Being outcast to a mining colony on a barren planet where the very air is toxic and robots might turn against their masters. The only question before I book passage is whether I should buy the regular space suit or stump the extra cash for the one with a "ludicrous" 60 minutes of extra oxygen.
Double blind studies in medicine must pass an ethics test. I have already told you with a simple analogy why such a test with vaccinations would fail that test and the penny hasn't dropped. So no you are not right, you are merely thick. Here is a longer article explaining the point if my simple sentence wasn't obvious enough for you.
As for charts, the fall off in incidences of disease exactly correspond with the uptake in vaccination. As does the opposite, that when vaccination rates decline, outbreaks increase. Denying it is pathetic.
Shouldn't need to replace anything, just not mangle it in the first place. Assume that all text is potentially UTF-8 and life becomes a lot easier. In practice it hardly makes any difference to how code is treated providing you don't truncate text in the middle of a code point or make bad assumptions such as byte length == number of displayable characters. If it's getting mangled it is probably because a script or database is changing the character encoding somewhere along the line.
Er, there are graphs that demonstrate the immediate impact that vaccination has. And clearly you're a bit thick if you didn't get the point I made about double blind tests.
Assuming the story to be true, the answer to the anomaly is pretty obvious. The USA is sending a message - fuck around with us and we can fuck around with you. Of course Russia has GLONASS but I bet a lot of devices don't use it or prefer GPs.
I'm not sure Wakefield has admitted anything though I could be wrong. My understanding is he got struck off for massive conflicts of interest and has since been playing to the anti-vax crowd in the US attending various alt-health conferences. I read one amusing article on Popular Mechanics where he was a guest speaker on a conspiracy / woo cruise. He's clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel these days but still apparently unrepentant.
The evidence is the near eradication of various contagious diseases in countries that practice vaccination.
As for why there are no randomized, double blind trials, let's work through the ethics of that particular question. Split a village of children in two halves, administer a dummy vaccine to one half and an active vaccine to the other. Observe how many children from each group die as a result of disease. Oh....
A person in working in medicine has a professional obligation to "do no harm". In the case of nurses and midwives in Australia that means abiding by the codes of ethics, standards, duty of care that make up their profession. The very first line of the nurse's standards for practice says "Registered nurse (RN) practice is person-centred and evidence-based with preventative, curative, formative, supportive, restorative and palliative elements". Later sections emphasize critical thinking including using the best available evidence.
Any registered nurse / midwife promoting woo has instantly failed their own standards of practice. The can spout whatever bollocks they like outside of a medical profession. Inside of it, there are rules to follow.
Some parents might well believe that. Other parents might have concerns about vaccinations especially with all the misinformation going around. That is no excuse for registered nurses and midwives to promulgate woo or antivax nonsense. They are expected to offer sound advice based on best medical practice. If they can't do that, they do not deserve to hold their profession.
WTF is the point of spending years training to become a nurse / midwife if they just decide to ignore evidence of the efficacy of vaccination and promote woo? Anyone pushing antivax nonsense should be barred from practicing as a nurse or midwife. It should be that simple.
The "retarded point" is that by operating a server facilitating piracy and copyright theft on US soil he stands accused of committing a crime in that jurisdiction and therefore he faces extradition. Most countries will extradite if the crime committed in the other jurisdiction has a comparable offence and in their own. So it's up to the lawyers to persuade the courts that he could not be tried in for such an offence in Poland to stand any chance for the extradition to fail.
I'm reminded of the ads for the Nintendo Wii. They showed people swinging their Wii controller around like a samurai sword because of course playing Red Steel exactly like that.
This time they're trying to pretend that a bunch of dudes are all going to have a spontaneous party huddled around a 7" display. That isn't going to happen either.
You've answered your own question. A BluRay disc costs perhaps $1 to manufacture. It holds 50GB of content. Plus of course the likes of PS4 / XB1 come with HDDs that hold 500GB more for DLC, updates, cached content etc.
The cost of solid state media is so expensive that I would not be surprised if there is an incentive for games to use as little as possible, e.g. 2 or 4Gb. Tops. Aside from impacting on the game, it also encourages region encoding because there simply isn't space on the cartridge to support multiple locales.
We've also been down this road before. The Nintendo Switch is basically a glorified PS Vita / Playstation TV system - something which is portable but can play through a TV. The Vita used cartridges too. Most games were 2GB or less and I don't see much reason to think Nintendo are going to do anything different. It's also worth remembering that the Vita doomed itself to an early grave by using proprietary storage card format for downloads - people didn't like the carts but balked at forking out 4x as much as an SD card for downloads. I could easily see Nintendo's greed getting the better of them and going down the same proprietary route.
Actually I worked last year with one school that was successfully doing this. You don't really want switched-on smart phones in class, anyway, so you're obliged to hook the micro:bit to a 'computer' (of some kind), as with the Arduino if you want to do any programming.
You're not obliged to hook up the micro:bit to a computer. As I said it can be a smartphone, tablet or computer. It presents a range of options both for classwork and homework that aren't there for the Pi. When they go home they can make use of what's available, be it a phone, tablet or computer. At the school they could use tablets or computers.
Objectively, setting up a Pi is way more effort in almost every way.
As for Microsoft, yes they got a look-in but so what? Kids program in a Scratch-a-like or in Javascript. The development tools run on pretty much on any mobile device or computer. I don't think Microsoft are being especially nefarious.
Knowing Nintendo's penchant for bullshit gimmicks, it's probably just a small WiiU style controller that you can play a miniature or portable version of the game on without connection to the real console. i.e. games will play on the console but upload a companion game to the controller. Probably under the covers it's just using 3DS parts. Maybe it can even play 3DS games. I'm not expecting anything radical or innovative.
I do a certain amount of school volunteering and this is another thing that fragments attention and class time. I would have preferred full-fat pupil owned Raspberry Pis for example, a little more expensive but an order of magnitude more capable. Still the BBC is a law unto itself.
And a magnitude more of a pain in the ass to set up. To use this Pi, the pupil would require - a monitor or TV, an HDMI cable, a USB mouse & keyboard, a network connection or wifi dongle, a PSU, a charger, an SD card, and a very patient teacher and set of parents capable of setting this all up and transferring files for grading and exercises.
The micro:bit needs a usb cable. It can be programmed with a smart phone, tablet or a computer. You don't even need to use a physical micro bit in because the software has an emulator. The student's work can be stored in the cloud so the teacher can review and mark pupil's work from a single screen.
Frankly I don't understand why the micro:bit provokes these knee jerk reactions. Pupils who start on this device will naturally progress to the like of the Pi as their skills and knowledge increase. It's not an either / or situation.
Forking the extra $100 marks you as a sucker. Apple deliberately gimped the entry level model just so they could advertise a $649 while knowing that most people would buy the middle model. That despite the difference in cost to Apple being marginal. I would be surprised if their production costs were even $20 more for the 128GB version.
Word of advice - DO NOT accept invites from any recruitment firm or agency. They'll do some dumb search for a skill on a word like "java" and spam every result without mercy. Doesn't matter if you expressed any interest in the job, or even if it's in the same country as you. If you have more than one link to agents you can enjoy multiple spams about the same job. Unlink and make them use one of their precious inmails to make contact. At least then it shows a modicum of effort. My advice is to ignore that too.
The entire service is a fucking cattle market. Unless you're desperate for a job and cannot possibly find it some other way (e.g. Monster or direct to a firm), it serves no purpose.
The lack of generics does seem a bit weak. I've read a few articles trying to work around lack of generics and some of the suggestions are borderline comical - one suggested way was to copy and paste the same code around a bit. Another was to write a script which machine generates code from a template.
Personally I think Rust does generics pretty well. A generic function or struct takes one or more type args which are supplied at compile time. The generic normally enforces the types it will accept based on the traits they implement. The compiler gives meaningful errors too instead of an incoherent wall of screed that C++ outputs when some heavily nested inline code breaks using the type it was expanding to use.
I expect Go could do something similar except of course using interfaces instead of traits as the gatekeeper.
It's just not clear what problem Go solves better than any alternative. If you want highest performance and lots of big team software engineering support, you go with C++.
Yes and then you suffer all the problems that go with developing in C++ - cross platform issues, arcane build systems, differences in compilers, dangerous language idioms, higher risk of problems like dangling pointers, memory leaks etc. And naturally you'll probably have to link to a bunch of 3rd party libs (and wrangle all their arcane build systems) because useful real-world stuff like networking, crypto, compression and similar functionality is left out of standard libs.
Unless speed is absolutely critical some applications might prefer to trade raw performance for safer more concise code.
And if you did need speed then these days there are alternatives to C++ too - Rust for example prevents all kinds of programming errors that C++ wouldn't even bat an eyelid at. And it would do it without compromising on runtime performance.
If you need managed memory and access to the copious supply of 2 year diploma programmers and don't mind throwing a bit more hardware at your problem you go with Java. If you need to churn out web2 sites as fast as possible then Node or Python. It's just not clear where the demand for Go is supposed to come from. From where I sit, Go is just another pretender to the Java throne, not any less bland than the incumbent and decades late to the party.
Go can be compiled into a standalone executable. You don't need a VM or runtime to go with the binary. It occupies a middle ground between C++ (fast and dangerous) and Java (reliable but high runtime overhead). It's certainly not the fastest language in the world but tools like Docker, InfluxDB and Prometheus are written in Go and are cross platform and very reliable.
KDE has had a basically-Windows-plus-the-kitchen-sink-look-and-feel almost from the beginning. While Microsoft had the money to employ usability testers and developers to rein-in the UI and make it mostly usable, KDE just threw everything in there. The UI was so cluttered with menus, dialogs and every damned setting under the sun it was a usability nightmare. It's not surprising that GNOME stole a lead and hasn't really relinquished it even with GNOME 3.
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Being outcast to a mining colony on a barren planet where the very air is toxic and robots might turn against their masters. The only question before I book passage is whether I should buy the regular space suit or stump the extra cash for the one with a "ludicrous" 60 minutes of extra oxygen.
As for charts, the fall off in incidences of disease exactly correspond with the uptake in vaccination. As does the opposite, that when vaccination rates decline, outbreaks increase. Denying it is pathetic.
Shouldn't need to replace anything, just not mangle it in the first place. Assume that all text is potentially UTF-8 and life becomes a lot easier. In practice it hardly makes any difference to how code is treated providing you don't truncate text in the middle of a code point or make bad assumptions such as byte length == number of displayable characters. If it's getting mangled it is probably because a script or database is changing the character encoding somewhere along the line.
Er, there are graphs that demonstrate the immediate impact that vaccination has. And clearly you're a bit thick if you didn't get the point I made about double blind tests.
Assuming the story to be true, the answer to the anomaly is pretty obvious. The USA is sending a message - fuck around with us and we can fuck around with you. Of course Russia has GLONASS but I bet a lot of devices don't use it or prefer GPs.
You merely want to prove a negative to the satisfaction of some weasel term "safe and effective". Nice goal post shifting.
I'm not sure Wakefield has admitted anything though I could be wrong. My understanding is he got struck off for massive conflicts of interest and has since been playing to the anti-vax crowd in the US attending various alt-health conferences. I read one amusing article on Popular Mechanics where he was a guest speaker on a conspiracy / woo cruise. He's clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel these days but still apparently unrepentant.
As for why there are no randomized, double blind trials, let's work through the ethics of that particular question. Split a village of children in two halves, administer a dummy vaccine to one half and an active vaccine to the other. Observe how many children from each group die as a result of disease. Oh....
A person in working in medicine has a professional obligation to "do no harm". In the case of nurses and midwives in Australia that means abiding by the codes of ethics, standards, duty of care that make up their profession. The very first line of the nurse's standards for practice says "Registered nurse (RN) practice is person-centred and evidence-based with preventative, curative, formative, supportive, restorative and palliative elements". Later sections emphasize critical thinking including using the best available evidence.
Any registered nurse / midwife promoting woo has instantly failed their own standards of practice. The can spout whatever bollocks they like outside of a medical profession. Inside of it, there are rules to follow.
Some parents might well believe that. Other parents might have concerns about vaccinations especially with all the misinformation going around. That is no excuse for registered nurses and midwives to promulgate woo or antivax nonsense. They are expected to offer sound advice based on best medical practice. If they can't do that, they do not deserve to hold their profession.
WTF is the point of spending years training to become a nurse / midwife if they just decide to ignore evidence of the efficacy of vaccination and promote woo? Anyone pushing antivax nonsense should be barred from practicing as a nurse or midwife. It should be that simple.
The "retarded point" is that by operating a server facilitating piracy and copyright theft on US soil he stands accused of committing a crime in that jurisdiction and therefore he faces extradition. Most countries will extradite if the crime committed in the other jurisdiction has a comparable offence and in their own. So it's up to the lawyers to persuade the courts that he could not be tried in for such an offence in Poland to stand any chance for the extradition to fail.
This time they're trying to pretend that a bunch of dudes are all going to have a spontaneous party huddled around a 7" display. That isn't going to happen either.
The cost of solid state media is so expensive that I would not be surprised if there is an incentive for games to use as little as possible, e.g. 2 or 4Gb. Tops. Aside from impacting on the game, it also encourages region encoding because there simply isn't space on the cartridge to support multiple locales.
We've also been down this road before. The Nintendo Switch is basically a glorified PS Vita / Playstation TV system - something which is portable but can play through a TV. The Vita used cartridges too. Most games were 2GB or less and I don't see much reason to think Nintendo are going to do anything different. It's also worth remembering that the Vita doomed itself to an early grave by using proprietary storage card format for downloads - people didn't like the carts but balked at forking out 4x as much as an SD card for downloads. I could easily see Nintendo's greed getting the better of them and going down the same proprietary route.
Actually I worked last year with one school that was successfully doing this. You don't really want switched-on smart phones in class, anyway, so you're obliged to hook the micro:bit to a 'computer' (of some kind), as with the Arduino if you want to do any programming.
You're not obliged to hook up the micro:bit to a computer. As I said it can be a smartphone, tablet or computer. It presents a range of options both for classwork and homework that aren't there for the Pi. When they go home they can make use of what's available, be it a phone, tablet or computer. At the school they could use tablets or computers.
Objectively, setting up a Pi is way more effort in almost every way.
As for Microsoft, yes they got a look-in but so what? Kids program in a Scratch-a-like or in Javascript. The development tools run on pretty much on any mobile device or computer. I don't think Microsoft are being especially nefarious.
Got any more non sequiturs you wish to share?
Knowing Nintendo's penchant for bullshit gimmicks, it's probably just a small WiiU style controller that you can play a miniature or portable version of the game on without connection to the real console. i.e. games will play on the console but upload a companion game to the controller. Probably under the covers it's just using 3DS parts. Maybe it can even play 3DS games. I'm not expecting anything radical or innovative.
I do a certain amount of school volunteering and this is another thing that fragments attention and class time. I would have preferred full-fat pupil owned Raspberry Pis for example, a little more expensive but an order of magnitude more capable. Still the BBC is a law unto itself.
And a magnitude more of a pain in the ass to set up. To use this Pi, the pupil would require - a monitor or TV, an HDMI cable, a USB mouse & keyboard, a network connection or wifi dongle, a PSU, a charger, an SD card, and a very patient teacher and set of parents capable of setting this all up and transferring files for grading and exercises.
The micro:bit needs a usb cable. It can be programmed with a smart phone, tablet or a computer. You don't even need to use a physical micro bit in because the software has an emulator. The student's work can be stored in the cloud so the teacher can review and mark pupil's work from a single screen.
Frankly I don't understand why the micro:bit provokes these knee jerk reactions. Pupils who start on this device will naturally progress to the like of the Pi as their skills and knowledge increase. It's not an either / or situation.
Forking the extra $100 marks you as a sucker. Apple deliberately gimped the entry level model just so they could advertise a $649 while knowing that most people would buy the middle model. That despite the difference in cost to Apple being marginal. I would be surprised if their production costs were even $20 more for the 128GB version.
The entire service is a fucking cattle market. Unless you're desperate for a job and cannot possibly find it some other way (e.g. Monster or direct to a firm), it serves no purpose.
Why use any framework when a lot of these fundamental libraries only exist to paper over the cracks in JavaScript. Fix JavaScript.
Personally I think Rust does generics pretty well. A generic function or struct takes one or more type args which are supplied at compile time. The generic normally enforces the types it will accept based on the traits they implement. The compiler gives meaningful errors too instead of an incoherent wall of screed that C++ outputs when some heavily nested inline code breaks using the type it was expanding to use.
I expect Go could do something similar except of course using interfaces instead of traits as the gatekeeper.
It's just not clear what problem Go solves better than any alternative. If you want highest performance and lots of big team software engineering support, you go with C++.
Yes and then you suffer all the problems that go with developing in C++ - cross platform issues, arcane build systems, differences in compilers, dangerous language idioms, higher risk of problems like dangling pointers, memory leaks etc. And naturally you'll probably have to link to a bunch of 3rd party libs (and wrangle all their arcane build systems) because useful real-world stuff like networking, crypto, compression and similar functionality is left out of standard libs.
Unless speed is absolutely critical some applications might prefer to trade raw performance for safer more concise code.
And if you did need speed then these days there are alternatives to C++ too - Rust for example prevents all kinds of programming errors that C++ wouldn't even bat an eyelid at. And it would do it without compromising on runtime performance.
If you need managed memory and access to the copious supply of 2 year diploma programmers and don't mind throwing a bit more hardware at your problem you go with Java. If you need to churn out web2 sites as fast as possible then Node or Python. It's just not clear where the demand for Go is supposed to come from. From where I sit, Go is just another pretender to the Java throne, not any less bland than the incumbent and decades late to the party.
Go can be compiled into a standalone executable. You don't need a VM or runtime to go with the binary. It occupies a middle ground between C++ (fast and dangerous) and Java (reliable but high runtime overhead). It's certainly not the fastest language in the world but tools like Docker, InfluxDB and Prometheus are written in Go and are cross platform and very reliable.
It's safer and easier to use than C or C++ and it produces compiled executables.
KDE has had a basically-Windows-plus-the-kitchen-sink-look-and-feel almost from the beginning. While Microsoft had the money to employ usability testers and developers to rein-in the UI and make it mostly usable, KDE just threw everything in there. The UI was so cluttered with menus, dialogs and every damned setting under the sun it was a usability nightmare. It's not surprising that GNOME stole a lead and hasn't really relinquished it even with GNOME 3.