vague, but I'm struggling to think of any current global problems that weren't at least exacerbated by social media.
67.
by engeljohnb 7mo ago
I was in high school in the early 2010s. In 2010 I went to a school that gave all students ipod touchs, which seemed futuristic at the time. By 2012 phones weren't banned from school, but a teacher would still take it if you were blata
68.
by engeljohnb 9mo ago
> Longer term, he was also quite optimistic on its ability to cut out roles like radiologists, instead having a software program interpret the images and write a report to send to a consultant. As a medical imaging tech, I think this is
69.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
> Man alive, I've already explained this multiple times, and you misread each and every time. Actually, what happened was you explained once, I rebutted, and your reply is now "I already explained." >You even postulate
70.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
> Such overgeneralizations are not helpful. People gravitate stronger towards certain creative disciplines, or a selection of them; how long it exactly takes to develop-out "reasonable" skills is dependent on a litany of factor
71.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
> As you probably can deduce by now, I see both examples as having the potential of being art I suppose it was a mistake to get distracted by trying to find out what exactly you're trying to say -- it's now completely clear tha
72.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
>I see art as a measure of quality. I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you mean to say the worth of an artwork for you is tied to how well it executes technque? "Art" is a word so nebulous that it's hard to
73.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I think it is helpful for certain purposes, and I think you'll be hard pressed to find exceptions to the general rule. Art is all about repetition. Even if you've done it successfully many times, you still need to keep doing it un
74.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I would wager that's how it goes for most people that are both good artists and good programmers -- they were artists first, then learned to program. It takes a lot longer to become a reasonably good artist than it does to become a rea
75.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
After classical art training, I thought pixel art would be fast and easy -- the low resolution would disguise any mistakes. Quite the opposite. The fewer pixels, the more each one has to be perfectly in place. Honestly should've been o
76.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
If I were starting a new project, would it be unwise to just use OpenGL? It's what I'm used to, but people seem to talk about it as if it's deprecated or something. I know it is on Apple, but let's just assume I don&#x27
77.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
It's the oldest trick in the fascist book. You can't be a tyrant when the people are used to the idea that citizens have inalienable rights, so you slowly chip away at who counts as a "citizen."
78.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
We're not talking about phones, we're talking about an operating system. If those companies could port IOS to their phone, they probably would. Since the OS will be mostly the same across devices, it makes sense to market a phone
79.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
What does that have to do with whether we should say "install" or "sideload?"
80.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
You've changed the subject. We were discussing whether one ought to use Google's term for it, or the term that's been used to describe this action since (I assume) the beginning of personal computing. Not whether Google is le
81.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
The whole selling point of Android up until now was that it allowed you to install any app you want. The point of the above comment is that Google intentionally introduced the word "sideload" to make "installing an app on you
82.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I can install on my Fedora laptop through dnf. I've never felt like I needed a new word to describe downloading and running an AppImage. Why would phones be different?
83.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
You said > If they're happy to do it to 1970s standards, probably most of them [could support a family on one income with an ordinary job]. Our house has the same electrical wiring that it did in 1969. The couple that sold us the ho
84.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
This is all real numbers from ny recent job search. It was in a rural area in Indiana, a reportedly low COL state. So anything close to a city would've been way more expensive. > You've forgotten electricity, depreciation and t
85.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
This ridiculous lie needs to end. I can get a microwave for ~$60. I can get a decent used cell phone for ~$100. Appliances are a little more expensive, but I can get a washing machine for ~$300, less if I go to facebook marketplace. But in
86.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I'm a lay person, but do you mean DRM isn't just copy-protection? Is it also network security?
87.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
Clearing the air has gone well for me before, but it usually goes poorly. And a lot of the time the air is foggy because I prefer it that way. I know my supervisor doesn't like me. I don't see it as a problem to solve, for now I w
88.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
There it is, the most frequent question a hacker has to answer. Why would you want that? The answer's always the same: because it's cool.
89.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
That's an interesting point, but do you think you're implying that people who are content even if they have alzheimers or a damaged hippocampus aren't technically intelligent?
90.
by engeljohnb 11mo ago
Yes, it's true that I have different expectations from a conversation with a computer program than with a real human. Like I said, I don't think of it the same as a friend.

More ›