If there was a creator, and it created the universe, then he/she/they created 4 dimensional space time, and all the mass/energy in it. Obviously, that means that they exist outside of that 4 dimensional spacetime,
Can't agree with the logic there. I just ate enough calories to create some fat cells, but I wouldn't say my body exists "outside" of them. Quite to the contrary, many of them tend to be a part of me much longer than I'd prefer.
As to whether a proof of any sort of "god" is even possible, well first one has to settle on a particaular definition of the word, which means many things to many people.
Functional languages have been used and are used for realtime systems
Yes, clojure for one, I am to understand, is a good *soft* realtime language.
Just because a paradigm can bend to the point of doing something doesn't mean it does it easily or concisely. If you're into math you should already be familiar with the ability to express things in forms that you would never sanely use in real life.
When you find you've just spent an hour trying to model 10 lines of C code into an appropriately pure functional form, stop, you're just masturbating, no matter whether the result is less than 10 lines or more.
If I spend days writing a GPU core port, I MIGHT get $10,000, unless someone beat me to it.
I appreciate the injection of funds into the open source community, but that's no way to run an economy. Hire someone. If you want more than one implementation or you want to have it fast, hire multiple people and offer a bonus for completion. But if you do the latter, don't expect to actually use the first one you receive, as it will likely be the shoddiest, meeting the bare minimum of your specs.
1) Hmm I need to make a slick demo 2) How about a solution to problem A 3) No, that came out ugly 4) Ok lets try problem B 5) No they won't like that either 6) OK, what problem do we have that has built-in solutions? 7) Ahh, there we go, we'll solve problem C instead.
Imperative programming is inefficient because it doesn't allow us to take f(x) and g(x) and create g(f(x)) for all x
And functional programming is ineffficient because it doesn't allow us to order our operations in response to realtime constraints, and most of the work goes into developing workarounds for the strictures, which just ends being "mundane shuffling" of monads and whatnot. Most languages developed with a purist mathematical approach tend to be the kind of thing it is fun to play with, but they leave you saying "man how do people actually use this crap?" when presented with anything more real-world than a word problem out of the back of a textbook.
If you want to see the merit of a language, you actually have to see something implemented in the language. If all you do is call a library function (especially one whose inclusion in a core set of operations is dubious) then all you get to see of the language is how you call a function. If you want to demonstrate a language, you should pick examples that excercise the core features of the language, not punt to calculateObscureFnOnlyUsedByArcheologistsButItTakesUpSpaceOnYourFlashCardAnyway()
This video was made for the easily impressed. But then, most videos are, which is why they generally tend to not be worth watching.
It's not a hoax. It's a complicated issue, with advocates from multiple sides of the issue *all* playing fast and loose with the "facts", since they are mostly PR advocates. Reading that comment thread really was an excruciating reminder that some people will take an argument to great length for its own sake, or for the sake of a grudge.
E.G. it does not matter much whether a TV with 1 year of life left in it goes directly into a third-world dump, or spends a year in a house before it gets there. It does matter if a used cell phone allows a farmer to arrange to hire some seasonal labor without walking to town to do so. Two scenarios, two totally different equations.
Awareness is only useful if it can lead to change for the better. Knowing about this is not helpful, at least to me.
There's a difference between knowing it as a vanilla fact and seeing it, so yes, awareness on a more motivational level, which might lead to change, eventually. I could see pressure being put on companies to market products with a verified disposal program, but we've got a long way to go just pressuring them to use decent workplaces, so it will probably be a while. Still, bringing the reality home helps us keep in mind what everntually needs to happen.
Of course the natural reaction of some will be to hang on to power-hungry older electronics and machinery over newer more efficient models, which depending on the exact device in question, may or may not do any good in the larger picture.
(I've got a cellar full of cat litter pails full of old e-waste I can't bring myself to hand over to anyone, given I don't trust any of the available recipients. Way more than I need to scavange the occasional diode or transistor off of.)
Lucky for you,.invalid is one of the names that remains in the RFC. However, RFC6761 says that DNS software at all levels (including an application, pre-client) is free to fail any queries to this domain, so as far as using it as an internal DNS domain, you have the potential of running into problems with code that enforces such strictures.
Good summary. FWIW, People were using e.g. ".site" for local domain for a long time. It was in the only draft RFC that addressed the issue, and lacking any approved RFC people tend to follow the drafts. It was noted on Wikipedia and many forums as to be used for this purpose and along with some other TLDs had become a de-facto standard. Then draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-08 came along and removed it. Reserved domains names continued to disappear from this draft document until they were nearly all gone by the time RFC2606 was certified.
Then they started accepting and seriously considering applications for.site as a TLD and it looks like they are set to approve it. Boneheads. So yes, in addition to unqualified names, there will be lots of problems with software and configuration written when several TLDs were presumed safe.
RFC2606/RFC6761 have proper domains to use for test setups and documentation. Unless/until they get suddenly ammended, which at this point, I wouldn't want to wager on.
Other cars sell in the millions in America alone, every single year.
Half that or less. The Ford F-Series was the top seller last year at ~700K units. The Ford explorer was rank 20 with less than 200K units sold. If any one of the tesla models manages to get into several hundred units sold annually, it will not just be mainstream but a top seller.
10-15 years in battery technology development is a long time. We may even be starting to leave lithium by then, but certainly will be making much more efficient use of raw materials in response to the very market pressures you cite. Of course, in patent terms its not a lot of time, so it is possible greed and lawyers could hinder development. Barring a battery cartel forming, though, price should drive technology selection, so when Li gets scarce, other technologies will get a boost in the market.
It has an electric motor. Those do wear out over time.
Brushless AC induction in this case. As long as they used durable chemicals in the windings and relgulate/cool it correctly, I'd expect the chassis to rust out before it needed more than a new set of bearings.
Require a jumper to be installed for any firmware writes to even be possible
Consumer equipment is designed with "plug and play" as its overriding objective. This won't fly because companies want to sell to people barely capable of plugging all the right cables into all the right holes. We're doomed to live with the proliferation of insecure living room equipment until such a point as paying attention to security is taught in kindergarten.
Actually when you compare a non-hybrid SUV to a hybrid mileage-wise, they are more green because they save more gas. However, that's leaving unchallenged the customer's perceived need to buy an SUV in the first place (not that ther aren't some that do need one.)
What could be more useful than hovering your mouse pointer over a structure variable and having a little window show you how it was declared and what members it has
Not having distracting windows pop up on me or letters fly out from the right of my cursor or unexplained pauses while I'm trying to type because the bloat is using all my cache bandwidh, and working in a language that does full instrospection including inline documentation. But I'll have to wait for the latter.
I would say that only the Japanese would think surface area here on Earth to be at such a premium that it would be worth it versus panels here on Earth.
I would, except for the slew of other people who have proposed lifting them into orbit.
I view all such proposals as a distraction from the real logistics issues involved in installing more of the renewables we can build now and connect to the power grid by more conventional means, with the added whimsical notion that what they really want is a death ray.
I just wish these products moved the phone-to-stb comunications channel over to bluetooth, instead of using multicast services over WiFi, since that creates a demand in enterprise BYOD environments for things like bonjour cross-vlan proxies, for that matter, actually turning on multicast on the enterprise WLAN. It's so much cleaner if you can just leave it off, because unless you actually managing to get more than one user on the same AP to view the same content at the same time, catering to consumer-grade equipment's lame service discovery schemes is not an especially compelling use case outside the head of PHBs.
Except when you consider the possibility that this was introduced with a code merging utility with line number issues, and no human actually looked at the code for a good while.
Honestly I don't see how having two indented lines under an unbraced if sticks ouy any less. It certainly jumps off the page for me.
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If there was a creator, and it created the universe, then he/she/they created 4 dimensional space time, and all the mass/energy in it. Obviously, that means that they exist outside of that 4 dimensional spacetime,
Can't agree with the logic there. I just ate enough calories to create some fat cells, but I wouldn't say my body exists "outside" of them. Quite to the contrary, many of them tend to be a part of me much longer than I'd prefer.
As to whether a proof of any sort of "god" is even possible, well first one has to settle on a particaular definition of the word, which means many things to many people.
It's called 802.1p, a mechanism for QoS tagging in a dot1q tagged frame.
That said, this move could give new meaning to the second C in CSMA/CD.
Functional languages have been used and are used for realtime systems
Yes, clojure for one, I am to understand, is a good *soft* realtime language.
Just because a paradigm can bend to the point of doing something doesn't mean it does it easily or concisely. If you're into math you should already be familiar with the ability to express things in forms that you would never sanely use in real life.
When you find you've just spent an hour trying to model 10 lines of C code into an appropriately pure functional form, stop, you're just masturbating, no matter whether the result is less than 10 lines or more.
If I spend days writing a GPU core port, I MIGHT get $10,000, unless someone beat me to it.
I appreciate the injection of funds into the open source community, but that's no way to run an economy. Hire someone. If you want more than one implementation or you want to have it fast, hire multiple people and offer a bonus for completion. But if you do the latter, don't expect to actually use the first one you receive, as it will likely be the shoddiest, meeting the bare minimum of your specs.
Hah!
No, what happened was this:
1) Hmm I need to make a slick demo
2) How about a solution to problem A
3) No, that came out ugly
4) Ok lets try problem B
5) No they won't like that either
6) OK, what problem do we have that has built-in solutions?
7) Ahh, there we go, we'll solve problem C instead.
Same difference.
Another measure of the language would be to see if it understands "please redfine FindShortestTour with a more sensible name"
Imperative programming is inefficient because it doesn't allow us to take f(x) and g(x) and create g(f(x)) for all x
And functional programming is ineffficient because it doesn't allow us to order our operations in response to realtime constraints, and most of the work goes into developing workarounds for the strictures, which just ends being "mundane shuffling" of monads and whatnot. Most languages developed with a purist mathematical approach tend to be the kind of thing it is fun to play with, but they leave you saying "man how do people actually use this crap?" when presented with anything more real-world than a word problem out of the back of a textbook.
If you want to see the merit of a language, you actually have to see something implemented in the language. If all you do is call a library function (especially one whose inclusion in a core set of operations is dubious) then all you get to see of the language is how you call a function. If you want to demonstrate a language, you should pick examples that excercise the core features of the language, not punt to calculateObscureFnOnlyUsedByArcheologistsButItTakesUpSpaceOnYourFlashCardAnyway()
This video was made for the easily impressed. But then, most videos are, which is why they generally tend to not be worth watching.
It's not a hoax. It's a complicated issue, with advocates from multiple sides of the issue *all* playing fast and loose with the "facts", since they are mostly PR advocates. Reading that comment thread really was an excruciating reminder that some people will take an argument to great length for its own sake, or for the sake of a grudge.
E.G. it does not matter much whether a TV with 1 year of life left in it goes directly into a third-world dump, or spends a year in a house before it gets there. It does matter if a used cell phone allows a farmer to arrange to hire some seasonal labor without walking to town to do so. Two scenarios, two totally different equations.
Awareness is only useful if it can lead to change for the better. Knowing about this is not helpful, at least to me.
There's a difference between knowing it as a vanilla fact and seeing it, so yes, awareness on a more motivational level, which might lead to change, eventually. I could see pressure being put on companies to market products with a verified disposal program, but we've got a long way to go just pressuring them to use decent workplaces, so it will probably be a while. Still, bringing the reality home helps us keep in mind what everntually needs to happen.
Of course the natural reaction of some will be to hang on to power-hungry older electronics and machinery over newer more efficient models, which depending on the exact device in question, may or may not do any good in the larger picture.
(I've got a cellar full of cat litter pails full of old e-waste I can't bring myself to hand over to anyone, given I don't trust any of the available recipients. Way more than I need to scavange the occasional diode or transistor off of.)
Lucky for you, .invalid is one of the names that remains in the RFC. However, RFC6761 says that DNS software at all levels (including an application, pre-client) is free to fail any queries to this domain, so as far as using it as an internal DNS domain, you have the potential of running into problems with code that enforces such strictures.
Good summary. FWIW, People were using e.g. ".site" for local domain
for a long time. It was in the only draft RFC that addressed the issue,
and lacking any approved RFC people tend to follow the drafts. It was
noted on Wikipedia and many forums as to be used for this
purpose and along with some other TLDs had become a de-facto standard.
Then draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-08 came along and removed it. Reserved
domains names continued to disappear from this draft document until they
were nearly all gone by the time RFC2606 was certified.
Then they started accepting and seriously considering applications for .site as a TLD and it looks like they are set to approve it. Boneheads.
So yes, in addition to unqualified names, there will be lots of problems with
software and configuration written when several TLDs were presumed safe.
RFC2606/RFC6761 have proper domains to use for test setups and documentation.
Unless/until they get suddenly ammended, which at this point, I wouldn't want
to wager on.
Watching what the used market does with these cars will be interesting, indeed.
Other cars sell in the millions in America alone, every single year.
Half that or less. The Ford F-Series was the top seller last year at ~700K units. The Ford explorer was rank 20 with less than 200K units sold. If any one of the tesla models manages to get into several hundred units sold annually, it will not just be mainstream but a top seller.
10-15 years in battery technology development is a long time. We may even be starting to leave lithium by then, but certainly will be making much more efficient use of raw materials in response to the very market pressures you cite. Of course, in patent terms its not a lot of time, so it is possible greed and lawyers could hinder development. Barring a battery cartel forming, though, price should drive technology selection, so when Li gets scarce, other technologies will get a boost in the market.
It has an electric motor. Those do wear out over time.
Brushless AC induction in this case. As long as they used durable chemicals in the windings and relgulate/cool it correctly, I'd expect the chassis to rust out before it needed more than a new set of bearings.
And you have to get rid of the battery in 10 years.
Someone will pay you for it. They'll want the Li and other materials in it.
Require a jumper to be installed for any firmware writes to even be possible
Consumer equipment is designed with "plug and play" as its overriding objective. This won't fly because companies want to sell to people barely capable of plugging all the right cables into all the right holes. We're doomed to live with the proliferation of insecure living room equipment until such a point as paying attention to security is taught in kindergarten.
Actually when you compare a non-hybrid SUV to a hybrid mileage-wise, they are more green because they save more gas. However, that's leaving unchallenged the customer's perceived need to buy an SUV in the first place (not that ther aren't some that do need one.)
What could be more useful than hovering your mouse pointer over a structure variable and having a little window show you how it was declared and what members it has
Not having distracting windows pop up on me or letters fly out from the right of my cursor or unexplained pauses while I'm trying to type because the bloat is using all my cache bandwidh, and working in a language that does full instrospection including inline documentation. But I'll have to wait for the latter.
Argue anything you want but the one who earn the most obviously do the better thing vs the one who do the worst regardless.
Huh? That's retarded. Many of the greatest works of mankind were not remunerated.
I would say that only the Japanese would think surface area here on Earth to be at such a premium that it would be worth it versus panels here on Earth.
I would, except for the slew of other people who have proposed lifting them into orbit.
I view all such proposals as a distraction from the real logistics issues involved in installing more of the renewables we can build now and connect to the power grid by more conventional means, with the added whimsical notion that what they really want is a death ray.
I just wish these products moved the phone-to-stb comunications channel over to bluetooth, instead of using multicast services over WiFi, since that creates a demand in enterprise BYOD environments for things like bonjour cross-vlan proxies, for that matter, actually turning on multicast on the enterprise WLAN. It's so much cleaner if you can just leave it off, because unless you actually managing to get more than one user on the same AP to view the same content at the same time, catering to consumer-grade equipment's lame service discovery schemes is not an especially compelling use case outside the head of PHBs.
Except when you consider the possibility that this was introduced with a code merging utility with line number issues, and no human actually looked at the code for a good while.
Honestly I don't see how having two indented lines under an unbraced if sticks ouy any less. It certainly jumps off the page for me.
Yes but it does secure your old versions so you can continue using them.