The bottom line is this. A color means a particular wave length of light. The part we refer to as "colors" is the visible spectrum of light to human eyes. All light wave lengths, both visible and non-visible, have theoretically existed since the very beginning of the universe. From a scientific point of view, the headline is completely absurd.
Probably more correct to say "oldest rock color". Colors are meta data. It'd be like saying "We discovered gravity is the oldest force in the universe". The statement is nonsense.
The article is about "it's a strong sign that you make a lot of money". So what? A lot of people that have fancy toys are up to their eyeballs in debt. That's not rich. There is no prize for being on the hamster wheel of wage slavery and consumerism. In fact, it pretty much sucks unless you're a large corporation. That's America for you. This culture is only concerned about status or appearance. They couldn't care less about the founding principles of the country like oh I don't know, Liberty? You know that personal freedom we fought so hard for that England wouldn't give us? Look what we did with it. We pissed it away. That's why I'm eventually leaving. Shine your bling on your way to the 80 hour a week hell hole. I'll choose freedom tyvm.
Actually no. Almost everything that we do today was probably once considered a "hack" compared to "traditional" methods. That "hacks" that survived were the most useful. It's a natural, evolutionary phenomenon just like everything else. See Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene.
A hack means more or less, a shortcut to get to a desired result. Shortcut means a way to do such a thing that is not normally considered the conventional way or best practice to get the result. Sometimes hacks can be good. Sometimes hacks can have side effects and long-term consequences.
For example, a software engineering hack in which a software algorithm is generating undesirable results given a set of particular inputs is forced to return the correct results, short-circuiting the actual algorithm would be considered a hack. It would also run great risk in producing side effects and technical debt (long term cost to the business).
This term should not be retired. What other term would we use to refer to this sort of thing?
When the programming trade was appreciated and encouraged people to become Craftsman. Then outsourcing and contracting firms turned everything into churn and burn with real programming never to be seen again nor appreciated despite the fact that it was those people like the folks at DARPA that made all of this possible including Slashdot. Could you imagine what TCP/IP would have been if it were designed by H-1B Visas under corporate contracts?
As much as I'd like to live in a word where automation makes it possible for everyone to live without worrying about where the money for food, rent, utilities, etc comes from, we're not on that path.
We won't EVER be "on that path" while you consider your self interest more important than technological progress and innovation. It's known as Tragedy of the Commons. This site's community has gone to hell. It's no longer intellectuals and insightful people. It's infested with toxic luddites. You'll reap what you sow tho. Mod me into oblivion but you will reap what you sow and you know what? People like me that said "I told you so" will let you fall into the abyss without extending a helping hand.
Why is this such a problem? Commercial truck driving has to be one of the most boring, lonely jobs available. Introducing self driving commercial vehicles not only eliminates this waste of use of one's existence but also makes commercial transportation more reliable. It's remarkable to me that when John Schumpeter's Creative Destruction happens again and again in Capitalism we have the same reaction as we did to the Ice Industry and the Tailor/Seamstress industry that became automated. The only concern is about the ability to obtain an income stream. I submit that all of this is evidence that the wage slavery aspect of Capitalism is counterproductive to technological progress and innovation. We should rejoice that we are reducing the need for tedious, manual labor so we can have more freedom to do what we want in terms of self actualization of our lives. That should equally be incentive to for innovation! Sadly, our systems (especially in the United States) are broken with regard to this very worthwhile goal. Too many memes about hard work = prosperity and happiness.
My grandma is always complaining about how her laptop never has enough RAM for the CAD design she does. She just goes on and on and on about it. Complain complain complain. I think we'll all chip in and get her one of these new fangled 128GB RAM laptops this year for Christmas. Maybe that will shut her up for awhile. *crossing fingers*
8-bit ASCII requires 1 byte per character because each character value is 0-255. Multi-byte Unicode requires at least 2 bytes to support large character sets, for example Kanji. In an application that only requires use of the English alphabet, using multi-byte Unicode is waste. 1 = 50% of 2. Make sense now?
In terms of web development: Are you talking about native Javascript (size of library: 0K), or web applications that load jQuery and other large libraries just to move a
tag around in a webpage a little more easily (in their opinion)?
I have an application stack that I've been messing around with that loads tons of libraries including React and Material UI and after running uglify js, the whole shebang is about 290k, VERY SMALL.
Well, natural evolution was undirected... I don't think it's a far reach that an already existing intelligence directing some new inteliigence's course may be able to expedite that duration by many orders of magnitude.
Ugh, intelligent design again? Whether something is guided by a entity we can categorize at intelligent or un-directed is not really that important. The people who think that is important are worried about the superstitious consequences of death and the afterlife. All of the processes the led to the state of things today are indeed mathematical and based on a complex intertwined series of cause and effect. The complexity of that is very large, much larger than the human brain It still amazes me that you and I are made from the dust of the stars and yet here we are having this conversation pondering how that could be so.
Nature managed to do it, supposedly without understanding anything about what it was doing.
The complexity of the universe is far more complex than your brain. Unfortunately with the Dunning Kruger effect running afoul (we should teach that to the machines too) it's hard for you to comprehend.
Slashdot Mirror
Use parental controls in conjunction with a whitelist
Yeah, because in reality, BeauHD and msmash are just Perl scripts
In one of these cases, a Perl script would actually do a better job.
The bottom line is this. A color means a particular wave length of light. The part we refer to as "colors" is the visible spectrum of light to human eyes. All light wave lengths, both visible and non-visible, have theoretically existed since the very beginning of the universe. From a scientific point of view, the headline is completely absurd.
Probably more correct to say "oldest rock color". Colors are meta data. It'd be like saying "We discovered gravity is the oldest force in the universe". The statement is nonsense.
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The article is about "it's a strong sign that you make a lot of money". So what? A lot of people that have fancy toys are up to their eyeballs in debt. That's not rich. There is no prize for being on the hamster wheel of wage slavery and consumerism. In fact, it pretty much sucks unless you're a large corporation. That's America for you. This culture is only concerned about status or appearance. They couldn't care less about the founding principles of the country like oh I don't know, Liberty? You know that personal freedom we fought so hard for that England wouldn't give us? Look what we did with it. We pissed it away. That's why I'm eventually leaving. Shine your bling on your way to the 80 hour a week hell hole. I'll choose freedom tyvm.
What ever happened to ignoring stuff you don't agree with. A lot of today's generation have always got to have the last word regardless.
/quote> The internet is largely composed of trolling and triggering. You're surprised?
Turn off indexing and windows telemetry.
Actually no. Almost everything that we do today was probably once considered a "hack" compared to "traditional" methods. That "hacks" that survived were the most useful. It's a natural, evolutionary phenomenon just like everything else. See Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene.
Hacks are shortcuts. Whether they are "clever" or "skillful" depends on the hack.
A hack means more or less, a shortcut to get to a desired result. Shortcut means a way to do such a thing that is not normally considered the conventional way or best practice to get the result. Sometimes hacks can be good. Sometimes hacks can have side effects and long-term consequences.
For example, a software engineering hack in which a software algorithm is generating undesirable results given a set of particular inputs is forced to return the correct results, short-circuiting the actual algorithm would be considered a hack. It would also run great risk in producing side effects and technical debt (long term cost to the business).
This term should not be retired. What other term would we use to refer to this sort of thing?
This isn't news. Carl Sagan was gravely concerned about this.
When the programming trade was appreciated and encouraged people to become Craftsman. Then outsourcing and contracting firms turned everything into churn and burn with real programming never to be seen again nor appreciated despite the fact that it was those people like the folks at DARPA that made all of this possible including Slashdot. Could you imagine what TCP/IP would have been if it were designed by H-1B Visas under corporate contracts?
As much as I'd like to live in a word where automation makes it possible for everyone to live without worrying about where the money for food, rent, utilities, etc comes from, we're not on that path.
We won't EVER be "on that path" while you consider your self interest more important than technological progress and innovation. It's known as Tragedy of the Commons. This site's community has gone to hell. It's no longer intellectuals and insightful people. It's infested with toxic luddites. You'll reap what you sow tho. Mod me into oblivion but you will reap what you sow and you know what? People like me that said "I told you so" will let you fall into the abyss without extending a helping hand.
Why is this such a problem? Commercial truck driving has to be one of the most boring, lonely jobs available. Introducing self driving commercial vehicles not only eliminates this waste of use of one's existence but also makes commercial transportation more reliable. It's remarkable to me that when John Schumpeter's Creative Destruction happens again and again in Capitalism we have the same reaction as we did to the Ice Industry and the Tailor/Seamstress industry that became automated. The only concern is about the ability to obtain an income stream. I submit that all of this is evidence that the wage slavery aspect of Capitalism is counterproductive to technological progress and innovation. We should rejoice that we are reducing the need for tedious, manual labor so we can have more freedom to do what we want in terms of self actualization of our lives. That should equally be incentive to for innovation! Sadly, our systems (especially in the United States) are broken with regard to this very worthwhile goal. Too many memes about hard work = prosperity and happiness.
My grandma is always complaining about how her laptop never has enough RAM for the CAD design she does. She just goes on and on and on about it. Complain complain complain. I think we'll all chip in and get her one of these new fangled 128GB RAM laptops this year for Christmas. Maybe that will shut her up for awhile. *crossing fingers*
8-bit ASCII requires 1 byte per character because each character value is 0-255. Multi-byte Unicode requires at least 2 bytes to support large character sets, for example Kanji. In an application that only requires use of the English alphabet, using multi-byte Unicode is waste. 1 = 50% of 2. Make sense now?
Future proofing against the bloat of Windows?
Because not every company that will get shafted by greedy ISPs will be able to just roll out their own nation-wide fiber network
That doesn't make sense to roll out nation-wide fiber when you're just going to throttle it back to T1 speeds...
Not just for CSGO anymore...
In terms of web development: Are you talking about native Javascript (size of library: 0K), or web applications that load jQuery and other large libraries just to move a
tag around in a webpage a little more easily (in their opinion)?
I have an application stack that I've been messing around with that loads tons of libraries including React and Material UI and after running uglify js, the whole shebang is about 290k, VERY SMALL.
...Nuclear Wessels?
Well, natural evolution was undirected... I don't think it's a far reach that an already existing intelligence directing some new inteliigence's course may be able to expedite that duration by many orders of magnitude.
Ugh, intelligent design again? Whether something is guided by a entity we can categorize at intelligent or un-directed is not really that important. The people who think that is important are worried about the superstitious consequences of death and the afterlife. All of the processes the led to the state of things today are indeed mathematical and based on a complex intertwined series of cause and effect. The complexity of that is very large, much larger than the human brain It still amazes me that you and I are made from the dust of the stars and yet here we are having this conversation pondering how that could be so.
Nature managed to do it, supposedly without understanding anything about what it was doing.
The complexity of the universe is far more complex than your brain. Unfortunately with the Dunning Kruger effect running afoul (we should teach that to the machines too) it's hard for you to comprehend.
Because in the game of geo-politics, what you can get other countries to believe creates favorable conditions for your own country.