They did it a bit too hard by the looks of it.

…and punctuation.

The thing is we’re not discussing the users. If it’s just the users (as hexbear seems to be from what I’ve seen) then I don’t really care.

We’re discussing the mods, and the fact that they are basically they are engaging in the equivalent of holocaust denial.

Sounds like you already worked it out.

One of which is that Stephen Hawking threw a lousy party.

A young earth creationist’s hypothesis does not agree with existing evidence and so your example does not refute my argument.

If you disagree without evidence, you’re not wrong. You can propose an alternative theory that is consistent with existing evidence and it’s just as valid as anybody else’s. The mission is then to find evidence which disproves one theory or the other.

Conjecture is fundamental.

Base 6. One hand and a arm. Let’s me get all the way to 41.

You sure? The smell off some of the corpses will have been terrible.

I’m not saying they’re all dead, but an intern at the time of launch would now be 70. Anybody who actually designed anything is… Well… The odds of them still being around are low.

…but it feels like so much more communication today is just references to other things.

Shaka, when the walls fell.

Blue bubbles.

(I’m half joking)

The Accusation: Skewed Benchmarks for Inflated Performance?

Oh no! Say it’s not so. /s

We all know not to trust benchmarks from the manufacturer. We know this because we’ve all been burned by cherry picked results under favourable conditions that can’t be reproduced.

I hope when they say TVs, they don’t mean the parental controls pin.

In fact… What password is needed on a TV?

Dead you say? Oh, no no no!

He’s coming in like a wrecking ball.

Pretty sure they have duplicates of the hardware. That way they are not caught out by subtle differences in the simulation Vs reality.

So wrong!!!

…but all the youngsters will be completely lost.

Not just smart people. Not just pretty people.

…but also pretty smart people?

sense of pride

• Sense of community? Yes
• Sense of respect? Yes
• Sense of responsibility? Yes
• Sense of accomplishments? Yes
• Sense of pride? Errrr… Not really.

When people write “a sense of pride in” I think they (and you) are saying “be responsible for X so you can feel good about it”. Nothing wrong with that, and I think you’re right.

However I don’t like the phrase. Pride is the wrong emotional target. It brings with it a sense of superiority in some. There’s a reason it’s one of the deadly sins.

I think it’s nice to have traditions inside areas of research, and if somebody said “let’s retire the Utah teapot. It’s too simple a construct and has no bearing anymore” I’d be opposed.

Similar with “Lenna”. Is it a good test image? Not anymore, but if somebody wants to include it as tradition then let them. It hurts no one. Nobody is making money off it. Most people just know it as an image that’s been in many seminal graphics papers they want to emulate, but even if they do know it as being from an issue of Playboy, why is that a problem?

I’m not angry about it. I’m not going to die on any hill about it. I just see it as pointless and infantile for the IEEE to refuse papers over something so trivial.