I know political discussion is discouraged here, but I just have to get this out of my mind:

> There are not the votes in the Senate for an expensive, taxpayer-funded border wall. So, President Trump, you will not get your wall. Abandon your shutdown strategy. You're not getting the wall today, next week or on January 3rd when Democrats take control of the House.

> President Trump called for a shutdown no less than 25 times.

> 25 times

!!/ultraheaddesk

!!/tumbleweed

thepiano.sg/piano/read/…

So... looks like my reddit secret santa bailed on me

:/

I'm donut horny

Oo

LOL

@Bob lmao

I read this in the voice of Janet from The Good Place. Makes it funnier.

@MichaelFrank

@rahuldottech I love that show

(no spoilers, only seen season 1)

@FMLCat: fiercewireless.com/5g/…

An attempt to appear superior to consumers by strong-arming device manufacturers to put a "5G E" mark in the notification bar. Meaning, devices and software updates from this point on must support showing the 5G Evolution logo, or they will not be certified by AT&T. The only way around this is to sell the device unlocked, but most consumers do not have $800 or more handy to spend on a phone.

I'm used to seeing "LTE+" on my phone as an indication that I'm getting LTE Advanced. But LTE Advanced is not 5G.

Wake me up when your data connection lets me stream 4K video during rush hour at Grand Central Terminal.

You don't get to call your cellular network 5G until me and tens of thousands of other commuters can simultaneously stream 4K video during rush hour at Grand Central Terminal.

Because if you're promising thousands of times the network capacity of 4G, this is what I expect to be able to do.

@allquixotic IT'S AMAZIIIIING

If you like it, you'll also like Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Also by Michael Schur

Is there a way to tell windows to make thumbnails for a bunch of folders? Does indexing do that?

4K streaming, 10,000 users: 200 Gbps bandwidth.

A facility the size of Grand Central Terminal will have multiple 5G base stations per carrier.

Look, I expect terabit capacity if you're promising 1,000 to 10,000 times the capacity of LTE.

And that means up to 50,000 people should be able to stream 4K video, all at the same time, with a handful of base stations.

Hence, you don't get to call your network 5G unless I can stream 4K video in one of the busiest transit terminals in the world.

During the absolute peak of rush hour.

> You know how at the end of the day all nuclear power does is boil water? All of the advanced technology that’s been developed over the last decade has ultimately been about being better at advertising than the other guy. We literally broke most of the actual world and almost the entire damn Internet so that a crappy ad for something you’re probably not buying could follow you around the web that much better.

esquire.com/lifestyle/amp25645143/facebook-privacy

im so lost

;p

latlmes.com/2018/…

@rahuldottech I vaguely disagree XD

facebook, for example was totally designed to perv on girls ;)

@JourneymanGeek Really? Are you referring to businessinsider.com/… ?

@DavidPostill probably, but also was a funny thing to say

I like Facebook sheds $22 billion of market value as bad news piles up (FB) | Markets Insider

:)

@DavidPostill though - that's a fundamental failing in how we teach people to do stuff. The non cody bits are too abstracted away

(also a trivial web search... annnddd... docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/…

and you can run ms sql on linux or windows these days

@JourneymanGeek )

Well finding stuff's the first step ;)

GUYS

HOW DO YOU MEMORIZE RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION?

._.

I tried flash cards. There's too much content to make flash cards

Like a lot.

I was going to say flash cards

I have a month to learn all this stuff

the point isn't to read all of it though

@JourneymanGeek there's entire books for me to remember, man. I can't sit and make flash cars for all that

its to work out what's the minimum you can get away with remembering

@JourneymanGeek I have notes for that

But there's just so much content

@rahuldottech I don't. Notes, a good memory for where to find something not where the thing is, and mega google fu ;)

@DavidPostill if its for exams though

the indian system is basically optimised for memory work

Ah

Well at his age my memory was much better than it is now. I had to memorise everything up to the end of my degree. No open book exams. Only advice I have is repetition. Keep reading everything multiple times.

@DavidPostill I'll do that. Mom says it's the only way too. Thanks :)

@rahuldottech Did you try the cloze-style ones? in Anki

There's folks who use them to learn the information for entire degrees

Also, if there's a way to figure out what the most high-value information is, target that first

@rahuldottech That sucks. Mine faked information, but I finally got my package a few days ago

@JourneymanGeek sucks

because.... everyu time i encouintered anyone ask9ing that question, it was because they didn't actually learn the topic

@djsmiley2k yup

I.e

At uni I answered exams by knowing the material.