Are you sure you replied to the right post? What I wrote is trivially verifiable. It's not virtue signalling nor a straw man. And regarding my opinion of people who aren't aware of the wider historical context of slavery, just look at the reply to me by some AC, showing exactly that uninformed SJW mentality.
It's fairly certain that they don't know that "slave" and "serf" are derived from "Slav". What, white people were slaves? Surely not! Only blacks suffered from slavery in their world, despite it being a historically worldwide phenomenon.
Primary/Secondary and Parent/Child mean entirely different things to Master/Slave. Manager/Worker would be more appropriate. Primary/Secondary is so vague as to be meaningless; there's no context as to what the order means. Parent/Child means a familial relationship defined by inheritance, and has a completely separate meaning.
Nomenclature matters, but what you are proposing makes no sense and would be inaccurate and confusing.
It's fixable with a simple dependency addition in your maven pom, build.gradle or whatever you use. They handled the transition about as well as could be expected: allow re-enabling with an option, then remove completely later. If you're going to decouple all the extra stuff in the JRE, they did it reasonably well. I've made the change in a dozen projects or so, and it's all running on 9/10/11 without a hiccup.
"Just a cave explorer". Yeah. You do realise that he "explored" this whole cave system for years, by diving through it and mapping it out. He absolutely is a diver, and clearly a good one. Look at all the news reports and videos. He wasn't the best, that's why he called in the divers he knew were the best, and coordinated it all. A team effort to be proud of. Seriously Elon, you need to stop taking so many drugs. Musk's main problem isn't the "attack dogs", but his own stupidity. He's his own worst enemy. Anyone else would have shown some good grace, and congratulated the team for a job well done, and maybe looked at improving his sub design for future uses. He acted like a petulant child, threw out a terrible insult, was forced to apologise, and then repeated it all over again. What a complete tool. None of it was about him, it was about saving lives, and yet he tried to use the whole thing as a publicity stunt. If he'd had his way, they might well have all died.
Nice try, Elon. The rescuer spent nearly all the time in the caves, actually doing the hard and heroic work of saving all those boys lives. He's a world expert on cave diving with decades of experience. His Thai girlfriend is 40, and there's zero evidence of paedophilia. He called out Elon for what he was doing, interfering with a complex rescue operation with a useless and impractical (at this point) toy, and he got all the boys out. Offending a billionaire is no reason to be baselessly accused of paedophilia. Musk should be utterly ashamed of his terrible conduct.
"Tougher" means little. Materials are strong, or hard (Mohs), but rarely both. Making glass harder makes it more likely to shatter if there's an impact. It's more likely to crack. Which is why you see so many people around with crazed screens. It's true that a lot of engineering effort has gone into improving glass, but it's still a terrible compromise. Glass is a poor material for covering a solid object which needs to withstand impacts with hard objects.
Plus, they are all hitting the wall. Going smaller means sinking billions for increasingly small gains. Intel's already struggling with "10nm". TSMC and Samsung might be doing "7nm" but chances are they are hitting the same limits. Even if they all make it to "7nm" in a couple of years, what then? Small iterative improvements at vast, vast cost. I can understand a company bailing out here; the gains are getting too marginal to justify the huge cost. May as well reap the benefits of the high yields of established processes where the capital and research costs are already paid off. Might not be as exciting, but if it pays the bills then it beats going bust.
Look at all the other metals. Titanium, lithium, etc. "Aluminum" was a typo in a single dictionary which then spread that misspelling across America, and it became established as a result. Silly, really, but goes to show how changes can spread for really no reason at all other than acceptance of what's in a book must be correct, and going with it.
Why would you buy this over a Ryzen chip? I just built up a new system, Ryzen 2700X with 32GiB RAM. The CPU is reasonably priced and pretty power efficient for the number of cores/threads.
There are plenty of competitors, if you look for specialists in a given area. Amazon offers everything, and is easy to use, with flexible returns. They bank on customer laziness in not looking around for better deals. For computer parts, there are several big companies in the UK which do mail order, including ebuyer, SCAN, DABS, and many others. Same in the US. More often than not, Amazon is the least competitive, and as for the others, compare their pricing and get the best deal. The same applies to plenty of other areas, such as bike and auto parts, household stuff. Each area has companies which specialise, and which do good mail order service. Amazon is selling convenience at the expense of not being the most cost effective. With the amount of counterfeit stuff in the Amazon marketplace, Amazon for me is now a place of last resort, rather than the first. It was always going to be that once they had a large amount of the market they would raise prices because they could, but I think they will find that they are not irreplaceable when there are so many other companies ready to fill the gaps in the market. It's not like there aren't thousands of companies around who have the logistics in place to handle orders and returns.
They aren't really. They are making it difficult to opt out and easy to opt in, and using very deceptive tricks to encourage one behaviour over the other. They should be equally easy actions, with no deception to encourage or enforce opting in. Additionally, if you look at how some sites break down cookies into categories like "essential", "performance", "tracking" and "advertising" etc., you still see a lot of unwelcome stuff in the "essential" category (which can't be disabled in many cases). That's illegal now; I should be able to disable every last bit.
I'm afraid I worked for a UK brewer of Heineken, so I don't know who brews it under contract in the USA or if there are any notable differences in ingredients or process. I thought it tasted horrible even fresh out of the bright beer tank before packaging! If there was one thing working there taught me, it was a proper appreciation of quality real ale!
One thing which surprises me though is how a beer could become lightstruck in the first place. It's gone from a stainless steel tank and pipework to a bottling line under artificial lighting to a cardboard box and into a warehouse for distribution in just a few minutes. The light exposure was minimal. There's no UV exposure until that box is opened. Is it all just poor storage in the bar before you get it?
It's exactly the same product. The only difference is that the bottle (deliberately) has more CO2 added to it. Fairly typical for all beers, and personally I always favour beer on tap as a result. (You can always pour the bottle from a height to partially degas it.)
This is exactly the case (measuring Heineken CO2 levels used to be my job). I wrote up some details about this in my reply to the parent above. All the major beer brands (and most of the minor ones) have exacting specifications for the manufactured product. The brewery I worked in followed both ISO9001 and six sigma processes strictly. This results in guaranteed product quality within certain allowable tolerances. In the case of Heineken, this means it's consistently mediocre, but who am I to judge as a real ale snob when millions of people appear to love it, so they must be doing something right!
I used to work as a lab technician in one of the big breweries making Heineken and Stella and other beers, and measuring this stuff used to be my job. For the most part, the CO2 produced by fermentation is used. However, to ensure batch consistency, if the dissolved gases are not within a certain range of the specification, then they will be adjusted to bring them back in line. To raise the CO2 level you can bubble it through and/or add it to the headspace of the tank. To lower it you bubble N2 through and/or add it to the headspace. Regular gas laws and partial pressures will result in a new equilibrium. In addition to CO2, dissolved N2 and O2 levels were also measured. O2 is really bad for shelf life because it will oxidise various compounds in the beer and make it spoil. Usually very low, but can also be reduced with N2 without disturbing the CO2 level too much. Note that these adjustments are done on filtered "bright" beer immediately prior to packaging. Also, the CO2 levels also vary depending upon the packaging method. Bottles have the highest levels, with cans being slightly less. Kegs have much less. All to do with shelf life and the integrity of the packaging.
"Lucre" is nothing more than a synonym for "money", or "profit", if something is "lucrative" that means "money-making" or "profit-making". There's nothing "large" or "substantial" about it. It might often be used in these contexts, but that's purely convention in some locales; it's not universal nor part of the definition.
I don't believe that autopilot has *ever* means "this thing drives all by itself". Autopilots on boats and ships, where they originated, do little more than keeping a bearing. In aeroplanes, it's pretty much the same thing, keeping to a heading following the waypoints on the flight plan. None of these systems have ever done much more than that. Planes might have ALS and other autonomous gadgetry in addition to the autopilot, but even these are pretty basic in their operation. They don't rely on sophisticated and untestable "AI" to function.
It's no different to any previous compiler release by any vendor. Any new version may increase the strictness, and if you read the list of extra checks the compiler is doing, they are all entirely reasonable and in most cases only affect buggy code which would misbehave and already needed fixing. Bring on the extra strictness and improve the quality of your codebases, I say.
Good quality building sand doesn't generally come from the seaside (or deserts), because the sand is too weathered and rounded to make strong structures. Sand with sharp edges is in vastly shorter supply.
Right now, my *home* address, phone number and email are listed in the WHOIS database, put there by my ISP. And other stuff I own requires a RIPE handle with again my address, phone number and email listed. It's not corporate, it's personal/open source project-related. While I could pay some extra money to have (some of) this stuff obfuscated, the fact that it's in the open by default is a problem. 30 years ago the internet was a different place. Today, that information is going to be hoovered up by spammers, used for legal retribution if something thinks I downloaded something I shouldn't have, and used by assholes for SWATing. And so on. As far as I'm concerned, GDPR is going to be a massive improvement, and if WHOIS is forced to update their outdated and ridiculous practices as a result, then that's a massive bonus.
There's a problem with the technology though. It darkens principally in response to UV exposure, not ambient daylight. Normally they correlate, but you can be in thick cloud where it's grey and not at all bright, but the UV level is still very high. Under this type of condition, the lens turns black and it's like night time, with the world barely visible. In a car windscreen, that would be positively dangerous.
We already do this in laboratories to classify chemicals. In my previous lab, the system was a coloured sticker with a "hazard level" from 1 to 4. Everything was 1 (yellow) by default. Moderately dangerous = 2. Nasty stuff = 3 (e.g. skin contact will definitely cause cancer, such as phorbol myristate acetate), lethal stuff = 4 (bright red) (e.g. breathing this in will result in death or severe medical problems such as sodium azide, cyanides etc.). The simple classification separates stuff you can ignore for the most part, with things which you should be careful with, and things which you should be paranoid about. The colour makes the danger apparent even if you don't read the number. If applied to these meaningless cancer warnings, it would at least make the risk factor clear.
Hold on just a moment.
If Scotland did leave the UK, that would effectively be breaking up the Union, and would be the end of the UK as we know it. Both Scotland and "rUK" would be entitled to their share of the split assets, and that might well include sharing of the ".uk" TLD.
The same also applies to the UK exit from the EU. The UK has some entitlement to its share of the EU assets, and that's part of what these negotiations are all about. That may well include some rights to use of the.eu TLD. Though I don't see any value in it myself.
I'm rather surprised that there are 300,000.eu registrations at all, not least from the UK. Who would want one? I don't think I've ever used any site with a.eu TLD; everything is.co.uk/.org.uk/.fr/.ie/.de for the most part. I always thought it was a waste of time to bother with a.eu registration. Doesn't sound like a big loss, just some noise to create some token bargaining chip for some negotiation concession.
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Are you sure you replied to the right post? What I wrote is trivially verifiable. It's not virtue signalling nor a straw man. And regarding my opinion of people who aren't aware of the wider historical context of slavery, just look at the reply to me by some AC, showing exactly that uninformed SJW mentality.
It's fairly certain that they don't know that "slave" and "serf" are derived from "Slav". What, white people were slaves? Surely not! Only blacks suffered from slavery in their world, despite it being a historically worldwide phenomenon.
Primary/Secondary and Parent/Child mean entirely different things to Master/Slave. Manager/Worker would be more appropriate. Primary/Secondary is so vague as to be meaningless; there's no context as to what the order means. Parent/Child means a familial relationship defined by inheritance, and has a completely separate meaning. Nomenclature matters, but what you are proposing makes no sense and would be inaccurate and confusing.
It's fixable with a simple dependency addition in your maven pom, build.gradle or whatever you use. They handled the transition about as well as could be expected: allow re-enabling with an option, then remove completely later. If you're going to decouple all the extra stuff in the JRE, they did it reasonably well. I've made the change in a dozen projects or so, and it's all running on 9/10/11 without a hiccup.
"Just a cave explorer". Yeah. You do realise that he "explored" this whole cave system for years, by diving through it and mapping it out. He absolutely is a diver, and clearly a good one. Look at all the news reports and videos. He wasn't the best, that's why he called in the divers he knew were the best, and coordinated it all. A team effort to be proud of. Seriously Elon, you need to stop taking so many drugs. Musk's main problem isn't the "attack dogs", but his own stupidity. He's his own worst enemy. Anyone else would have shown some good grace, and congratulated the team for a job well done, and maybe looked at improving his sub design for future uses. He acted like a petulant child, threw out a terrible insult, was forced to apologise, and then repeated it all over again. What a complete tool. None of it was about him, it was about saving lives, and yet he tried to use the whole thing as a publicity stunt. If he'd had his way, they might well have all died.
Nice try, Elon. The rescuer spent nearly all the time in the caves, actually doing the hard and heroic work of saving all those boys lives. He's a world expert on cave diving with decades of experience. His Thai girlfriend is 40, and there's zero evidence of paedophilia. He called out Elon for what he was doing, interfering with a complex rescue operation with a useless and impractical (at this point) toy, and he got all the boys out. Offending a billionaire is no reason to be baselessly accused of paedophilia. Musk should be utterly ashamed of his terrible conduct.
"Tougher" means little. Materials are strong, or hard (Mohs), but rarely both. Making glass harder makes it more likely to shatter if there's an impact. It's more likely to crack. Which is why you see so many people around with crazed screens. It's true that a lot of engineering effort has gone into improving glass, but it's still a terrible compromise. Glass is a poor material for covering a solid object which needs to withstand impacts with hard objects.
Plus, they are all hitting the wall. Going smaller means sinking billions for increasingly small gains. Intel's already struggling with "10nm". TSMC and Samsung might be doing "7nm" but chances are they are hitting the same limits. Even if they all make it to "7nm" in a couple of years, what then? Small iterative improvements at vast, vast cost. I can understand a company bailing out here; the gains are getting too marginal to justify the huge cost. May as well reap the benefits of the high yields of established processes where the capital and research costs are already paid off. Might not be as exciting, but if it pays the bills then it beats going bust.
Look at all the other metals. Titanium, lithium, etc. "Aluminum" was a typo in a single dictionary which then spread that misspelling across America, and it became established as a result. Silly, really, but goes to show how changes can spread for really no reason at all other than acceptance of what's in a book must be correct, and going with it.
Why would you buy this over a Ryzen chip? I just built up a new system, Ryzen 2700X with 32GiB RAM. The CPU is reasonably priced and pretty power efficient for the number of cores/threads.
There are plenty of competitors, if you look for specialists in a given area. Amazon offers everything, and is easy to use, with flexible returns. They bank on customer laziness in not looking around for better deals. For computer parts, there are several big companies in the UK which do mail order, including ebuyer, SCAN, DABS, and many others. Same in the US. More often than not, Amazon is the least competitive, and as for the others, compare their pricing and get the best deal. The same applies to plenty of other areas, such as bike and auto parts, household stuff. Each area has companies which specialise, and which do good mail order service. Amazon is selling convenience at the expense of not being the most cost effective. With the amount of counterfeit stuff in the Amazon marketplace, Amazon for me is now a place of last resort, rather than the first. It was always going to be that once they had a large amount of the market they would raise prices because they could, but I think they will find that they are not irreplaceable when there are so many other companies ready to fill the gaps in the market. It's not like there aren't thousands of companies around who have the logistics in place to handle orders and returns.
They aren't really. They are making it difficult to opt out and easy to opt in, and using very deceptive tricks to encourage one behaviour over the other. They should be equally easy actions, with no deception to encourage or enforce opting in. Additionally, if you look at how some sites break down cookies into categories like "essential", "performance", "tracking" and "advertising" etc., you still see a lot of unwelcome stuff in the "essential" category (which can't be disabled in many cases). That's illegal now; I should be able to disable every last bit.
I'm afraid I worked for a UK brewer of Heineken, so I don't know who brews it under contract in the USA or if there are any notable differences in ingredients or process. I thought it tasted horrible even fresh out of the bright beer tank before packaging! If there was one thing working there taught me, it was a proper appreciation of quality real ale! One thing which surprises me though is how a beer could become lightstruck in the first place. It's gone from a stainless steel tank and pipework to a bottling line under artificial lighting to a cardboard box and into a warehouse for distribution in just a few minutes. The light exposure was minimal. There's no UV exposure until that box is opened. Is it all just poor storage in the bar before you get it?
It's exactly the same product. The only difference is that the bottle (deliberately) has more CO2 added to it. Fairly typical for all beers, and personally I always favour beer on tap as a result. (You can always pour the bottle from a height to partially degas it.)
This is exactly the case (measuring Heineken CO2 levels used to be my job). I wrote up some details about this in my reply to the parent above. All the major beer brands (and most of the minor ones) have exacting specifications for the manufactured product. The brewery I worked in followed both ISO9001 and six sigma processes strictly. This results in guaranteed product quality within certain allowable tolerances. In the case of Heineken, this means it's consistently mediocre, but who am I to judge as a real ale snob when millions of people appear to love it, so they must be doing something right!
I used to work as a lab technician in one of the big breweries making Heineken and Stella and other beers, and measuring this stuff used to be my job. For the most part, the CO2 produced by fermentation is used. However, to ensure batch consistency, if the dissolved gases are not within a certain range of the specification, then they will be adjusted to bring them back in line. To raise the CO2 level you can bubble it through and/or add it to the headspace of the tank. To lower it you bubble N2 through and/or add it to the headspace. Regular gas laws and partial pressures will result in a new equilibrium. In addition to CO2, dissolved N2 and O2 levels were also measured. O2 is really bad for shelf life because it will oxidise various compounds in the beer and make it spoil. Usually very low, but can also be reduced with N2 without disturbing the CO2 level too much. Note that these adjustments are done on filtered "bright" beer immediately prior to packaging. Also, the CO2 levels also vary depending upon the packaging method. Bottles have the highest levels, with cans being slightly less. Kegs have much less. All to do with shelf life and the integrity of the packaging.
"Lucre" is nothing more than a synonym for "money", or "profit", if something is "lucrative" that means "money-making" or "profit-making". There's nothing "large" or "substantial" about it. It might often be used in these contexts, but that's purely convention in some locales; it's not universal nor part of the definition.
I don't believe that autopilot has *ever* means "this thing drives all by itself". Autopilots on boats and ships, where they originated, do little more than keeping a bearing. In aeroplanes, it's pretty much the same thing, keeping to a heading following the waypoints on the flight plan. None of these systems have ever done much more than that. Planes might have ALS and other autonomous gadgetry in addition to the autopilot, but even these are pretty basic in their operation. They don't rely on sophisticated and untestable "AI" to function.
It's no different to any previous compiler release by any vendor. Any new version may increase the strictness, and if you read the list of extra checks the compiler is doing, they are all entirely reasonable and in most cases only affect buggy code which would misbehave and already needed fixing. Bring on the extra strictness and improve the quality of your codebases, I say.
Good quality building sand doesn't generally come from the seaside (or deserts), because the sand is too weathered and rounded to make strong structures. Sand with sharp edges is in vastly shorter supply.
Right now, my *home* address, phone number and email are listed in the WHOIS database, put there by my ISP. And other stuff I own requires a RIPE handle with again my address, phone number and email listed. It's not corporate, it's personal/open source project-related. While I could pay some extra money to have (some of) this stuff obfuscated, the fact that it's in the open by default is a problem. 30 years ago the internet was a different place. Today, that information is going to be hoovered up by spammers, used for legal retribution if something thinks I downloaded something I shouldn't have, and used by assholes for SWATing. And so on. As far as I'm concerned, GDPR is going to be a massive improvement, and if WHOIS is forced to update their outdated and ridiculous practices as a result, then that's a massive bonus.
There's a problem with the technology though. It darkens principally in response to UV exposure, not ambient daylight. Normally they correlate, but you can be in thick cloud where it's grey and not at all bright, but the UV level is still very high. Under this type of condition, the lens turns black and it's like night time, with the world barely visible. In a car windscreen, that would be positively dangerous.
We already do this in laboratories to classify chemicals. In my previous lab, the system was a coloured sticker with a "hazard level" from 1 to 4. Everything was 1 (yellow) by default. Moderately dangerous = 2. Nasty stuff = 3 (e.g. skin contact will definitely cause cancer, such as phorbol myristate acetate), lethal stuff = 4 (bright red) (e.g. breathing this in will result in death or severe medical problems such as sodium azide, cyanides etc.). The simple classification separates stuff you can ignore for the most part, with things which you should be careful with, and things which you should be paranoid about. The colour makes the danger apparent even if you don't read the number. If applied to these meaningless cancer warnings, it would at least make the risk factor clear.
Hold on just a moment. If Scotland did leave the UK, that would effectively be breaking up the Union, and would be the end of the UK as we know it. Both Scotland and "rUK" would be entitled to their share of the split assets, and that might well include sharing of the ".uk" TLD. The same also applies to the UK exit from the EU. The UK has some entitlement to its share of the EU assets, and that's part of what these negotiations are all about. That may well include some rights to use of the .eu TLD. Though I don't see any value in it myself.
I'm rather surprised that there are 300,000 .eu registrations at all, not least from the UK. Who would want one? I don't think I've ever used any site with a .eu TLD; everything is .co.uk/.org.uk/.fr/.ie/.de for the most part. I always thought it was a waste of time to bother with a .eu registration. Doesn't sound like a big loss, just some noise to create some token bargaining chip for some negotiation concession.