Really? You can't just judge it based on it's features and performance?
I can, but the rest of the world can't (or at least didn't). Not much point in using a filesystem that nobody else wants to support, even if their reasons aren't entirely rational.
I've got some sad news for you. If you burn the US flag and chant death to America within the US today, chances are pretty high that you're going to get arrested and/or abducted, possibly tortured, and charged with terrorism.
Tha pretty close to what those Westboro Baptist *ssholes have been doing, and none of them have been arrested, tortured, or charged with terrorism.
quick! somebody at HQ patch the universe DRM of the universe or the little tiny simulons on the terra grid might jailbreak the universe and run unauthorized code...
Millions of years? It seems like it's a long time within this simulation, what gives you the idea that only a couple of hours of "actual time" hasn't passed in the 'outside world', outside the simulator?
I am worried about the day when fuel efficiency is mandated such that larger vehicles are essentially no longer produced.
Fuel efficiency is mandated as an average across all the vehicles the manufacturer sells, not for each individual vehicle. So people who need a gas guzzler for whatever reason will still be able to buy one; but then the car company will need to sell more fuel-efficient cars to compensate.
In any case, in 5-10 years something like the Tesla Model S or Model X might be in your price range; there's no reason why an electric car has to be small.
When asked why, he pointed out some standard feynmann estimates that showed that there isn't enough Lithium in the world to make nuclear fusion a practical power source, using the DT reaction.
More lithium has been discovered since then. How much lithium does a fusion plant need, anyway?
There was never any such thing as "an unlimited data plan".
There were plans that were misleadingly labelled as "unlimited", but what they really were, was plans where the ISP simply let people use up bandwidth in a first-come-first-served fashion. Whenever the demand reached or surpassed the infrastructures capacity, the de-facto limits of the hardware kicked in, regardless of what the sales droids had promised in the brochure.
For a company to offer a genuine "unlimited plan", the company would have to build up enough capacity to allow 100% of their unlimited-plan customers to use 100% of the bandwidth capacity of the wire running to their house, 24/7/365. The cost of such an infrastructure would be significantly larger than most people would be willing to pay for, especially since most people don't use or need anywhere near that much capacity.
So my feeling is that the demise of "unlimited plans" in the marketing is a good thing -- at least we're no longer trying to fool each other into believing bandwidth is infinite (as opposed to finite but cheap).
For example, a robot to scan and bag groceries wouldn't be too complicated [...] However, it hasn't been completely automated because paying someone minimum wage to put your groceries in a bag is still cheaper than a robot.
Around here it has -- they figured out that you didn't even need a robot, you can just get the customer to do all of those things himself. It's genius, I tell you!
When people feel the absence of consequence, they reveal who they truly are. Most people are complete assholes.
Are they? Or is it only some people, but those are the people you tend to notice?
If someone is polite to you, or stays out of your way, you won't give them a second thought.... OTOH if someone makes you angry, you may spend the rest of the day fuming about them.
So, do we actually believe that a college-age man is sufficiently motivated to troll the same person, including offline, for weeks on end; but so obtuse that he doesn't realize such trolling's effects, or did TFA's author just get played by a sociopathic little fucker's crocodile tears?
I'm not sure it really matters what we believe. We're just a bunch of random nerds who were fed a few kilobytes of ASCII text, and are using that, plus our own imaginations, own personal experiences and prejudices to try to reconstruct a model of "what must have happened".
But the truth is that we don't really know. We've never met any of the people involved, and we never saw or heard anything of what transpired, except for one short textual account.
Given that, it's pointless to try to draw any firm conclusions, since they are likely going to be wrong anyway. Pretending we have the ability to do accurate third-hand psychological diagnosis based on 5 minutes of reading a story is just flattering and fooling ourselves.
Having a mixed notation - like 2001:456:789:2::192.168.0.1 makes it hell for software developers who'd have to support 2 notations for this, and in the end make such code bulky & unwieldy, thereby blowing up the costs of IPv6 gear. It's good that that notation was deprecated.
Huh? No, it doesn't make any difference to developers how complex the string notation is, because any developer who isn't clueless or insane just calls the standard conversion functions (inet_ntop() and inet_pton()) anyway, rather than rolling his own string parsing and generation functions.
The guy who has to implement and maintain those two functions might have some extra work to do, but I have faith that he can handle it.
A week? If it takes you a whole week to save the time required to "git init --bare; cp -r orig_code_location/*./; git add.; git commit -a -m 'initial commit'" you are doing something wrong.
Why yes, a simple and intuitive command line like that one practically types itself. It's the first thing any source-control newbie would think of!;)
When the boss asks "how much will it cost," an honest answer includes an estimate of man-hours to set it up.
Do we get to deduct the number of man-hours that will be saved after it is set up? Because I think any programming shop would be back in the black after about a week -- or after the first instance of massive code-loss was avoided, whichever comes first.
(Of course, as you point out, we could set up solar power stations and hook them to the grid, but if it were economically efficient to do so we'd be doing it more already.)
The cost of solar power has been decreasing every year, and will likely continue to do so for some time. Therefore there we can expect many cases of "it wasn't economically efficient to set up solar panels here last year, but it is this year".
But it does matter what the average output of the solar cells are over time, versus the average amount of charging of cars they are doing.
It only matters to the accountants and engineers at Tesla. If they don't install enough solar panels, they'll have to pay the power company for the extra electricity they need to cover the deficit.
Tesla drivers, on the other hand, will get their cars recharged either way, so they won't care too much.
Then it doesn't scale up as easily. You'd need a football field sized Supercharger to maintain ~50 cars.
No -- what you'd need is a football field's worth of solar panels located somewhere. The solar panels don't need to be located at or near the charging station, since electricity is fungible. They could be located anywhere in the region served by the power company that serves the SuperCharger.
Now, distributed power generation certainly is the way to go, and so it would make sense to proceed with this strategy, but I don't think it will continue to a net contributor to the grid as volume ramps up.
You may be right; but on the other hand, there really is a lot of empty, sunlit land out there. I think the real deciding factor will be the cost of solar energy vs the alternatives.
Would it? What square footage of solar cells is required? How well do the cells perform in cloudy climes?
It sounds like you're assuming that the electricity delivered at any given instant will be limited by the amount of sunlight hitting the solar panels at that instant. Clearly that can't be the case, otherwise it would be impossible to recharge your EV at night.
What they'll almost certainly do instead is the standard net-metering setup: use the electrical grid to recharge the cars, and use the solar panels to sell electricity back to the utility company to offset the cost. That way it doesn't matter how the solar panels are performing at any given moment, it only matters how much power the electric company can supply them with at any given time.
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Sooooo... what explains the worse unemployment rates in much further-left Europe?
Austerity. Europe has actually been doing what the Republicans (Ryan in particular) have been wanting to do, and it's made things much worse for them.
I wonder how the debates are received in Alpha Centauri
Four years too late, I would think.
Really? You can't just judge it based on it's features and performance?
I can, but the rest of the world can't (or at least didn't). Not much point in using a filesystem that nobody else wants to support, even if their reasons aren't entirely rational.
This blog posting seems apropos:
http://hostilefork.com/2012/03/06/a-word-on-programming-education-and-spacechem/
I've got some sad news for you. If you burn the US flag and chant death to America within the US today, chances are pretty high that you're going to get arrested and/or abducted, possibly tortured, and charged with terrorism.
Tha pretty close to what those Westboro Baptist *ssholes have been doing, and none of them have been arrested, tortured, or charged with terrorism.
Are you sure? Gays don't reproduce, except via adoption.
On a planet that is rapidly reaching its carrying capacity, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
There's plenty of precedent in nature. The vast majority of ants and bees never reproduce either, and yet their species do okay.
I always strangely fascinating that the only thing that can't be simulated is how you feel.
I don't see why it couldn't be, at least in principle. Certainly there have been steps in that direction.
quick! somebody at HQ patch the universe DRM of the universe or the little tiny simulons on the terra grid might jailbreak the universe and run unauthorized code...
Yikes, sounds like Steve Jobs really is God.
Millions of years? It seems like it's a long time within this simulation, what gives you the idea that only a couple of hours of "actual time" hasn't passed in the 'outside world', outside the simulator?
Or perhaps it's the other way around...
The many-words interpretation of quantum mechanics
tl;dr
Truthfully, he came across kind of crotchety. Not impressed.
That's because he is kind of crotchety. And one aspect of that is that he doesn't care whether he impresses you or not.
Up through version 5.3 the malloc() implementation was absolutely horrid and suffered from severe fragmentation and performance problems.
I talked to one of Curiosity's software engineers the day it landed... he mentioned that one of their coding rules was: no malloc() allowed.
I am worried about the day when fuel efficiency is mandated such that larger vehicles are essentially no longer produced.
Fuel efficiency is mandated as an average across all the vehicles the manufacturer sells, not for each individual vehicle. So people who need a gas guzzler for whatever reason will still be able to buy one; but then the car company will need to sell more fuel-efficient cars to compensate.
In any case, in 5-10 years something like the Tesla Model S or Model X might be in your price range; there's no reason why an electric car has to be small.
When asked why, he pointed out some standard feynmann estimates that showed that there isn't enough Lithium in the world to make nuclear fusion a practical power source, using the DT reaction.
More lithium has been discovered since then. How much lithium does a fusion plant need, anyway?
There was never any such thing as "an unlimited data plan".
There were plans that were misleadingly labelled as "unlimited", but what they really were, was plans where the ISP simply let people use up bandwidth in a first-come-first-served fashion. Whenever the demand reached or surpassed the infrastructures capacity, the de-facto limits of the hardware kicked in, regardless of what the sales droids had promised in the brochure.
For a company to offer a genuine "unlimited plan", the company would have to build up enough capacity to allow 100% of their unlimited-plan customers to use 100% of the bandwidth capacity of the wire running to their house, 24/7/365. The cost of such an infrastructure would be significantly larger than most people would be willing to pay for, especially since most people don't use or need anywhere near that much capacity.
So my feeling is that the demise of "unlimited plans" in the marketing is a good thing -- at least we're no longer trying to fool each other into believing bandwidth is infinite (as opposed to finite but cheap).
For example, a robot to scan and bag groceries wouldn't be too complicated [...] However, it hasn't been completely automated because paying someone minimum wage to put your groceries in a bag is still cheaper than a robot.
Around here it has -- they figured out that you didn't even need a robot, you can just get the customer to do all of those things himself. It's genius, I tell you!
When people feel the absence of consequence, they reveal who they truly are. Most people are complete assholes.
Are they? Or is it only some people, but those are the people you tend to notice?
If someone is polite to you, or stays out of your way, you won't give them a second thought.... OTOH if someone makes you angry, you may spend the rest of the day fuming about them.
So, do we actually believe that a college-age man is sufficiently motivated to troll the same person, including offline, for weeks on end; but so obtuse that he doesn't realize such trolling's effects, or did TFA's author just get played by a sociopathic little fucker's crocodile tears?
I'm not sure it really matters what we believe. We're just a bunch of random nerds who were fed a few kilobytes of ASCII text, and are using that, plus our own imaginations, own personal experiences and prejudices to try to reconstruct a model of "what must have happened".
But the truth is that we don't really know. We've never met any of the people involved, and we never saw or heard anything of what transpired, except for one short textual account.
Given that, it's pointless to try to draw any firm conclusions, since they are likely going to be wrong anyway. Pretending we have the ability to do accurate third-hand psychological diagnosis based on 5 minutes of reading a story is just flattering and fooling ourselves.
Having a mixed notation - like 2001:456:789:2::192.168.0.1 makes it hell for software developers who'd have to support 2 notations for this, and in the end make such code bulky & unwieldy, thereby blowing up the costs of IPv6 gear. It's good that that notation was deprecated.
Huh? No, it doesn't make any difference to developers how complex the string notation is, because any developer who isn't clueless or insane just calls the standard conversion functions (inet_ntop() and inet_pton()) anyway, rather than rolling his own string parsing and generation functions.
The guy who has to implement and maintain those two functions might have some extra work to do, but I have faith that he can handle it.
We have stairs.
Not to worry, Beam supports both "shover" and "pusher" modes.
A week? If it takes you a whole week to save the time required to "git init --bare; cp -r orig_code_location/* ./; git add .; git commit -a -m 'initial commit'" you are doing something wrong.
Why yes, a simple and intuitive command line like that one practically types itself. It's the first thing any source-control newbie would think of! ;)
When the boss asks "how much will it cost," an honest answer includes an estimate of man-hours to set it up.
Do we get to deduct the number of man-hours that will be saved after it is set up? Because I think any programming shop would be back in the black after about a week -- or after the first instance of massive code-loss was avoided, whichever comes first.
(Of course, as you point out, we could set up solar power stations and hook them to the grid, but if it were economically efficient to do so we'd be doing it more already.)
The cost of solar power has been decreasing every year, and will likely continue to do so for some time. Therefore there we can expect many cases of "it wasn't economically efficient to set up solar panels here last year, but it is this year".
But it does matter what the average output of the solar cells are over time, versus the average amount of charging of cars they are doing.
It only matters to the accountants and engineers at Tesla. If they don't install enough solar panels, they'll have to pay the power company for the extra electricity they need to cover the deficit.
Tesla drivers, on the other hand, will get their cars recharged either way, so they won't care too much.
Then it doesn't scale up as easily. You'd need a football field sized Supercharger to maintain ~50 cars.
No -- what you'd need is a football field's worth of solar panels located somewhere. The solar panels don't need to be located at or near the charging station, since electricity is fungible. They could be located anywhere in the region served by the power company that serves the SuperCharger.
Now, distributed power generation certainly is the way to go, and so it would make sense to proceed with this strategy, but I don't think it will continue to a net contributor to the grid as volume ramps up.
You may be right; but on the other hand, there really is a lot of empty, sunlit land out there. I think the real deciding factor will be the cost of solar energy vs the alternatives.
Would it? What square footage of solar cells is required? How well do the cells perform in cloudy climes?
It sounds like you're assuming that the electricity delivered at any given instant will be limited by the amount of sunlight hitting the solar panels at that instant. Clearly that can't be the case, otherwise it would be impossible to recharge your EV at night.
What they'll almost certainly do instead is the standard net-metering setup: use the electrical grid to recharge the cars, and use the solar panels to sell electricity back to the utility company to offset the cost. That way it doesn't matter how the solar panels are performing at any given moment, it only matters how much power the electric company can supply them with at any given time.