And I can't wait for the Trumpers to jump on the fact none were built in Merica!
I often wonder if the people who post stuff like this are the same people who complain about H-1Bs. I suspect so.
If someone is unemployed, and would like products consumed in America to be built in America, so that he might have a better chance to get a job, well, I disagree but I have to respect where he's coming from. Mocking people like that is why we have Trump.
Paper bags don't generally decompose in landfills (it doesn't decompose anaerobically).
We have very different ideas about what's important to the future of the planet. Heck, I care about people, the planet is only important by inference.
All laws are enforced by men with guns, or they're meaningless. Do what makes you happy, but if you should want to impose your will on others, you're talking about force (or the threat thereof).
I'm not being pedantic - you just have to look at the precise meaning of all the words in the past 3 posts just right, and you'll see!
The point of Hanlon's razor is that it's a good life strategy. Feeling that someone's out to get you, especially when there's nothing you can really do about it, will not make you more happy.
It's too easy to be overly cynical. It's something to guard against. The world usually isn't out to get you: the world is usually just dumb. "The man is keeping me down" is usually a feeble excuse. Conspiracy theories are usually wrong.
The villains in Force Awakens are depressingly dumb, though.
To be sure. We have a new Disney Princess - way to challenge gender norms!
But I hold out hope that our thoroughly unimpressive Darth Meh will have an actual character arc. Growing from here to being as impressive as Vader would be a heck of a story, a story I'd love to see.
My enthusiasm for the Star Wars universe almost died when my hopes for a good Star Wars movie were crushed by The Force Awakens!
The first one gets a pass - its job was to prove the franchise can make money, and bring in a new generation of fans. They at least had a hand-off from the old guard, which I certainly appreciated.
Disney is pretty sharp about such things. Rogue One is the first real shot at a "real Star Wars movie".
I don't imagine a movie set is any different than any other potentially dangerous work space.
You'd be wrong about that. Actors are special - anything dangerous on set is supposed to have a minder specifically to keep it from hurting an actor, no matter how careless the actor.
all systems should be treated as live until verified otherwise
Remember: movie set. Dangerous items are usually props. The technical guys, sure, it's their job to know, but it's also their job to keep the coked-up airhead starlet safe (and the guy who plays her husband).
I assume Mr. Ford has not been around enough heavy equipment to that you consider it live unless you can see the lockout.
This was a movie set. There's basically 2 overriding rules about safety on a movie set: * Don't depend on the actors to be smart enough, or paying enough attention, to get anything right. * There's no excuse for injuring an actor. That's just about the worst thing you can be responsible for.
Everything potentially dangerous on a big-budget movie set is supposed to have a minder - both because the actors' full attention should be on their roles, and because it's a movie set, and dangerous-looking things are often props.
From the (one-sided) summary, this was a massive fuckup, on the order of having a real gun mixed in with prop guns, or carelessness with pyro.
I mean, obviously it would be better if everyone used the One True System of Measurement, but people just don't have intuitions for millifurlongs per microfortnight yet. Still, the "go F yourself" system will inevitably triumph over its inferior competitors.
Furlong Firkin Fortnight Fahrenheit Faraday - all else is heresy (well, Foot is fine, obviously, but it's a derived unit).
Read the Halloween Documents to see how Microsoft killed my Pappy!
That shit was 18 years ago now, give it a rest. Hanlon's Razor applies here as always: never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. If Steam games are starting to have issues on WIn10, it seems far more likely that MS can't find its ass with both hands these days, than that it has some nefarious master scheme.
What, the major games that install DRM rootkits didn't tip you to that?
My gaming machine install is disposable. It's the only sane approach. I'm sticking with Win7, perhaps forever; it's an arena where DRM rootkits fight each other for dominance; Steam itself is insecure; I occasionally download a mod and you never know about those. "Security" and "gaming machine"? Lost cause.
And that's just fine. Almost all games save state to the cloud these days, so if I find myself singing "FDISK, reboot, re-install, do-dah, do-dah" nothing of value will be lost.
The reasons most people moved off of XP were 64-bit support and a proper security model. If you have those 2 things, you're a clone of Win7, not WinXP or 2000.
Bernie told the BernieBots today that they need to vote for Hillary. He got booed by his audience. They really don't like Hillary, though I can't see them voting Trump.
While there was certainly some lying to kids going on here, it was no secret that you won't get a job with a Grievance Studies degree. People who chose a worthless degree to pursue did indeed bring their problems on themselves.
For the rest, it will keep getting worse until the Tuition Bubble pops. With a STEM degree there will be a job eventually, but college debt has gotten out of hand.
I'd love to see an independent, third-party certification that there isn't discernible loss in MPG or power.
Heck, I fully expected that. See, I thought VW would release a firmware patch for emission testing equipment. All VWs would start passing, no need to bother the owners with coming in for the recall.
One-letter variable names alone provide far too little job security, except for l and o. This is much better code:
for (godzilla=pokemon, godzilla+=l; godzilla<jesus)
lllillilil = llliliilil + llillilill;
Did you think I was adding one to godzilla in the for clause? You're not worthy to maintain my code. Seriously, I got stuck maintaining a code base where some genius used l as a variable name everywhere - he now works for Microsoft Research (not making that up).
None of the "unnecessary code" in TFS would be translated into executable instructions. Heck, the better the compiler's optimizer, the harder it is to add anything that's semantically equivalent but causes wasted object code.
Personally, I think those detectors are very likely to be a waste of time. We're just building what are basically better neutrino detectors, not because there's any reason to think dark matter will interact with them, but because it's a detector we know how to build!
I guess partly it's a case of whether dark matter is "massive particles that interact via the weak force" or "massive particles that interact weakly" (via some other force) - if it's the latter, these detectors aren't likely to work.
There are lots of theories about what the "WIMPs" really are - there's no evidence of weak force interaction, it only sets an upper limit on their interaction cross-section. Heck, even that's only true if dark matter was found in equal amounts of matter and anti-matter in the early universe, which is a heck of an assumption since we don't understand why familiar matter had such a matter/anti-matter imbalance early on. If dark matter had the same imbalance, then far more possibilities open up, as long as it doesn't interact with light (or I guess the strong force, as these detectors should really have worked in that case).
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And I can't wait for the Trumpers to jump on the fact none were built in Merica!
I often wonder if the people who post stuff like this are the same people who complain about H-1Bs. I suspect so.
If someone is unemployed, and would like products consumed in America to be built in America, so that he might have a better chance to get a job, well, I disagree but I have to respect where he's coming from. Mocking people like that is why we have Trump.
Paper bags don't generally decompose in landfills (it doesn't decompose anaerobically).
We have very different ideas about what's important to the future of the planet. Heck, I care about people, the planet is only important by inference.
All laws are enforced by men with guns, or they're meaningless. Do what makes you happy, but if you should want to impose your will on others, you're talking about force (or the threat thereof).
There is no standard-required way to compare arbitrary pointers.
There is no standard-required integer type into which you can cast an arbitrary pointer. (intptr_t etc are technically optional).
It's architecture-specific whether comparing pointers as signed or unsigned is the correct thing to do.
There is no such thing as portable C because of crap like this, only "mostly portable C, eh, good enough".
And?
They take up less space in a landfill than paper bags.
If you care, you be you, and bring your own bag. That's no justification to involve men with guns to enforce your preference.
I don't think "doping" was covered by "politics", as AFAIK politicians don't use performance enhancing drugs.
Most people lose situational awareness as they age. It's a common cause of serious injury.
I'm not being pedantic - you just have to look at the precise meaning of all the words in the past 3 posts just right, and you'll see!
The point of Hanlon's razor is that it's a good life strategy. Feeling that someone's out to get you, especially when there's nothing you can really do about it, will not make you more happy.
Bah, enough with the penerdandtry. Normal humans understand what other normal humans mean by words like "always" and "never".
It's too easy to be overly cynical. It's something to guard against. The world usually isn't out to get you: the world is usually just dumb. "The man is keeping me down" is usually a feeble excuse. Conspiracy theories are usually wrong.
The villains in Force Awakens are depressingly dumb, though.
To be sure. We have a new Disney Princess - way to challenge gender norms!
But I hold out hope that our thoroughly unimpressive Darth Meh will have an actual character arc. Growing from here to being as impressive as Vader would be a heck of a story, a story I'd love to see.
My enthusiasm for the Star Wars universe almost died when my hopes for a good Star Wars movie were crushed by The Force Awakens!
The first one gets a pass - its job was to prove the franchise can make money, and bring in a new generation of fans. They at least had a hand-off from the old guard, which I certainly appreciated.
Disney is pretty sharp about such things. Rogue One is the first real shot at a "real Star Wars movie".
I don't imagine a movie set is any different than any other potentially dangerous work space.
You'd be wrong about that. Actors are special - anything dangerous on set is supposed to have a minder specifically to keep it from hurting an actor, no matter how careless the actor.
all systems should be treated as live until verified otherwise
Remember: movie set. Dangerous items are usually props. The technical guys, sure, it's their job to know, but it's also their job to keep the coked-up airhead starlet safe (and the guy who plays her husband).
I assume Mr. Ford has not been around enough heavy equipment to that you consider it live unless you can see the lockout.
This was a movie set. There's basically 2 overriding rules about safety on a movie set:
* Don't depend on the actors to be smart enough, or paying enough attention, to get anything right.
* There's no excuse for injuring an actor. That's just about the worst thing you can be responsible for.
Everything potentially dangerous on a big-budget movie set is supposed to have a minder - both because the actors' full attention should be on their roles, and because it's a movie set, and dangerous-looking things are often props.
From the (one-sided) summary, this was a massive fuckup, on the order of having a real gun mixed in with prop guns, or carelessness with pyro.
Why? Is your Wolfram Alpha broken?
I mean, obviously it would be better if everyone used the One True System of Measurement, but people just don't have intuitions for millifurlongs per microfortnight yet. Still, the "go F yourself" system will inevitably triumph over its inferior competitors.
Furlong Firkin Fortnight Fahrenheit Faraday - all else is heresy (well, Foot is fine, obviously, but it's a derived unit).
Looking forward to the post-Brexit return to Fahrenheit, are you?
Read the Halloween Documents to see how Microsoft killed my Pappy!
That shit was 18 years ago now, give it a rest. Hanlon's Razor applies here as always: never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. If Steam games are starting to have issues on WIn10, it seems far more likely that MS can't find its ass with both hands these days, than that it has some nefarious master scheme.
Sorry Steam, you're insecure.
What, the major games that install DRM rootkits didn't tip you to that?
My gaming machine install is disposable. It's the only sane approach. I'm sticking with Win7, perhaps forever; it's an arena where DRM rootkits fight each other for dominance; Steam itself is insecure; I occasionally download a mod and you never know about those. "Security" and "gaming machine"? Lost cause.
And that's just fine. Almost all games save state to the cloud these days, so if I find myself singing "FDISK, reboot, re-install, do-dah, do-dah" nothing of value will be lost.
The reasons most people moved off of XP were 64-bit support and a proper security model. If you have those 2 things, you're a clone of Win7, not WinXP or 2000.
I'm not quite sure what BeauHD is being paid for.
BeauHD is old and busted - two generations behind now. Clearly he needs to be upgraded first to Beau3D, then to Beau4K if we're to get good editing.
Bernie told the BernieBots today that they need to vote for Hillary. He got booed by his audience. They really don't like Hillary, though I can't see them voting Trump.
While there was certainly some lying to kids going on here, it was no secret that you won't get a job with a Grievance Studies degree. People who chose a worthless degree to pursue did indeed bring their problems on themselves.
For the rest, it will keep getting worse until the Tuition Bubble pops. With a STEM degree there will be a job eventually, but college debt has gotten out of hand.
I'd love to see an independent, third-party certification that there isn't discernible loss in MPG or power.
Heck, I fully expected that. See, I thought VW would release a firmware patch for emission testing equipment. All VWs would start passing, no need to bother the owners with coming in for the recall.
One-letter variable names alone provide far too little job security, except for l and o. This is much better code:
for (godzilla=pokemon, godzilla+=l; godzilla<jesus)
lllillilil = llliliilil + llillilill;
Did you think I was adding one to godzilla in the for clause? You're not worthy to maintain my code. Seriously, I got stuck maintaining a code base where some genius used l as a variable name everywhere - he now works for Microsoft Research (not making that up).
None of the "unnecessary code" in TFS would be translated into executable instructions. Heck, the better the compiler's optimizer, the harder it is to add anything that's semantically equivalent but causes wasted object code.
Personally, I think those detectors are very likely to be a waste of time. We're just building what are basically better neutrino detectors, not because there's any reason to think dark matter will interact with them, but because it's a detector we know how to build!
I guess partly it's a case of whether dark matter is "massive particles that interact via the weak force" or "massive particles that interact weakly" (via some other force) - if it's the latter, these detectors aren't likely to work.
There are lots of theories about what the "WIMPs" really are - there's no evidence of weak force interaction, it only sets an upper limit on their interaction cross-section. Heck, even that's only true if dark matter was found in equal amounts of matter and anti-matter in the early universe, which is a heck of an assumption since we don't understand why familiar matter had such a matter/anti-matter imbalance early on. If dark matter had the same imbalance, then far more possibilities open up, as long as it doesn't interact with light (or I guess the strong force, as these detectors should really have worked in that case).