The MeerKAT and SKA radio satelite projects do all their work in python. According to a talk I attended by their chief programmer - there is a very simple reason. They did the math - even though C-code would run faster, the time they save on developing new code and bugfixing old code is so big that - to get the results on parsing some multi-terrabyte dataset is actually FASTER in python than in C !
Because contrary to your claims - python is fantastic at rapidly developing extremely stable code.
And then, it turns out, Trump isn't accepting the validity of the election EVEN THOUGH he won !
He just cannot accept the idea that 3 million more people voted for his opponent, so he keeps trying to claim that their votes were the results of massive and unprecedented fraud !
No he is not a software engineer. He is an electronic engineer. I would be more inclined to consider your conclusions if your premises were not bovine excrement.
I'm keeping my no-DRM current copy somewhere safe. At least until we have actually seen what take2 does. Now there's been a lot of panics in the KSP community over the years. Everytime a dev leaves people convince themselves it's the end of the game.
This may be another doomsday cry that turns out okay in the end. Or it could genuinely be the point where the game that always felt 'too good to be true' is finally killed (it seems imminently suitable for an open-source competitor if that happens). Unlike most past panics - this one affects the one constant that has, despite the occasional bad behavior, always understood that the success of KSP lives and dies with the community and made sure to at least keep their promises to that community. Building a paid-expansion already stretched the limits of that (free updates forever was a promise), so that means - I'm actually nervous about this.
In the past, I never joined in the panics - at most I would on occasion feel a bit pissed at squad over something they did and feel they aren't doing right by somebody. And of all companies that could have bought them - take2 is just about the worst possible one.
So no, it's not time to panic - it IS time to be cautious, and keep a backup copy of KSP outside of any auto-upgrade service's reach.
Which of course, only strengthens his case, because on top of the free speech defense (based on my stated premise that the context in which he used the term is not one in which government has any justification for restricting it), he can also claim vindictive prosecution - a 'crime' which is rarely prosecuted despite being frequently committed, and visibly so, is generally all the evidence you need to prove vindictive prosecution.
So you choose two fields where graduation does not usually come with automatic professional accreditation and claim this means the same is true of a field where, in almost the entire world in fact, graduation DOES come with automatic accreditation ?
He didn't claim to be an engineer in Oregon, just to be an engineer. Since he graduated in Sweden where all engineering graduates get automatic accreditation he IS an engineer, and indeed an accredited engineer- he just isn't accredited as an engineer in Oregon - but he never claimed he was.
Legal definitions vary by region - if you make a claim that's true in ANY region and you don't SPECIFY a region then that claim is factually correct.
A judge is rather a different thing- seeing as you can't get a degree in "judging", the vast majority of people with law degrees do not become judges and there is thus no correlation whatsoever between "judges" and "law graduates". Most of what you learn to become a judge rather than a lawyer you learn AFTER you finish university - by working in the field.
This is now how engineering works - you get a degree in engineering you can do an engineer's job. You may not be as good as the guy who has been doing it for longer, but it's not like only one in a thousand engineering graduates become engineers. It's basically a 1:1 ratio. And in fact, the vast majority of engineering grads are engineers by default since in almost every territory you are automatically registered when you graduate.
He never claimed "I am an engineer in Oregon", just "I am an engineer" - since Sweden is a country where all grads are automatically professionally registered this claim is a factual truth. He graduated with an engineering degree in Sweden, and is thus an engineer. Saying "I am an engineer" in his case is factual truth - it would only be a false claim if he added "in Oregon".
Well certainly many people considered him an idiot. It's just that there are rather a lot of idiots in America, and the idiots were adamant about electing one of their own for once.
Yeah... the number is bullshit, just like it was bullshit when Romney cited it. The number of people in the USA who pay no taxes at all: 0. Since everybody pays sales taxes and the like at least. That was merely the number who don't pay federal income tax- and only a small fraction of that number are people 'not contributing'. A huge swath of that 47% are schoolgoing children. Another huge swath are retired elderly people. Another huge swath are active service members in the armed forces. These are all people who either will contribute in future or have already contributed significantly in the past.
He didn't lie about his qualifications. He is fully qualified as an engineer - with a degree from a top-notch university. He just isn't certified as one in Oregon because he has never worked as one there.
He did not present himself as one in any scenario where government has reasonable justification to restrict the usage of the title. He wasn't trying to sell a bridge design or anything. He was just publicly commenting on public infrastructure and stated the qualifications he has to form those opinions - he didn't try to get employment.
It is a much more complicated case than you let on.
Amazing how details get twisted in the grapevine. No, no, no, he cannot detach his head. It's his BRAIN that is detachable. Now if only somebody can figure out how to reattach it.
If they did - there would be no need for North Carolina and Texas to be passing these NEW laws saying the exact same thing. They could merely declare laws that say people can go to the bathroom they feel they belong in invalid.
If your idiotic assertions were true, bathroom bills like this one would not exist.
>What's happening is that a group of people want to change existing laws to add exceptions that will allow a certain class of male to enter female bathrooms. No, the are merely asking - under existing laws to be treated equally. There have been title IX claims by transgender folk asking for the right ot use the bathroom that matches their true gender. There has been ZERO attempts at ANY new laws in their favor. Seriously - you are incredibly vociferous in your opinions considering you know absolutely nothing about the subject and are just making random shit up and pretending that shit is 'facts'.
>I'm particularly interested in seeing how you get women to accept that. You mean the people who are the majority calling FOR trans people to be allowed to use the bathrooms of their choice because they are uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with a muscled, bearded dude and they really don't feel more comfortable because that dude has a uterus ?
>Are you are making the rather stupid claim that suicides are caused by psychiatric disorders?
This 'rather stupid claim' is, with very rare exceptions, considered medical fact. Unless you're making the incredibly stupid claim that depression is not a psychiatric disorder ?
>All official stats show transgender people to be more likely than the norm to commit suicide. The 'official stats' aren't filtered for 'people who are wholly accepted by their communities' -seeing as this is such a tiny number, their impact on the 'official stats' is immeasurably small. But they do exist.
Yes there is - just not in those words. What it says is: transgender is not a psychiatric disorder, but community responses can cause psychiatric disorders in transgender people.
That right there. That backs up what I said.
If there was any evidence that suicide rates in accepted transgender people were any higher than the national averages for their age groups - that line could not, by law, have been in there.
There's just one little problem with your rant. These laws aren't preventing men from going into the women's bathroom. Not even slightly. Trans-women are not men - and keeping them out has nothing to do with your rant.
On the other hand this law is actually forcing 6 foot 4 dudes with beards into the women's bathroom because they were born with a uterus.
In fact, several of the cases currently before the court are transboys who requested permission to use the boys room because their girl schoolmates were uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with these boys - despite these boys having vaginas.
I don't think he can manage a flowchart - maybe one of those Rush Limbaugh blackboard rants or possibly an Alex Jones video but a flowchart would be beyond his thinking abilities.
He should try getting blown by one - seriously, transgender heterosexual women give the greatest fucking blowjobs in the world. Their as good as gay guys - but you can fuck them even if you're straight !
And how exactly do you define biological sex ? Do you define it by genitals ? Well that's not only scientifically wrong - it also means that hermaphrodites now can't pee ANYWHERE. Do you define it by chromosomes ? You going to do a DNA test at every bathroom door ? And again - it doesn't work, for the same reason genitals is not a valid way to define biological sex. Where does an XXY person pee ? Based on outward appearance they are female, can even bear children, but they have a Y chromosome. There are some 14 other known stable and healthy chromosome combinations within the human race - and only three of them are externally identifiable (the three types of hermaphrodites) - the rest look like a man or a woman - but they don't have the same hormones and varying degrees of other biological differences. Castor Semenya externally is female - has labia and a vagina but, thanks to the invasive gender-testing at the olympics we know, has no uterus, this is a known chromosome variant - which produces significantly more testosterone than the usual female average - and many an women's olympics winner has had it. But then there is also a common mutation among them that makes their bodies unable to absorb testosterone - so many of them have LESS testosterone than the average female DESPITE producing more - for a long time those were the ONLY ones who were allowed to compete in the olympics.
Basically - biological sex is messy and complicated in the extreme. In the age of DNA studies we've found it's a LOT messier and a great deal more complicated than we used to think.
That's without getting into gender. And it's the fundamental problem with your 'simple solution' - it's not simple at all because biological sex isn't simple at all. That it was PERCEIVED as simple for hundreds of years doesn't matter - we have the hard scientific proof that this perception was flagrantly false now and political policies should be informed by the best available science, not by anybody's religion.
I agree with you - but I have actually looked at the data. I oppose these bills because they don't fit the data at all.
I would however be highly in favor of a bill banning republican elected officials from public bathrooms altogether. After all - the data is clear, quite a LOT of people (including many children) have been raped by republican elected officials in bathrooms - so far nobody has been raped by a trans person in a bathroom, and frankly I'm pretty sure even the few isolated cases of a cisgender male entering a women's bathroom to do misdeeds has not changed due to such laws - after all, if you're the kind of person who would ignore rape laws - you sure as well won't obey bathroom laws.
How about you come up with a cheap easy and non-invasive way of finding out what shape somebody's genitals are under their clothes.
Because so far, the most common outcome of these laws have been vagina-owning cisgender women being accused of having penises on account of somebody else thinking they didn't look feminine enough.
Considering there is basically no sane way of actually knowing what shape somebody's genitals are until they choose to show them to you - it's a fucking dumb law that will not protect anybody and, in fact, have no effect other than to force trans people into greater danger.
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The MeerKAT and SKA radio satelite projects do all their work in python.
According to a talk I attended by their chief programmer - there is a very simple reason. They did the math - even though C-code would run faster, the time they save on developing new code and bugfixing old code is so big that - to get the results on parsing some multi-terrabyte dataset is actually FASTER in python than in C !
Because contrary to your claims - python is fantastic at rapidly developing extremely stable code.
And then, it turns out, Trump isn't accepting the validity of the election EVEN THOUGH he won !
He just cannot accept the idea that 3 million more people voted for his opponent, so he keeps trying to claim that their votes were the results of massive and unprecedented fraud !
No he is not a software engineer. He is an electronic engineer.
I would be more inclined to consider your conclusions if your premises were not bovine excrement.
I stand corrected.
I'm keeping my no-DRM current copy somewhere safe. At least until we have actually seen what take2 does. Now there's been a lot of panics in the KSP community over the years. Everytime a dev leaves people convince themselves it's the end of the game.
This may be another doomsday cry that turns out okay in the end. Or it could genuinely be the point where the game that always felt 'too good to be true' is finally killed (it seems imminently suitable for an open-source competitor if that happens).
Unlike most past panics - this one affects the one constant that has, despite the occasional bad behavior, always understood that the success of KSP lives and dies with the community and made sure to at least keep their promises to that community. Building a paid-expansion already stretched the limits of that (free updates forever was a promise), so that means - I'm actually nervous about this.
In the past, I never joined in the panics - at most I would on occasion feel a bit pissed at squad over something they did and feel they aren't doing right by somebody.
And of all companies that could have bought them - take2 is just about the worst possible one.
So no, it's not time to panic - it IS time to be cautious, and keep a backup copy of KSP outside of any auto-upgrade service's reach.
Which of course, only strengthens his case, because on top of the free speech defense (based on my stated premise that the context in which he used the term is not one in which government has any justification for restricting it), he can also claim vindictive prosecution - a 'crime' which is rarely prosecuted despite being frequently committed, and visibly so, is generally all the evidence you need to prove vindictive prosecution.
So you choose two fields where graduation does not usually come with automatic professional accreditation and claim this means the same is true of a field where, in almost the entire world in fact, graduation DOES come with automatic accreditation ?
He didn't claim to be an engineer in Oregon, just to be an engineer. Since he graduated in Sweden where all engineering graduates get automatic accreditation he IS an engineer, and indeed an accredited engineer- he just isn't accredited as an engineer in Oregon - but he never claimed he was.
Legal definitions vary by region - if you make a claim that's true in ANY region and you don't SPECIFY a region then that claim is factually correct.
A judge is rather a different thing- seeing as you can't get a degree in "judging", the vast majority of people with law degrees do not become judges and there is thus no correlation whatsoever between "judges" and "law graduates". Most of what you learn to become a judge rather than a lawyer you learn AFTER you finish university - by working in the field.
This is now how engineering works - you get a degree in engineering you can do an engineer's job. You may not be as good as the guy who has been doing it for longer, but it's not like only one in a thousand engineering graduates become engineers. It's basically a 1:1 ratio. And in fact, the vast majority of engineering grads are engineers by default since in almost every territory you are automatically registered when you graduate.
He never claimed "I am an engineer in Oregon", just "I am an engineer" - since Sweden is a country where all grads are automatically professionally registered this claim is a factual truth. He graduated with an engineering degree in Sweden, and is thus an engineer.
Saying "I am an engineer" in his case is factual truth - it would only be a false claim if he added "in Oregon".
Well certainly many people considered him an idiot. It's just that there are rather a lot of idiots in America, and the idiots were adamant about electing one of their own for once.
Yeah... the number is bullshit, just like it was bullshit when Romney cited it.
The number of people in the USA who pay no taxes at all: 0. Since everybody pays sales taxes and the like at least.
That was merely the number who don't pay federal income tax- and only a small fraction of that number are people 'not contributing'.
A huge swath of that 47% are schoolgoing children. Another huge swath are retired elderly people. Another huge swath are active service members in the armed forces.
These are all people who either will contribute in future or have already contributed significantly in the past.
He didn't lie about his qualifications. He is fully qualified as an engineer - with a degree from a top-notch university.
He just isn't certified as one in Oregon because he has never worked as one there.
He did not present himself as one in any scenario where government has reasonable justification to restrict the usage of the title. He wasn't trying to sell a bridge design or anything. He was just publicly commenting on public infrastructure and stated the qualifications he has to form those opinions - he didn't try to get employment.
It is a much more complicated case than you let on.
Amazing how details get twisted in the grapevine. No, no, no, he cannot detach his head. It's his BRAIN that is detachable.
Now if only somebody can figure out how to reattach it.
Erm - sorry for you - but nobody is suggesting a sexstrike against ALL men - only against republicans.
So if it affects birth rates, it won't be progressive's birthrates that go down.
I did mention this in the original post- guess you have the typical conservative's comprehension skills and reading ability.
Erm no - these 'existing laws' do not exist.
If they did - there would be no need for North Carolina and Texas to be passing these NEW laws saying the exact same thing.
They could merely declare laws that say people can go to the bathroom they feel they belong in invalid.
If your idiotic assertions were true, bathroom bills like this one would not exist.
>What's happening is that a group of people want to change existing laws to add exceptions that will allow a certain class of male to enter female bathrooms.
No, the are merely asking - under existing laws to be treated equally. There have been title IX claims by transgender folk asking for the right ot use the bathroom that matches their true gender. There has been ZERO attempts at ANY new laws in their favor.
Seriously - you are incredibly vociferous in your opinions considering you know absolutely nothing about the subject and are just making random shit up and pretending that shit is 'facts'.
>I'm particularly interested in seeing how you get women to accept that.
You mean the people who are the majority calling FOR trans people to be allowed to use the bathrooms of their choice because they are uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with a muscled, bearded dude and they really don't feel more comfortable because that dude has a uterus ?
>Are you are making the rather stupid claim that suicides are caused by psychiatric disorders?
This 'rather stupid claim' is, with very rare exceptions, considered medical fact. Unless you're making the incredibly stupid claim that depression is not a psychiatric disorder ?
>All official stats show transgender people to be more likely than the norm to commit suicide.
The 'official stats' aren't filtered for 'people who are wholly accepted by their communities' -seeing as this is such a tiny number, their impact on the 'official stats' is immeasurably small. But they do exist.
Yes there is - just not in those words.
What it says is: transgender is not a psychiatric disorder, but community responses can cause psychiatric disorders in transgender people.
That right there. That backs up what I said.
If there was any evidence that suicide rates in accepted transgender people were any higher than the national averages for their age groups - that line could not, by law, have been in there.
There's just one little problem with your rant.
These laws aren't preventing men from going into the women's bathroom.
Not even slightly. Trans-women are not men - and keeping them out has nothing to do with your rant.
On the other hand this law is actually forcing 6 foot 4 dudes with beards into the women's bathroom because they were born with a uterus.
In fact, several of the cases currently before the court are transboys who requested permission to use the boys room because their girl schoolmates were uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with these boys - despite these boys having vaginas.
I don't think he can manage a flowchart - maybe one of those Rush Limbaugh blackboard rants or possibly an Alex Jones video but a flowchart would be beyond his thinking abilities.
http://dsm.psychiatryonline.or...
He should try getting blown by one - seriously, transgender heterosexual women give the greatest fucking blowjobs in the world. Their as good as gay guys - but you can fuck them even if you're straight !
Wait ... you have a dick and no tits... you just look like, everybody else - and you don't hate it ?
That's the grossest, weirdest shit I've ever heard !
Stay the fuck away from me you normie creep.
And how exactly do you define biological sex ?
Do you define it by genitals ? Well that's not only scientifically wrong - it also means that hermaphrodites now can't pee ANYWHERE.
Do you define it by chromosomes ? You going to do a DNA test at every bathroom door ? And again - it doesn't work, for the same reason genitals is not a valid way to define biological sex. Where does an XXY person pee ? Based on outward appearance they are female, can even bear children, but they have a Y chromosome. There are some 14 other known stable and healthy chromosome combinations within the human race - and only three of them are externally identifiable (the three types of hermaphrodites) - the rest look like a man or a woman - but they don't have the same hormones and varying degrees of other biological differences. Castor Semenya externally is female - has labia and a vagina but, thanks to the invasive gender-testing at the olympics we know, has no uterus, this is a known chromosome variant - which produces significantly more testosterone than the usual female average - and many an women's olympics winner has had it. But then there is also a common mutation among them that makes their bodies unable to absorb testosterone - so many of them have LESS testosterone than the average female DESPITE producing more - for a long time those were the ONLY ones who were allowed to compete in the olympics.
Basically - biological sex is messy and complicated in the extreme. In the age of DNA studies we've found it's a LOT messier and a great deal more complicated than we used to think.
That's without getting into gender. And it's the fundamental problem with your 'simple solution' - it's not simple at all because biological sex isn't simple at all. That it was PERCEIVED as simple for hundreds of years doesn't matter - we have the hard scientific proof that this perception was flagrantly false now and political policies should be informed by the best available science, not by anybody's religion.
I agree with you - but I have actually looked at the data.
I oppose these bills because they don't fit the data at all.
I would however be highly in favor of a bill banning republican elected officials from public bathrooms altogether. After all - the data is clear, quite a LOT of people (including many children) have been raped by republican elected officials in bathrooms - so far nobody has been raped by a trans person in a bathroom, and frankly I'm pretty sure even the few isolated cases of a cisgender male entering a women's bathroom to do misdeeds has not changed due to such laws - after all, if you're the kind of person who would ignore rape laws - you sure as well won't obey bathroom laws.
Well. I mean. Who wouldn't be.
Cake threeway ?
How about you come up with a cheap easy and non-invasive way of finding out what shape somebody's genitals are under their clothes.
Because so far, the most common outcome of these laws have been vagina-owning cisgender women being accused of having penises on account of somebody else thinking they didn't look feminine enough.
Considering there is basically no sane way of actually knowing what shape somebody's genitals are until they choose to show them to you - it's a fucking dumb law that will not protect anybody and, in fact, have no effect other than to force trans people into greater danger.