Uh, where did you get the VB for terrible performance and CPU usage? There's nothing inherent to the language that makes it less efficient than C# or anything else running on the CLR.
the postprocessing effects if very simple, you just apply a glyph (even random) instead of a pixel. So if might be used in lots of places... like you mention - for camera input.
This was done 13 years ago for Desktop, C++... but now WebGL would be definitely a better choice.
Thee "pull-left" and "pull-right" classes were added into v2.2 (in the Github repository) in addition to the similar "float-left" and "float-right" classes.
These additions have been merged into the Master branch this afternoon.
The example site is running on v2.1 which uses the float-left and float-right classes.
eh skimpy article, plaintext passwords and packet injections
(tbh i always assumed packet injections were hard as fuck, but i guess when your office is in the telco its ez)
i figured out how to remove the nsa from the internet for those who care. its very low tech... we simply unplug their line, and we keep unplugging them. or more clearly we pressure other admins to unplug them from the network, and use our admins to actually work for us not the government. with resistance, we would probably have to unplug lines to companies with admins who refuse to unplug nsa lines. i think it could be done and i think its lovely if it is. i think the public would a) love the idea if they are knowledgeable and b) flip the fuck out when their internet goes off cuz the admin wouldnt unplug the nsa. all in all a fun shitstorm, and a decent technical problem when we have to route the entire internet somewhere other then a telco with nsa offices.
its interesting that it could have been done along, and could at any time be done. we just lack the will.
Founder of psychiatry drove around in a lobotomobile for 40 years giving lobotomies to haunted people for $25 each.
(With an icepick) (Check the movie/wikipedia lobotomobile)
the treatments since then have gotten only slightly less barbaric, like being tied down for 20 hours a day, or drugged and locked away.
still none of their bullshit has worked. and 75 - 150,000,000 cases of mental illness today (if you add the un-reported cases estimate) aka 1/4 the population (maybe 1/2).
Can everyone please stop downvoting this guy because he said a bad word? He appears to have a mental condition, but lots of people do. I found his posts interesting.
Aside from their fondness for PHP and lack of fondness for the shift key, I see no evidence for mental illness that can be gleaned from internet comments aside from a few curse words and minority opinions.
You're asking for an advanced degree of empathy that goes beyond what the collective here is capable of so far. I'm sure many individual members are capable, but the nature of large groups is that the whole is less than the sum of its parts.
they tried castration, lobotomy, and drilling a hole in the persons skull to drain the blood (they had no power tools so a hand crank drill)
on children. on teenagers. on the old. and on the stupid.
to cure voices...
you dont know what your talking about guys.
were talking about elective surgeries, that people could not refuse, and testified later to the supreme court they were done without permission, and sometimes tortured or beaten if refusing the surgery.
I didn't say they weren't barbaric but this isn't about them, it's about your behavior; you're being a bigot. Gay is not an insult, don't use it as such and think you can preach from any high ground.
Agreed but it's a pity the only response is reacting to the homophobic slur here; it is truly criminal and worth talking about how much leeway pseudo-scientific "doctors" are given, to this day, to abuse the human rights of those different enough to be deemed "mentally unsound".
In the US at least, a mentally ill person can only be committed against their will if they are deemed an active threat to themselves of others, and it has been that way for decades. The days of involuntary in-patient institutions are largely over.
In many cases this is basically a rubber stamp. I know several people who were committed against their will after as little as a cursory 5 minute conversation. To anyone who knew them at all, they pretty clearly weren't violent or a threat to others. Another person I knew was hospitalized for a suicide attempt, at which the doctors, for no particular reason and with no evidence, assumed she must be hearing voices, and had her on anti-psychotics for around a week before her family managed to convince them otherwise.
Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists weld a frightening amount of power over the people who may not be aware of just how easy it is to be locked up for seeking any kind of help or therapy. At this point, I consider pretty much any contact with clinical psychs to be every bit as dangerous as talking to a cop without a lawyer.
> I know several people who were committed against their will after as little as a cursory 5 minute conversation.
Not to call you a liar, but quite simply I don't believe that. Having dealt with wanting to get someone committed against their will, I found it was all but impossible unless they're actively and obviously dangerous to themselves or others.
> Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists weld a frightening amount of power
They really don't. They can't just commit people because they talked to them and decided hey lock that guy up.
> They can't just commit people because they talked to them and decided hey lock that guy up.
They're free to assess you however they want and then use that as an excuse. Who is going to argue with and stop them? The judge? Your lawyer? Someone else who lacks a medical degree and "psychiatric expertise"?
There are so many ways it can go wrong for you. Maybe they thought you said something you didn't. I was once accused of making suicidal statements that I never did - not even a matter of being misheard, but completely making up things that I had never said. Maybe you just seem twitchy or distracted or they think they see signs of some other symptom. Maybe they just decide to lie because they think they know best.
I'm not claiming that every psych is out to get you, just that you really roll the dice when you talk to an unknown one. Hence the comparison to dealing with police. From my own experiences and people I've known, it gets worse when you aren't involved of your own free will or aren't the one directly paying for your own treatment.
In your case, I'd be curious whether whichever working clinical psychiatrist that was assigned to this person also felt as strongly that they should be committed, and had similar lack of success doing so?
Some non-anecdotal evidence either way would be more convincing, but this is the impression I've gotten considering the uniformity of experiences I've observed. Only one person I can think of actually felt they were helped by and had a positive experience with a psychiatric institution, and that was through a college health service. The only paper[1] I could find on it reports that "retrospectively, between 33% and 81% of patients regard the admission as justified and/or the treatment as beneficial," which is a uselessly broad range and could be used to conclude either way.
I think you're remembering a time long past. The system doesn't work that way anymore. Committing someone against their will is no longer trivial or easy if even possible. You have to have evidence and it has to be an immediate threat like within a few days and it's f'ing hard. These people do not have the power you think they do anymore. The thing you're complaining about has already been fixed.
Only for a very short time and only with evidence they're a danger, and we aren't talking about joe asshole, and I know as much what I'm talking about as you do buddy. This isn't the world where a psychiatrist has that much unchecked power; it isn't the movies.
Two instances of police corruption that have no relevance to this thread. In neither of those cases was the psychiatrist responsible and in both cases they were released within days. Dirty cops telling lies cause all sorts of problems, that's on them.
They can lie to psychiatrists to get a temporary commit which is what happened in both of those cases, and yet again you link to something that only shows a few day temporary hold; that does not support your case. You cannot commit someone for more than a few days against their will and that fact alone demonstrates that psychiatrists do not have very much power anymore.
It varies by state, but I just looked up New York, California, and Texas and they are surprisingly uniform. Getting a 72-hour hold is pretty easy, and a psychiatrist can tell the court if s/he deems it necessary to hold for an additional 14 days (ostensibly, so they can verify that whatever medication they choose to administer has taken effect). These courts are pretty much set up to rubber stamp whatever the psychiatrist wants to do; many hospitals that have psychiatric services have these courts in the same facility. After that, although the patient has the right to leave the hospital whenever they want, but in many cases they aren't told that, or that they may need to call a lawyer to take them court in order for the judge to issue a release.
I'm sorry you've had this impression. It's not just violence, most of the time people are involuntarily committed if they are suicidal. I obviously have limited information, but perhaps those doctors who gave your friend anti-psychotics thought he/she was bipolar, or was not responding to anti-depressants? The atypical anti-psychotics are often the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, and are also used in cases of depression if SSRIs do not work.
Again, I'm sorry you have gotten this impression. Both my parents are clinical psychologists; I can assure you that these cases are taken very seriously, and committing a patient is always a measure of last resort.
I think you miss the the irony of someone acting like a bigot calling other people stupid. If you want people to hear your message, stop pushing it with such hatred. Intelligent people stop reading and down vote you because of your bigotry; you're not even being heard. All the facts in the world don't matter when you throw out bigoted insults a 10 year old would use; be smarter. Bigotry is for the ignorant.
gamers "flip their shit" when ping is not steady, and are only happy at ~50ms response times. a 200ms response in video games is usually considered "unplayable".
In the meantime, a ping of 50ms is an eternity for most financial applications. For normal algorithmic/quant trading you usually want to stay under 10ms roundtrip. For HFT, anything above 100µs is pretty slow. Gives you some perspective.
It was more a reference to the required latency from message received on wire, to messages processed, routed and dispatched on wire - for the scale, rather than physical location and speed of light issues.
In any split-second game (and this article literally advertises "real-time twitch combat"), 200 ms is unplayable. With two players of equal skill, it comes down to "who can react quicker", and the 30 ping player will win every time.
Totally depends on the type of game and how the design is structured to deal with latency.
See my reference to SubSpace farther down, it's a highly skilled game that can be easily played on a ~250ms latency. The large majority of the game is predicting where the other player will be in ~0.75s and setting things in motion ahead of time to intercept them.
Any game based on prediction and designed for smooth re-integration of the game state can be done on latent connections. Heck there's even been some really impressive stuff in the fighting game space involving re-winding gamestate to resolve hits ~0.25s in the past(the original Counter-Strike does this as well, although not as well which is why you'd sometimes see people rubber-band back around a corner when hit).
Very few HFT firms are routinely operating in the nanosecond range. Under 50 microseconds is where most lie, and under 10 microseconds is where you'll find the fastest algos. Fact is, at that point even if you're colo-ing as a market maker the length of cable makes a difference. FPGA's and even ASIC's are pretty much necessary since even a CPU with off-die memory is going to be too slow
HFT is increasingly harder to make profits in: the real growth is in algos operating in the low milliseconds range capturing real market activity and non simple arbitrage.
I'll counter that with: very few so called HFT forms are actually HFT. I've worked for two this way. My previous employer was Virtu financial (look them up, they IPO'd)
most of those are either made in the spirit of unix where one tool does one thing
- gulp and grunt are for handling multiple js scripts and all your folders of js scripts, makefile stuff
- ill assume webpack is for minimizing js
- bower and npm are package managers, while npm is just node modules, bower can do some cool stuff like install jquery or bootstrap into your local public_html folder
- es6/ecmascript is a standardized featureset of javascript that people are working on. you can use it now, but you have to install babeljs, and use expirimental option in chrome
youtube has great tutorials.
there is yeoman.io and yo that sets up skeletons for the dev environment
there are 'base fiddles' ex 'react base fiddle' that can get you going. there is also bower and docker vm images with skeleton projects. also there is a lot of skeleton projects on github.
(its ez to breakdown a base fiddle and see whats needed to get the dev going)
So on to Webpack, Webpack is not only for minifying JS. Webpack can actually be seen as a replacement for Gulp/Grunt. With the use of plugins you can compile Sass or TypeScript or use Babel to transpile your ES6/7 code to ES5 etc..
this one sort of illustrates the problem with developing windows apps:
- you either learn complicated c++ and windows api and have to write your own rendering framework for custom components
- or use C# and xaml and get terrible performance with systems with no gpu acceleration
- or use VB for terrible performance and CPU usage
- or use javascript and node for huge memory usage and slower rendering than c++ (VB has the same issues)