The eye has higher effective resolution than Apple has led us to believe with their "retina" marketing. This article shows how human eye can see 530 ppi resolution in a 20 x 13.3-inch print viewed at 20 inches. http://clarkvision.com/imagede...
Which is hardly news in the print world. Most fonts are passable, but noticeably less than perfect at 600dpi. Some fonts still don't quite work right at 1200dpi. Of course, that's without anti-aliasing. Grayscale at 600 dpi can do a pretty good job of representing print if the anti-aliasing is well done.
Because more people access Google from their tiny telephone screens, where the serifs get lost anyhow.
Small screens still have lower resolution than print, to be sure, but with reasonable anti-aliasing any modern small display will never "lose the serifs". But serifs are an odd on a title/header font anyhow - they're a tool to make it less fatiguing to read large blocks of text, irrelevant to logos.
is all just a figment of those libbbbbrul billionaires' imaginations..
Well, TFS really doesn't clear anything up.
Let's review: "weather" is what we call "convective (and evaporative) cooling of the Earth's surface". * The steeper the temperature gradient in the lower atmosphere (poor insulation), the more convection happens, and the more "interesting" weather we get. * The shallower the temperature gradient in the lower atmosphere (good insulation, or radiative heating of the upper atmosphere), the less convection happens, and the less "interesting" weather we get.
So, global warming caused by the Sun getting "hotter" will cause bad weather, as that's more heat at the surface and (nearly) the same temperature at the top of the atmosphere, so a steeper gradient. Global warming caused by any sort of atmospheric change, making the atmosphere effectively a better insulator, means boring weather.
What we've seen the last 10 years has been 10 straight years of record-uninteresting hurricane seasons, and satellite temperature data showing warming only in the lower atmosphere and actually cooling in the upper atmosphere. That all holds together, and is IMO the first real, non-doctored evidence of an atmospheric effect on global warming. The theory that the atmosphere has been getting worse at about the same rate the Sun has been "cooling" (in its usual cycle) isn't crazy, as convenient as it may be as a "rescue our theory" ass-pull.
Worse weather would be expected as the Sun cycles out of it's recent lull in activity, but worse weather is not a sign of man-made global warming: rather, the opposite.
Sure, because we still don't treat ISPs as utilities, as we should. Of course, that leads to pay-by-the-GB, but I suspect that's for the best, long term, as there's now a real number to compare.
Banks started selling securities again and we ended up with the Great Recession.
The causation there isn't what you imply, not at all. The two banking-related problems were (1) mortgage-backed securities were not required to be traded as standardized instruments on an exchange like normal securities (if they had been, we likely wouldn't have had the mess), thanks to thorough corruption of regulatory agencies, and (2) we bailed out the failures to the tune of trillions.
No one except straw men confuse "corrupt regulatory agency" with "free market". We didn't need any new "bank regulations", just the long-established rules of the exchanges, which are about as "free market" as will ever exist in the world. And then the bailouts turned a disaster into a 5-year-long catastrophe. The more one supports the free market, the more one depends on the governing effect of failure.
Do you really trust a steel plant to run it's own nuclear reactor? Sounds like a superfund site in the making. There's no reason to think that carbon will get too expensive: proven reserves have continued increasing every decade, and the economies of China and India seem no closer to really taking off a scale.
OTOH, I'm not sure fusion will be any better, since with fission contamination of the plant as a whole seems to be a harder problem than intelligent fuel management, and fusion seems likely to have the same problem. I guess with fusion if you could get the whole thing small enough to transport intact, you might make something work.
You can even use 20 or 100 GB if you tether. But 1TB and more is really not typical *private* internet use any more.
HD movies tend to be in the 4-8 GB range if you don't cheat on quality. 200 GB is just 1 person watching HD movies. 2 TB is just 1 person torrenting everything he sees out of some strange (but seemingly common) compulsion.
If people want to serve websites or torrents, they should not do it on their phone.
A data plan's a data plan. It's not for you to say what the data is for.
We moved on from hieroglyphs since writing by hand was so tedious anyone bothering could be assumed to be serious in unclear cases. Since writing and sending messages has moved on to an everyday form of personal communication, it also requires a concise way to express tone and emotion a non-professional writer can manage.
Excuse me if the following sounds a bit exasperated, but you do realize that people actually communicated informal messages to each other written form BEFORE texting, right?
You went off the rails there. The earliest writing was only used professionally - there just wasn't any vocabulary (at least none surviving) for anything but accounting. Using writing for sending messages from place to place was an evolution, and not an instant one. The earliest messages seem to be accounting/business related as well, from tax information to contracts to customer complaints. Since you had to send a human messenger anyway, who was perfectly capable of memorizing long and detailed messages, sending a written message with him was a somewhat specialized need.
It was only with the growth of the idea of using writing to send a message through time, and/or in multiple copies throughout the land, did written language become expressive enough to be useful for "informal messages" in a way that the person carrying the message wasn't. Laws, histories, treaties, and so one required more vocabulary than common trade objects, numbers, and "promise to pay".
Even if we include common and nearly universal body language gestures like nodding, shaking the head,
There's a girl in my office new enough to the US that she still shakes her head from side to side as an affirmative gesture, which is common for at least a billion people. Everything's arbitrary.
By the way, the one emotion/tone that has frustrated writers for centuries is irony/sarcasm. Many have proposed a simple symbol for this, usually a backwards question mark. But for some reason no such mark has become standard. That's perhaps the only "emoji" I have ever felt the need for in writing.
I find it interesting that this is also indicated by tone of voice, well within the normal sort of thing modern language captures. We use punctuation and accents in many ways in many languages to capture tone of voice. Isn't it odd we don't already have something for sarcasm?
To generate enough power for the whole planet to live at US energy consumption levels (i.e., for everyone to have a good standard of living), you'll need to cover a significant percentage of the land area with solar panels. This is not completely impractical, though you'd need a panel with nothing rare in its construction and a very long lifespan, but it hardly seems ideal. It's also not going to work for industrial power (most of which doesn't even involve electricity today), because you need dense, reliable generation of thermal energy.
Fossil fuel use simply won't go away, at least for industrial needs, until we have small-industrial-scale nuclear plants of one kind or another, and fission doesn't seem promising for that. Orbital solar could work, but it seems farther out than fusion.
Maybe mixing su with systemd is like mixing PCP and acid
Mixing Linux and systemd is like a remote control on a chainsaw: the idea may sound neat for 2 seconds, but then you realize nothing good can come of this.
"It's going to get out of control. It's going to get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
Yep, what made the movie work was that it was actually good Sci-Fi, as action movie Sci-Fi goes (which has little enough to do with written SF). Good character development, a bit of actual suspense, you cared about the characters, etc. Even without the parody stuff, it was better than the Star Wars prequels or half the Star Trek movies.
It was genre-savvy satire, more than simple parody, and it was good. Not sure how you could turn it into a series though, unless they're going to make the Galaxy Quest series that was the backstory to the movie, which could be fun for one season.
Everything in physics works in both time directions (you have to swap some signs +/- when you reverse time, but it all works). Causality as "a chain of related events over time" is a real thing, even if what you place in the chain may be somewhat arbitrary, but the direction, which is cause and which is effect, isn't so well defined. At the QM scale it's arbitrary. In human experience, a film played in one direction looks different than in the other because, ultimately, of the energy input from the Sun breaking the symmetry.
our "underlying state" seems equivalent to a "hidden variables" theory.
No, it's just the sloppiness of English trying to represent math, or perhaps my lack of facility with one of those in trying to craft a metaphor.
To extend my above metaphor: there's no hidden "observable" state. The underlying state is not "this one spin-up, that one spin-down" (which is forbidden), because there are not electron identities anyhow, but instead "exactly one of them is spin-up". As you measure one of them, there are now three entangled things: the two electrons and your detector, and there's a set of allowed observables given all that, when you add the second detector, now there are 4 entangled items. It's not non-local, it's just a constraining of the set of allowed states for the complete system.
The real question is - exactly wtf is entanglement anyway? I can find lots to read about what it looks like and how it behaves... but what's the underlying mechanism? Is there even the most speculative explanation of it?
Here's the best answer I can give you - I think it's true, and not so over-simplified as to be wrong.
The universe has some underlying state. We don't have direct access to that state - not only is it not directly observable, it's not directly related in any intuitive way to the state we can observe. There's this arbirtary-seeming transform between underlying state and what we observe (it only seems odd or arbitrary because all our intuitions are based on human-scale observables, and are not at all directly informed by this underlying state). This underlying state seems to be well-defined and deterministic, forwards and backwards in time. The observable universe is not.
Entanglement is a feature of how observations relate to underlying state - a feature of the transform. In very simple experiments we can measure specific properties of, say, an electron. We can't measure all of them, for a given electron, because the transform just doesn't work that way, but we can measure some. However, that's deceptive, because you can't really track that property of that electron over time, in non-trivial cases. If e.g. two electrons interact, become entangled, your observations are now a function of both electrons' underlying state, and that's a different transform from 2 non-entangled electrons.
There are two key concepts here. The first is that the whole notion of "particle" is a handy but false oversimplification. It can lead you to all sorts of false intuitions about how particles behave. Fundamentally, individual e.g. electrons don't have unique identities. The underlying state is a single electron field, which other fields can interact with, in a way that can sometimes be simplified as "particle interactions", for a simpler mental model, but you can't go too deep with that model. An example: "two electrons collide in an accelerator, and two electrons leave, which is which?" That question is "not even wrong", it's just nonsense. Thinking of electrons as billiard balls colliding is simply not a helpful model, as it just misses the point of the interaction.
"Entanglement" happens just when the "particle" mental model fails: you can no longer pick two disjoint areas in the electron field and consider them as independent "electrons", but instead you have to reason about two areas which may be quite disconnected in space and time. E.g., you might know for sure that one electron is spin-up, and one spin-down, but have 0 information about which is which. None of that matters to the underlying state: there's just one electron field, and the only truly correct way to reason about it it to reason about the whole field all the time, and so this is only half of "WTF is entanglement".
The second concept gets too much into the math to explain well, but in a hand-wavy way it's this: "what is measurement?". There are older interpretations about measurement causing wavestate collapse and so on, but they're wrong because of that word "cause". Measurement is simply the observer becoming entangled with the observed. Measuring one entangled electron doesn't "cause" the other electron to do or become anything. The underlying state is unchanged, which is why there's no faster-than-light effect. In some cases, this is an overly pedantic distinction, but it matters when the difference between QM and intuition matters. In a two-slit experiment where you see an interference pattern at your detector, if you add a measuring device to one slit suddenly you don't see that interference pattern. Informally we might say the second observer "caused" this change, but formally that's wrong, it's just that a system with 2 slits and 2 detectors behaves differently from a system with 2 slits and one detector, and it doesn't matter which detector the electron passes first, because (see above) an "electron" as a discrete particle is fiction anyway, and both detectors are entangled with the electron field already, or they couldn't measure an electron anyhow.
Truly, as the sun never stops shining and the wind never stops blowing.
It will eventually. I suspect there will still be fossil fuels available when that day comes, as we'll have moved fully to solar and fusion (but I repeat myself) before we run out.
Google already knows who you work for. Google already knows what you're working on. Heck, if you have an Android with default settings, they have all your whiteboard pictures. This likely isn't a "candidate identification" tool, but rather a way to get people more interested in saying "yes" to the recruiter - oh, those were fun puzzles, maybe I do want to work for Google.
There are IoT devices with less than 4k memory. There are IoT devices that need to do non-trivial things with less than 20k memory. That's constrained even by my oldschool standards.
Google search is a natural monopoly as all other search engines that don't use google search return shit results
I've never seen a problem with DuckDuckGo results (even though they're mostly Bing), and with "!wa" you get a better calculator than Google's. Google tailors your search results to your search history, so you don't see anything that might make you question your beliefs. Maybe that's why people think it's better?
On a site like that - the only real women would be women that are either desperate or looking for other women.
I had heard that most the women on AM were call girls. Now I doubt that, as I'd think there'd have been a lot more, but still, there's a third category for your list.
As long as I stand out from those guys, I don't have a problem with it. We're not really competing with one another. Perhaps with the IoT craze we'll see an upswing in constrained environment programming again.
For now... then there will be automata that brings you new automata.
While that may happen, it's "Singularity complete". If it every does, we'll all have utopia, or we'll all be dead, but either way employment won't be a problem.
Better development tools and automation has only increased the number of working devs over the years: the lower the cost of automating any given thing, the more new things that can now be automated. Given there are probably 100x as many devs working now worldwide as when I started as an assembly-language programmer, I'm comfortable with this trend.
Not clear from TFS whether they're talking inbound or outbound. Inbound blocking makes sense for anything not open to the general public. Oubound blocking? Good luck with that, IBM.
TOR has been blocked in China for many years, but it still works. There's been a blocking/stenography arms race happening between the Great Wall and TOR for years. I don't know anything about the technical details, but it seems a safe guess that TOR "bridge" connections successfully bypass all the easy or obvious ways of blocking TOR. Of course, a whitelist of allowed outbound sites will always work.
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The eye has higher effective resolution than Apple has led us to believe with their "retina" marketing. This article shows how human eye can see 530 ppi resolution in a 20 x 13.3-inch print viewed at 20 inches. http://clarkvision.com/imagede...
Which is hardly news in the print world. Most fonts are passable, but noticeably less than perfect at 600dpi. Some fonts still don't quite work right at 1200dpi. Of course, that's without anti-aliasing. Grayscale at 600 dpi can do a pretty good job of representing print if the anti-aliasing is well done.
Because more people access Google from their tiny telephone screens, where the serifs get lost anyhow.
Small screens still have lower resolution than print, to be sure, but with reasonable anti-aliasing any modern small display will never "lose the serifs". But serifs are an odd on a title/header font anyhow - they're a tool to make it less fatiguing to read large blocks of text, irrelevant to logos.
Ubuntu too, of course, part of their program of copying everything MS does.
is all just a figment of those libbbbbrul billionaires' imaginations..
Well, TFS really doesn't clear anything up.
Let's review: "weather" is what we call "convective (and evaporative) cooling of the Earth's surface".
* The steeper the temperature gradient in the lower atmosphere (poor insulation), the more convection happens, and the more "interesting" weather we get.
* The shallower the temperature gradient in the lower atmosphere (good insulation, or radiative heating of the upper atmosphere), the less convection happens, and the less "interesting" weather we get.
So, global warming caused by the Sun getting "hotter" will cause bad weather, as that's more heat at the surface and (nearly) the same temperature at the top of the atmosphere, so a steeper gradient. Global warming caused by any sort of atmospheric change, making the atmosphere effectively a better insulator, means boring weather.
What we've seen the last 10 years has been 10 straight years of record-uninteresting hurricane seasons, and satellite temperature data showing warming only in the lower atmosphere and actually cooling in the upper atmosphere. That all holds together, and is IMO the first real, non-doctored evidence of an atmospheric effect on global warming. The theory that the atmosphere has been getting worse at about the same rate the Sun has been "cooling" (in its usual cycle) isn't crazy, as convenient as it may be as a "rescue our theory" ass-pull.
Worse weather would be expected as the Sun cycles out of it's recent lull in activity, but worse weather is not a sign of man-made global warming: rather, the opposite.
Sure, because we still don't treat ISPs as utilities, as we should. Of course, that leads to pay-by-the-GB, but I suspect that's for the best, long term, as there's now a real number to compare.
Banks started selling securities again and we ended up with the Great Recession.
The causation there isn't what you imply, not at all. The two banking-related problems were (1) mortgage-backed securities were not required to be traded as standardized instruments on an exchange like normal securities (if they had been, we likely wouldn't have had the mess), thanks to thorough corruption of regulatory agencies, and (2) we bailed out the failures to the tune of trillions.
No one except straw men confuse "corrupt regulatory agency" with "free market". We didn't need any new "bank regulations", just the long-established rules of the exchanges, which are about as "free market" as will ever exist in the world. And then the bailouts turned a disaster into a 5-year-long catastrophe. The more one supports the free market, the more one depends on the governing effect of failure.
Do you really trust a steel plant to run it's own nuclear reactor? Sounds like a superfund site in the making. There's no reason to think that carbon will get too expensive: proven reserves have continued increasing every decade, and the economies of China and India seem no closer to really taking off a scale.
OTOH, I'm not sure fusion will be any better, since with fission contamination of the plant as a whole seems to be a harder problem than intelligent fuel management, and fusion seems likely to have the same problem. I guess with fusion if you could get the whole thing small enough to transport intact, you might make something work.
You can even use 20 or 100 GB if you tether. But 1TB and more is really not typical *private* internet use any more.
HD movies tend to be in the 4-8 GB range if you don't cheat on quality. 200 GB is just 1 person watching HD movies. 2 TB is just 1 person torrenting everything he sees out of some strange (but seemingly common) compulsion.
If people want to serve websites or torrents, they should not do it on their phone.
A data plan's a data plan. It's not for you to say what the data is for.
someone is using their phone to feed data to a PC I'm having a hard time seeing how they use 2TB a month.
Yes. Indeed. That word "tethering" in TFS? Now you know what it means.
People with capped cable have been using their phones to get uncapped data, and perhaps going overboard for as long as they can get away with it.
We moved on from hieroglyphs since writing by hand was so tedious anyone bothering could be assumed to be serious in unclear cases. Since writing and sending messages has moved on to an everyday form of personal communication, it also requires a concise way to express tone and emotion a non-professional writer can manage.
Excuse me if the following sounds a bit exasperated, but you do realize that people actually communicated informal messages to each other written form BEFORE texting, right?
You went off the rails there. The earliest writing was only used professionally - there just wasn't any vocabulary (at least none surviving) for anything but accounting. Using writing for sending messages from place to place was an evolution, and not an instant one. The earliest messages seem to be accounting/business related as well, from tax information to contracts to customer complaints. Since you had to send a human messenger anyway, who was perfectly capable of memorizing long and detailed messages, sending a written message with him was a somewhat specialized need.
It was only with the growth of the idea of using writing to send a message through time, and/or in multiple copies throughout the land, did written language become expressive enough to be useful for "informal messages" in a way that the person carrying the message wasn't. Laws, histories, treaties, and so one required more vocabulary than common trade objects, numbers, and "promise to pay".
Even if we include common and nearly universal body language gestures like nodding, shaking the head,
There's a girl in my office new enough to the US that she still shakes her head from side to side as an affirmative gesture, which is common for at least a billion people. Everything's arbitrary.
By the way, the one emotion/tone that has frustrated writers for centuries is irony/sarcasm. Many have proposed a simple symbol for this, usually a backwards question mark. But for some reason no such mark has become standard. That's perhaps the only "emoji" I have ever felt the need for in writing.
I find it interesting that this is also indicated by tone of voice, well within the normal sort of thing modern language captures. We use punctuation and accents in many ways in many languages to capture tone of voice. Isn't it odd we don't already have something for sarcasm?
To generate enough power for the whole planet to live at US energy consumption levels (i.e., for everyone to have a good standard of living), you'll need to cover a significant percentage of the land area with solar panels. This is not completely impractical, though you'd need a panel with nothing rare in its construction and a very long lifespan, but it hardly seems ideal. It's also not going to work for industrial power (most of which doesn't even involve electricity today), because you need dense, reliable generation of thermal energy.
Fossil fuel use simply won't go away, at least for industrial needs, until we have small-industrial-scale nuclear plants of one kind or another, and fission doesn't seem promising for that. Orbital solar could work, but it seems farther out than fusion.
Maybe mixing su with systemd is like mixing PCP and acid
Mixing Linux and systemd is like a remote control on a chainsaw: the idea may sound neat for 2 seconds, but then you realize nothing good can come of this.
"It's going to get out of control. It's going to get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
Yep, what made the movie work was that it was actually good Sci-Fi, as action movie Sci-Fi goes (which has little enough to do with written SF). Good character development, a bit of actual suspense, you cared about the characters, etc. Even without the parody stuff, it was better than the Star Wars prequels or half the Star Trek movies.
It was genre-savvy satire, more than simple parody, and it was good. Not sure how you could turn it into a series though, unless they're going to make the Galaxy Quest series that was the backstory to the movie, which could be fun for one season.
Everything in physics works in both time directions (you have to swap some signs +/- when you reverse time, but it all works). Causality as "a chain of related events over time" is a real thing, even if what you place in the chain may be somewhat arbitrary, but the direction, which is cause and which is effect, isn't so well defined. At the QM scale it's arbitrary. In human experience, a film played in one direction looks different than in the other because, ultimately, of the energy input from the Sun breaking the symmetry.
our "underlying state" seems equivalent to a "hidden variables" theory.
No, it's just the sloppiness of English trying to represent math, or perhaps my lack of facility with one of those in trying to craft a metaphor.
To extend my above metaphor: there's no hidden "observable" state. The underlying state is not "this one spin-up, that one spin-down" (which is forbidden), because there are not electron identities anyhow, but instead "exactly one of them is spin-up". As you measure one of them, there are now three entangled things: the two electrons and your detector, and there's a set of allowed observables given all that, when you add the second detector, now there are 4 entangled items. It's not non-local, it's just a constraining of the set of allowed states for the complete system.
The real question is - exactly wtf is entanglement anyway? I can find lots to read about what it looks like and how it behaves... but what's the underlying mechanism? Is there even the most speculative explanation of it?
Here's the best answer I can give you - I think it's true, and not so over-simplified as to be wrong.
The universe has some underlying state. We don't have direct access to that state - not only is it not directly observable, it's not directly related in any intuitive way to the state we can observe. There's this arbirtary-seeming transform between underlying state and what we observe (it only seems odd or arbitrary because all our intuitions are based on human-scale observables, and are not at all directly informed by this underlying state). This underlying state seems to be well-defined and deterministic, forwards and backwards in time. The observable universe is not.
Entanglement is a feature of how observations relate to underlying state - a feature of the transform. In very simple experiments we can measure specific properties of, say, an electron. We can't measure all of them, for a given electron, because the transform just doesn't work that way, but we can measure some. However, that's deceptive, because you can't really track that property of that electron over time, in non-trivial cases. If e.g. two electrons interact, become entangled, your observations are now a function of both electrons' underlying state, and that's a different transform from 2 non-entangled electrons.
There are two key concepts here. The first is that the whole notion of "particle" is a handy but false oversimplification. It can lead you to all sorts of false intuitions about how particles behave. Fundamentally, individual e.g. electrons don't have unique identities. The underlying state is a single electron field, which other fields can interact with, in a way that can sometimes be simplified as "particle interactions", for a simpler mental model, but you can't go too deep with that model. An example: "two electrons collide in an accelerator, and two electrons leave, which is which?" That question is "not even wrong", it's just nonsense. Thinking of electrons as billiard balls colliding is simply not a helpful model, as it just misses the point of the interaction.
"Entanglement" happens just when the "particle" mental model fails: you can no longer pick two disjoint areas in the electron field and consider them as independent "electrons", but instead you have to reason about two areas which may be quite disconnected in space and time. E.g., you might know for sure that one electron is spin-up, and one spin-down, but have 0 information about which is which. None of that matters to the underlying state: there's just one electron field, and the only truly correct way to reason about it it to reason about the whole field all the time, and so this is only half of "WTF is entanglement".
The second concept gets too much into the math to explain well, but in a hand-wavy way it's this: "what is measurement?". There are older interpretations about measurement causing wavestate collapse and so on, but they're wrong because of that word "cause". Measurement is simply the observer becoming entangled with the observed. Measuring one entangled electron doesn't "cause" the other electron to do or become anything. The underlying state is unchanged, which is why there's no faster-than-light effect. In some cases, this is an overly pedantic distinction, but it matters when the difference between QM and intuition matters. In a two-slit experiment where you see an interference pattern at your detector, if you add a measuring device to one slit suddenly you don't see that interference pattern. Informally we might say the second observer "caused" this change, but formally that's wrong, it's just that a system with 2 slits and 2 detectors behaves differently from a system with 2 slits and one detector, and it doesn't matter which detector the electron passes first, because (see above) an "electron" as a discrete particle is fiction anyway, and both detectors are entangled with the electron field already, or they couldn't measure an electron anyhow.
Truly, as the sun never stops shining and the wind never stops blowing.
It will eventually. I suspect there will still be fossil fuels available when that day comes, as we'll have moved fully to solar and fusion (but I repeat myself) before we run out.
Google already knows who you work for. Google already knows what you're working on. Heck, if you have an Android with default settings, they have all your whiteboard pictures. This likely isn't a "candidate identification" tool, but rather a way to get people more interested in saying "yes" to the recruiter - oh, those were fun puzzles, maybe I do want to work for Google.
There are IoT devices with less than 4k memory. There are IoT devices that need to do non-trivial things with less than 20k memory. That's constrained even by my oldschool standards.
Google search is a natural monopoly as all other search engines that don't use google search return shit results
I've never seen a problem with DuckDuckGo results (even though they're mostly Bing), and with "!wa" you get a better calculator than Google's. Google tailors your search results to your search history, so you don't see anything that might make you question your beliefs. Maybe that's why people think it's better?
On a site like that - the only real women would be women that are either desperate or looking for other women.
I had heard that most the women on AM were call girls. Now I doubt that, as I'd think there'd have been a lot more, but still, there's a third category for your list.
As long as I stand out from those guys, I don't have a problem with it. We're not really competing with one another. Perhaps with the IoT craze we'll see an upswing in constrained environment programming again.
For now... then there will be automata that brings you new automata.
While that may happen, it's "Singularity complete". If it every does, we'll all have utopia, or we'll all be dead, but either way employment won't be a problem.
Better development tools and automation has only increased the number of working devs over the years: the lower the cost of automating any given thing, the more new things that can now be automated. Given there are probably 100x as many devs working now worldwide as when I started as an assembly-language programmer, I'm comfortable with this trend.
Not clear from TFS whether they're talking inbound or outbound. Inbound blocking makes sense for anything not open to the general public. Oubound blocking? Good luck with that, IBM.
TOR has been blocked in China for many years, but it still works. There's been a blocking/stenography arms race happening between the Great Wall and TOR for years. I don't know anything about the technical details, but it seems a safe guess that TOR "bridge" connections successfully bypass all the easy or obvious ways of blocking TOR. Of course, a whitelist of allowed outbound sites will always work.
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