Most people hate their cable company. But they stick with it for ESPN.
To a large extent, the current exodus from Cable is really an exodus from ESPN. Why the sudden shift? ESPN became political. Most hardcore watchers of professional sports are conservative (something like a 65/35 split), so ESPNs decision to hit progressive talking points hard at every opportunity, fire commenters for offending progressives, and so on, was the sort of bone-headed decision only an MBA could make.
The conservative blog comment section and message boards I read have been growing in anger over this for more than a year now, to the point now I see a constant stream of "you know what, I stopped watching $SPORT and I found I didn't miss it. I went and threw the ball with my kid instead - should have been doing that more all along. Goodbye ESPN!"
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I haven't really cozzied up to that lot.
Good for you! If you haven't paid attention to the Battle at Berkeley, you're a bit out of touch, but that's probably for the best, mental health wise.
The best bit was the protest that was shut down cold before it began in Alabama, where there's a (strongly enforced) law against public activities in masks or hoods, for good historical reasons. I doubt it sunk home with the antifa crowd that their behavior was overlapping so much with old-school KKK.
The religious right is rooted in conservatism, as in conserving the old ways and or going back to the old ways.
I didn't say they changed as a culture, but the whole religion is based on changing as individuals, striving to be more Christ-like and whatnot, for whatever that's worth. Still, their rhetoric was the same. And, to be fair to Christianity, it has changed a lot over a larger time scale - they've had a Reformation, various wars that changed the mainstream culture, the entire emergence of Protestants (protest-ants - sound familiar?), and so on. Things desperately needed by another medieval religion I could name.
Common misunderstanding - they're ante-fascists, as in proto-fascists. When one side is marching in black uniforms, initiating political violence, using violence to shut down speech they disagree with, and generally trying to reenact Weimar Germany, that side has made is clear they're the fascists (or at least wannabes).
We're sure not perfect, but we strive to change for the better. That's progressive.
Funny, I heard "We're sure not perfect, but we strive to change for the better. That's Christianity." a great many times growing up. Plus ca change.
I'm sure many progressives have their heart in the right place, but then so did many right-wing religious whackos. The worst tyrants are those who think they're doing it for your own good, after all.
So Cloudfare sells their services to everyone who's willing to pay for it.
The ultimate in diversity and that's now "bad"?
Correct, there's no room for diversity of thought in progressivism. It's more of a chanting-in-unison sort of thing.
Freedom of speech means "freedom of speech you don't like". Sound like Cloudflare is a champion of free speech (as if we didn't already know that from keeping torrent sites alive). Good on em.
Which is sort of the point made in TFS. Does Alexa have modern speech recognition algorithms? I suspect it does, but the tools devs have to work with don't expose that functionality. If it can't handle synonyms, phrasing, differences in American and British English, and so on transparently to the dev, then it doesn't act like modern speech recognition from the dev's point of view.
A lot of work has already been done on this. My college roommate twentymumble years ago worked on a sizable project to accelerate FORTRAN for parallel processing during his senior year, and lots of effort went into that project back then.
Depends what you define as "work": they were almost always working, but work mostly consisted of walking around looking for food or game, plus the constant fight against entropy when almost everything you use, wear or, live in is gradually decaying.
Medieval serfs did get fucked over pretty hard, though. They did what they were told from sundown to sunup, and they only got time off for religious ceremonies.
Sundays off, and all holy days (not just during the ceremony). Not so bad as you think, once you understand just how many holy days there were at the height of Catholicism - I believe the work week averaged 4 12-hour days. The peak weeks during harvest were a bitch though. (Much like software dev schedules, in fact, but extended manual labor really sucks.)
Sucked to be a serf in most other ways, of course.
They're probably calling the normal process of commenting on a CR without giving a ship-it "rejection". As in: women upload more diffs than men before getting a ship-it, which may have little to do with code quality (perceived or real) in any way.
Well, that's ambiguous English for you. "Average man" in informal speech usually means the mode, not the mean. It is possible with lopsided distributions. Of course, for the actual case at hand, mean median and mode are all higher for men.
I see just the video, and the YouTube search bar at top. Nothing else. I suspect this is a bug, but talk about minimalist controls and whitespace! Doesn't get simpler than this.
Can you imagine the nightmarish toll system for profit that would exist now if the construction companies had been allowed to claim ownership instead of being merely subcontractors?
All the good roads around here are toll roads anyhow, or toll lanes on otherwise unusable freeways. So you're really just arguing about who gets the money. With the full automation of tolling, there's no inconvenience involved any more, just a cost. Toll roads in my experience are just better quality roads than otherwise, so I'm OK with that (I hear it's quite different on the East Coast).
I've always called bank robots "ATM"s. This has been the standard for decades.
Quoted for visibility. People who watch SciFi but don't actually work with robots have this odd notion that robots are humaniform in some way, but that's not a very useful shape for any robot optimized for some task.
Banks were early adopters of replacing customer-facing staff with robots. I remember the bad old days before ATMs were common - bring on the robots!
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.
Quoted for visiblity - thats not mere flamebait.
However, I wonder if the truth lies elsewhere: some people are smart enough to realize how badly the industry in general treats developers, and just pick a better line of work.
Yes, immutable objects are over-emphasized right now as the essence of good programming, from what I've seen. Still, it's nice to see recognition of the value of that style outside of functional programming. It's a shame none of the current mainstream languages have "const and not null" as the default for all declarations - I think the programming world with be a better place if you had to explicitly declare something either mutable or nullable.
Ever studied dynamic systems? The journey from Newton's first principles to the Hamiltonians and Lagrangians too a couple hundred years for a reason: the math of modeling the evolution of a stateful classical system is very distant from the math that describes that system in some elegant way. The connection between the two is non-obvious, to say the least.
State in programming is very straightforward, though I guess it's equally distant from the elegant mathematical systems of the lambda calculus and combinator logic.
Not to mention the fact that the best programming is only frugally stateful anyway.
That's certainly the current fad. The best programming is "whatever approach keeps things simple", which is never going to be the same tool for all jobs.
As Rei said: it is a solved problem, you build a road. This is a cheaper solution. That's what technology is after all, the ability to do things more efficiently.
Plus: who gets to decide what's "frivolous"? Certainly not you. Whatever people will pay the most for is the least frivolous, as there's no better objective measure of value.
I don't think any sort of flying transport can land safely in a parking lot. Just too dangerous for anyone on the ground, plus the property damage from anything loose (stones ets) on the ground nearby. FOD kills.
Meh, I'd hope the optimizer was the right tool for the job. Any compiler worth a crap would know just what to do with uint8_t a = d >> 8; and that wouldn't rely on any undefined behavior (there's no standard way to directly manipulate registers in C, after all).
I'm afraid that "the 8-bit A and B registers become the 16-bit D register, depending on the instruction in play" is pretty much the essence of obscure legacy cruft. Granted, you're not making it worse in any way by representing it with a union.
Doesn't matter how essential the goods are. All that matters is that competition exists in the market. And if robots can make anything, competition is trivial - just buy some robots and sell the thing cheaper (but still at a profit) and completely displace the other guy.
For that matter, we've seen this curve before - for normal consumer goods, why not have your own manufacturing robots at home, and avoid the markup? There are a few good reasons, but only if the markup isn't too high.
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Most people hate their cable company. But they stick with it for ESPN.
To a large extent, the current exodus from Cable is really an exodus from ESPN. Why the sudden shift? ESPN became political. Most hardcore watchers of professional sports are conservative (something like a 65/35 split), so ESPNs decision to hit progressive talking points hard at every opportunity, fire commenters for offending progressives, and so on, was the sort of bone-headed decision only an MBA could make.
The conservative blog comment section and message boards I read have been growing in anger over this for more than a year now, to the point now I see a constant stream of "you know what, I stopped watching $SPORT and I found I didn't miss it. I went and threw the ball with my kid instead - should have been doing that more all along. Goodbye ESPN!"
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I haven't really cozzied up to that lot.
Good for you! If you haven't paid attention to the Battle at Berkeley, you're a bit out of touch, but that's probably for the best, mental health wise.
The best bit was the protest that was shut down cold before it began in Alabama, where there's a (strongly enforced) law against public activities in masks or hoods, for good historical reasons. I doubt it sunk home with the antifa crowd that their behavior was overlapping so much with old-school KKK.
The religious right is rooted in conservatism, as in conserving the old ways and or going back to the old ways.
I didn't say they changed as a culture, but the whole religion is based on changing as individuals, striving to be more Christ-like and whatnot, for whatever that's worth. Still, their rhetoric was the same. And, to be fair to Christianity, it has changed a lot over a larger time scale - they've had a Reformation, various wars that changed the mainstream culture, the entire emergence of Protestants (protest-ants - sound familiar?), and so on. Things desperately needed by another medieval religion I could name.
Is that anti-fascism?
Common misunderstanding - they're ante-fascists, as in proto-fascists. When one side is marching in black uniforms, initiating political violence, using violence to shut down speech they disagree with, and generally trying to reenact Weimar Germany, that side has made is clear they're the fascists (or at least wannabes).
We're sure not perfect, but we strive to change for the better. That's progressive.
Funny, I heard "We're sure not perfect, but we strive to change for the better. That's Christianity." a great many times growing up. Plus ca change.
I'm sure many progressives have their heart in the right place, but then so did many right-wing religious whackos. The worst tyrants are those who think they're doing it for your own good, after all.
So Cloudfare sells their services to everyone who's willing to pay for it.
The ultimate in diversity and that's now "bad"?
Correct, there's no room for diversity of thought in progressivism. It's more of a chanting-in-unison sort of thing.
Freedom of speech means "freedom of speech you don't like". Sound like Cloudflare is a champion of free speech (as if we didn't already know that from keeping torrent sites alive). Good on em.
Which is sort of the point made in TFS. Does Alexa have modern speech recognition algorithms? I suspect it does, but the tools devs have to work with don't expose that functionality. If it can't handle synonyms, phrasing, differences in American and British English, and so on transparently to the dev, then it doesn't act like modern speech recognition from the dev's point of view.
A lot of work has already been done on this. My college roommate twentymumble years ago worked on a sizable project to accelerate FORTRAN for parallel processing during his senior year, and lots of effort went into that project back then.
Depends what you define as "work": they were almost always working, but work mostly consisted of walking around looking for food or game, plus the constant fight against entropy when almost everything you use, wear or, live in is gradually decaying.
Medieval serfs did get fucked over pretty hard, though. They did what they were told from sundown to sunup, and they only got time off for religious ceremonies.
Sundays off, and all holy days (not just during the ceremony). Not so bad as you think, once you understand just how many holy days there were at the height of Catholicism - I believe the work week averaged 4 12-hour days. The peak weeks during harvest were a bitch though. (Much like software dev schedules, in fact, but extended manual labor really sucks.)
Sucked to be a serf in most other ways, of course.
Robots are easy because they vaguely look like (parts of) people
You're thinking of androids. Robot is a far broader term. Or will you deny the existance of Kiva robots
They're probably calling the normal process of commenting on a CR without giving a ship-it "rejection". As in: women upload more diffs than men before getting a ship-it, which may have little to do with code quality (perceived or real) in any way.
You say profit like it's a bad thing. Profit is the driver for all progress.
The reason roads work better with government ownership is right-of-way. Simple logistics.
I was going with a proper definition, being that this site is aimed at non-idiots I figured that proper use of technical terms would be assumed.
You must have mis-typed that URL. Sounds like you were going someplace interesting.
But specifically the term "average man" is confusing, as it's an idiom meaning "most representative" in normal speech.
Well, that's ambiguous English for you. "Average man" in informal speech usually means the mode, not the mean. It is possible with lopsided distributions. Of course, for the actual case at hand, mean median and mode are all higher for men.
I see just the video, and the YouTube search bar at top. Nothing else. I suspect this is a bug, but talk about minimalist controls and whitespace! Doesn't get simpler than this.
Can you imagine the nightmarish toll system for profit that would exist now if the construction companies had been allowed to claim ownership instead of being merely subcontractors?
All the good roads around here are toll roads anyhow, or toll lanes on otherwise unusable freeways. So you're really just arguing about who gets the money. With the full automation of tolling, there's no inconvenience involved any more, just a cost. Toll roads in my experience are just better quality roads than otherwise, so I'm OK with that (I hear it's quite different on the East Coast).
I've always called bank robots "ATM"s. This has been the standard for decades.
Quoted for visibility. People who watch SciFi but don't actually work with robots have this odd notion that robots are humaniform in some way, but that's not a very useful shape for any robot optimized for some task.
Banks were early adopters of replacing customer-facing staff with robots. I remember the bad old days before ATMs were common - bring on the robots!
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.
Quoted for visiblity - thats not mere flamebait.
However, I wonder if the truth lies elsewhere: some people are smart enough to realize how badly the industry in general treats developers, and just pick a better line of work.
Yes, immutable objects are over-emphasized right now as the essence of good programming, from what I've seen. Still, it's nice to see recognition of the value of that style outside of functional programming. It's a shame none of the current mainstream languages have "const and not null" as the default for all declarations - I think the programming world with be a better place if you had to explicitly declare something either mutable or nullable.
Ever studied dynamic systems? The journey from Newton's first principles to the Hamiltonians and Lagrangians too a couple hundred years for a reason: the math of modeling the evolution of a stateful classical system is very distant from the math that describes that system in some elegant way. The connection between the two is non-obvious, to say the least.
State in programming is very straightforward, though I guess it's equally distant from the elegant mathematical systems of the lambda calculus and combinator logic.
Not to mention the fact that the best programming is only frugally stateful anyway.
That's certainly the current fad. The best programming is "whatever approach keeps things simple", which is never going to be the same tool for all jobs.
Just because you come up with a technological solution it does not automatically follow that it is more economically efficient than the alternatives.
What I was saying was: the useful definition of technology is "that which makes it more efficient to produce good or services".
When you erase a chip it changes to all ones, there's no way to go from zero to one without wiping the chip
In my day, we didn't even have ones, we had to make do with "l"! Spoiled kids these days.
As Rei said: it is a solved problem, you build a road. This is a cheaper solution. That's what technology is after all, the ability to do things more efficiently.
Plus: who gets to decide what's "frivolous"? Certainly not you. Whatever people will pay the most for is the least frivolous, as there's no better objective measure of value.
I don't think any sort of flying transport can land safely in a parking lot. Just too dangerous for anyone on the ground, plus the property damage from anything loose (stones ets) on the ground nearby. FOD kills.
Meh, I'd hope the optimizer was the right tool for the job. Any compiler worth a crap would know just what to do with
uint8_t a = d >> 8;
and that wouldn't rely on any undefined behavior (there's no standard way to directly manipulate registers in C, after all).
I'm afraid that "the 8-bit A and B registers become the 16-bit D register, depending on the instruction in play" is pretty much the essence of obscure legacy cruft. Granted, you're not making it worse in any way by representing it with a union.
Doesn't matter how essential the goods are. All that matters is that competition exists in the market. And if robots can make anything, competition is trivial - just buy some robots and sell the thing cheaper (but still at a profit) and completely displace the other guy.
For that matter, we've seen this curve before - for normal consumer goods, why not have your own manufacturing robots at home, and avoid the markup? There are a few good reasons, but only if the markup isn't too high.