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Re: Stephen King Praises "Beautiful" Horror Series Streaming On Netflix

Patrick Curl — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:29:23 -0000

came here to say this. I was thinking there was literally a new horror series called 'beautiful' for a minute, of course this could be written gpt 3.5, I mean September of 21 was the cutoff date, coincidence?

Re: Roman thumbs up

Patrick Curl — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 05:37:56 -0000

I took latin in H.S. ... it's because the gesture was like slicing the throat but with thumb instead of index finger.... and thumbs down was "sheath" the sword... I'm very ME affected, but this is not one. This is just pop culture screwing with history.

Re: Migration | GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly.

Patrick Curl — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 05:24:01 -0000

that's a bit of overkill. Knex.js would be better.... it's similar to rails/laravel format for migrations but de-coupled from everything else so you basically just need the Knexfile + migrations directory. But there's also golang migration tools available.

Re: Refactor data checking to cleaner implementation

Patrick Curl — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:48:31 -0000

To add -- another option for something like this could be a helpers file and make contains_zeroes() be a global function... you'd have to edit composer.json, but for helpers sometimes it makes sense. It's a bit of an anti-pattern but I find for reuse it's pretty helpful.

Re: Refactor data checking to cleaner implementation

Patrick Curl — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:46:52 -0000

I flip flop back and/forth. I can't decide on a preference for one big file with every function I need or many little ones...

For instance it's becoming popular to use actions instead of controllers - i.e. one action invokeable classes. Is it really better than just putting all the rest stuff in one file? After awhile you end up with 50 million files... If you're a mouse user looking through the folder tree that is going to slow things down.

Is there a specific reason you chose coding to an interface rather than just use traits? Interfaces often feel like over-complicating or over-engineering. Sometimes I don't like traits either though because you often have a method that exists on the class but have to go looking for the method in other files sometimes in the vendor folder.... but it does make things cleaner so it's definitely a trade off.

Re: The LDS Church Quietly Doubles Down On A Controversial Gay Policy

Patrick Curl — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:12:43 -0000

Being gay is not a weakness... How dare you insult people, who have no other choice? Sexuality isn't a disorder or an issue to be tamed. I say this as an exmormon (left by choice) , married straight male. I wholly support anyone who will help destroy this Draconian organization built on the backs of white, racist, men who lack integrity and have been caught in hundreds of lies. http://mormonthink.com/lyin...

Re: The LDS Church Quietly Doubles Down On A Controversial Gay Policy

Patrick Curl — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:04:24 -0000

Have you read the Letter for my wife? Google it. Opened my mind to a lot of issues, that I didn't know about church history...I left 6 months later via quitmormon.com there's also a large support group at http://reddit.com/r/exmormon

Re: UVX Service Starts August 13

Patrick Curl — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:45:22 -0000

Also as a non-native 'Utahn'... if you want to insult Utahns.... Utahians (sounds dumb)...try Utard... that's what I call my in-laws lol.

Re: UVX Service Starts August 13

Patrick Curl — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:43:14 -0000

Utah county/Salt lake county are HUGE... we're talking 575k in utah county, and 1.1 million in salt lake county... many of these people commute from Ogden (another county) down to the southern tip of Utah county (about 1-2 hour commute by car)... Utah only has one freeway. I-15..there's some beltway/loops that take a little of the congestion, but for the most part ALL of the commute goes from north to south and vice versa. -- Trust me it can get bad, probably not carmaggedon bad, but as bad as it gets in places like Dayton or Columbus, OH (I'm from Dayton and lived in Columbus)...

These routes are in highly trafficked areas, now I'm living in southern utah BFE, there's not much public transit here, and we don't really need it, everyone gets where they're going by car...there's a lot of rural areas in utah, but you can't assume the entire state is rural.

Utah county is called Silicon slopes and has a tech sector that's growing in leaps and bounds: Domo, Adobe, Pluralsight, Facebook, Oracle, Novell, are just some of the tech firms that have branches in Utah county, (FB was just announced and is building their server farm).

Re: Super Slow High Intensity Training: 15 minutes of Training A Week!

Patrick Curl — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:22:57 -0000

As someone who's 480 lbs having had WLS (Gastric Sleeve and already lost 200 pounds)... Could something like doing this every monday, and maybe hitting a crossfit gym on Friday or Saturday and trying to get 10k steps in on fitbit on other days be enough to see some major gains in muscle? I sometimes seem to overdo things for a month or two and get totally burned out, I feel if I could just devote less time, but better time to fitness/health I could accomplish more over in the long run...

Re: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

Patrick Curl — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 03:17:30 -0000

love this!

Re: Kirby: Five kinds of ex-Mormons

Patrick Curl — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:13:51 -0000

Curious which of the First Vision versions is your favorite? I like the one where he saw a host of angels (1835 version), might as well go all out in the re-telling, am i right? https://www.lds.org/topics/... | I highly recommend reading the CES Letter - http://cesletter.com/ it'll definitely change your outlook if you at least read it with an open mind. It was written by a member of the LDS church to a CES director - simply questions he had about church doctrine.

Re: Would Calexit be a good thing?

Patrick Curl — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:53:31 -0000

Why china/europe? Why not just join Canada--it's already a very progressive nation more in-line w/ California's goals, and I'm betting for some tax-money Canada would def. let them join their single-payer health plan, and have open borders between them... in fact I could see Oregon and Washington state joining the new union as well giving the whole coastline to Canada esp. since Vancouver is sort of between Washington/BC.

Re: Thanks to Trump, Scientists Are Planning To Run For Office

Patrick Curl — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:41:35 -0000

Frankly, I'd love to see a President Bill Nye Science Guy that would be epic follow up to Trump, (if we can't get Bernie Sanders in there that is)

Re: Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage

Patrick Curl — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:43:25 -0000

Robots are already writing news articles in the sports and investing world, why can't you feed into an AI all the works of the past like Dicken's that isn't copyright and have it spit out a masterpiece? Have a human edit it for coherency if there are issues, but I'm certain in 20 years it's possible.

Re: Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage

Patrick Curl — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:40:53 -0000

There's an AI bot that can act/sound as human as a normal customer service rep, and out perform csr's by about 5-10 %, and not only that it can speak 20 languages. This one AI can replace 500 million jobs world wide. http://www.ipsoft.com/amelia/

That's ONE technology that can disrupt so much, and they are working on automation for everything from Plumbers to Truck Driving(the #1 job in 30 states), to Medical Doctors (AI can already beat a doctor 95% of the time in diagnosing rare diseases and in terms of speed it might take a doctor 3 months what an AI can do in days -- which means that much faster to get treatment and save a patient)

Cab drivers will be no more. Bus drivers. Pilots. Construction. Every restaurant job can be automated. Every job in walmart can as well. Every job inside a hotel chain can also be automated. Name one job that can't be automated and I can name 10 that can, and most likely will. Are 9 Billion people in 2050 going to all share the same 5 jobs?

Re: Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage

Patrick Curl — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:28:50 -0000

You do realize Musk first and foremost is an engineer? He spends 80% of his time actually designing the tech that goes into Tesla/SpaceX his COO handles most of the day to day business dealings. Ray Kurzweil another tech 'Billionaire' has been correct an eerily amount of times in predicting the future. -- Nearly EVERY person working on projects inside AI are showing concerns. -- When people at the bomb factory are concerned that the place may explode or something you generally need to take notice.

There is no scenario where all truck driving jobs are not gone by 2030. (Google # 1 job per state) -- you'll find that in about 30 states that's Truck Driving. Dr's and Lawyers can also be replaced by AI in many cases, esp. just for diagnoses and prescribing. Those are high paying jobs that when they go away leave a huge amount of debt, causing banks and ex-doctors who just graduated to struggle.

You should really take a little bit of time and read Manna, it's a good look into how our world might look in 20 years. http://marshallbrain.com/ma...

ltdr; AI becomes the manager telling you what to do as a fast food worker down to every single step you take. Tracks whether you're doing it as fast as the rest of society(averages), eventually robots come and about 90% of people can't find jobs, so they're put into styrofoam apartments that are cookie cutter and that are policed so once you're in one unless someone pays your way out, you're pretty much there for the rest of your life.

That's the future we're headed to if we don't come up with solutions now.

Re: Elon Musk's Ticket to Nowhere

Patrick Curl — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 03:52:24 -0000

Agreed, if you don't want to bask in the glory of failures---you should probably never fly an airplane or turn on a lightbulb. It took edison 10,000+ tries to get the lightbulb right, do you think a few blown rockets is gonna deter Musk? But this guy is probably a climate change denier and just can't fathom the idea that mankind isn't long for this planet if we don't start taking care of it.

Re: Elon Musk's Ticket to Nowhere

Patrick Curl — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:28:47 -0000

This is the biggest piece of shit ever written. Whether or NOT we do actually make it to colonize mars IF we never start to build some sort of interplanetary system of travel and actually make space travel cheaper it'll never happen. We can't get to faster than light if we can't even get to Mars. In the 1800's travelling to California from the east coast was practically like getting to Mars--a seemingly impossible task, till they built the railroad..

Mars is A goal, but not what he's building. He's building a transportation system like a trax or train that will make it easier to get around our solar system. If we never colonize a planet or moon in our solar system, this will allow us to grow our technology unlike anything before. Do you realize how many things we use in modern day devices that we gained via space exploration?

Cat Scanners, Computer Microchips, Cordless tools, Ear thermometers, Freeze-dried food, insulation, enriched baby food, video games(the joystick), LEDs, memory foam, scratch resistant lenses, shoe insoles, smoke detectors, solar energy, swimsuit(professional swimwear for athletes), water filtration, space blankets, landmine removal, flame resistant textiles, workout machines, long distance communication(do you use a smartphone?)

Source: http://www.design-laorosa.c...

Musk is correct that since we stopped really spending a lot of money in space exploration the technology has dried up. It's like AI -- we've had a number of AI winters where we saw the power of it but gave up because there wasn't enough marketshare and interest in what it could do. It was beyond our ability to accomplish. Today though we're on the cusp of some amazing technologies as a result of AI.

Musk has already revolutionized space flight by creating reusable rockets. To give you an idea it costs about $10,000 per pound to take cargo to the ISS. Reusable rockets takes that cost to $10 per pound. Musk never really mentioned that he was building plans for us colonizing mars, he's said completely that he's just the transportation company.

He might branch out into the other technologies needed to terraform, but so far nobody has ever set foot on Mars, and until we do, colonization doesn't even matter. But by the time we really colonize mars (or don't) a million different technologies will be discovered, and Elon's company is very open about sharing patents and knowledge with others and with humanity.

Elon's definitely done more with his life than you ever will do, and that makes you jealous, and petty.

Re: Array Filtering

Patrick Curl — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:01:53 -0000

You need php's array functions outside of laravel, so it's handy to know, but generally necessary - you can use collections for just about everything. It's just a more convenient way of doing things.

Re: Pokémon Go: Most wanted features for the game | BGR

Patrick Curl — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 02:06:01 -0000

I think it should have an api with integrations available for fitbit, etc.. and stats for workouts, if you gotta do all that walking - why not get the stats on how far, how many steps, etc?

Re: Google accused of stealing balloon tech behind Project Loon

Patrick Curl — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:44:55 -0000

They're google -- they can do whatever they want... kindof like the political establishment -- they are above laws and regulations...or so they'd like you to think.

Re: America Was Never and Will Never Be Great Until We End Inequality

Patrick Curl — Tue, 31 May 2016 23:58:22 -0000

It depends -- I think a LOT of Republicans are going to jump to the Libertarian candidate over Trump, if polls show that, and if he teamed up with Jill Stein he could have a chance of beating both Trump and Clinton.

Re: North Carolina’s New Voting Law Blocking Many Potential Bernie Sanders Supporters From Voting

Patrick Curl — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:40:21 -0000

You realize Bernie won Nevada, and what do you make of Washington, Oregon, California (leaning Bernie), Vermont, Maine, Oklahoma, Hawaii? If you're gonna go Blue vs Red, Florida, VA, Nevada, all red, as is alabama, arkansas, nc, ga, pick 80% of Hillary's wins. -- As for Ohio Trump got more votes than Bernie or Hillary, and when 25% of Ohio votes independent or NOTHILLARY, Trump will win Ohio, so it's pretty much guaranteed that Trump wins if Hillary gets Nomination.

Re: Poll: Do You Believe Hillary Clinton Will Be Indicted?

Patrick Curl — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:35:42 -0000

You are aware that the FBI does NOT do security investigations, but ONLY does criminal investigations. If there wasn't presumed mal-intent or wrong-doing then another department would do a security audit, that mere fact that it's the FBI means it's criminal.