scientists are fallible like anyone else, no reason to trust any one of them
The system of science however has been reliably self-correcting for centuries now. Whether driven by self interest, curiosity or a sense of duty, scientist have a stake in exposing mistakes and correcting them. So yes, I trust that any big thing would be addressed and resolved and even small things get cleared up eventually
What makes you think that the farmers can flourish without selling their crops. why will anything suddenly change to prevent coastal california buying from mexico or asia or oregon, why do you think landlocked california will suddenly do better selling their crops to other states than they do while "shackled to the burden" of selling to San Francisco residents.
I once read an account of a thought experiment where there are a line of cows side by side with their noses all touching a long, straight fence. The farmer attaches an electric fence shocker to one end of the fence and it makes all the cows jump as they feel the shock.
The farmer sees the cows jump one after the other as the electricity reaches each nose
But to a visitor from a nearby city, who happens to be standing at the other end of the fence at the time, the cows all seem to jump up in unison, since the light bringing the image of the far cow arrives at the same time as the electricity arrives to shock the nearest cow.
When the farmer and the passerby meet they find they have different first hand accounts of the same events, proving to the farmer that city folk are ignorant of country ways, and proving to the city slicker that country folk tell tall stories
I think DEC Alpha had the same issue with compilers, but compilers must have moved on since then.To your point about code being compiled for the lowest common denominator I would say that:
(a) With a fresh start surely some of that baggage could be left behind
(b) A compiler can be written that takes x86 machine code as its source, it would then (re)compile and optimize it for a new platform
I suppose I see CPUs as being like web browsers, they now need an adaptation layer in the middle to bridge the gap between the features they offer and what the code calls for / the form that it takes
At least some of the complexity of these modern CPUs seems to be in their hardware-implemented on-the-fly code optimization. If more of that could be done by the compiler or runtime software (maybe creating CPU designs that are especially amenable to that kind of outside assistance) then maybe the CPUs could afford to be simpler
By the same token, memory technology seems to me to be overdue for a breakthrough that would improve speed
Maybe there are some ways to reduce CPU complexity by shifting the burden of mitigating sub-optimal instruction sequencing and slow memory to the point where today's hyper expensive, top-end FPGAs would be up to the job, and then drive the volume to bring down the cost and spur FPGA innovation.
An open source CPU shouldn't try to beat intel at its own game, it should change the playing field
That's the most accessible description of these issues that I have read about to date. Everything else has either been difficult to follow or just plain arm-waving and jargon designed to make the storyteller look all 1337.
Put some money up for a national challenge to come up with a way to do something useful with the waste and start importing and processing it from Europe. Doesn't the UK already do this with Nuclear waste ?
I don't know about zero context. Many of these countries use European languages because of past colonial activity.
It seems to me that Europe has some reparations it should make for the colonial era still and in return they get to do a more gentle export of their culture. If Europe wants to stem the flood of immigrants it can always put more effort into making life better for people in situ. Help them with farming tech, sponsor education. There's really no good reason why Africa should be abandoned.
Equifax will encode SSN, DoB, Address, 1st pet name, mother's maiden name and any other personal information they can get on everyone into the DNA of the deadly viruses and the next time they leak the information en masse no-one will be worried about getting credit protection.
I have to hand it javascript and for that matter to java for reinventing itself as time goes by to include support for new ideas in programming as they come along. Javascript has introduced me to some interesting ideas like closures and functional programming and methods for handling backward compatibility (all with a pretty low barrier to entry). Given that most of the complexity is in handling the DOM or some representation thereof I can't see web assembly magically making most of the things that we (including I) gripe about in javascript go away.
Slashdot Mirror
Super blue blood, that must mean it is part of the royal family.
study finds everything that happened in the last 10 years correlates with the existence of smartphones.
The politicians wouldn't recognize it if they saw it.
It might be interesting to build a biochar kiln. But once a tree is reduced to charcoal how does one compress it into diamonds inexpensively ?
scientists are fallible like anyone else, no reason to trust any one of them
The system of science however has been reliably self-correcting for centuries now. Whether driven by self interest, curiosity or a sense of duty, scientist have a stake in exposing mistakes and correcting them. So yes, I trust that any big thing would be addressed and resolved and even small things get cleared up eventually
That and the three killings a day is why it's clear that the police need more protection against lawsuits.
What makes you think that the farmers can flourish without selling their crops. why will anything suddenly change to prevent coastal california buying from mexico or asia or oregon, why do you think landlocked california will suddenly do better selling their crops to other states than they do while "shackled to the burden" of selling to San Francisco residents.
I once read an account of a thought experiment where there are a line of cows side by side with their noses all touching a long, straight fence. The farmer attaches an electric fence shocker to one end of the fence and it makes all the cows jump as they feel the shock.
The farmer sees the cows jump one after the other as the electricity reaches each nose
But to a visitor from a nearby city, who happens to be standing at the other end of the fence at the time, the cows all seem to jump up in unison, since the light bringing the image of the far cow arrives at the same time as the electricity arrives to shock the nearest cow.
When the farmer and the passerby meet they find they have different first hand accounts of the same events, proving to the farmer that city folk are ignorant of country ways, and proving to the city slicker that country folk tell tall stories
First play him some insane clown posse and then get a couple of long wires and show him how a magnet works.
I think I might put "I do not accept the terms of your user agreement" somewhere in the User Agent String of my browser, see what happens.
I think DEC Alpha had the same issue with compilers, but compilers must have moved on since then.To your point about code being compiled for the lowest common denominator I would say that :
(a) With a fresh start surely some of that baggage could be left behind
(b) A compiler can be written that takes x86 machine code as its source, it would then (re)compile and optimize it for a new platform
I suppose I see CPUs as being like web browsers, they now need an adaptation layer in the middle to bridge the gap between the features they offer and what the code calls for / the form that it takes
At least some of the complexity of these modern CPUs seems to be in their hardware-implemented on-the-fly code optimization. If more of that could be done by the compiler or runtime software (maybe creating CPU designs that are especially amenable to that kind of outside assistance) then maybe the CPUs could afford to be simpler
By the same token, memory technology seems to me to be overdue for a breakthrough that would improve speed
Maybe there are some ways to reduce CPU complexity by shifting the burden of mitigating sub-optimal instruction sequencing and slow memory to the point where today's hyper expensive, top-end FPGAs would be up to the job, and then drive the volume to bring down the cost and spur FPGA innovation.
An open source CPU shouldn't try to beat intel at its own game, it should change the playing field
That's the most accessible description of these issues that I have read about to date. Everything else has either been difficult to follow or just plain arm-waving and jargon designed to make the storyteller look all 1337.
These (and almost all) businesses usually have to continue to innovate to stay alive, by and large they put in their work each day.
Why are we so keen to provide people like your grandmother with unearned income forever ? We may as well crown them.
Put some money up for a national challenge to come up with a way to do something useful with the waste and start importing and processing it from Europe. Doesn't the UK already do this with Nuclear waste ?
The J with the ash on the end cannot infringe on Paul Simon because clearly no-one could smoke a J
simply being healthy enough to leave the house means you are not as sick
I exclusively read slashdot on the internet. That keeps the actual information content down.
I don't know about zero context. Many of these countries use European languages because of past colonial activity.
It seems to me that Europe has some reparations it should make for the colonial era still and in return they get to do a more gentle export of their culture. If Europe wants to stem the flood of immigrants it can always put more effort into making life better for people in situ. Help them with farming tech, sponsor education. There's really no good reason why Africa should be abandoned.
Time to activate Wildfire
Equifax will encode SSN, DoB, Address, 1st pet name, mother's maiden name and any other personal information they can get on everyone into the DNA of the deadly viruses and the next time they leak the information en masse no-one will be worried about getting credit protection.
getting up in the middle of the night to pee doesn't help either.
These people don;t believe anything they can verify silly.
I have to hand it javascript and for that matter to java for reinventing itself as time goes by to include support for new ideas in programming as they come along. Javascript has introduced me to some interesting ideas like closures and functional programming and methods for handling backward compatibility (all with a pretty low barrier to entry). Given that most of the complexity is in handling the DOM or some representation thereof I can't see web assembly magically making most of the things that we (including I) gripe about in javascript go away.