A modern ULEV vehicle (which is most of the smaller imports available in America) has effectively no pollution, and certainly no particulate matter. The old joke was that driving a ULEV car through LA would actually clean the air (and that was likely true on a bad day).
Banning older vehicles solves a real problem. Imposing emissions standards on lawncare equipment solves a real problem. This is just feelgood nonsense.
At Canonical, making Unity worse is job 1! It gets harder every release to make Unity worse than the last one, so it takes all their mental effort. Perhaps with open firmware, Unity could actually electrocute the user, opening a whole new realm of "worse".
I am, more or less. The tax code is weird and complex. There are ranges where your effective marginal rate is much higher than your "bracket" would indicate: as you lose the ability to take certain deductions, as your income causes your investment gains to be taxes differently, and so on.
Heck, you can be below the median income and see an effective marginal income tax rate of 30% on income (plus social security and state taxes, so possibly pushing 40% all up) if half of what you live on comes from long term investments.
Well put. I'll keep repeating that bitcoin won't ever go mainstream without bitcoin-denominated credit cards and savings accounts. But of course, once you have those the money supply balloons, and that can be exploited by central banks, and really it stops being particularly different from what we already have.
It's not contradictory. The black holes will dump a metric giga-fuckton of energy as gravity waves before merging (it's science, so we have to use these new-fangled metric units). Once they merge, well, the established theory is that no energy could escape but that's being challenged more often these days. AFAIK, no one every actually detected Hawking radiation and everything predicted about black hole decay is untested, so having any detector that can observe a black hole merger will tell us a bunch!
Well said. But don't ignore the value of intelligent managers. Having the best and brightest as CEOs (among other roles) would really be a great thing.
"Ditch digging is hard work" sure, but it's much harder to find someone smart. Your statement highlights a significant cultural flaw in the US: the age of manufacturing and agriculture and heavy labor is over. We need to value the work of the mind over the work of the body. We need to value intelligence over athletic ability.
If you're clearly among the best as a Football player in high school, we have an amazing system to pay your way and make sure you get both the opportunity and training to excel. And, sure, we get some good entertainers out of it, and there's some money in professional sports to funnel back into this, but money-wise it's small compared to the money in tech.
Where's the parallel system for people who would clearly make good engineers, scientists, or business leaders? Where's the cultural desire to pick the smart ones to run companies, not the (often former athlete) great salesmen?
With the amount of bond buying that the US Federal Reserve has engaged in over the past few years buying all of the debt held by Russia and China combined would not even make a dent should they desire to sell it all, the FED and other nations (Japan) will happily buy.
At this point I imagine the Fed chair cackling like the Emperor in Star Wars "witness the firepower of this fully operational buying-station!" OK, the new one isn't quite old enough to look like the Emperor yet, but give her time.
I don't follow the royals, but wasn't there a prince who spent a long time in the military, and simply chose not to take the figurehead post at the top but rather worked his way up as a junior officer? Sounds like his head at least is in the right place. Someone who both values working for a living and has shown real loyalty to the UK would seem ideal here. And I'd think the royals have enough money to be a strong influence on politics regardless of their official powers.
These connectors all negotiate with the charger before drawing power, so I think it'd still be fine, or at least could be made to work. It's not like these devices are sub-$20 and it's critical to save 5 cents on the socket - we should be standardizing on what's best for the humans, not what's easiest for the machines. We're smart enough to build the machines that way, if we just stop accepting that technology is hard to use.
Car dealerships are usually multi-brand. They're happy to see a new brand as long as they can profit from it. This is a big FU to dealership owners from Tesla, saying "we don't need you to sell our cars". And Tesla is right of course: they don't.
Never underestimate the political power at the state level of car dealership owners. They have name recognition and a marketing budget that dwarfs any state senator, and everyone in state government sees this. As an elected official, you don't pick a political fight with someone who already has his name and face across half the billboards in a major city, and spends more on ads every week than you did on your entire campaign.
That's easy for adults to manage but not so much for kids. I just think it's miserable that we're still making connectors like this in the 21st century - just make all connectors cylindrical, dammit. It's not like we're talking about 32 pins here.
Any cable that has any sort of orientation required to plug in is a crap standard and needs to die. All connectors need to be barrel or minjack style connectors, that are easy to plug in blind.
Fox News now has higher ratings than all other cable news networks combined. They have achieved their goal.
If you can actually find a news program on Fox News, it's the most accurate of the cable news networks (yes, really), but I don't think people actually watch these for the news, they watch them to see pundits shouting.
So now I have this cable from my tablet to my power socket. Where do I connect my USB speaker again? I don't think you'll ever have fewer cables than peripherals.
Let's remember who Google's customers are (hint: it's not the users). I think Google is specifically thinking of their customers in this move. It's the opposition from MS that baffles me.
This! Every system can be defeated, but each new system that has to be defeated is good. Plus, for anything serious more than one cop will be there, and stories about "accidental damage to devices" become even less likely to fly when it coincidentally affects all 6 officers who responded to the same incident, and no one else that day.
This is actually true, but it's not interesting, because the #1 lie programmers tell themselves is "I am writing good code".
And really, it's always worth documenting corner cases, and everything non-trivial has corner cases. Even the somewhat trivial stuff like what a function does on bad input needs documenting, though I'd prefer unit tests to English for that stuff.
The purpose of the function, and the way the parameters are used, is often clear from the names, but the returned value doesn't have a name and is unclear more often than you'd think. But really, is the "remarks section" of the comments that is usually lacking. The summary and parameter documentation is often content-free, but comments about the return value, and especially any other detailed notes are quite valuable.
I've never understood this complaint. I've always found what I was looking for on the first page of DDG results (which of course is usually the same as the first page of Bing results), and almost never see link-farming pages.
Admittedly, I search for C#/MSDN stuff a lot, which one would hope Bing would be good at. What sort of searches is DDG so bad at?
I'm a big fan of DDG. It may be mostly the same as Bing, but I prefer the clean front page and lack of tracking. (For some reason MS tracking doesn't bother me the way Google tracking does, perhaps because they're not as good at it, but no tracking is better still!)
All I'm talking about here is what sounds better to me, for my personal purchase. I've heard DACs bad enough to matter, just as I've used patch cables bad enough to matter. Avoiding that without audiophile pricing is my goal.
It does make a lot of sense. Windows phone outsells iPhone in the more price-sensitive areas of Europe, but hasn't seen the same traction in Asia. Getting app parity is a different story, of course, but MS did finally get the big commercial shops onboard. Now it just needs to be easy for the hobbyist to write apps, as it is for Android.
I really wish MS would step up and officially support C# on Android, and cross-platform dev in VS (third parties actually sell this today, c'mon MS). Anything I wrote at home I'd like to be as cross-platform as possible so my friends (the only audience for my hobby coding) could all use it! Much as I like C# in VS, I need at least Android side-loading as a target platform, and ideally iPhone too.
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A modern ULEV vehicle (which is most of the smaller imports available in America) has effectively no pollution, and certainly no particulate matter. The old joke was that driving a ULEV car through LA would actually clean the air (and that was likely true on a bad day).
Banning older vehicles solves a real problem. Imposing emissions standards on lawncare equipment solves a real problem. This is just feelgood nonsense.
At Canonical, making Unity worse is job 1! It gets harder every release to make Unity worse than the last one, so it takes all their mental effort. Perhaps with open firmware, Unity could actually electrocute the user, opening a whole new realm of "worse".
I am, more or less. The tax code is weird and complex. There are ranges where your effective marginal rate is much higher than your "bracket" would indicate: as you lose the ability to take certain deductions, as your income causes your investment gains to be taxes differently, and so on.
Heck, you can be below the median income and see an effective marginal income tax rate of 30% on income (plus social security and state taxes, so possibly pushing 40% all up) if half of what you live on comes from long term investments.
Well put. I'll keep repeating that bitcoin won't ever go mainstream without bitcoin-denominated credit cards and savings accounts. But of course, once you have those the money supply balloons, and that can be exploited by central banks, and really it stops being particularly different from what we already have.
It's not contradictory. The black holes will dump a metric giga-fuckton of energy as gravity waves before merging (it's science, so we have to use these new-fangled metric units). Once they merge, well, the established theory is that no energy could escape but that's being challenged more often these days. AFAIK, no one every actually detected Hawking radiation and everything predicted about black hole decay is untested, so having any detector that can observe a black hole merger will tell us a bunch!
Well said. But don't ignore the value of intelligent managers. Having the best and brightest as CEOs (among other roles) would really be a great thing.
"Ditch digging is hard work" sure, but it's much harder to find someone smart. Your statement highlights a significant cultural flaw in the US: the age of manufacturing and agriculture and heavy labor is over. We need to value the work of the mind over the work of the body. We need to value intelligence over athletic ability.
If you're clearly among the best as a Football player in high school, we have an amazing system to pay your way and make sure you get both the opportunity and training to excel. And, sure, we get some good entertainers out of it, and there's some money in professional sports to funnel back into this, but money-wise it's small compared to the money in tech.
Where's the parallel system for people who would clearly make good engineers, scientists, or business leaders? Where's the cultural desire to pick the smart ones to run companies, not the (often former athlete) great salesmen?
With the amount of bond buying that the US Federal Reserve has engaged in over the past few years buying all of the debt held by Russia and China combined would not even make a dent should they desire to sell it all, the FED and other nations (Japan) will happily buy.
At this point I imagine the Fed chair cackling like the Emperor in Star Wars "witness the firepower of this fully operational buying-station!" OK, the new one isn't quite old enough to look like the Emperor yet, but give her time.
Can you browse those million pictures of naked Americans? No? Then you surely didn't get value for money!
I don't follow the royals, but wasn't there a prince who spent a long time in the military, and simply chose not to take the figurehead post at the top but rather worked his way up as a junior officer? Sounds like his head at least is in the right place. Someone who both values working for a living and has shown real loyalty to the UK would seem ideal here. And I'd think the royals have enough money to be a strong influence on politics regardless of their official powers.
These connectors all negotiate with the charger before drawing power, so I think it'd still be fine, or at least could be made to work. It's not like these devices are sub-$20 and it's critical to save 5 cents on the socket - we should be standardizing on what's best for the humans, not what's easiest for the machines. We're smart enough to build the machines that way, if we just stop accepting that technology is hard to use.
Car dealerships are usually multi-brand. They're happy to see a new brand as long as they can profit from it. This is a big FU to dealership owners from Tesla, saying "we don't need you to sell our cars". And Tesla is right of course: they don't.
Never underestimate the political power at the state level of car dealership owners. They have name recognition and a marketing budget that dwarfs any state senator, and everyone in state government sees this. As an elected official, you don't pick a political fight with someone who already has his name and face across half the billboards in a major city, and spends more on ads every week than you did on your entire campaign.
That's easy for adults to manage but not so much for kids. I just think it's miserable that we're still making connectors like this in the 21st century - just make all connectors cylindrical, dammit. It's not like we're talking about 32 pins here.
Any cable that has any sort of orientation required to plug in is a crap standard and needs to die. All connectors need to be barrel or minjack style connectors, that are easy to plug in blind.
Fox News now has higher ratings than all other cable news networks combined. They have achieved their goal.
If you can actually find a news program on Fox News, it's the most accurate of the cable news networks (yes, really), but I don't think people actually watch these for the news, they watch them to see pundits shouting.
So now I have this cable from my tablet to my power socket. Where do I connect my USB speaker again? I don't think you'll ever have fewer cables than peripherals.
Let's remember who Google's customers are (hint: it's not the users). I think Google is specifically thinking of their customers in this move. It's the opposition from MS that baffles me.
I fully agree.
But something has gone horribly wrong in the world of managed code!
REM This is a comment in a toy language.
Docstrings considered harmful!
This! Every system can be defeated, but each new system that has to be defeated is good. Plus, for anything serious more than one cop will be there, and stories about "accidental damage to devices" become even less likely to fly when it coincidentally affects all 6 officers who responded to the same incident, and no one else that day.
Good code rarely needs commenting though.
This is actually true, but it's not interesting, because the #1 lie programmers tell themselves is "I am writing good code".
And really, it's always worth documenting corner cases, and everything non-trivial has corner cases. Even the somewhat trivial stuff like what a function does on bad input needs documenting, though I'd prefer unit tests to English for that stuff.
The purpose of the function, and the way the parameters are used, is often clear from the names, but the returned value doesn't have a name and is unclear more often than you'd think. But really, is the "remarks section" of the comments that is usually lacking. The summary and parameter documentation is often content-free, but comments about the return value, and especially any other detailed notes are quite valuable.
I've never understood this complaint. I've always found what I was looking for on the first page of DDG results (which of course is usually the same as the first page of Bing results), and almost never see link-farming pages.
Admittedly, I search for C#/MSDN stuff a lot, which one would hope Bing would be good at. What sort of searches is DDG so bad at?
Just remember their motto: "Don't, Be Evil!".
I'm a big fan of DDG. It may be mostly the same as Bing, but I prefer the clean front page and lack of tracking. (For some reason MS tracking doesn't bother me the way Google tracking does, perhaps because they're not as good at it, but no tracking is better still!)
I love you too, APK. But my heart is promised to another.
Newegg got really cheap on packaging too. I'm OK with Amazon for the stuff I'd buy from Newegg if they can avoid that mistake.
All I'm talking about here is what sounds better to me, for my personal purchase. I've heard DACs bad enough to matter, just as I've used patch cables bad enough to matter. Avoiding that without audiophile pricing is my goal.
It does make a lot of sense. Windows phone outsells iPhone in the more price-sensitive areas of Europe, but hasn't seen the same traction in Asia. Getting app parity is a different story, of course, but MS did finally get the big commercial shops onboard. Now it just needs to be easy for the hobbyist to write apps, as it is for Android.
I really wish MS would step up and officially support C# on Android, and cross-platform dev in VS (third parties actually sell this today, c'mon MS). Anything I wrote at home I'd like to be as cross-platform as possible so my friends (the only audience for my hobby coding) could all use it! Much as I like C# in VS, I need at least Android side-loading as a target platform, and ideally iPhone too.