I'm struggling to think of an earlier example of the client working async to improve the sync user experience of a UI. I'm pretty sure it was never a standard methodology used across many domains. Ajax was the first time the idea was "productized" AFAIK.
It's amazing how people who love high-rises and hate cars keep droning on about sprawl and the like, and never figure out why the rest of us ignore them.'
You try to build a city around the automobile and it becomes a hostile environment for pedestrians and cyclists.
You say that like it's a bad thing. You'll be a pit slave when Paving Day comes, while I'll be cruising the paved Earth in my atomic hypercar, under the light of the chromed moon.
Force majeure: thermal energy is easy in space. A big sheet of Mylar in a vaguely parabolic shape, and you get temps near the surface of the sun. The hard problem is how to cool the liquid platinum when you're done.
As far as I can tell, Socrates is likely a fictional character made up by Plato.
No, he's mentioned by other contemporaries. His pedophilia was apparently a running joke in society at the time. It's really reaching to suggest that he's some sort of shared fictional character, yet different in kind from all the shared fictional characters we now know as Greek mythology.
I don't think Martian was disagreeing with Linus. All the "innovation" happened in the 50s-70s. It's mostly been perspiration since then.
That's not 100% true of course. The notion of Ajax was legitimately new. Normal HTML GET and POST style web pages were almost identical to the way mainframe terminal systems had worked for decades before, but the terminal asynchronously communicating with the host? Actual innovation that enabled a lot of good (and bad) stuff.
But it's hard to find examples like that. Most of the ideas in the field that keep becoming "new" products every generation were published papers in the 50s-60s, and products in the 60s-70s.
Beautiful designs are generally bad. They get taken to the extreme; and you get shit like xml.
XML was pretty awesome... as a markup language for books and other natural language documents. It was a wonderful tamed version of SGML. Then some crazy people started using it blindly as a object serialization language.
The odd thing is, you can write terse XML for object serialization (just slightly more verbose than CSV!) but no one did. Instead you got the most verbose approach to serialization imaginable.
Cali has the highest income taxes in the US, so why wasn't the funding there? Answer: pension funding. State, county, and local level are all screwed by pension obligations. Decades of pushing the problems forward by raising pensions for government workers instead of raises, because that was politically acceptable. But the pigeons have come home to roost.
Based on what? We have a few GWh pumped hydro storage worldwide, and only at sites where the geography makes sense for it. Other energy storage models are unproven even at GWh scale. How do you imagine we'll store 30 TWh? There just aren't 30,000 good sites -- not even close -- and that would be one Hell of a lot of acreage to flood.
"I'm right because shut up!" is a very poor argument, unlikely to persuade many.
"People who depend on fossil fuels for their livelihood" and "the religious right" are orthogonal properties. Sure, there's some overlap in the sets of people, but it's disingenuous to suggest there's somehow a religious connection. A coal miner or oil field worker is going to support fossil fuels regardless of his religion.
You don't know what "at scale" means. Yes, for pumped hydro storage, like hydro and geothermal generation, there are spots where the solution is workable. But mostly, not (and it brings the problems of new hydro construction). It's just not going to be practical to build 30,000 hydro storage plants at the scale of today's largest (just the for the US).
Batteries aren't even on the table, many orders of magnitude too low.
Eventually someone will find a good solution that works at scale. It's bound to happen. But, like fusion, it hasn't happened yet. I do think it's a more tractable problem than fusion, however.
Existing hydro power is great, but expanding capacity would be a mistake. Aside form the significant ecological disruption of building a dam, and the fact we're now unwilling to pay for infrastructure (and it's really bad if a dam fails), the good spots are taken.
There are no energy storage solutions that are currently workable at scale. That's not to say we won't get there. Eventually we'll have to, because solar power is the only currently-proven tech that scales to all the world using power at US levels. Either fusion or modern reliable fission could scale up, it's mathematically possible, but both seem unlikely this century.
Solar with natural gas backup really seems like the way to go forward, but it hasn't quite hit the price point to make it desirable yet. I'm sure it will soon enough (in infrastructure terms), given the pace of the technology. Heck, extremely low-tech solar thermal will always work if there's a crisis (more expensive than other options, but less than 2x more), but you still need that backup.
Manually download and install a "roll-up patch". The earliest one I could find (summer 2015 IIRC) worked for me. Then updates would work. My Win10 tablet OTOH simply won't update. I'm not sure I shouldn't just leave it that way.
They fired their QA guys, most of them gone about 2 years ago IIRC. You started seeing a dramatic decline in product quality thereafter. Did you know it's impossible to patch a fresh Win7 install via normal Windows Update? That broke less than a year after they dumped the QA teams.
First jobs are usually shit, is the thing. My first coding job paid $18k, FFS. Don't turn your nose up at that first shit job - it gets you into the industry, and it's much easier to find an OK job with 2 years of experience.
That's just it - the fact that you don't think of it as charity is the fundamental problem with having the government do it. You just highlighted the moral hazard here.
If the government gives you a handout, that's still charity. After the 30s there were a host of mutual aid societies to provide secular charity. Those all vanished with that generation, and we out-sourced secular charity to the government. That had the downside that people started to see it as an entitlement, instead of as charity. That's not good. The thing about taking charity from people you know is that (for most of us), you want to get off of it ASAP - it minimizes abuse. Still, better government-as-charity than dozens of independent systems made complicated instead, from tiered pricing for each utility to healthcare and everything else in between.
And remember, you giving your money to charity makes you compassionate (IMO the highest human virtue). You giving someone else's money to charity just makes you an asshole.
Job prospects for grad student were always garbage, sorry. Getting a graduate degree dramatically lowers one's employment odds. The feeling in business is generally that someone must not have been ready for the real world if they stayed in school longer than they had to. That, coupled with the expectation that you'll need to pay them more, has always limited demand (with the exception of "professional masters" for immigrants, as that's a well-known hack for getting a greencard faster, and thus shows initiative instead of the opposite).
But when you graduate from University and the only job you can land is a barista at Starbucks it's not like home ownership is the first thing on your mind.
GenX faced the same problem. Even at a good school, only half or so of the people with STEM degrees got a professional job on graduation, the other half, plus almost everyone with a loser degree, worked shit jobs for a while before finding their entry job (which is also a shit job, but it's professional shit).
Seems it's about the same now, with perhaps a longer wait for people who didn't get lucky on graduation, but that may just be a side-effect of the "great recession" which we're still climbing out of.
Why isn't a standard USB socket good enough for everyone?
It's a port. Apple removes ports, because courage! Wireless charging (in addition to being really convenient and such) is a needed step towards Apple's goal of a phone with no ports at all. Courage!
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I'm struggling to think of an earlier example of the client working async to improve the sync user experience of a UI. I'm pretty sure it was never a standard methodology used across many domains. Ajax was the first time the idea was "productized" AFAIK.
There will be no congestion come Paving Day! Pave the Earth!
(Also, how very nice for you that you live in a crime free neighborhood. Presumably you're OK with the peasants suffering - let them eat cake?)
It's amazing how people who love high-rises and hate cars keep droning on about sprawl and the like, and never figure out why the rest of us ignore them.'
You try to build a city around the automobile and it becomes a hostile environment for pedestrians and cyclists.
You say that like it's a bad thing. You'll be a pit slave when Paving Day comes, while I'll be cruising the paved Earth in my atomic hypercar, under the light of the chromed moon.
1/10 for practicality.
10/10 for awesome.
Force majeure: thermal energy is easy in space. A big sheet of Mylar in a vaguely parabolic shape, and you get temps near the surface of the sun. The hard problem is how to cool the liquid platinum when you're done.
As far as I can tell, Socrates is likely a fictional character made up by Plato.
No, he's mentioned by other contemporaries. His pedophilia was apparently a running joke in society at the time. It's really reaching to suggest that he's some sort of shared fictional character, yet different in kind from all the shared fictional characters we now know as Greek mythology.
I don't think Martian was disagreeing with Linus. All the "innovation" happened in the 50s-70s. It's mostly been perspiration since then.
That's not 100% true of course. The notion of Ajax was legitimately new. Normal HTML GET and POST style web pages were almost identical to the way mainframe terminal systems had worked for decades before, but the terminal asynchronously communicating with the host? Actual innovation that enabled a lot of good (and bad) stuff.
But it's hard to find examples like that. Most of the ideas in the field that keep becoming "new" products every generation were published papers in the 50s-60s, and products in the 60s-70s.
Beautiful designs are generally bad. They get taken to the extreme; and you get shit like xml.
XML was pretty awesome ... as a markup language for books and other natural language documents. It was a wonderful tamed version of SGML. Then some crazy people started using it blindly as a object serialization language.
The odd thing is, you can write terse XML for object serialization (just slightly more verbose than CSV!) but no one did. Instead you got the most verbose approach to serialization imaginable.
The discussion was about a larger issue, but sure, buses, whatever, no one cares.
Cali has the highest income taxes in the US, so why wasn't the funding there? Answer: pension funding. State, county, and local level are all screwed by pension obligations. Decades of pushing the problems forward by raising pensions for government workers instead of raises, because that was politically acceptable. But the pigeons have come home to roost.
Based on what? We have a few GWh pumped hydro storage worldwide, and only at sites where the geography makes sense for it. Other energy storage models are unproven even at GWh scale. How do you imagine we'll store 30 TWh? There just aren't 30,000 good sites -- not even close -- and that would be one Hell of a lot of acreage to flood.
"I'm right because shut up!" is a very poor argument, unlikely to persuade many.
"People who depend on fossil fuels for their livelihood" and "the religious right" are orthogonal properties. Sure, there's some overlap in the sets of people, but it's disingenuous to suggest there's somehow a religious connection. A coal miner or oil field worker is going to support fossil fuels regardless of his religion.
You don't know what "at scale" means. Yes, for pumped hydro storage, like hydro and geothermal generation, there are spots where the solution is workable. But mostly, not (and it brings the problems of new hydro construction). It's just not going to be practical to build 30,000 hydro storage plants at the scale of today's largest (just the for the US).
Batteries aren't even on the table, many orders of magnitude too low.
Eventually someone will find a good solution that works at scale. It's bound to happen. But, like fusion, it hasn't happened yet. I do think it's a more tractable problem than fusion, however.
Existing hydro power is great, but expanding capacity would be a mistake. Aside form the significant ecological disruption of building a dam, and the fact we're now unwilling to pay for infrastructure (and it's really bad if a dam fails), the good spots are taken.
There are no energy storage solutions that are currently workable at scale. That's not to say we won't get there. Eventually we'll have to, because solar power is the only currently-proven tech that scales to all the world using power at US levels. Either fusion or modern reliable fission could scale up, it's mathematically possible, but both seem unlikely this century.
Solar with natural gas backup really seems like the way to go forward, but it hasn't quite hit the price point to make it desirable yet. I'm sure it will soon enough (in infrastructure terms), given the pace of the technology. Heck, extremely low-tech solar thermal will always work if there's a crisis (more expensive than other options, but less than 2x more), but you still need that backup.
Those are the new roll ups. This is the roll up from before MS pulled that shit. This is entirely different brain damage.
Manually download and install a "roll-up patch". The earliest one I could find (summer 2015 IIRC) worked for me. Then updates would work. My Win10 tablet OTOH simply won't update. I'm not sure I shouldn't just leave it that way.
They fired their QA guys, most of them gone about 2 years ago IIRC. You started seeing a dramatic decline in product quality thereafter. Did you know it's impossible to patch a fresh Win7 install via normal Windows Update? That broke less than a year after they dumped the QA teams.
Strange things are afoot at the 7-11!
First jobs are usually shit, is the thing. My first coding job paid $18k, FFS. Don't turn your nose up at that first shit job - it gets you into the industry, and it's much easier to find an OK job with 2 years of experience.
The moral hazard of believing you're entitled. You're entitled to nothing. But that's where we came in.
That's just it - the fact that you don't think of it as charity is the fundamental problem with having the government do it. You just highlighted the moral hazard here.
If the government gives you a handout, that's still charity. After the 30s there were a host of mutual aid societies to provide secular charity. Those all vanished with that generation, and we out-sourced secular charity to the government. That had the downside that people started to see it as an entitlement, instead of as charity. That's not good. The thing about taking charity from people you know is that (for most of us), you want to get off of it ASAP - it minimizes abuse. Still, better government-as-charity than dozens of independent systems made complicated instead, from tiered pricing for each utility to healthcare and everything else in between.
And remember, you giving your money to charity makes you compassionate (IMO the highest human virtue). You giving someone else's money to charity just makes you an asshole.
Job prospects for grad student were always garbage, sorry. Getting a graduate degree dramatically lowers one's employment odds. The feeling in business is generally that someone must not have been ready for the real world if they stayed in school longer than they had to. That, coupled with the expectation that you'll need to pay them more, has always limited demand (with the exception of "professional masters" for immigrants, as that's a well-known hack for getting a greencard faster, and thus shows initiative instead of the opposite).
But when you graduate from University and the only job you can land is a barista at Starbucks it's not like home ownership is the first thing on your mind.
GenX faced the same problem. Even at a good school, only half or so of the people with STEM degrees got a professional job on graduation, the other half, plus almost everyone with a loser degree, worked shit jobs for a while before finding their entry job (which is also a shit job, but it's professional shit).
Seems it's about the same now, with perhaps a longer wait for people who didn't get lucky on graduation, but that may just be a side-effect of the "great recession" which we're still climbing out of.
Why isn't a standard USB socket good enough for everyone?
It's a port. Apple removes ports, because courage! Wireless charging (in addition to being really convenient and such) is a needed step towards Apple's goal of a phone with no ports at all. Courage!