The days where "hand-coded assembly" was actually faster than optimized C/C++ are long gone. Modern CPU pipelining and out-of-order execution simply isn't something you can optimize for in your head any more.
Plus, don't forget that most of the Windows kernel was written back in the day when every instruction cycle mattered, and MS took that very seriously (and they certainly hired top talent in the Gates days).
But you're probably thinking of the GUI shell, not the OS.
Sure there are. But not sold by Tesla. Tesla will remain a fringe manufacturer until it moves the sort of volume that mainstream brands move, not the tiny volume that rich-boy toys move. And that, after all, is the goal of the Model 3.
the power drill can be designed so that it only works if the user has both hands on the machine, to at least reduce risk.
Somehow this seems doubly relevant. "After a few such run-ins, when I got ready to use the Hole Hawg my heart actually began to pound with atavistic terror." - so much software right there.
Eventually. But for now, he's right - Tesla is currently a niche company, only selling expensive vehicles. Most such brands like, say, Maserati, are just brands within a larger mainstream company - Maserati is just the mid-priced Fiat brand. Tesla though only sells the expensive cars, and so remains on the fringe for now.
If the Model 3 succeeds, this could all change. And while Tesla's stock price already assumes the Model 3 will be a resounding success and Tesla will become a mainstream company, it hasn't happened yet.
Technically, "evolution" is the change in statistical distribution of alleles in a genetic population over time. There's little uncertainty about that happening - every genetic change over time is absolutely evidence of evolution, in the technical sense, because there's nothing more to it than that.
Any uncertainty is about what shaped the emergence, then dominance, of certain traits among species that survived today. But of course in the case of sexual reproduction with distinct sexes, it's still a reproductive corner case only used by a small percentage of the biomass of the planet (and heck, only plants and animals do it in any form, while most of the biomass is found in the other kingdoms).
there's the question of how the rather non-Occamy process of sexual reproduction came into existence in the first place.
Is that really much of a mystery? Gene exchange as part of reproduction has obvious advantages for speed in adaption to changing conditions. There are plenty of hermaphrodite species that show the stepping stone to specialized organs for gene exchange. Splitting into 2 sexes, each with just one set of reproductive organs, is just a cost savings, reducing the amount of otherwise unneeded organs to maintain.
My dealer offers "free" loaner cars, so I don't wait. Of course, that's quite an expensive free rental, but it is convenient. "Valet service" is a thing now at some luxury dealerships, too (they come get your car, do the work, bring it back). But that's all only if you're not watching the price.
There has to be more to it than the question, because you can trivially ask it of every theory ever. The paper at least brings something new, pointing to detailed inconsistencies in the theory - it has lots of actual work behind it. Just babbling on about "it might be this or that" doesn't.
Leonard Susskind is famous (as physicists go) for making outlandish claims every five years or so, which then later turn out to be true. But of course it's the latter part that makes his claims interesting, and as he's said "maybe that's because I spend those 5 years working on the problem first". There's a lot being debated about black holes.
Debates/controversies between the likes of Susskind and Hawking are interesting, because you know they've brought deep understanding to the problem before asking the questions. But the internet is chock full of people who are convinced that they've found the flaw in relativity or QM, and most of them bring as much to the discussion as the Time Cube guy, and make about as much sense.
Are you sure there aren't any cgi scripts on that corporate webserver that devs had to touch that one time to debug that thing?
Fortunately for the SSH case, most multi-tenanted servers these days are using VM-isolation, not user isolation, but privilege escalation exploits of one sort or another do show up as a problem on those web hosts with 10000 accounts, where someone uses the setup to push malware from their account to all the served web pages. Hopefully none of those places still give SSH access!
I'm fairly certain that we can come up with an acceptable definition of the "press" - though I don't pretend to be smart enough to be the one to do that.
The SCOTUS this year specifically considered and rejected that exact argument. There's not going to be a good definition that hold as media evolves over time. Plus, how does limited liability matter here? When people pool their money to buy advertising time to advance their political views, why should limited liability restrict fundamental rights? What's the compelling interest of the state there that couldn't be served without that restriction?
We've (indirectly) observed some of objects consistent with our theories of how black holes would behave
That right there is all of modern science. Science hasn't been about direct observation with one's senses for quite some time now. Pretty much all of physics these days is "if we measure X repeatedly this hypothesis predicts distribution Y of values" When Y is observed, the hypothesis is taken seriously as a theory. That's all there ever is. There's almost nothing left to measure directly. (E.g., you wouldn't believe how indirect the evidence for the Higgs Boson is - far more so than for black holes - but the likelihood of the measurements predicted by theory to have occurred at random are quite small indeed).
Moreover, as I recall there is more than a little controversy as to whether supermassive black holes could actually form and grow in a manner consistent with prevailing theory, as opposed to having been formed in the early moments of our universe, or through some yet-to-be-theorized process
Perhaps you misunderstand how science works? There's always the possibility that the leading theory is wrong, for everything. That possibility is uninteresting. A hypothesis that makes specific predictions that the current understanding doesn't is interesting. Measurements that the current theory fails to explain are interesting. "But what if it's wrong?" isn't.
the general trend toward making corporations more and more like people
That's a misunderstanding. There's a general principle that any law that applies to "person or persons" applies to corporations too, which is a good thing. There's also SCOTUS rulings that when a corporation is owned mostly by a small number of people, those people have the same rights as the owners of a partnership would. I don't see a problem with that either (remember, partnerships and sole proprietorships can also have limited liability, it's not something specific to corporations).
The vulnerability occurs because bash does not stop after processing the function definition; it continues to parse and execute shell commands following the function definition....
The fact that an environment variable with an arbitrary name can be used as a carrier for a malicious function definition containing trailing commands makes this vulnerability particularly severe; it enables network-based exploitation.
This is a weapons-grade exploit IMO, the sort of thing the NSA keeps hidden for when it's really needed. I'm almost surprised it wasn't suppressed.
Specifically, the researcher is saying that the process of stellar collapse sheds so much mass via hawking radiation that there's not enough left to form a black hole. Given this is a fresh paper, and at odds with astronomical observations, I'm skeptical.
Ahh, "activist shareholders" means almost the opposite.
Limited liability is fine - everyone making a loan knows they can't collect if the business goes pear shaped, and you can sue managers directly for a lot of things these days.
You have no clue what wealth is. The wealthy do not have giant Scrooge McDuck vaults where they swim around in vast piles of cash. Money not spent is invested. Guess where the money invested goes next?
You can't really raise the US tax revenue above 20% of GDP - through high rates and low, revenue returns to 19% or so a few years after any change. Growing the economy is the only way to grow tax income. How we tax people might be interesting from a social justice perspective, but has little to do with available funds.
Capital gains are as much about inflation as profit. I'm all for treating all income equally (one flat tax to rule them all), but you'd have to inflation-index cap gains (and who still trusts government inflation numbers?) There's probably also redeeming benefit in taxing long-term holdings less than short term (though the current 120 days for qualified dividends hardly counts as long term).
Nor do most believers, but that's orthogonal to the value of religious texts as historical documents. There's nothing so crazy that you can't find someone who believes it, but at least in the West there are very few literalists left.
4 months is not that long to be honest. The job market sucks, do not believe the people who say the economy is booming and that anyone who wants a job can get one.
Anyone? No. You have to be good at something. You might need to relocate to where the jobs are. But the company I work for is hiring devs like crazy, and finding very few candidates looking, and I hear the same story from my friends at other big companies. The job market is good, guys, make yourself visible on LinkedIn (and, erm, that Dice site I guess) so that recruiters and hiring managers can find you!
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The days where "hand-coded assembly" was actually faster than optimized C/C++ are long gone. Modern CPU pipelining and out-of-order execution simply isn't something you can optimize for in your head any more.
Plus, don't forget that most of the Windows kernel was written back in the day when every instruction cycle mattered, and MS took that very seriously (and they certainly hired top talent in the Gates days).
But you're probably thinking of the GUI shell, not the OS.
Depending on where you live, anti-social can be a strong survival trait.
Sure there are. But not sold by Tesla. Tesla will remain a fringe manufacturer until it moves the sort of volume that mainstream brands move, not the tiny volume that rich-boy toys move. And that, after all, is the goal of the Model 3.
the power drill can be designed so that it only works if the user has both hands on the machine, to at least reduce risk.
Somehow this seems doubly relevant. "After a few such run-ins, when I got ready to use the Hole Hawg my heart actually began to pound with atavistic terror." - so much software right there.
Ahh, the "we just need to educate our users" school of engineering. That always ends well.
Clearly the solution is to put a fountain in the security exit corridor to trap screen-lookers before they can cross the security line!
New world is coming.
Eventually. But for now, he's right - Tesla is currently a niche company, only selling expensive vehicles. Most such brands like, say, Maserati, are just brands within a larger mainstream company - Maserati is just the mid-priced Fiat brand. Tesla though only sells the expensive cars, and so remains on the fringe for now.
If the Model 3 succeeds, this could all change. And while Tesla's stock price already assumes the Model 3 will be a resounding success and Tesla will become a mainstream company, it hasn't happened yet.
Heh, seems I'm wrong about the fungi - randy little buggers.
Technically, "evolution" is the change in statistical distribution of alleles in a genetic population over time. There's little uncertainty about that happening - every genetic change over time is absolutely evidence of evolution, in the technical sense, because there's nothing more to it than that.
Any uncertainty is about what shaped the emergence, then dominance, of certain traits among species that survived today. But of course in the case of sexual reproduction with distinct sexes, it's still a reproductive corner case only used by a small percentage of the biomass of the planet (and heck, only plants and animals do it in any form, while most of the biomass is found in the other kingdoms).
there's the question of how the rather non-Occamy process of sexual reproduction came into existence in the first place.
Is that really much of a mystery? Gene exchange as part of reproduction has obvious advantages for speed in adaption to changing conditions. There are plenty of hermaphrodite species that show the stepping stone to specialized organs for gene exchange. Splitting into 2 sexes, each with just one set of reproductive organs, is just a cost savings, reducing the amount of otherwise unneeded organs to maintain.
My dealer offers "free" loaner cars, so I don't wait. Of course, that's quite an expensive free rental, but it is convenient. "Valet service" is a thing now at some luxury dealerships, too (they come get your car, do the work, bring it back). But that's all only if you're not watching the price.
Wait, who's president again? I thought we had taken a break from rich old white men? (You forgot Protestant, BTW.)
There has to be more to it than the question, because you can trivially ask it of every theory ever. The paper at least brings something new, pointing to detailed inconsistencies in the theory - it has lots of actual work behind it. Just babbling on about "it might be this or that" doesn't.
Leonard Susskind is famous (as physicists go) for making outlandish claims every five years or so, which then later turn out to be true. But of course it's the latter part that makes his claims interesting, and as he's said "maybe that's because I spend those 5 years working on the problem first". There's a lot being debated about black holes.
Debates/controversies between the likes of Susskind and Hawking are interesting, because you know they've brought deep understanding to the problem before asking the questions. But the internet is chock full of people who are convinced that they've found the flaw in relativity or QM, and most of them bring as much to the discussion as the Time Cube guy, and make about as much sense.
Are you sure there aren't any cgi scripts on that corporate webserver that devs had to touch that one time to debug that thing?
Fortunately for the SSH case, most multi-tenanted servers these days are using VM-isolation, not user isolation, but privilege escalation exploits of one sort or another do show up as a problem on those web hosts with 10000 accounts, where someone uses the setup to push malware from their account to all the served web pages. Hopefully none of those places still give SSH access!
I'm fairly certain that we can come up with an acceptable definition of the "press" - though I don't pretend to be smart enough to be the one to do that.
The SCOTUS this year specifically considered and rejected that exact argument. There's not going to be a good definition that hold as media evolves over time. Plus, how does limited liability matter here? When people pool their money to buy advertising time to advance their political views, why should limited liability restrict fundamental rights? What's the compelling interest of the state there that couldn't be served without that restriction?
We've (indirectly) observed some of objects consistent with our theories of how black holes would behave
That right there is all of modern science. Science hasn't been about direct observation with one's senses for quite some time now. Pretty much all of physics these days is "if we measure X repeatedly this hypothesis predicts distribution Y of values" When Y is observed, the hypothesis is taken seriously as a theory. That's all there ever is. There's almost nothing left to measure directly. (E.g., you wouldn't believe how indirect the evidence for the Higgs Boson is - far more so than for black holes - but the likelihood of the measurements predicted by theory to have occurred at random are quite small indeed).
Moreover, as I recall there is more than a little controversy as to whether supermassive black holes could actually form and grow in a manner consistent with prevailing theory, as opposed to having been formed in the early moments of our universe, or through some yet-to-be-theorized process
Perhaps you misunderstand how science works? There's always the possibility that the leading theory is wrong, for everything. That possibility is uninteresting. A hypothesis that makes specific predictions that the current understanding doesn't is interesting. Measurements that the current theory fails to explain are interesting. "But what if it's wrong?" isn't.
the general trend toward making corporations more and more like people
That's a misunderstanding. There's a general principle that any law that applies to "person or persons" applies to corporations too, which is a good thing. There's also SCOTUS rulings that when a corporation is owned mostly by a small number of people, those people have the same rights as the owners of a partnership would. I don't see a problem with that either (remember, partnerships and sole proprietorships can also have limited liability, it's not something specific to corporations).
This is exceedingly nasty.
The vulnerability occurs because bash does not stop after processing the function definition; it continues to parse and execute shell commands following the function ...
definition.
The fact that an environment variable with an arbitrary name can be used as a carrier for a malicious function definition containing trailing commands makes this vulnerability particularly severe; it enables network-based exploitation.
This is a weapons-grade exploit IMO, the sort of thing the NSA keeps hidden for when it's really needed. I'm almost surprised it wasn't suppressed.
Hmm, I wonder how many phones are valuable.
Specifically, the researcher is saying that the process of stellar collapse sheds so much mass via hawking radiation that there's not enough left to form a black hole. Given this is a fresh paper, and at odds with astronomical observations, I'm skeptical.
Ahh, "activist shareholders" means almost the opposite.
Limited liability is fine - everyone making a loan knows they can't collect if the business goes pear shaped, and you can sue managers directly for a lot of things these days.
You have no clue what wealth is. The wealthy do not have giant Scrooge McDuck vaults where they swim around in vast piles of cash. Money not spent is invested. Guess where the money invested goes next?
You can't really raise the US tax revenue above 20% of GDP - through high rates and low, revenue returns to 19% or so a few years after any change. Growing the economy is the only way to grow tax income. How we tax people might be interesting from a social justice perspective, but has little to do with available funds.
Taxes were far worse in the European feudal system.
Capital gains are as much about inflation as profit. I'm all for treating all income equally (one flat tax to rule them all), but you'd have to inflation-index cap gains (and who still trusts government inflation numbers?) There's probably also redeeming benefit in taxing long-term holdings less than short term (though the current 120 days for qualified dividends hardly counts as long term).
I don't know what you mean by "activist owners".
Nor do most believers, but that's orthogonal to the value of religious texts as historical documents. There's nothing so crazy that you can't find someone who believes it, but at least in the West there are very few literalists left.
4 months is not that long to be honest. The job market sucks, do not believe the people who say the economy is booming and that anyone who wants a job can get one.
Anyone? No. You have to be good at something. You might need to relocate to where the jobs are. But the company I work for is hiring devs like crazy, and finding very few candidates looking, and I hear the same story from my friends at other big companies. The job market is good, guys, make yourself visible on LinkedIn (and, erm, that Dice site I guess) so that recruiters and hiring managers can find you!