Self-driving cars are expensive to design and produce, but given what they do, people will be willing to pay 100K for one. That makes the economics of self-driving cars work. Dish washing robots will also be very expensive to design and produce, but who would pay even $50K or $25K for one of those? It's all about the money.
However, if you make a one-line change, it's not going to store new copies of every file in the repository. It only stores a new and old copy of the one file that changed.
The argument you are making is known as a "straw man." No, of course I don't want Big Brother using any old excuse to investigate anything and everything and get everyone put in jail. But in our actual legal system, there are restraints placed on what evidence can be used at trial. We have a system of checks and balances, that prevent most rampant abuse of the judicial system. If a police officer pulls you over for speeding, he still can't search your car, unless he has probable cause to do so. If he does it anyway, the evidence can't be used at trial, even if it is damning. If they unlock this killer's phone, they still can't go after the farmer and his fertilizer unless they can get a judge to agree that the farmer might actually have been intending to build a bomb.
If your fears were warranted, and we are all (but 2%) guilty of major crimes, and police did use the tactics you describe to put people away, we would in fact all be in jail by now. The reality is only about 0.7% of us are actually in jail.
No, our system isn't perfect. It's SUPPOSED to be hard for police to get a conviction, but it's NOT supposed to be impossible.
But when confronted with the notion that a person just might have had an accomplice i don't think warrants or arrests are in order
On this point, I strongly disagree. If some guy just killed all my family members and friends, and he had another guy help him do it (even if the second person didn't actually pull the trigger), I want justice for both, not just the trigger person.
Yes, there certainly is potential for abuse. But you don't take away a tool just because it might be abused. In that case, there would be no tools at all. Instead, you go after the abusers.
Robots have been taking over ever since the industrial revolution began.
Initially, it was mechanical robots in the form of factory machines, which allowed one person to do the work that used to require dozens or hundreds. The Gutenberg moveable type press allowed a single worker to replace dozens of printing plate carvers, for example.
Each generation of new robots has gotten more and more sophisticated. Farm equipment like combines each replaced many workers. Factories themselves became automated.
The only difference now is that these "robots" are smarter and can do things like take inventory at Walmart stores--a job that humans really don't do all that well, as evidenced by constant issues with empty shelves and racks.
Somehow, through the centuries, as robots took over more and more of our jobs, we managed to find new jobs to keep us busy. I'm pretty sure we will continue to adapt and find new jobs to do.
I don't know if the new Firefox is faster. But I don't care. It's now, finally, fast enough to be usable!
Previous versions struggled just to scroll down a Web page. This new version is fast enough that I can't really tell a performance difference between it and Chrome. That means that it's now a viable option for me. And I LOVE that it can block auto-play videos!
There is no denying that tech salaries are high. Any decent programmer can make well over 100k a year.
This is classic supply and demand. When demand outstrips supply, prices go up. When demand is less than supply, prices go down. It follows, then, that there is indeed a talent gap, indicating that there is more demand for programming talent than there is supply.
This is not a bad thing, many of us benefit from the good pay that results. But let's not pretend that there are more than enough "good" programmers to go around!
I had used only Chrome for quite a few years. Firefox was just too slow. It struggled with simple tasks like scrolling down the page.
But in the last couple of months, two important things happened: - Firefox started working on performance, bringing it in line with Chrome's performance - Firefox added the ability to block auto-play video. *That* won me over.
I'm not totally on Firefox yet, but I'm more and more a fan.
Hmmm...well, you'd better not stay in your house then either, because plenty of people get shot in their homes, too. Probably a lot more than get shot in a Walmart.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Getting people to use a new idea is the hard part.
The problem with a "successor" to C (whatever that means) is not that such languages don't exist. It's that developers need to work in a community. Every part of the community has different needs, so what this guy comes up with won't work for a wide spectrum of developers. This means that many others have to buy in, provide components, provide hardware support, etc.
The language has never been the problem with finding programming language nirvana. The problem is adoption.
You might be right. But assertions without evidence fall into a category of ideas called "faith." You can have faith in God, or you can have faith that there is not a God. Either way, you are taking your belief on faith.
I get the issues involved, the desire of many in the open source community to require users of open source software to make their own software also open. Still, I find it ironic that the open source community is worried about what people might do with open source software after the author dies. If it were truly open, one would think that they would be happy that the source code now continues to be free for anyone to use or modify!
Assuming that the developer did not explicitly designate succession plans, and that the developer's heirs don't have an interest in the project, the code becomes abandoned property. The law in most countries recognizes abandoned property as available to anyone who wants it, whether that is physical property or virtual. For example, if you take a refrigerator out to the curb for trash pickup, anyone who wants it is free to take it and use it however they want to. If software is abandoned, it would legally fall under the same principle.
Not for gaming. There are a lot of popular games out there that won't run, or won't run well, on Macbook Pro / Bootcamp. For one thing, Mac hardware is not as powerful as a Windows gaming machine.
You can stop using GMail, but you'll probably still want to exchange emails with others who do use GMail, so Google still gets to read a significant percentage of your emails. You can't tell by the domain name either, since there are many domains that route their email through GMail.
You can stop using Google Search, but you'll still end up on a site that hosts Google ads, and therefore sends Google your browsing info. You can turn off javascript, but it doesn't matter, Google ads don't need javascript to track you. Even ad blockers won't help, because many sites willingly send Google your data in the name of analytics.
You can stop using Chrome, but the above tracking methods don't require Chrome.
You can reduce your exposure somewhat, but not by all that much. And if it's not Google you're sending your data to, it's probably Microsoft or Apple.
This reminds me of how companies have been flocking to data warehousing during the past few years. They all want it. They don't know why they want it, but they've heard it's powerful, and that means they have to have it. Meanwhile, many of those same companies haven't really mastered the fundamentals of their relational databases.
The result of this hype is that anybody who can convince a clueless hiring manager that they know something about AI...can get hired for exorbitant amounts of money.
Yes, AI is good for many things. Companies like Apple and Google and IBM are putting it to good use. But many companies are just jumping on the bandwagon. Like all bubbles, this one will burst at some point.
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Self-driving cars are expensive to design and produce, but given what they do, people will be willing to pay 100K for one. That makes the economics of self-driving cars work. Dish washing robots will also be very expensive to design and produce, but who would pay even $50K or $25K for one of those? It's all about the money.
It's true that git stores snapshots.
However, if you make a one-line change, it's not going to store new copies of every file in the repository. It only stores a new and old copy of the one file that changed.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2...
So yes, there is some duplication, but not the entire repository for each change.
Yeah, so we're twice as big as we used to be!
The argument you are making is known as a "straw man." No, of course I don't want Big Brother using any old excuse to investigate anything and everything and get everyone put in jail. But in our actual legal system, there are restraints placed on what evidence can be used at trial. We have a system of checks and balances, that prevent most rampant abuse of the judicial system. If a police officer pulls you over for speeding, he still can't search your car, unless he has probable cause to do so. If he does it anyway, the evidence can't be used at trial, even if it is damning. If they unlock this killer's phone, they still can't go after the farmer and his fertilizer unless they can get a judge to agree that the farmer might actually have been intending to build a bomb.
If your fears were warranted, and we are all (but 2%) guilty of major crimes, and police did use the tactics you describe to put people away, we would in fact all be in jail by now. The reality is only about 0.7% of us are actually in jail.
No, our system isn't perfect. It's SUPPOSED to be hard for police to get a conviction, but it's NOT supposed to be impossible.
But when confronted with the notion that a person just might have had an accomplice i don't think warrants or arrests are in order
On this point, I strongly disagree. If some guy just killed all my family members and friends, and he had another guy help him do it (even if the second person didn't actually pull the trigger), I want justice for both, not just the trigger person.
Yes, there certainly is potential for abuse. But you don't take away a tool just because it might be abused. In that case, there would be no tools at all. Instead, you go after the abusers.
Oh, but it's a stretch to say that
No mention of causation, for once
is caused by
editors learned their lesson
I'd guess that the correlation is more of a coincidence than a causation.
Robots have been taking over ever since the industrial revolution began.
Initially, it was mechanical robots in the form of factory machines, which allowed one person to do the work that used to require dozens or hundreds. The Gutenberg moveable type press allowed a single worker to replace dozens of printing plate carvers, for example.
Each generation of new robots has gotten more and more sophisticated. Farm equipment like combines each replaced many workers. Factories themselves became automated.
The only difference now is that these "robots" are smarter and can do things like take inventory at Walmart stores--a job that humans really don't do all that well, as evidenced by constant issues with empty shelves and racks.
Somehow, through the centuries, as robots took over more and more of our jobs, we managed to find new jobs to keep us busy. I'm pretty sure we will continue to adapt and find new jobs to do.
I don't know if the new Firefox is faster. But I don't care. It's now, finally, fast enough to be usable!
Previous versions struggled just to scroll down a Web page. This new version is fast enough that I can't really tell a performance difference between it and Chrome. That means that it's now a viable option for me. And I LOVE that it can block auto-play videos!
Yes, ABP is working just fine in Firefox 57.
There is no denying that tech salaries are high. Any decent programmer can make well over 100k a year.
This is classic supply and demand. When demand outstrips supply, prices go up. When demand is less than supply, prices go down. It follows, then, that there is indeed a talent gap, indicating that there is more demand for programming talent than there is supply.
This is not a bad thing, many of us benefit from the good pay that results. But let's not pretend that there are more than enough "good" programmers to go around!
if anyone else could also be held accountable
This question means that the crime may not yet be fully "solved." Sure, we know who pulled the trigger. But were there any accomplices?
I had used only Chrome for quite a few years. Firefox was just too slow. It struggled with simple tasks like scrolling down the page.
But in the last couple of months, two important things happened:
- Firefox started working on performance, bringing it in line with Chrome's performance
- Firefox added the ability to block auto-play video. *That* won me over.
I'm not totally on Firefox yet, but I'm more and more a fan.
If delivery made so little economic sense, why is Amazon buying brick-and-mortar stores like Whole Foods?
Hmmm...well, you'd better not stay in your house then either, because plenty of people get shot in their homes, too. Probably a lot more than get shot in a Walmart.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Getting people to use a new idea is the hard part.
The problem with a "successor" to C (whatever that means) is not that such languages don't exist. It's that developers need to work in a community. Every part of the community has different needs, so what this guy comes up with won't work for a wide spectrum of developers. This means that many others have to buy in, provide components, provide hardware support, etc.
The language has never been the problem with finding programming language nirvana. The problem is adoption.
You might be right. But assertions without evidence fall into a category of ideas called "faith." You can have faith in God, or you can have faith that there is not a God. Either way, you are taking your belief on faith.
I get the issues involved, the desire of many in the open source community to require users of open source software to make their own software also open. Still, I find it ironic that the open source community is worried about what people might do with open source software after the author dies. If it were truly open, one would think that they would be happy that the source code now continues to be free for anyone to use or modify!
Assuming that the developer did not explicitly designate succession plans, and that the developer's heirs don't have an interest in the project, the code becomes abandoned property. The law in most countries recognizes abandoned property as available to anyone who wants it, whether that is physical property or virtual. For example, if you take a refrigerator out to the curb for trash pickup, anyone who wants it is free to take it and use it however they want to. If software is abandoned, it would legally fall under the same principle.
Not for gaming. There are a lot of popular games out there that won't run, or won't run well, on Macbook Pro / Bootcamp. For one thing, Mac hardware is not as powerful as a Windows gaming machine.
They'll have to wait for the next President, because this one doesn't know how to construct a sentence longer than 140 characters! Believe me!
You can stop using GMail, but you'll probably still want to exchange emails with others who do use GMail, so Google still gets to read a significant percentage of your emails. You can't tell by the domain name either, since there are many domains that route their email through GMail.
You can stop using Google Search, but you'll still end up on a site that hosts Google ads, and therefore sends Google your browsing info. You can turn off javascript, but it doesn't matter, Google ads don't need javascript to track you. Even ad blockers won't help, because many sites willingly send Google your data in the name of analytics.
You can stop using Chrome, but the above tracking methods don't require Chrome.
You can reduce your exposure somewhat, but not by all that much. And if it's not Google you're sending your data to, it's probably Microsoft or Apple.
In other words, stop using the Internet.
Your argument is logical. Why would you assume that the court would come to a logical conclusion?
When it comes to political hot topics like race, verdicts are more or less random.
Yeah, they probably outsource it to India or Russia.
Every company these days thinks they need AI.
This reminds me of how companies have been flocking to data warehousing during the past few years. They all want it. They don't know why they want it, but they've heard it's powerful, and that means they have to have it. Meanwhile, many of those same companies haven't really mastered the fundamentals of their relational databases.
The result of this hype is that anybody who can convince a clueless hiring manager that they know something about AI...can get hired for exorbitant amounts of money.
Yes, AI is good for many things. Companies like Apple and Google and IBM are putting it to good use. But many companies are just jumping on the bandwagon. Like all bubbles, this one will burst at some point.