DON'T BUY ANYTHING EARLY ACCESS ON STEAM ITS JUST A NEW WAY OF SCAMMING
and i fell like yelling YOU need to make sure you read this dipshit website owners
Meh just read the reviews.
KSP and Factorio are among the best games I've ever played, and I bought both Early Access.
You're right, but I think that was at least as much because it was rendered with artificial samples, whereas the real thing was played by real instruments. It would be a fairer comparison if the computer generated music was performed by real musicians, or, for that matter, if the Vivaldi was played by a synthesizer.
I think the composition of the artificial example wasn't too bad - maybe a bit more repetitive than the real thing, but again that might just be because of the poor samples.
No, it was definitely the composition that made me cringe. It screamed "special needs".
UBI will never work on large scale because giving money doesn't solve any problem.
You practically need to manage people's lives, you tell them they are only allowed to buy food and a bunch of them still manage to go hungry.
Such a tried and true polemic! Remember Reagan's welfare queens, and strapping young bucks? Find the worst and most objectionable behavior within a class of people (or don't find it, just make it up), and be that only a tiny percentage, paint the entire lot with the same brush. Let a thousand starve because of one abuse!
But really it's even uglier than that - most people don't have a problem with social programs, as long as the benefits only go to white people.
I never understood the point of making the FCC the decency police. Aren't conservatives for "free market", and against "regulation" and "the nanny state"?
TV that people find offensive would seem to be a textbook example of a free market capable of correcting itself. If people don't like it, they can vote with their feet, and so can the advertisers. Why involve government?
So this is basically a large wealth transfer (which all taxes in principle are), not some utopian new idea that somehow pays for itself, right?
A criticism for any social program, not just UBI. Taking money from some people to give to others. It looks bad. If I have money, why should I like it that you take *my* money to give to these other lazy people?
Lazy is the terrible, pernicious lie at the heart of modern right-wing ideology. Massive wealth transfers are already built into our economic system, and they're all in the other direction - a very small number of people end up with most of the wealth, while everyone else does all the actual work.
Take a janitor in a city, working his ass off on two jobs just to make ends meet. Hard, useful work, work that needs to be done, that nobody likes. Compare to the socialite born into wealth, that takes and takes of the wealth our civilization has to offer, but has never done anything useful in his life.
Considering the goals of capitalism, some may consider this a perverse outcome.
I don't have any solutions to offer, but whenever "wealth transfer" is used to object to the UBI, remember that what we have in place is already exactly that.
Let me guess, they were expected to be productive members of the team and not just the token minority, and that got to be too much for them, so they quit rather than be fired for incompetence.
Because people like you wouldn't even dream of being racist, right?
I see a ton of comments here from people that clearly don't understand what functional programming is, or they don't really get it. If you consider yourself a programmer, go to Project Euler and do the first 20 (or 50) problems. Use whatever language you like. You have to do them, because you need to solve them to see all the other solutions.
Look at the solutions, in all the different languages, and compare. Not just for speed, but the design. Take a good look.
Perhaps: Well the ocean temperature dropped enough, but turns out the local increase in salinity due to the cloud whitening machine spraying salt in to the air has killed off the entire Great Barrier Reef. Oops.
OK, I'm not Randall Monroe, but here we go -
There is about 120 million tons of salt in a single cubic mile of seawater. A very conservative estimate of the volume of seawater around the Great Barrier Reef is 8,000 cubic miles.
That's nearly a trillion tons of salt.
If we dropped a BILLION TONS of salt over that area, it wouldn't change the water's salinity - by even a rounding error.
You think a db can serve just one app, apparently. My current db serves hundreds, no way they can all be installed there. Another serves the corporate dwh. Installing apps on that one will make me do horrible things to you. Don't make me, bro!
Where I come from, having many applications accessing the same database directly is a disaster for maintainability. Not that it's good for everything, but 3-tier is about more than just security.
The orgs I work for have rather higher security requirements than garden variety stuff so I doubt I'd ever be able to put the service layer on the same box as a database, but for smaller, purely internal applications I totally would.
Anyway my point is, aside from some very specific things (like doing nested set for hierarchical data) why use a 3GL to put non-relational logic in SQL statements at all, when you're already supposed to have a layer on top of that where all your business logic and units tests are, in a language already suited to it?
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In my experience whenever anyone uses that phrase, whatever comes next is always complete and utter BS.
DON'T BUY ANYTHING EARLY ACCESS ON STEAM ITS JUST A NEW WAY OF SCAMMING and i fell like yelling YOU need to make sure you read this dipshit website owners
Meh just read the reviews.
KSP and Factorio are among the best games I've ever played, and I bought both Early Access.
half the codebase needs to be refactored?
You're right, but I think that was at least as much because it was rendered with artificial samples, whereas the real thing was played by real instruments. It would be a fairer comparison if the computer generated music was performed by real musicians, or, for that matter, if the Vivaldi was played by a synthesizer.
I think the composition of the artificial example wasn't too bad - maybe a bit more repetitive than the real thing, but again that might just be because of the poor samples.
No, it was definitely the composition that made me cringe. It screamed "special needs".
To my ears, the computer-generated composition is cringe-inducingly bad.
if they added a touchscreen! Oh wait...
Have I missed something? I don't get it.
between those who willingly look at any code at all, and those who won't.
Yes there are a lot of bad or unprofessional programmers, but in terms of general thinking ability the bar goes so much lower.
Go ahead and count them.
UBI will never work on large scale because giving money doesn't solve any problem.
You practically need to manage people's lives, you tell them they are only allowed to buy food and a bunch of them still manage to go hungry.
Such a tried and true polemic! Remember Reagan's welfare queens, and strapping young bucks? Find the worst and most objectionable behavior within a class of people (or don't find it, just make it up), and be that only a tiny percentage, paint the entire lot with the same brush. Let a thousand starve because of one abuse!
But really it's even uglier than that - most people don't have a problem with social programs, as long as the benefits only go to white people.
Why don't we start with food as a UBI instead? Just make a certain basket of foods, the basics - fruits, veggies, grains, etc., free to all.
We already massively subsidize farms. With the savings from eliminating SNAP and other related programs, we might not even need to taxes to do it.
and sometimes I end up wasting upwards of half my time not programming, and nobody seems to care!
In fact, clients often specifically tell me to not to mention the problems I run into that prevent me from doing my job.
I just can't believe these people are going to get their panties in a bunch over security professionals losing an hour a week here and there.
I never understood the point of making the FCC the decency police. Aren't conservatives for "free market", and against "regulation" and "the nanny state"?
TV that people find offensive would seem to be a textbook example of a free market capable of correcting itself. If people don't like it, they can vote with their feet, and so can the advertisers. Why involve government?
What, are the partnering with Samsung?
End simulation.
Mediocre episode, but one of the best endings.
So this is basically a large wealth transfer (which all taxes in principle are), not some utopian new idea that somehow pays for itself, right?
A criticism for any social program, not just UBI. Taking money from some people to give to others. It looks bad. If I have money, why should I like it that you take *my* money to give to these other lazy people?
Lazy is the terrible, pernicious lie at the heart of modern right-wing ideology. Massive wealth transfers are already built into our economic system, and they're all in the other direction - a very small number of people end up with most of the wealth, while everyone else does all the actual work.
Take a janitor in a city, working his ass off on two jobs just to make ends meet. Hard, useful work, work that needs to be done, that nobody likes. Compare to the socialite born into wealth, that takes and takes of the wealth our civilization has to offer, but has never done anything useful in his life.
Considering the goals of capitalism, some may consider this a perverse outcome.
I don't have any solutions to offer, but whenever "wealth transfer" is used to object to the UBI, remember that what we have in place is already exactly that.
until the laws are authoritatively and rigorously expressed in a more precise language than English.
Google's working on something like it, but the whole field is still in its infancy.
not delivering during business hours?
You know, most people have things called "jobs" (it's why they're called "business hours"), so they're not home then anyway.
I would personally love to have expensive packages delivered when I'm home, and have the driver actually wait for me to get to the door to take them.
as in, pull my finger?
Let me guess, they were expected to be productive members of the team and not just the token minority, and that got to be too much for them, so they quit rather than be fired for incompetence.
Because people like you wouldn't even dream of being racist, right?
I see a ton of comments here from people that clearly don't understand what functional programming is, or they don't really get it. If you consider yourself a programmer, go to Project Euler and do the first 20 (or 50) problems. Use whatever language you like. You have to do them, because you need to solve them to see all the other solutions.
Look at the solutions, in all the different languages, and compare. Not just for speed, but the design. Take a good look.
Perhaps: Well the ocean temperature dropped enough, but turns out the local increase in salinity due to the cloud whitening machine spraying salt in to the air has killed off the entire Great Barrier Reef. Oops.
OK, I'm not Randall Monroe, but here we go -
There is about 120 million tons of salt in a single cubic mile of seawater. A very conservative estimate of the volume of seawater around the Great Barrier Reef is 8,000 cubic miles.
That's nearly a trillion tons of salt.
If we dropped a BILLION TONS of salt over that area, it wouldn't change the water's salinity - by even a rounding error.
No other explanation is needed. Why bother blaming bad tutorials?
You think a db can serve just one app, apparently. My current db serves hundreds, no way they can all be installed there. Another serves the corporate dwh. Installing apps on that one will make me do horrible things to you. Don't make me, bro!
Where I come from, having many applications accessing the same database directly is a disaster for maintainability. Not that it's good for everything, but 3-tier is about more than just security.
The orgs I work for have rather higher security requirements than garden variety stuff so I doubt I'd ever be able to put the service layer on the same box as a database, but for smaller, purely internal applications I totally would.
Anyway my point is, aside from some very specific things (like doing nested set for hierarchical data) why use a 3GL to put non-relational logic in SQL statements at all, when you're already supposed to have a layer on top of that where all your business logic and units tests are, in a language already suited to it?
I know. Unit tests, what are those.
Just put your web service on the same box as the database.
And Lilium claims that its electric battery "consumes around 90 percent less energy than drone-style aircraft"
I'm confused. Aren't the batteries supposed to supply energy?