This election is is a referendum on antidisestablishmentarianism - left vs right barely enters into it. Both Trump and Sanders ran a disestablishmentarian campaign. Given the choice between the two (and the inevitable third-party establishment candidate), Bernie is a far more presentable candidate than Trump, and would have walked away with most of the "fed up" vote (e.g., all the female vote).
Isn't is equally likely that you will gain or lose value due to volatility?
Doesn't work out well when you need a specific amount of Swiss Francs in the future.
Stocks are similar - when dollar cost averaging into stocks (e.g., buying $100 per week) volatility is your friend, you'll end up with more shares of a volatile stock than a stable one (with same average price) over time. When you need a fixed income out of stocks, you get screwed by volatility for exactly the same reason (the math works out to gains/(volatility^2)). This is why the common wisdom for financial planning is to invest in stocks to start with, but gradually shift into bonds as you near retirement (there are even "target date" mutual funds that work that way).
It's a dancing bear - the point is not how well the bear dances.
The encryption is trivial. The point is that neural nets were able to come up with anything. The impressive part, as I understand it, was that there was no side channel here. Anything Alice and Bob said while developing the encryption - the whole process of agreeing on how it works - was overhead by Eve. That's kind of neat, for some neural nets trying shit at (weighted) random.
The government has no interest in tracking small amounts. What they're really interested in is: if someone withdraws 20k in cash (or maybe $2k), who ended up with it?
Lately it feels like looking for insight on Slashdot has become quite difficult, though I miss the humor more. I think that may be a problem with tempo. Not certain, but I speculate that the traffic volume is down, but the story tempo has remained unchanged. If that speculation is correct, then most stories fail to reach critical mass for discussion before they fall off the front page and effectively become invisible. Even worse, it would appear to be a negative feedback loop, in that less interesting discussions drives the traffic volume even lower.
I've seen the same. Slashdot has too many stories per day for the size of its reader base. Post count is starting to look like Soylent these days.
All large deposits and withdrawals are tracked - all serial numbers on all bills, scanned by the counting machine. I suspect many banks just go ahead and scan everything, rather than have 2 systems.
People often don't realize how insanely annoying they are to others.
The emerging standard in open plan offices is "wear headphones, idiot, it's noisy", with anything short of shouting being dismissed as your problem. Makes sense to me. You can't expect to constrain everyone around you.
What really pisses me off is the lack of dignity (and privacy is a big part of dignity). The older you get (and the more oddball health issues you accumulate), the more this matters - to everyone around, not just you. I'd prefer to know much less than I do about my co-worker's colostomy bag, for example. Thanks, management.
Some local governments have laws requiring actual sick leave. Seattle (well, King County) is like that - I get a handful of actual sick days in addition to PTO days, but people who work for the same company in other cities just get the PTO.
When "everyone gets the same space", senior managers have a desk for show, and spend all day in a permanently-reserved conference room bigger than their office would have been. (It's not really a scam, even, but all senior managers do is meetings anyway, and at a certain point everyone else comes to you for meetings.)
Eh, while most media companies have almost no editorial vetting of stories (beyond "do they fit the narrative"), that's still a little bit better than Facebook's word-of-mouth. Stories in no way related to politics are somewhat more accurate than random guessing, unlike FB and clickbait sites. Oh, and the sports page remains a bastion of accurate reporting and separation of op-ed form factual. Funny how that works.
don't run an ad blocker and I see the behavior OP complained about every day.
Yes, that was my point. It's the ads, you see. In case it's not clear, the problem you're having? It's the ads. They're what's causing that problem. The ads. In case it wasn't clear.
But the people who became web designers were formerly page layout designers. They revolted. They were used to printed paper, where they controlled everything the reader saw - fonts, font sizes, text wrap around photos, columns, etc. Their ego couldn't stand ceding some of that control to the reader, so they fought tooth and nail to bring that control back to themselves.
In the early days this wasn't true. Good print designers know how to choose fonts and whitespace that will scale properly and keep a nice layout as you scale font size up and down. It was the managers and PMs, insisting that the web page look exactly like they wanted, on every monitor, like it was a magazine page. "The name of the company can't be smaller than 2 inches, the branding spec says so!" "On what size monitor?" "Don't bother me with your geeky trivialities!".
The "designers" willing to put up with that shit gradually drove out the old heads who knew what actually looked good. Now fashion has replaced 3 centuries of science about legibility.
The fact that the participation of women varies hugely between cultures (for example, in India, Korea, Israel, Iran, and Lithuania, Romania, it's a lot higher) implies strongly that external factors are far more of a reason why we have so few women than anything biological.
Only in the most shallow analysis.
In many countries, a software development job with a multinational corp is the best job you can hope for unless your parents are politically connected. Better pay and batter status than doctor or lawyer. Here in the US, that's not true, and so women talented enough to pursue the best job around do something else like doctor or lawyer (or vet, which is a better job than doctor these days after malpractice insurance).
Based on my unscientific survey of quite a few interns from India, the vast majority of them entered the field of software development "because my parents chose it for me", male or female. You get that in the US occasionally for doctors or lawyers, of course.
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This election is is a referendum on antidisestablishmentarianism - left vs right barely enters into it. Both Trump and Sanders ran a disestablishmentarian campaign. Given the choice between the two (and the inevitable third-party establishment candidate), Bernie is a far more presentable candidate than Trump, and would have walked away with most of the "fed up" vote (e.g., all the female vote).
And if the application doesn't request it? Or the new gimmick proves less reliable than a keyboard? Or you wanted tactile feedback?
Isn't is equally likely that you will gain or lose value due to volatility?
Doesn't work out well when you need a specific amount of Swiss Francs in the future.
Stocks are similar - when dollar cost averaging into stocks (e.g., buying $100 per week) volatility is your friend, you'll end up with more shares of a volatile stock than a stable one (with same average price) over time. When you need a fixed income out of stocks, you get screwed by volatility for exactly the same reason (the math works out to gains/(volatility^2)). This is why the common wisdom for financial planning is to invest in stocks to start with, but gradually shift into bonds as you near retirement (there are even "target date" mutual funds that work that way).
If you just need letters, 5 bits is easy, though a Morse-style encoding that optimizes for common letters would do quite well.
It's a dancing bear - the point is not how well the bear dances.
The encryption is trivial. The point is that neural nets were able to come up with anything. The impressive part, as I understand it, was that there was no side channel here. Anything Alice and Bob said while developing the encryption - the whole process of agreeing on how it works - was overhead by Eve. That's kind of neat, for some neural nets trying shit at (weighted) random.
MI or Machine Intelligence is already commonly used.
This. AI is faking it. Machine Intelligence is sapience-on-silicon.
6 bits if you don't care about preserving case (chr - 0x20) & 0x3f
The government has no interest in tracking small amounts. What they're really interested in is: if someone withdraws 20k in cash (or maybe $2k), who ended up with it?
Lately it feels like looking for insight on Slashdot has become quite difficult, though I miss the humor more. I think that may be a problem with tempo. Not certain, but I speculate that the traffic volume is down, but the story tempo has remained unchanged. If that speculation is correct, then most stories fail to reach critical mass for discussion before they fall off the front page and effectively become invisible. Even worse, it would appear to be a negative feedback loop, in that less interesting discussions drives the traffic volume even lower.
I've seen the same. Slashdot has too many stories per day for the size of its reader base. Post count is starting to look like Soylent these days.
All large deposits and withdrawals are tracked - all serial numbers on all bills, scanned by the counting machine. I suspect many banks just go ahead and scan everything, rather than have 2 systems.
So he's the Ballmer of Apple? Hard to argue with that thus far.
There are whole genres of music designed to enable concentration rather than distracting.
People often don't realize how insanely annoying they are to others.
The emerging standard in open plan offices is "wear headphones, idiot, it's noisy", with anything short of shouting being dismissed as your problem. Makes sense to me. You can't expect to constrain everyone around you.
What really pisses me off is the lack of dignity (and privacy is a big part of dignity). The older you get (and the more oddball health issues you accumulate), the more this matters - to everyone around, not just you. I'd prefer to know much less than I do about my co-worker's colostomy bag, for example. Thanks, management.
Some local governments have laws requiring actual sick leave. Seattle (well, King County) is like that - I get a handful of actual sick days in addition to PTO days, but people who work for the same company in other cities just get the PTO.
When "everyone gets the same space", senior managers have a desk for show, and spend all day in a permanently-reserved conference room bigger than their office would have been. (It's not really a scam, even, but all senior managers do is meetings anyway, and at a certain point everyone else comes to you for meetings.)
Eh, while most media companies have almost no editorial vetting of stories (beyond "do they fit the narrative"), that's still a little bit better than Facebook's word-of-mouth. Stories in no way related to politics are somewhat more accurate than random guessing, unlike FB and clickbait sites. Oh, and the sports page remains a bastion of accurate reporting and separation of op-ed form factual. Funny how that works.
Touch bars and membrane keyboards are no for a blaster at your side, kid,
My PCs have real, no-nonsense power switches in addition to the soft button. When the AI takes over, I'll be ready!
don't run an ad blocker and I see the behavior OP complained about every day .
Yes, that was my point. It's the ads, you see. In case it's not clear, the problem you're having? It's the ads. They're what's causing that problem. The ads. In case it wasn't clear.
But the people who became web designers were formerly page layout designers. They revolted. They were used to printed paper, where they controlled everything the reader saw - fonts, font sizes, text wrap around photos, columns, etc. Their ego couldn't stand ceding some of that control to the reader, so they fought tooth and nail to bring that control back to themselves.
In the early days this wasn't true. Good print designers know how to choose fonts and whitespace that will scale properly and keep a nice layout as you scale font size up and down. It was the managers and PMs, insisting that the web page look exactly like they wanted, on every monitor, like it was a magazine page. "The name of the company can't be smaller than 2 inches, the branding spec says so!" "On what size monitor?" "Don't bother me with your geeky trivialities!".
The "designers" willing to put up with that shit gradually drove out the old heads who knew what actually looked good. Now fashion has replaced 3 centuries of science about legibility.
Your ad blocker isn't configured correctly.
The fact that the participation of women varies hugely between cultures (for example, in India, Korea, Israel, Iran, and Lithuania, Romania, it's a lot higher) implies strongly that external factors are far more of a reason why we have so few women than anything biological.
Only in the most shallow analysis.
In many countries, a software development job with a multinational corp is the best job you can hope for unless your parents are politically connected. Better pay and batter status than doctor or lawyer. Here in the US, that's not true, and so women talented enough to pursue the best job around do something else like doctor or lawyer (or vet, which is a better job than doctor these days after malpractice insurance).
Based on my unscientific survey of quite a few interns from India, the vast majority of them entered the field of software development "because my parents chose it for me", male or female. You get that in the US occasionally for doctors or lawyers, of course.
words t othe effects of "maths isn't for girls".
So, a British problem, then? Here in the US we study only one math, instead of multiple maths, so girls have an easier time with it.
It's meant to be read as "the horse (raced past the barn) fell down", but no one is going to parse it properly on first reading. Pernicious grammar.
Bit of a garden path sentence there. It's not "the horse raced past the barn fell down", but it could be worded more clearly.