Running every process on its own core, with its own cache might help. Could even have each process with a few cores sharing cache for multiple threads.
Yes, it surprises me the lack of understanding. I'm not a programmer but have still done and watched enough stuff to understand that compilers sometimes put out crap code and that even things like jpegturbo benefits from the hand-rolled simd support as I patched it at one point to support a platform. You don't have to be a programmer to compare compiled C code vs good assembler. There's also lots of older computers out there and even new ones with crap processors and I hate developers who assume everyone has top of the line equipment with tons of memory.
Came to say the same thing. I will add that if popular enough, similar bills might be introduced in other Provinces by the ruling party, or in the case of a minority government such as in BC, the two opposition parties could actually pass it.
Sure, my model is that the tilt of the Earth's axis causes seasons. My prediction is that in the northern hemisphere, January will be consistently colder then August. Where's my million dollars?
They'll be really happy when the carbon tax is pushed on them:) Provincial rights are much weaker then States rights, by design (we got together in reaction to the civil war) though sometimes it seems the opposite.
There is no "American social credit check". Stop making stuff up. Deal with what you claiomed, which is that people who are not on the lists you listed were subject to random drug tests. Sorry, not true.
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear, Americans are subject to random drug tests, it is generally done by private entities but it is still an infringement of a basic right (privacy, which includes the right not to be searched, at least without a Judges orders) and the risk of being put on a list. Your government has passed various laws creating lists of people who have basic rights removed, something that only a Judge should be able to do, as well as a culture where private entities, usually businesses infringe on the right to try to make a living. If they look at a list and see someone was arrested 30 years ago and released, no job, along with ancient and/or minor convictions.
As for having private industry removing peoples rights instead of the government, you're right that it is slightly better.
If by "slightly" you mean "lots", ok. Tell me, why do you think your first amendment right to free speech applies to the cafeteria run by a company you don't work for in a building you have no right to be in? How are they "violating your rights" if they have you arrested for trying to rant about something in their offices? Hint: the 1st Amendment is pretty specific that Congress shall make no law, with no reference to companies or even the general public.
They've created a common area in the cafeteria, why should they be able to repress speech? Ranting is covered in suppressing obnoxious behaviour, which is fine. If two people are talking quietly on their break, why should the company be able to repress a natural right?
To me the idea that companies can routinely invade someones privacy with drug tests, refuse to hire based on an old arrest, or conviction, and such seems horrible.
Well, welcome to the world. Companies have a right to refuse to hire someone for many reasons, just that certain INVOLUNTARY categories are protected. You can't pick what race you are, but you sure can decide if you want to smoke pot. Or rob a bank. And a company can decide it doesn't want you as a known drug user or felon working for them, just as you can decide what company you hire to do your yard work or construction work.
Countries consider certain rights shouldn't be infringed. The usual example is my right to swing my fist doesn't override your right not to be punched in the face. I guess you think an imaginary person (the corporation) has the right to repress your rights when it doesn't interfere with work.
Then the government passing laws saying such and such people can't own a firearm, or you're on a sex offender list due to something stupid that you did like peeing or sending a text to someone your age and such, not to mention taking away the right to vote to change things, also seem like horrible infringements on freedom.
Well, like I said, there's a difference between a company choosing who it will hire and a government doing what you list. I didn't argue with you about the government doing stuff, only that there is a BIG SIGNIFICANT difference between the government and a company.
Rights are rights, a company should not have the right to trample them unless it directly affects work. Acting stoned and operating heavy machinery, drug test. Operating a computer, why should there be an automatic drug test?
So you passed the American social credit check. Most people do. I'd guess it is similar in China, for most people the social credit rating doesn't matter, especially if, like you, you're a regular middle class person who keeps his nose clean (guessing that part based on your post).
As for having private industry removing peoples rights instead of the government, you're right that it is slightly better. Can always get a shit job, drive, use check cashing stores (I forgot to list credit rating), find somewhere to live, and such. To me the idea that companies can routinely invade someones privacy with drug tests, refuse to hire based on an old arrest, or conviction, and such seems horrible. Then the government passing laws saying such and such people can't own a firearm, or you're on a sex offender list due to something stupid that you did like peeing or sending a text to someone your age and such, not to mention taking away the right to vote to change things, also seem like horrible infringements on freedom.
Really China? The same country which is in process of introducing the "social credit" system that aims of making sure you are ideologically in lockstep with the CCP or else you end up being denied the right to travel, work, etc? That China?
True, America would never have no-fly lists, sex offender lists, lists of felons, lists of those arrested at one time, lists of people not allowed to own firearms and such. Nor things like compulsory drug testing for those that haven't been put on a list yet. One big difference is in a communist state, the state employs you and blacklists, while in a capitalist state, private companies do it.
Why did Microsoft make "Ctrl-c" the keyboard shortcut for copy? Because ctrl-c on unix hard exits programs.
For Mac compatibility. The correct Windows shortcut for copy is ctrl-insert, paste is shift-insert and cut is shift-del. Try them, they still work fine, even in most Linux programs.
The slash vs backslash comes from copying CPM where slash was used for parameters and there were no subdirectories. In this day, all programs should support both slash and backslash as directory separators
MS line ending are actually more correct, a CR (carriage return) to bring the cursor to the beginning of the line and a LF (linefeed) to do a linefeed. Trying to save bytes resulted in using a linefeed as a line ending. Apple was closer where the CR as a line ending was much like a typewriter. BTW, back in the '60's, the ASCII standard was decided.to have both as EOL chars rather then a dedicated one. The : goes back to PDP 8 where devices ended with a : such as CON: before you ask.
A lot of the time, the only government grant towards monopoly status are things like trademark and patent law. Arguments can be made either way and revoking Apples trademarks would allow competition in selling idevices, same with allowing anyone to call themselves Facebook or Amazon. Then there are the natural monopolies such as cell providers where the barrier to entry is high enough that short of removing all regulations so they can have power output wars, it's hard for new competition to show up. My government has been encouraging competition in the cell market for decades without much results. The established companies all independently lower their prices when faced with competition and to build out enough coverage to make a company worth considering is a huge expense. Perhaps more regulation would help, forcing sharing of infrastructure for example. Government owning the infrastructure can work for a while, but it always seems complacency and corruption happens eventually.
As for taxes, I guess can take America's course if credit is good enough, just keep borrowing and creating money. Too many expenses, with many that are very hard to get rid of in a democracy and even in a totalitarian system, hungry people get restless. You can tax the workers, but then wages have to go up, meaning that companies have to pay more and you get the same problems as a corporate tax.
Should tell that to the telecom's, who all seem to raise there prices in lockstep. Same with the gas stations though there occasionally one will put it up and others don't follow along so the first lowers it again. Over a dozen gas stations in town, spread over perhaps 1/2 a dozen companies and their prices move in lockstep. Government investigation never does actually find collusion but especially in the case of the telecom's, profits go up very fast.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought the way it works is if I have a business that brings in $1 million and my expenses, materials, rent, labour, my salary etc adds up to a million, I don't pay taxes on the business, just my salary.
What kind of disaster that wipes out humanity on the Earth, even closed habitats, that will be recovered from in only a 100 years do you envision?
First of all, there are no operational closed habitats on Earth right now. Nuclear bunkers are not sealed off and their supplies are slowly consumed, not renewed. They're also not permanently manned, which means sudden events could wipe out their potential users before they even come into the picture.
There's at least one hollowed out mountain in Colorado, designed to withstand multiple nuclear blasts, with basically a cities population permanently there. Being an ultimate nuclear bunker, have to assume it is sealed off, or can be quickly sealed off, with a lot of supplies and capabilities of becoming as self-sufficient as any space colony. Here's a list that not only includes Mt Cheyenne but another 2 very large bunkers, https://www.oddee.com/item_991... . While true that they're only designed for a couple of months of self-sufficiency, it would be a lot easier to make one self-sufficient for the long haul then building a self-sufficient space colony. Who knows what other nations have, I'd guess at least Russia and China are also well setup.
As for scenarios, I'll defer to Wikipedia's page. Risks from AI, bioterrorism, volcanism or asteroids are all limited to Earth. Machines controlled by AI would stop working a few decades after all of the mechanics are killed off. Superviruses also need human hosts to survive. Volcanism might last anywhere from a few decades to a few millennia. And asteroid impacts only affect Earth for a few decades.
The only scenario that might affect space colonies is alien invasion. But even then, aliens would have a much easier time locating a habitable planet than a comparably tiny space colony.
There's also the possibility of several of them happening at the same time, e.g. asteroid impact putting a heavy strain on society, leading to war and bioterrorism. Aliens might also use an asteroid or bioweapons to avoid revealing themselves.
Most all those, while civilization ending, are unlikely to wipe out humanity, and the ones that might, are also likely to wipe out a space colony. Viruses that can wipe out humanity are likely to also affect the colony, there's going to be lots of traffic. Ai, could hunt down the colony and even a large enough metoeriite is likely to blast a lot of rock into space making the whole inner system dangerous. Even Aliens that can destroy the Earths eco-system would be just as capable of destroying space colonies.
As for closed habitats in space, there is always going to be leakage.
There's ways to minimize leakage such that it's not a real concern for millennia, for example by building a double-hulled vessel. Entrances could be welded shut for decades at a time and only cut open to perform exterior maintenance. Building bigger also helps, since being 10 times as large increases the surface area by 100x and the volume by 1000x.
I think your being very optimistic about leakage through solid rock and metal as well as not considering what you're going to do for power. How long is nuclear fuel good for before needing reprocessed?
And while it might be possible to live for generations without advanced technology, it is going to be needed at some point, if only to re-colonize the Earth.
Since they don't need it for almost their entire stay, it can be stored at the beginning and left alone until they need it. Machinery generally don't degrade in a freezing vacuum.
Good luck getting a civilization that has had generations of not using technology up to speed in building space craft etc. Just think of how much things have changed on Earth in a couple of hundred years.
There's lots of reasons to go into space and attempt colonization but enough self-sufficiency to survive the end of the world is along ways down the timeline.
For contrast I also know somebody who genuinely doesn't believe The Earth is round (she's an old lady with not much education so I don't devote much energy to changing her mind).
Well the fact does seem to be that the Earth is not round. It's an oblate sphere, so she's actually more right then most.
Yes, I missed the word raise. The idea being that a business might prefer giving money to employees instead of government. Tax is on profit after expenses.
Higher corporate taxes results in lower wages and distribution and thus lower individual spending.
Actually higher corporate taxes results in more spending on wages, infrastructure etc as the corporation would prefer to spend their money, expand their business and write it off then give it to the government. Unlike wage earners, who basically get taxed on income, corporations get taxed on profits, or the amount left over after paying the bills including wages.
I guess it depends on the porn and who you watch it with. The porn I watch often has a penis inserted into a vagina and if watching with the wife, often results in my penis in a vagina.
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Running every process on its own core, with its own cache might help. Could even have each process with a few cores sharing cache for multiple threads.
Work did start on the 65832, but with Apples disinterest, stopped.
Yes, it surprises me the lack of understanding. I'm not a programmer but have still done and watched enough stuff to understand that compilers sometimes put out crap code and that even things like jpegturbo benefits from the hand-rolled simd support as I patched it at one point to support a platform. You don't have to be a programmer to compare compiled C code vs good assembler.
There's also lots of older computers out there and even new ones with crap processors and I hate developers who assume everyone has top of the line equipment with tons of memory.
Came to say the same thing. I will add that if popular enough, similar bills might be introduced in other Provinces by the ruling party, or in the case of a minority government such as in BC, the two opposition parties could actually pass it.
It's a private bill by the opposition, doesn't matter what is in it, it isn't going anywhere in Ontario and everyone knows this.
Sure, my model is that the tilt of the Earth's axis causes seasons. My prediction is that in the northern hemisphere, January will be consistently colder then August.
Where's my million dollars?
Plants need it. People exhale it. I would say its pretty damn needed to exist. Why would you call it a polluntant?
The same can be said about shit. Plants need it and we excrete it, so why would you call shit a pollutant?
They'll be really happy when the carbon tax is pushed on them :) Provincial rights are much weaker then States rights, by design (we got together in reaction to the civil war) though sometimes it seems the opposite.
So you passed the American social credit check.
There is no "American social credit check". Stop making stuff up. Deal with what you claiomed, which is that people who are not on the lists you listed were subject to random drug tests. Sorry, not true.
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear, Americans are subject to random drug tests, it is generally done by private entities but it is still an infringement of a basic right (privacy, which includes the right not to be searched, at least without a Judges orders) and the risk of being put on a list. Your government has passed various laws creating lists of people who have basic rights removed, something that only a Judge should be able to do, as well as a culture where private entities, usually businesses infringe on the right to try to make a living. If they look at a list and see someone was arrested 30 years ago and released, no job, along with ancient and/or minor convictions.
As for having private industry removing peoples rights instead of the government, you're right that it is slightly better.
If by "slightly" you mean "lots", ok. Tell me, why do you think your first amendment right to free speech applies to the cafeteria run by a company you don't work for in a building you have no right to be in? How are they "violating your rights" if they have you arrested for trying to rant about something in their offices? Hint: the 1st Amendment is pretty specific that Congress shall make no law, with no reference to companies or even the general public.
They've created a common area in the cafeteria, why should they be able to repress speech? Ranting is covered in suppressing obnoxious behaviour, which is fine. If two people are talking quietly on their break, why should the company be able to repress a natural right?
To me the idea that companies can routinely invade someones privacy with drug tests, refuse to hire based on an old arrest, or conviction, and such seems horrible.
Well, welcome to the world. Companies have a right to refuse to hire someone for many reasons, just that certain INVOLUNTARY categories are protected. You can't pick what race you are, but you sure can decide if you want to smoke pot. Or rob a bank. And a company can decide it doesn't want you as a known drug user or felon working for them, just as you can decide what company you hire to do your yard work or construction work.
Countries consider certain rights shouldn't be infringed. The usual example is my right to swing my fist doesn't override your right not to be punched in the face. I guess you think an imaginary person (the corporation) has the right to repress your rights when it doesn't interfere with work.
Then the government passing laws saying such and such people can't own a firearm, or you're on a sex offender list due to something stupid that you did like peeing or sending a text to someone your age and such, not to mention taking away the right to vote to change things, also seem like horrible infringements on freedom.
Well, like I said, there's a difference between a company choosing who it will hire and a government doing what you list. I didn't argue with you about the government doing stuff, only that there is a BIG SIGNIFICANT difference between the government and a company.
Rights are rights, a company should not have the right to trample them unless it directly affects work. Acting stoned and operating heavy machinery, drug test. Operating a computer, why should there be an automatic drug test?
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So you passed the American social credit check. Most people do. I'd guess it is similar in China, for most people the social credit rating doesn't matter, especially if, like you, you're a regular middle class person who keeps his nose clean (guessing that part based on your post).
As for having private industry removing peoples rights instead of the government, you're right that it is slightly better. Can always get a shit job, drive, use check cashing stores (I forgot to list credit rating), find somewhere to live, and such.
To me the idea that companies can routinely invade someones privacy with drug tests, refuse to hire based on an old arrest, or conviction, and such seems horrible. Then the government passing laws saying such and such people can't own a firearm, or you're on a sex offender list due to something stupid that you did like peeing or sending a text to someone your age and such, not to mention taking away the right to vote to change things, also seem like horrible infringements on freedom.
Really China? The same country which is in process of introducing the "social credit" system that aims of making sure you are ideologically in lockstep with the CCP or else you end up being denied the right to travel, work, etc? That China?
True, America would never have no-fly lists, sex offender lists, lists of felons, lists of those arrested at one time, lists of people not allowed to own firearms and such. Nor things like compulsory drug testing for those that haven't been put on a list yet.
One big difference is in a communist state, the state employs you and blacklists, while in a capitalist state, private companies do it.
Good point. All (or most?) of the CTRL characters were about controlling the printer and probably go back to before computers.
Why did Microsoft make "Ctrl-c" the keyboard shortcut for copy? Because ctrl-c on unix hard exits programs.
For Mac compatibility. The correct Windows shortcut for copy is ctrl-insert, paste is shift-insert and cut is shift-del. Try them, they still work fine, even in most Linux programs.
The slash vs backslash comes from copying CPM where slash was used for parameters and there were no subdirectories. In this day, all programs should support both slash and backslash as directory separators
MS line ending are actually more correct, a CR (carriage return) to bring the cursor to the beginning of the line and a LF (linefeed) to do a linefeed. Trying to save bytes resulted in using a linefeed as a line ending. Apple was closer where the CR as a line ending was much like a typewriter. BTW, back in the '60's, the ASCII standard was decided.to have both as EOL chars rather then a dedicated one.
The : goes back to PDP 8 where devices ended with a : such as CON: before you ask.
A lot of the time, the only government grant towards monopoly status are things like trademark and patent law. Arguments can be made either way and revoking Apples trademarks would allow competition in selling idevices, same with allowing anyone to call themselves Facebook or Amazon. Then there are the natural monopolies such as cell providers where the barrier to entry is high enough that short of removing all regulations so they can have power output wars, it's hard for new competition to show up. My government has been encouraging competition in the cell market for decades without much results. The established companies all independently lower their prices when faced with competition and to build out enough coverage to make a company worth considering is a huge expense. Perhaps more regulation would help, forcing sharing of infrastructure for example. Government owning the infrastructure can work for a while, but it always seems complacency and corruption happens eventually.
As for taxes, I guess can take America's course if credit is good enough, just keep borrowing and creating money. Too many expenses, with many that are very hard to get rid of in a democracy and even in a totalitarian system, hungry people get restless.
You can tax the workers, but then wages have to go up, meaning that companies have to pay more and you get the same problems as a corporate tax.
Should tell that to the telecom's, who all seem to raise there prices in lockstep. Same with the gas stations though there occasionally one will put it up and others don't follow along so the first lowers it again. Over a dozen gas stations in town, spread over perhaps 1/2 a dozen companies and their prices move in lockstep. Government investigation never does actually find collusion but especially in the case of the telecom's, profits go up very fast.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought the way it works is if I have a business that brings in $1 million and my expenses, materials, rent, labour, my salary etc adds up to a million, I don't pay taxes on the business, just my salary.
What kind of disaster that wipes out humanity on the Earth, even closed habitats, that will be recovered from in only a 100 years do you envision?
First of all, there are no operational closed habitats on Earth right now. Nuclear bunkers are not sealed off and their supplies are slowly consumed, not renewed. They're also not permanently manned, which means sudden events could wipe out their potential users before they even come into the picture.
There's at least one hollowed out mountain in Colorado, designed to withstand multiple nuclear blasts, with basically a cities population permanently there. Being an ultimate nuclear bunker, have to assume it is sealed off, or can be quickly sealed off, with a lot of supplies and capabilities of becoming as self-sufficient as any space colony.
Here's a list that not only includes Mt Cheyenne but another 2 very large bunkers, https://www.oddee.com/item_991... . While true that they're only designed for a couple of months of self-sufficiency, it would be a lot easier to make one self-sufficient for the long haul then building a self-sufficient space colony.
Who knows what other nations have, I'd guess at least Russia and China are also well setup.
As for scenarios, I'll defer to Wikipedia's page. Risks from AI, bioterrorism, volcanism or asteroids are all limited to Earth. Machines controlled by AI would stop working a few decades after all of the mechanics are killed off. Superviruses also need human hosts to survive. Volcanism might last anywhere from a few decades to a few millennia. And asteroid impacts only affect Earth for a few decades.
The only scenario that might affect space colonies is alien invasion. But even then, aliens would have a much easier time locating a habitable planet than a comparably tiny space colony.
There's also the possibility of several of them happening at the same time, e.g. asteroid impact putting a heavy strain on society, leading to war and bioterrorism. Aliens might also use an asteroid or bioweapons to avoid revealing themselves.
Most all those, while civilization ending, are unlikely to wipe out humanity, and the ones that might, are also likely to wipe out a space colony. Viruses that can wipe out humanity are likely to also affect the colony, there's going to be lots of traffic. Ai, could hunt down the colony and even a large enough metoeriite is likely to blast a lot of rock into space making the whole inner system dangerous. Even Aliens that can destroy the Earths eco-system would be just as capable of destroying space colonies.
As for closed habitats in space, there is always going to be leakage.
There's ways to minimize leakage such that it's not a real concern for millennia, for example by building a double-hulled vessel. Entrances could be welded shut for decades at a time and only cut open to perform exterior maintenance. Building bigger also helps, since being 10 times as large increases the surface area by 100x and the volume by 1000x.
I think your being very optimistic about leakage through solid rock and metal as well as not considering what you're going to do for power. How long is nuclear fuel good for before needing reprocessed?
And while it might be possible to live for generations without advanced technology, it is going to be needed at some point, if only to re-colonize the Earth.
Since they don't need it for almost their entire stay, it can be stored at the beginning and left alone until they need it. Machinery generally don't degrade in a freezing vacuum.
Good luck getting a civilization that has had generations of not using technology up to speed in building space craft etc. Just think of how much things have changed on Earth in a couple of hundred years.
There's lots of reasons to go into space and attempt colonization but enough self-sufficiency to survive the end of the world is along ways down the timeline.
For contrast I also know somebody who genuinely doesn't believe The Earth is round (she's an old lady with not much education so I don't devote much energy to changing her mind).
Well the fact does seem to be that the Earth is not round. It's an oblate sphere, so she's actually more right then most.
Yes, I missed the word raise. The idea being that a business might prefer giving money to employees instead of government. Tax is on profit after expenses.
Wouldn't giving employees actually lower the income tax for the corporation as it is an expense that reduces profits.
Higher corporate taxes results in lower wages and distribution and thus lower individual spending.
Actually higher corporate taxes results in more spending on wages, infrastructure etc as the corporation would prefer to spend their money, expand their business and write it off then give it to the government. Unlike wage earners, who basically get taxed on income, corporations get taxed on profits, or the amount left over after paying the bills including wages.
If they could raise prices, they already would have.
That would mean everyone owing what, $55.000?
I guess it depends on the porn and who you watch it with. The porn I watch often has a penis inserted into a vagina and if watching with the wife, often results in my penis in a vagina.