Just because your computer is 10000x faster than it was 10 years ago doesn't mean it will be 10000x faster 10 years from now.
I'd still bet on speed increases similar to past decades continuing for another.
Memory latencies alone could be increased by close to several orders of magnitude, and honestly that doesnt even require new technology... just current technology becoming cheaper and then applied to memory, which is inevitable.
Nobody is ready to remove the steering wheel and likely they never will be acceptably ready.
Even if the car never gets into an accident when driving autonomously, there will still be situations where the vehicle simply wont go when or where it should.
(and while we're at it properly fund education in this country so that we can both have these things _and_ make them accessible to people with disabilities
Pretty sure only a single country spends more per student than we do, and even they dont do so in higher eduction.
Meanwhile, bad regulations continue to fuck up everything. Some of those bad regulations have fucked up the cost of schooling.
In basic education its allowing public union to extort communities by holding their childrens educations hostage while allowing members of government to make contractual promises on far in the future matters to these unions and then not fund these promises immediately, instead promising to take money from future people, people that cant even vote yet, when the bill finally comes due.
I'm sure there will be some idiot that replies telling us the woes of low teacher wages and how little is actually spent in the classroom... but their idea is never to funnel more of vast amount of money we are already spending to the teachers and classrooms.. their idea is to throw even more money at it, because apparently the answer to inefficiency is more inefficiency. Thats how we got where we are. Decade after decade of my life its been the same problem. These idiots dont want to solve it because its not a virtue signal to do so.
But AMD never grabbed the initiative to build on their fab capabilities and manufacturing processes
Thanks to Intels monopolistic practices. They were convicted of it on multiple continents.
instead continuing to focus just on low cost CPUs.
Wrong. Possibly intentionally.
Never a winning strategy, since not only did Intel have pockets deep enough to price match them anywhere they chose, they also had a 2-3 generation advantage in terms of process nodes.
Now we know you are lying.
Ultimately, AMD threw in the towel and sold off their fabs to Global Foundries.
AMD didnt sell their fabs. They spun off a new company. More proof that you are a liar, and the only motive here for lying is because you are a monopoly apologist that didnt mind getting fucked by Intel bribing companies to only sell their worse technology for higher prices.
And thats the problem right there. Public schools in a lot of places are not good, and they are only secular in that the religion they teach doesnt have a god.
Most of the country has access to more than two ISP's. Cable and DSL alone are almost everywhere population density isnt absurdly low. Cellular and satellite has even more availability, but is of course more expensive and/or has too much latency for things like multi-player gaming.
What happens is that in some very high population density areas the local governments have given Cable and DSL operators such strong unchallengeable monopolies that they never upgrade their services. Essentially those areas are stuck with bandwidths that were only average as much as a two decade ago. 1mbit DSL's and 3mbit DOCSIS's.
The complaints you see here are from people that dont even know which local government seat is responsible for granting the monopolies. They will cry for some national solution to their local problem instead taking even a moment to figure out which local politician needs to be voted out. A week or so ago I took a few such moments to post who the local politicians were in Seattle, a city that is almost 3000 miles away from me. It seems I care more than the complainers.
Also, as an assembly programmer, you actually know a LOT more about how computers work at the lowest level such as register types, MMUs and DMA etc.
I didnt need so may words to say it. 3 fucking words. "Know your architecture."
I don't think they teach that stuff even in CS degrees any more.
Are you sure that they ever did? Computer Science isnt a programming course.
Most junior programmers have been brainwashed to program as if computer resources are effectively infinite, and to also drag in whole libraries of crap just to do some simple task
I also come from the day when a library was a collection of modules where only modules your code depended on were brought into your binary. However these days everything depends on the monolith. When languages first started using monoliths in the late 80's and early 90's (circa the rise of RAD), it was the assembly language programmers that "hacked" it with stub libraries that tricked the linker into not including the whole thing, with thousands of symbols all pointing to the same address containing a single return instruction. This has nothing to do with experience ("junior") and everything to do with doing stuff that can only be done with a module produced by an assembler. In all other languages symbols arent just symbols.
A Democrat did that too, working closely with Unions and Corporations to keep workers working in spite of wage fixing.
It was at this moment that it stopped being real insurance and started being the bullshit "maintenance package" that we have today.
You know, health insurance originally covered shit like hospital stays completely. Thats what it was for. You paid a small fee now because you couldn't deal with the small but real risk of running into something you couldnt afford.
Fast forward to Obama, Pelosi, and Reid and in a joint move with insurance companies, "Major Medical" was outlawed. All insurance policies had to include the "maintenance" motivated by the fact that insurance companies made a lot of money on those plans and their higher premiums but not a lot of money on Major Medical plans and their lower premiums.
Today if you want a plan that covers all the worst cases the way Major Medical did, you probably couldnt afford it. Its basically the cost of both type of plans put together because one of them is now mandatory, the one that amazingly doesnt cover the worst cases.
Todays Democrats just dont understand what insurance is. They would rather you pay for a yearly physical whether you like it or not than for you to protect your house and life savings in the case of a major medical issue.
We know its what they would rather have, because thats what they demanded by writ of law.
It was largely an attempt to get everybody in America on a health care plan
It was only an attempt to do that if that was a likely outcome. It wasn't. The likely outcome was the working poor paying a tax penalty while still not having health insurance, which is what they are now doing.
It was predicted what would happen. The predictions came true. I guess you will say they were just "misguided" but leave out the fact that they were "misguided" by their biggest corporate donors, the insurance companies that benefited.
How can we put more money in the hands of the rich... while shitting on the group that voted us in.
Thats what the Democrats have been doing starting with Bill Clinton.
Sure, they tell platitudes like "we support the working class" and "everyone deserves an opportunity".. then they deregulate the few things that shouldnt be at the request of corporations, over-regulate the things that shouldn't be at the request of corporations, and their finale was to give "the working class" the "opportunity" to taste pure fascism by forcing them to buy insurance from a corporation that they can't afford.
When was the last time a Democrat politicians told you anything but platitudes? When was the last time you heard any sort of plan from them?
"we support the working class" - ok, what are you doing to support the working class? what plan do you have to make their lives better?
"everyone deserves an opportunity" - ok, what are you doing to give everyone a opportunity? what plan do you have to improve peoples opportunities?
They ran on the "single payer healthcare" platitude but gave us fascism.
Hillary spent over a billion dollars saying "I'm not Trump" instead of telling us what plan she had to achieve the platitudes.
The Democrats just got wiped out nation wide because of this, and they are doubling down on taking even more corporate money.
If you meant more easier understand assembly....bah maybe easier for us, old timers that grew up with it.
The thing is, assembler isn't hard. Whats "hard" is knowing the architecture so that your code is efficient, which is a different thing entirely. Back in the day it was all about instruction cycle counts (latency.) These days its about instruction throughput, which execution units will be used, knowing what memory will still be in the caches, and so forth. Know your architecture.
The real problem is that "you dont need to know assembler" because "compilers are better than assembler programmers" is just a bullshit (its not true) excuse for C++ programmers to feel better about not knowing jack shit about the architecture that they are targeting.
An assembly language was either the 1st or 2nd language for most of the best coders in the world today
If you only learn C, you are a one trick pony. If you add in C++ to your repertoire then now you are a two trick pony. Those guys that know assembler are infinity-trick pony's. It may take them a week or two to get up to speed with a new language, but when they do they will be great, and you wont have to hold their hand even while they are learning the new language.
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Just because your computer is 10000x faster than it was 10 years ago doesn't mean it will be 10000x faster 10 years from now.
I'd still bet on speed increases similar to past decades continuing for another.
Memory latencies alone could be increased by close to several orders of magnitude, and honestly that doesnt even require new technology... just current technology becoming cheaper and then applied to memory, which is inevitable.
Nobody is ready to remove the steering wheel and likely they never will be acceptably ready.
Even if the car never gets into an accident when driving autonomously, there will still be situations where the vehicle simply wont go when or where it should.
(and while we're at it properly fund education in this country so that we can both have these things _and_ make them accessible to people with disabilities
Pretty sure only a single country spends more per student than we do, and even they dont do so in higher eduction.
Meanwhile, bad regulations continue to fuck up everything. Some of those bad regulations have fucked up the cost of schooling.
In basic education its allowing public union to extort communities by holding their childrens educations hostage while allowing members of government to make contractual promises on far in the future matters to these unions and then not fund these promises immediately, instead promising to take money from future people, people that cant even vote yet, when the bill finally comes due.
I'm sure there will be some idiot that replies telling us the woes of low teacher wages and how little is actually spent in the classroom... but their idea is never to funnel more of vast amount of money we are already spending to the teachers and classrooms.. their idea is to throw even more money at it, because apparently the answer to inefficiency is more inefficiency. Thats how we got where we are. Decade after decade of my life its been the same problem. These idiots dont want to solve it because its not a virtue signal to do so.
It is a logical fallacy to generalize from this isolated case and imply that all regulations are bad.
No, the logical fallacy here is you deciding that if someone says a regulation is bad, that they are saying all regulations are bad.
The fact of the matter is that if you cant defend a regulation without resorting to this BULLSHIT fallacy, then its almost always a bad regulation.
But AMD never grabbed the initiative to build on their fab capabilities and manufacturing processes
Thanks to Intels monopolistic practices. They were convicted of it on multiple continents.
instead continuing to focus just on low cost CPUs.
Wrong. Possibly intentionally.
Never a winning strategy, since not only did Intel have pockets deep enough to price match them anywhere they chose, they also had a 2-3 generation advantage in terms of process nodes.
Now we know you are lying.
Ultimately, AMD threw in the towel and sold off their fabs to Global Foundries.
AMD didnt sell their fabs. They spun off a new company. More proof that you are a liar, and the only motive here for lying is because you are a monopoly apologist that didnt mind getting fucked by Intel bribing companies to only sell their worse technology for higher prices.
They get a good, secular education.
And thats the problem right there. Public schools in a lot of places are not good, and they are only secular in that the religion they teach doesnt have a god.
Go try an original Megaman and see how many enemies are "gone forever."
All of them. Each time its a new entity with not even a single bit of state dependent on what happened to the similar entity that died previously.
You "youngun's" that played the games that we wrote, not knowing anything about it, but pretending to.
Maybe the "AI"s were actually real people and the people were really "AI"s
Kill an enemy in a game its gone forever.
Die in a game and you always respawn.
Clearly the actual "happenings" within the movie indicate that the agents are real and the "humans" are A.I.
how ever there is a third party tool, iExplorer, that is wonderful.
Indeed, Apple has praised iExplorer for a long time. Since 1997 if my signature is to be believed.
Isnt that the guy that tried to kill his viewers with carbon dioxide?
Most of the country has access to more than two ISP's. Cable and DSL alone are almost everywhere population density isnt absurdly low. Cellular and satellite has even more availability, but is of course more expensive and/or has too much latency for things like multi-player gaming.
What happens is that in some very high population density areas the local governments have given Cable and DSL operators such strong unchallengeable monopolies that they never upgrade their services. Essentially those areas are stuck with bandwidths that were only average as much as a two decade ago. 1mbit DSL's and 3mbit DOCSIS's.
The complaints you see here are from people that dont even know which local government seat is responsible for granting the monopolies. They will cry for some national solution to their local problem instead taking even a moment to figure out which local politician needs to be voted out. A week or so ago I took a few such moments to post who the local politicians were in Seattle, a city that is almost 3000 miles away from me. It seems I care more than the complainers.
Even if someone can review 1,000 pictures a day facebook would have to hire 300,000 people to ensure none of the pictures posted are 'kiddie porn'
Why did you pull such a bad number out of your ass?
1000 is basically only 2 images per minute for an 8 hour work shift. If you worked for me I'd be looking into your productivity right now.
"Zero tolerance" laws are always, no exception, a bad idea.
I like to call them Zero Intelligence laws.
That would be fine if the U.K. government didnt often talk about mandating that all ISP's do censorship.
Its got its own wikipedia article
You should use your elite hacker skillz to adblock pandora and then sell your app for one hundred billion dollars bro.
Saver2
Not only does it remove ads from free-mode Pandora, it saves the mp3's for you as it plays.
Also works with some other music streaming services.
You are welcome, bro.
Also, as an assembly programmer, you actually know a LOT more about how computers work at the lowest level such as register types, MMUs and DMA etc.
I didnt need so may words to say it. 3 fucking words. "Know your architecture."
I don't think they teach that stuff even in CS degrees any more.
Are you sure that they ever did? Computer Science isnt a programming course.
Most junior programmers have been brainwashed to program as if computer resources are effectively infinite, and to also drag in whole libraries of crap just to do some simple task
I also come from the day when a library was a collection of modules where only modules your code depended on were brought into your binary. However these days everything depends on the monolith. When languages first started using monoliths in the late 80's and early 90's (circa the rise of RAD), it was the assembly language programmers that "hacked" it with stub libraries that tricked the linker into not including the whole thing, with thousands of symbols all pointing to the same address containing a single return instruction. This has nothing to do with experience ("junior") and everything to do with doing stuff that can only be done with a module produced by an assembler. In all other languages symbols arent just symbols.
Thus the life of all three people living at the address at the time is ruined. But you only focus on the male. Why?
Because the State only went after the man. Duh.
You dont seem to have an issue with this and thats your right. You have a right to be a complete statist dick to all men.
A Democrat did that too, working closely with Unions and Corporations to keep workers working in spite of wage fixing.
It was at this moment that it stopped being real insurance and started being the bullshit "maintenance package" that we have today.
You know, health insurance originally covered shit like hospital stays completely. Thats what it was for. You paid a small fee now because you couldn't deal with the small but real risk of running into something you couldnt afford.
Fast forward to Obama, Pelosi, and Reid and in a joint move with insurance companies, "Major Medical" was outlawed. All insurance policies had to include the "maintenance" motivated by the fact that insurance companies made a lot of money on those plans and their higher premiums but not a lot of money on Major Medical plans and their lower premiums.
Today if you want a plan that covers all the worst cases the way Major Medical did, you probably couldnt afford it. Its basically the cost of both type of plans put together because one of them is now mandatory, the one that amazingly doesnt cover the worst cases.
Todays Democrats just dont understand what insurance is. They would rather you pay for a yearly physical whether you like it or not than for you to protect your house and life savings in the case of a major medical issue.
We know its what they would rather have, because thats what they demanded by writ of law.
Thats why the Democrats just got wiped out.
It was largely an attempt to get everybody in America on a health care plan
It was only an attempt to do that if that was a likely outcome. It wasn't. The likely outcome was the working poor paying a tax penalty while still not having health insurance, which is what they are now doing.
It was predicted what would happen. The predictions came true. I guess you will say they were just "misguided" but leave out the fact that they were "misguided" by their biggest corporate donors, the insurance companies that benefited.
How can we put more money in the hands of the rich... while shitting on the group that voted us in.
Thats what the Democrats have been doing starting with Bill Clinton.
.. then they deregulate the few things that shouldnt be at the request of corporations, over-regulate the things that shouldn't be at the request of corporations, and their finale was to give "the working class" the "opportunity" to taste pure fascism by forcing them to buy insurance from a corporation that they can't afford.
Sure, they tell platitudes like "we support the working class" and "everyone deserves an opportunity"
When was the last time a Democrat politicians told you anything but platitudes? When was the last time you heard any sort of plan from them?
"we support the working class" - ok, what are you doing to support the working class? what plan do you have to make their lives better?
"everyone deserves an opportunity" - ok, what are you doing to give everyone a opportunity? what plan do you have to improve peoples opportunities?
They ran on the "single payer healthcare" platitude but gave us fascism.
Hillary spent over a billion dollars saying "I'm not Trump" instead of telling us what plan she had to achieve the platitudes.
The Democrats just got wiped out nation wide because of this, and they are doubling down on taking even more corporate money.
I know for a fact there is a way to slice the pie without a middle an taking most of it. Everyone but the Democrats know that.
I pay for other people's bullshit wars
Obama holds the record. 26,171 dropped in 2016 alone. So many that we ran out of bombs to drop on Syria
Typical Democrat blaming the Republicans for what the Democrats did.
The worst part seems to be something that nobody here noticed:
3 people lived in the home the IP address was "assigned" to. Only the man was arrested and had his life ruined.
If you meant more easier understand assembly....bah maybe easier for us, old timers that grew up with it.
The thing is, assembler isn't hard. Whats "hard" is knowing the architecture so that your code is efficient, which is a different thing entirely. Back in the day it was all about instruction cycle counts (latency.) These days its about instruction throughput, which execution units will be used, knowing what memory will still be in the caches, and so forth. Know your architecture.
The real problem is that "you dont need to know assembler" because "compilers are better than assembler programmers" is just a bullshit (its not true) excuse for C++ programmers to feel better about not knowing jack shit about the architecture that they are targeting.
An assembly language was either the 1st or 2nd language for most of the best coders in the world today
If you only learn C, you are a one trick pony. If you add in C++ to your repertoire then now you are a two trick pony. Those guys that know assembler are infinity-trick pony's. It may take them a week or two to get up to speed with a new language, but when they do they will be great, and you wont have to hold their hand even while they are learning the new language.