No, no, no, no, no! The concept of garbage collecting is a reaction to poor coding practices and reliance on it is laziness.
Not really. The concept of garbage collection is a simple one - if an object is no longer referenced anywhere, free the memory. This makes perfect sense and also frees the developers mind from making sure everything is always deallocated. Thereby eliminating a huge amount of potential errors, such as premature memory deallocation.
But what many novice programmers don't realize is that you must still manage your memory in a garbage collected environment. Objects that are no longer needed have to be removed from collections - all those references must be cleared so that the memory will be freed.
So I agree with the second part:
Software engineers responsible for real-time, public safety software should be capable of managing memory in their code!
I do have to wonder. When politicians and corporations of the military industrial complex sink billions upon billions of US taxpayer money into their bloated, expensive defense contracts, with barely anything to show for it, does it have any consequences? No? Why not? Somebody must be responsible. Somebody should be accused of corruption, incompetence or whatever. At the very least, the corporation should be sued for not delivering on the contract, and forced to return as much of the money as possible. Why doesn't it happen?
Indeed. It didn't have to be this way. There is nothing inherently wrong with advertising, but for some reason most ad makers seem to think it's a good idea to be as annoying as possible. Then they are surprised that people block their ads.
There are some cases of ads done right. For example ads on Google search results or in Gmail. Just some text, a link, and it is even marked as an advertisment. Some of these are even informative instead of sensationalist. Perfect.
As you say, I also make a point of avoiding products or brands from ads that were extremely annoying to me.
Yeah. Advertising agencies only have themselves to blame for the fact that most people hate ads. It started with intrusive and annoying TV ads. They deem it necessary to raise the volume by 50% when the ads come up? They deem it necessary to drive a nail into your head by inserting an add when you least expect it in the middle of a scene? And they deem it necessary to fill ads with lies and ridiculous false promises of beauty, health and popularity?
Well fuck them. Now I fucking hate ads and it's all their fault because they annoyed the living shit out of me with their fucking bullshit ads and the increasingly aggravating way they presented them to me. Advertising agencies have trained me to abhor ads.
And the practice has continued on the Internet. Noisy, invasive, insecure and fucking annoying ads almost everywhere. I will do all I can to stop them from fucking with my head.
Cortana is also disabled on my system because I'm using English language OS in Germany. According to Microsoft, that will not do. There is a notification telling me to switch OS language to German if I want to enable Cortana.
The first problem when arguing about the dangers or chances of AI is agreeing on what AI is even supposed to be. Laymen will most likely be referring to "strong AI", meaning, AI with human capabilities, such as creativity or even consciousness, whereas professionals will probably think of AI in more practical terms, as in a software that can solve a set of limited or very specific problems by making informed, "intelligent" decisions. Today and in the foreseeable future, we will only get the latter, weak AI. People panicking about the dangers of AI usually have strong AI in mind. Professionals don't take them seriously because they know that strong AI is not even on the horizon. Problem is that there are numerous ways even weak AI can go very, very badly. There was the big stockmarket crash some years ago, caused by automated trading algorithms. Think self-driving cars that have been hacked or have faulty programming. Think automated defense systems that get fed wrong data or malfunction.
These are the kinds of AI issues to worry about. The Asimov-style superhuman intelligence taking over is not something to be concerned about at the moment.
More often than not, those people are not as good as you are, because they haven't had as good an education, and: - they don't speak English as well as you do - they live in a different time zone - their culture is different, as in "Everything is OK!" when actually it's not - they are not as settled and dependable, and you will be working with a different person every 4 months - their country can be invaded by Russia
Okay, the last one is perhaps unlikely, but it has happened at least twice in the last 8 years.
Not sure about that. One of my best friends leads a very relaxed lifestyle in Berlin. Only works 4hrs a day, 4 days a week, no kids, no family, just his very own, slow-paced life and hobbies. He manages that because he lives in a cheap room in a shared appartment without a car and has in general a very frugal lifestyle. He is two years younger than me, in his early thirties but he has lost almost all of his hair, and what is left around the sides has turned grey.
I'm sure that corruption in Greece (the highest in the Eurozone) huge, ineffective government, people not paying taxes, lots of people receiving dubious benefits and tax exempts, high military spending, on average 10 year earlier pension age than EU and comparatively high pensions compared to richer nations have absolutely nothing to do with Greece problems.
In fact, Java is so shitty that thousands of kids are able to create Minecraft mods by learning some Java, decompiling the code and making their own visions reality.
Don't know what is wrong with your system. I also have a beefy rig, i7, GTX 980, 16GB RAM, and I get consistent 60 FPS running Minecraft, except for the slight lagging when there is world loading going on of course. The graphics card is not even trying hard, staying in the 50Â's at about 30-40% capacity, and I'm also running 20 mods.
Basically significant segments of the Iranian government and a good number of the population (not necessarily a majority, but enough to have influence) have anti-Americanism as their raison d'Ãtre
Correct, but as you mention yourself, the arab countries have the same problem. Perhaps not so much with the leaders, but I would guess that a majority of the population, likely more than in Iran, are Anti-American.
The Saudi government has been pretty good friends with the USA
I can't shake the feeling that behind closed doors, most arab leaders are also very condescending of the US and mainly regard it as a source of military technology and aid dollars. For example, Pakistan, a country which is perhaps 80% anti-american and whose secret service plays a game of duplicity, sometimes helping the US and sometimes collaborating with the Taliban and Al-Quaida, nevertheless receives US military aid... hard to follow that logic.
Sometimes I think these countries keep the instabilities and insurgencies running on purpose, to keep the American dollars flowing.
We have long since passed the point where the major actors are just too big and powerful to risk war with eachother,
Not only that. Globalization has many downsides, but one undoubtedly good thing about it is that most economies today are so interconnected and dependant of one another, that conflict between two developed nations would be extremely disruptive and harmful to both. Russia and Europe, or the US and China, while rivals in some respects, thanks to globalization, direct, large-scale conflict is unthinkable.
This. I've also always wondered why the U.S. put all its money on the Arab countries instead of Iran. Iran at least has basic level of Democracy with presidential elections. Irans youth is, in general, more progressive and open minded that in most other islamic countries. The U.S. big ally and arch-enemy of Iran, Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is a practically an absolutist monarchy practicing extremely conservative interpretation of Sharia law. It's also interesting to point out that many high-profile terrorists, such as Osama bin Ladin, were Saudi Arabians. I wouldn't be surprised if elements in Saudi Arabia's government secretly support or at the very least condone IS in Syria and Iraq. They seem pretty single-minded about supporting Sunni Islam against everything Shia.
Is an official Taxi more expensive than Uber? Certainly. But a Taxi driver is a job that can sustain a family. Uber on the other hand strives to turn all of that segment into cheap dayjob/sidejob territory, while reaping the main benefits for itself. That's starting to become a staple of our "new society" - everything cheaper, faster, less regulated... except it also destroys regular jobs and makes the lives of the professionals involved less secure and less predictable.
Not all regulations are bad regulations and not all "progress" is good progress. For me, companies like "Uber" are a form of new ultra-capitalism that is perhaps convenient for consumers, but destructive on a social level, and above all benefiting the "mega corp" involved.
French cheese is actually pretty good. You should try it.
Also, remember who helped you in your war for independence? Yeah, it was the surrender monkeys. They also gave you the most recognizable symbol of the USA after the stars and stripes: The Statue of Liberty.
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No, no, no, no, no! The concept of garbage collecting is a reaction to poor coding practices and reliance on it is laziness.
Not really. The concept of garbage collection is a simple one - if an object is no longer referenced anywhere, free the memory.
This makes perfect sense and also frees the developers mind from making sure everything is always deallocated. Thereby eliminating a huge amount of potential errors, such as premature memory deallocation.
But what many novice programmers don't realize is that you must still manage your memory in a garbage collected environment. Objects that are no longer needed have to be removed from collections - all those references must be cleared so that the memory will be freed.
So I agree with the second part:
Software engineers responsible for real-time, public safety software should be capable of managing memory in their code!
I do have to wonder. When politicians and corporations of the military industrial complex sink billions upon billions of US taxpayer money into their bloated, expensive defense contracts, with barely anything to show for it, does it have any consequences? No? Why not? Somebody must be responsible. Somebody should be accused of corruption, incompetence or whatever. At the very least, the corporation should be sued for not delivering on the contract, and forced to return as much of the money as possible.
Why doesn't it happen?
Indeed. It didn't have to be this way. There is nothing inherently wrong with advertising, but for some reason most ad makers seem to think it's a good idea to be as annoying as possible. Then they are surprised that people block their ads.
There are some cases of ads done right. For example ads on Google search results or in Gmail. Just some text, a link, and it is even marked as an advertisment. Some of these are even informative instead of sensationalist. Perfect.
As you say, I also make a point of avoiding products or brands from ads that were extremely annoying to me.
Yeah. Advertising agencies only have themselves to blame for the fact that most people hate ads. It started with intrusive and annoying TV ads. They deem it necessary to raise the volume by 50% when the ads come up? They deem it necessary to drive a nail into your head by inserting an add when you least expect it in the middle of a scene? And they deem it necessary to fill ads with lies and ridiculous false promises of beauty, health and popularity?
Well fuck them. Now I fucking hate ads and it's all their fault because they annoyed the living shit out of me with their fucking bullshit ads and the increasingly aggravating way they presented them to me. Advertising agencies have trained me to abhor ads.
And the practice has continued on the Internet. Noisy, invasive, insecure and fucking annoying ads almost everywhere. I will do all I can to stop them from fucking with my head.
Cortana is also disabled on my system because I'm using English language OS in Germany. According to Microsoft, that will not do. There is a notification telling me to switch OS language to German if I want to enable Cortana.
Except that companies and the "upper management" guys are getting richer and richer every decade, whereas the rest of us is getting poorer and poorer.
Facts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first problem when arguing about the dangers or chances of AI is agreeing on what AI is even supposed to be. Laymen will most likely be referring to "strong AI", meaning, AI with human capabilities, such as creativity or even consciousness, whereas professionals will probably think of AI in more practical terms, as in a software that can solve a set of limited or very specific problems by making informed, "intelligent" decisions.
Today and in the foreseeable future, we will only get the latter, weak AI. People panicking about the dangers of AI usually have strong AI in mind. Professionals don't take them seriously because they know that strong AI is not even on the horizon.
Problem is that there are numerous ways even weak AI can go very, very badly. There was the big stockmarket crash some years ago, caused by automated trading algorithms. Think self-driving cars that have been hacked or have faulty programming. Think automated defense systems that get fed wrong data or malfunction.
These are the kinds of AI issues to worry about. The Asimov-style superhuman intelligence taking over is not something to be concerned about at the moment.
The only people who actually like Windows are shills and idiots who don't understand security and privacy
And gamers.
Lawyers don't fix laws. Lawyers feed and breed on broken und badly designed laws.
Racism?
More often than not, those people are not as good as you are, because they haven't had as good an education, and:
- they don't speak English as well as you do
- they live in a different time zone
- their culture is different, as in "Everything is OK!" when actually it's not
- they are not as settled and dependable, and you will be working with a different person every 4 months
- their country can be invaded by Russia
Okay, the last one is perhaps unlikely, but it has happened at least twice in the last 8 years.
Not sure about that. One of my best friends leads a very relaxed lifestyle in Berlin. Only works 4hrs a day, 4 days a week, no kids, no family, just his very own, slow-paced life and hobbies. He manages that because he lives in a cheap room in a shared appartment without a car and has in general a very frugal lifestyle. He is two years younger than me, in his early thirties but he has lost almost all of his hair, and what is left around the sides has turned grey.
That escalated quickly.
Like the gravitational pull on an object attracted by a supermassive black hole.
I'm sure that corruption in Greece (the highest in the Eurozone) huge, ineffective government, people not paying taxes, lots of people receiving dubious benefits and tax exempts, high military spending, on average 10 year earlier pension age than EU and comparatively high pensions compared to richer nations have absolutely nothing to do with Greece problems.
It's all Nazi Germany's fault.
In fact, Java is so shitty that thousands of kids are able to create Minecraft mods by learning some Java, decompiling the code and making their own visions reality.
Don't know what is wrong with your system. I also have a beefy rig, i7, GTX 980, 16GB RAM, and I get consistent 60 FPS running Minecraft, except for the slight lagging when there is world loading going on of course.
The graphics card is not even trying hard, staying in the 50Â's at about 30-40% capacity, and I'm also running 20 mods.
It was great at the time, but I could never really go back to D1 after playing through D2. It's maddening that there is no "run" button.
I agree. I was also considering that Israel might be one of the big factors playing a role in US foreign policy.
Basically significant segments of the Iranian government and a good number of the population (not necessarily a majority, but enough to have influence) have anti-Americanism as their raison d'Ãtre
Correct, but as you mention yourself, the arab countries have the same problem. Perhaps not so much with the leaders, but I would guess that a majority of the population, likely more than in Iran, are Anti-American.
The Saudi government has been pretty good friends with the USA
I can't shake the feeling that behind closed doors, most arab leaders are also very condescending of the US and mainly regard it as a source of military technology and aid dollars. For example, Pakistan, a country which is perhaps 80% anti-american and whose secret service plays a game of duplicity, sometimes helping the US and sometimes collaborating with the Taliban and Al-Quaida, nevertheless receives US military aid... hard to follow that logic.
Sometimes I think these countries keep the instabilities and insurgencies running on purpose, to keep the American dollars flowing.
We have long since passed the point where the major actors are just too big and powerful to risk war with eachother,
Not only that. Globalization has many downsides, but one undoubtedly good thing about it is that most economies today are so interconnected and dependant of one another, that conflict between two developed nations would be extremely disruptive and harmful to both.
Russia and Europe, or the US and China, while rivals in some respects, thanks to globalization, direct, large-scale conflict is unthinkable.
Go out for camping, travel to different countries. See the world!
This.
I've also always wondered why the U.S. put all its money on the Arab countries instead of Iran. Iran at least has basic level of Democracy with presidential elections. Irans youth is, in general, more progressive and open minded that in most other islamic countries.
The U.S. big ally and arch-enemy of Iran, Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is a practically an absolutist monarchy practicing extremely conservative interpretation of Sharia law. It's also interesting to point out that many high-profile terrorists, such as Osama bin Ladin, were Saudi Arabians. I wouldn't be surprised if elements in Saudi Arabia's government secretly support or at the very least condone IS in Syria and Iraq. They seem pretty single-minded about supporting Sunni Islam against everything Shia.
you fucking ignoranus
Dear sir, may I ask you to keep this conversation civil, on-topic and orderly, as is custom when having friendly conversation over the Internet.
Is an official Taxi more expensive than Uber? Certainly. But a Taxi driver is a job that can sustain a family. Uber on the other hand strives to turn all of that segment into cheap dayjob/sidejob territory, while reaping the main benefits for itself.
That's starting to become a staple of our "new society" - everything cheaper, faster, less regulated... except it also destroys regular jobs and makes the lives of the professionals involved less secure and less predictable.
Not all regulations are bad regulations and not all "progress" is good progress. For me, companies like "Uber" are a form of new ultra-capitalism that is perhaps convenient for consumers, but destructive on a social level, and above all benefiting the "mega corp" involved.
French cheese is actually pretty good. You should try it.
Also, remember who helped you in your war for independence? Yeah, it was the surrender monkeys. They also gave you the most recognizable symbol of the USA after the stars and stripes: The Statue of Liberty.
If that were truly to happen, the French would chop off their president's head.