Re: Disrupting the business model of sites that you value
I just delete the elements straight up, no need to tinker with the obfuscation when you can just rip it out at the roots.
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If you have Excel, everything looks like a spreadsheet.
I've already replied to one of your comments on this topic with a snarky post but from a user perspective, a lot of the value of getting a clue in Excel is how amazingly versatile it is, so that you don't need to learn how to use a dashboard set up by Vogon A and another tool from Vogon B, you just put the data in Excel and use one tool.
Not saying that everything should be in Excel. It most definitely shouldn't, and as a reporting tool (guessing at that from how you've described it), your system is probably better. For going in and digging around the data, Excel is quite possibly superior.
You can get a 5000 character formula into a cell. Excel only starts throwing a wobbly when you go above 8192 characters.
You can often run into that problem while debugging array formulae as each section of an array formula can easily handle tens of thousands of rows so while stepping through with F9, you go over the limit even though you have no intention of actually writing a formula more than 100 characters or so.
I didn't notice the part count while building it but distinctly remember wondering why certain parts of the model had what looked to be entirely extraneous bricks hidden away on the inside.
Still a great kit to build, although one of the fins got lost during a house move :(
At this stage, I expect the world to continue marching towards dataslavery(TM) no matter what is done. There are too many ways around even the most expertly crafted legislation, which we all know isn't going to be that well written to begin with and we must rely on the conscience and commitment of the management of every company that can scrape this data.
All I want to know is whether they will be happy once they've taken over the world.
If the Tories collapse, that will leave only Labour, an even worse choice.
I was going to try and say something pithy about the second worst party letting the worst party in, but then i remembered that UKIP and NEWKIP exist and are even worse and just felt depressed.
A guy at a desk, as described by the poster above can be tricked.
A machine can also be tricked, just by very different methods.
The possibility for an untrickable guy exists but isn't scalable, no matter how much he eats
The possibility for an untrickable machine exists but we haven't figured it out yet.
The problem is, and always will be people. Imperfect lords of systems that require perfection to function.
And, for all we like to think it is always the user doing something wrong, anybody in the chain of managing accesses/credentials is liable to make a mistake, which then gets amplified by human nature so the rumblings of discontent among the users who just want to get on with their job.
Whoever figures this out will die so obscenely rich that they'll be able to return Magrathea to glory, and biometrics don't count.
I know that the intent behind these tips is often envisioned by a genuine desire to help (as long as they aren't trying to sell you something), but I've never had a suggestion like this where I didn't want to add an option 4:
Shut up and go away you piece of shit. I have a computer so that it does what I tell it to do, when I tell it to do it. If I wanted your opinion on the matter, I'd program it into you with a god damn sledgehammer. Never offer my any advice ever again because I already have a mother who tries teaching me to suck eggs whenever I meet her.
*ahem*
I'm informed that it's not a Vesa mount.
It's a Vesa adaptor.
Your $5k or $6k monitor needs $200 spending before you can attach it to a Vesa mount.
Which is sold seperately, and not by Apple on their page.
So you are right that third party Vesa mounts won't be available straight off, and would you really want to trust your new, expensive and very heavy monitor to a third party adapter?
A domain that you redirect your mail to?
That's a novel thought. I expect that you're hosting this domain locally with an offsite backup server or have it set up with multiple hosting providers to avoid single points of failure.
But that does seem like a lot of time investment, so I rather think that time is better spent elsewhere than making an inconsequential personal email address that I get for free* bulletproof
*Well, as "free" as anything Google
Not really, we built the first trains; pioneered the science; made all the mistakes.
Poorly designed tracks, without the experience of 100 years of engineering means that the trains have to travel slowly because corners.
Trains that must travel slowly due to the track will naturally focus on outlasting God rather than being fast.
Japan's rail infrastructure was built after the War, with trains already able to travel >100mph and electric/diesel being what they were built for.
There are also passenger/freight aspects - Britain's rail network powered the industrial backbone of the country so the infrastructure needed to be way more complex than it did in Japan.
What we have left in Britian is the remnants of a structure that is no longer required to keep every aspect of the country's production lines in order.
Please forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but both of you are directly referring to the gambling part of these modern games - gambling in the form of loot boxes especially. In those situations, does it not follow that gambling is still addictive while the game part of the game is merely compelling?
I definitely agree that a balance must be struck and the onus lies on parents but I'm less sure of where my opinion on when a govt should get involved stands.
Considering that it is a virtual world, what makes you think that the above are unmanageable?
Sun glare is a visibility inhibitor in a specific direction - reducing view distance towards the virtual sun will handle it,
Intense rain is another visibility inhibitor, as is (falling) snow - reduce the view distance of the simulated car again.
Snow/ice on the road is a modifier to the coefficient of friction - have a variable changing unexpectedly
Awkward potholes can be inserted for maximum awkwardidity or virtual road surfaces could just have a "council budget" slider - all modifiable parameters.
On top of that, autonomous vehicles do not need to be perfect before they are better than humans, they just need to be better than humans to be better than humans.
Getting very fed up of people thinking that how other people choose to present themselves is any of their business, so if you are: try being an individual and let them be as it has nothing to do with you*. You definitely sound like a pillock. And it sounds like all you ever taste is a dog's arse.
Oh, and for the love of God, ditch the bloody "Wiser than thou" attitude, and think about how somebody could take the piss out of your post - there are other assholes on the internet too, you muppet. And keep sitting there staring out the window like a drooling imbecile.
Jesus, you make me puke.
*outside of a professional environment