The idea is that in other languages, if-then-else is a built-in construct. You can't do something similar yourself without hacking the compiler. In Tao3D, if-then-else is a library element like printf in C. So you can change it.
Let's say you often use a specific kind of for loop. In Tao3D, you simply add the notation you need, and now your code is shorter and more concise.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a fucking terrible idea? It's a recipe for obfuscated, unmaintainable code.
Dear Programmers: Quit filling your code with goddamn macros. Use the language as implemented, so everybody else can figure out what the fuck you're doing.
University officials say they have no plans to interfere with the event. “Free speech is at the heart of academic freedom and is something we take very seriously,” said Kent Cassella, MSU’s associate vice president for communications, in a statement. “Any group, regardless of viewpoint, has the right to assemble in public areas of campus or petition for space to host an event so long as it does not engage in disorderly conduct or violate rules. While MSU is not a sponsor of the creation summit, MSU is a marketplace of free ideas.”
The university is going to let the crackpots say whatever they like, and then ignore them. Which is as it should be.
It really boggles my mind that the guys studying this stuff haven't come to the conclusion that the matter "missing from universe" that they are trying to associate with Dark Matter is more than likely brown dwarfs or dense material with just can't detect yet from super nova explosions. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Yeah. All those smarty-pants scientists completely missed this.
Or it could be that brown-dwarf dark matter is inconsistent with what we know about primordial nucleosynthesis, plus it was searched for by gravitational microlensing experiments, and wasn't found.
In the void between galaxies particles and anti-particles are created as they cross the planck barrier as wave forms. In most cases they annihilate each other. However there are slightly more anti-particles created. These anti-particles have a negative mass and repel most normal particles. Thus the space between galaxies is filled with anti-particles that force the galaxies into areas and account for the missing mass, the unexplained reason that the galaxies remain together, and the reason that the galaxies are moving apart at accelerated speeds.:P
Fine. Now please get back to us after you quantitatively calculate how this affects gravitational lensing by galaxies and clusters, and Cosmic Microwave Background acoustic oscillations. Also, we'll need a prediction for the two-point correlation function of galaxies, compared to the Sloan Digital Sky survey. If you want anybody to take you seriously, you will have to do these things at a minimum. The data are public.
In particular, it is like the Luminiferous Aether because it is a hastily invented answer to something we've observed when the problem is we don't properly understand the question.
Maybe. Maybe not. You seem awfully certain you understand what it isn't even though you don't appear to understand what it is.
It's cheap and easy to be dismissive without providing a viable alternative.
IANAP but wouldn't you phrase this somewhat differently?
Why should he phrase it differently? There is a huge amount of evidence. As in, multiple, independent measurements that all point in exactly the same direction:
It's okay for a school to spend extra time and money on slow students, but getting extra resources for top performers is discrimination.
Please substantiate this claim. There are lots of allegations out there of gifted programs in schools being applied in discriminatory ways (i.e. disproportionately available to white, upper-income students), but I can't find a single example of a gifted/talented program being shut down or even criticized because its existence was considered discriminatory against the non-gifted.
Compulsory public education is a mass violation of individual rights (those of the students compelled to attend).
It's finally happened: whackjob libertarians have come full circle and are nicely in alignment with the Taliban.
Education is a civil right, which is why girls in fundamentalist Muslim societies are risking their lives to access it. Compulsory education doesn't violate children's civil rights, it ensures those rights, even if it is parents who want to deprive their own children of the right to an education. You have a right to be an ignorant asshole if you like. You do not have the right to force your own ignorance onto your children.
So, you are not allowed to do something central to most human behavior in the place you spend most of your awake-time at? That does make a lot of sense.
If she was modestly dressed, no guy would be staring at her tits like that. The only case they would stare is if she was wearing a low cut shirt that DRAWS ATTENTION TO HER TITS (and don't tell me there's any other reason for her to be wearing that). Same as when men go shirtless, before you call me sexist. If you're INVITING ATTENTION, DONT COMPLAIN WHEN YOU GET IT.
How about this: women (and men) get to wear whatever they like. And men (and women) are allowed to look at each other (in public, not talking about peeping toms here) as much as they like. It's your body, you get to put what you want on it. They're my eyeballs, I get to point them whatever direction I want.
Here's a quiz:
Q: An attractive young woman at your workplace tells you to quit staring at her like that, because it makes her uncomfortable. What is the correct response?
(a) Continue to stare at her tits until she complains to the boss and you get fired.
(b) Sulk back to your cube and post to the internet about how she deserved it because she was dressed like a whore.
(c) Spread rumors that she's been sleeping with one of her clients.
(d) Make a sincere effort to understand her point of view and treat her like a human being instead of a piece of meat.
Only one answer fully qualifies you as a human being instead of an entitled man-child who needs a good slap upside the head.
Its the feminist definition. They can go around dressed like whores, but if you dare look and make them even the slightest bit uncomfortable, that's harrasment.
And I guess you're the person who gets to decide what's "dressing like a whore" and what isn't, right? Because what the world truly needs is you telling women how they are and are not allowed to dress.
The definition of harassment, at least where I live, is "unwanted sexual advances", meaning the distinction between flirting and harassment is purely based on subjective experience. Good luck trying to find a girlfriend without "harassing" anyone!
Here's a hint: don't do it at work. Definitely don't do it at work if you are in a position of authority over the recipient.
Kate Greene, who wrote the linked article, took part in the first HI-SEAS experiment in Martian-style living, and has some compelling reasons for an all-women crew, energy efficiency chief among them:
Week in and week out, the three female crew members expended less than half the calories of the three male crew members.
Also, they stopped an asked for directions when they got lost.
Historically university posts were open to people with a BA (e.g. John Wesley and John Newman at Oxford in the 18th and 19th century) That it now takes a PhD and post doctoral work to get the same post means that we are training too many. Therefore the only solution is to row back on the PhDs being generated; given that governments are looking for money saving measures, this would seem an obvious starting point.
That's a really wonderful idea, except that the universities who train those PhDs have a huge financial incentive to crank them out in the highest volume possible. Try saying, "Fromunda Science has too many PhDs and not enough jobs, so we should accept fewer grad students into our PhD program" to a Dean or a Provost. They don't want to hear it.
If they had to pay their own way, the number of PhD students would drop tremendously and all the postdocs would leave to get jobs in the real world. Problem solved!
... aaaand, watch all the basic science they do dry up and blow away.
It's really easy to type on the internet on your transistor-based computational thing with the flashing blue LEDs and pass judgement on lazy academics who are of no use to society, isn't it?
losing Debian too was a hard blow, and it's understandable that systemd opponents are feeling a sense of desperation.
Really? You get "a sense of desperation" about a piece of software being different than you would like it to be? And you think this is a normal emotional reaction for a well-adjusted person?
I'm sick and tired of getting feminism shoved down my throat absolutely everywhere.
You mean just like women are sick and tired of old white men telling them when and how they can access birth control, abortion, child care, and job opportunities? I'm sure they feel really sorry for you.
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The idea is that in other languages, if-then-else is a built-in construct. You can't do something similar yourself without hacking the compiler. In Tao3D, if-then-else is a library element like printf in C. So you can change it.
Let's say you often use a specific kind of for loop. In Tao3D, you simply add the notation you need, and now your code is shorter and more concise.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a fucking terrible idea? It's a recipe for obfuscated, unmaintainable code.
Dear Programmers: Quit filling your code with goddamn macros. Use the language as implemented, so everybody else can figure out what the fuck you're doing.
Thank you.
As in the kind of setback that could put them out of business entirely. This isn't a cargo ship.
"Science is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." -- Werner von Braun
From TFA:
University officials say they have no plans to interfere with the event. “Free speech is at the heart of academic freedom and is something we take very seriously,” said Kent Cassella, MSU’s associate vice president for communications, in a statement. “Any group, regardless of viewpoint, has the right to assemble in public areas of campus or petition for space to host an event so long as it does not engage in disorderly conduct or violate rules. While MSU is not a sponsor of the creation summit, MSU is a marketplace of free ideas.”
The university is going to let the crackpots say whatever they like, and then ignore them. Which is as it should be.
It really boggles my mind that the guys studying this stuff haven't come to the conclusion that the matter "missing from universe" that they are trying to associate with Dark Matter is more than likely brown dwarfs or dense material with just can't detect yet from super nova explosions. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Yeah. All those smarty-pants scientists completely missed this.
Or it could be that brown-dwarf dark matter is inconsistent with what we know about primordial nucleosynthesis, plus it was searched for by gravitational microlensing experiments, and wasn't found.
Ok, Ill suggest a better theory.
In the void between galaxies particles and anti-particles are created as they cross the planck barrier as wave forms. In most cases they annihilate each other. However there are slightly more anti-particles created. These anti-particles have a negative mass and repel most normal particles. Thus the space between galaxies is filled with anti-particles that force the galaxies into areas and account for the missing mass, the unexplained reason that the galaxies remain together, and the reason that the galaxies are moving apart at accelerated speeds. :P
Fine. Now please get back to us after you quantitatively calculate how this affects gravitational lensing by galaxies and clusters, and Cosmic Microwave Background acoustic oscillations. Also, we'll need a prediction for the two-point correlation function of galaxies, compared to the Sloan Digital Sky survey. If you want anybody to take you seriously, you will have to do these things at a minimum. The data are public.
It's easier to believe GR is wrong, than to believe there is magical dark matter.
The hard part is coming up with a theory that replaces GR. Simply asserting that GR is wrong is of no use to anybody.
In particular, it is like the Luminiferous Aether because it is a hastily invented answer to something we've observed when the problem is we don't properly understand the question.
Maybe. Maybe not. You seem awfully certain you understand what it isn't even though you don't appear to understand what it is.
It's cheap and easy to be dismissive without providing a viable alternative.
IANAP but wouldn't you phrase this somewhat differently?
Why should he phrase it differently? There is a huge amount of evidence. As in, multiple, independent measurements that all point in exactly the same direction:
- Galactic rotation curves
- Gravitational lensing
- Cosmic Microwave Background acoustic oscillations
- Cluster baryon fractions from X-ray measurements
- Large-scale structure
All of these things require something like dark matter to make any sense at all.
It's okay for a school to spend extra time and money on slow students, but getting extra resources for top performers is discrimination.
Please substantiate this claim. There are lots of allegations out there of gifted programs in schools being applied in discriminatory ways (i.e. disproportionately available to white, upper-income students), but I can't find a single example of a gifted/talented program being shut down or even criticized because its existence was considered discriminatory against the non-gifted.
Compulsory public education is a mass violation of individual rights (those of the students compelled to attend).
It's finally happened: whackjob libertarians have come full circle and are nicely in alignment with the Taliban.
Education is a civil right, which is why girls in fundamentalist Muslim societies are risking their lives to access it. Compulsory education doesn't violate children's civil rights, it ensures those rights, even if it is parents who want to deprive their own children of the right to an education. You have a right to be an ignorant asshole if you like. You do not have the right to force your own ignorance onto your children.
So, you are not allowed to do something central to most human behavior in the place you spend most of your awake-time at? That does make a lot of sense.
You're not allowed to crap on your desk, either.
How was she dressed? How was she behaving? What does "like that" mean?
If somebody asks you to stop doing something that makes them uncomfortable, the polite thing to do is stop doing it. It's pretty fucking simple.
If she was modestly dressed, no guy would be staring at her tits like that. The only case they would stare is if she was wearing a low cut shirt that DRAWS ATTENTION TO HER TITS (and don't tell me there's any other reason for her to be wearing that). Same as when men go shirtless, before you call me sexist. If you're INVITING ATTENTION, DONT COMPLAIN WHEN YOU GET IT.
Ah, ok. You pick "(b)" then.
How about this: women (and men) get to wear whatever they like. And men (and women) are allowed to look at each other (in public, not talking about peeping toms here) as much as they like. It's your body, you get to put what you want on it. They're my eyeballs, I get to point them whatever direction I want.
Here's a quiz:
Q: An attractive young woman at your workplace tells you to quit staring at her like that, because it makes her uncomfortable. What is the correct response?
(a) Continue to stare at her tits until she complains to the boss and you get fired.
(b) Sulk back to your cube and post to the internet about how she deserved it because she was dressed like a whore.
(c) Spread rumors that she's been sleeping with one of her clients.
(d) Make a sincere effort to understand her point of view and treat her like a human being instead of a piece of meat.
Only one answer fully qualifies you as a human being instead of an entitled man-child who needs a good slap upside the head.
Its the feminist definition. They can go around dressed like whores, but if you dare look and make them even the slightest bit uncomfortable, that's harrasment.
And I guess you're the person who gets to decide what's "dressing like a whore" and what isn't, right? Because what the world truly needs is you telling women how they are and are not allowed to dress.
The definition of harassment, at least where I live, is "unwanted sexual advances", meaning the distinction between flirting and harassment is purely based on subjective experience. Good luck trying to find a girlfriend without "harassing" anyone!
Here's a hint: don't do it at work. Definitely don't do it at work if you are in a position of authority over the recipient.
See? It wasn't that hard, was it?
Kate Greene, who wrote the linked article, took part in the first HI-SEAS experiment in Martian-style living, and has some compelling reasons for an all-women crew, energy efficiency chief among them:
Week in and week out, the three female crew members expended less than half the calories of the three male crew members.
Also, they stopped an asked for directions when they got lost.
Python has obsolesced Matlab. There are even Matlab to Python cross-compilers and packages that allow Matlab to work like a Python library.
in some places they have customs like washing the body of the deceased, then having the wife drink the water to prove she didn't try to kill him.
OK. My bullshit detector is on 10. This one needs a reference of some sort.
As long as I can still run vi in it, I'm good.
Historically university posts were open to people with a BA (e.g. John Wesley and John Newman at Oxford in the 18th and 19th century) That it now takes a PhD and post doctoral work to get the same post means that we are training too many. Therefore the only solution is to row back on the PhDs being generated; given that governments are looking for money saving measures, this would seem an obvious starting point.
That's a really wonderful idea, except that the universities who train those PhDs have a huge financial incentive to crank them out in the highest volume possible. Try saying, "Fromunda Science has too many PhDs and not enough jobs, so we should accept fewer grad students into our PhD program" to a Dean or a Provost. They don't want to hear it.
If they had to pay their own way, the number of PhD students would drop tremendously and all the postdocs would leave to get jobs in the real world. Problem solved!
... aaaand, watch all the basic science they do dry up and blow away.
It's really easy to type on the internet on your transistor-based computational thing with the flashing blue LEDs and pass judgement on lazy academics who are of no use to society, isn't it?
losing Debian too was a hard blow, and it's understandable that systemd opponents are feeling a sense of desperation.
Really? You get "a sense of desperation" about a piece of software being different than you would like it to be? And you think this is a normal emotional reaction for a well-adjusted person?
I'm sick and tired of getting feminism shoved down my throat absolutely everywhere.
You mean just like women are sick and tired of old white men telling them when and how they can access birth control, abortion, child care, and job opportunities? I'm sure they feel really sorry for you.