I needed a reliable playback of an MP3 file with ability to to seek for my child's school presentation. Lately I noticed being incapable of doing the simpliests of tasks on Android unless it is handled by the pre-installed software. Something as obvious as drawing on a photo or an MP3 playback result in hours of wading through the junk yard known as the Google Play. There is all sorts of bloatware, spyware, apps that cannot open a file, apps that cannot save a file and everything in between. I got too spoiled by "apt-get install".
After 20 years since studying the subject someone explained it to me. It is a kind of resonance since the wind force was applied in phase, but no one ever bothered with the details.
this study shows that after herbicide-resistant GMO crop is treated with herbicide, rats die from cancer. It is not the GMO itself, but the fact that they make GMO crops to be herbicide-resistant in the first place, cancer is indirectly the result of using it.
Obviously, there is no conclusive research proving that GMO is harmful, or it would not be peddled to us so aggressively. There are, however, a few caveats: 1. The side effects could take decades to develop 2. Side effects cannot be linked to GMO. Let's say people are dying of cancer, but since GMO is not labelled it is hard to collect relevant statistics. 3. Since GMO is linked to corporate profits, the corporations can cut financing to public GMO research via bribe err...lobbying. They do forbid export of GMO to Europe, maybe the Europeans found something?
Mad cow disease is a good example of how what you eat can look and taste well and be approved by the FDA, yet kill you long term in the most unexpected way. As far as mad cow being predicted beforehand -- there is plenty of research out there indicating potential problems woth GM, yet it is being brushed off, because money talks.
They don't need to prove anything, just label their produce properly. There will always be demand for both GE and non-GE. Time will show if it is safe. Nobody expected mad cow disease either, you know.
Asbestos was also once safe. And so was Talidomide. You are welcome to choose the GE salmon and save a buck. I want to go with the safer option even if it costs a little more. GE salmon farmers want to engage in unfair competition with regular farmers, even if they need to grease up the FDA. I will now pay double for wild salmon, while all farmers adopt GE, because bad labelling forces them to. Oh, and they can forget about ever exporting farmed salmon to Europe.
Actually, Windows has a 1979 cmd prompt; Bash is ahead by leaps and bounds: adjustable fonts/colors, unicode, piping and redirection. In fact, I am using Cygwin on Windows and Bash works with network drives, while CMD cannot... The funny aspect is that MS copied Unix output redirection: to my amazement a.exe > logfile 2>&1 actually works on Windows "1979" CMD prompt.
second you have to scratch anything below the surface
I found Gnome2 to have all the GUI teaks and controls I ever need. Currently experimenting with Cairo (looks like Mac), and it has more tweaks than I bargained for. On the other hand, if you need to "scratch" REALLY DEEP, the infinite maze of Windows menus with redundancy and some working not as advertized, and yet some not working, and no two versions of Windows having identical mazes -- I will take CLI any day, thank you.
The problem is they ALL have at least a couple Windows programs they consider "must have",
You can always side-step that Using Wine, or a Virtual Machine. Remote Desktop also works, but I never had to go deeper than the virtual machine. The problem I see is that users panic when they hear that the OS is "Not Windows". I have heard it is possible to make desktop look like Windows, but never tried that myself.
That's because dirty politics have been keeping them off the road until now. Electric cars do not have many liquids flowing, fewer moving parts, reducing cost of maintenance and ownership. The fuel is already 3x cheaper, with the only questionable element being the battery, which the Moore's law should take care of, if it have not already. Also, as the number of gas cars is reduced, the gas stations start closing doors, accelerating the process.
Ads are always a lie, even if they say "truth, only truth and nothing but". Ads are designed to present a lopsided picture of the market in favour of the ad sponsor. I would love to see the entire ad industry banned as they do nothing constructive for the economy, as their purpose is to mislead.
In a large project of mine, several times. I probably did not develop a habit to look out for these, but the main issue that there is no way to meaningfully transform strings without in-place modification in Perl. For example chop, s///, etc
- Hard to read code with multiple '$'s and '@'s on every line
I prefer to have variables differentiated (scalars, arrays and hashes) and clearly identified from other syntax or text. It makes code more readable IMHO.
I am sorry, how is $$this->{that} for readability? If you still have doubts please show this to a non-zealot for comment.
- In-place string modification is asking for bugs
You mean string interpolation? This in fact is one of Perl strengths
$str = "There are $num apples".
is clearer and less busy, easier to remember than
str = "I have {a} apples".format(a=num)
No I do not mean interpolation, but all the regex transformations modify string in place, sometimes inadvertently destroying needed stuff. Python takes the opposite approach -- to NEVER modify string in place.
Compare $text =~ s/^ *//; $text =~ s/ *$//; to
text = text.strip() Perl modified the string in-place in each line, while in Python I made an explicit assignment (normally not needed)
Going back to your example, it's s = "I have {} apples".format(num), and you omitted a semicolon in Perl statement;)
- Poor selection of publicly available libraries; some have critical bugs that have not been fixed for years
Now you are well into troll territory or you really haven't used Perl much. DBI, CGI, LWP, IO::Socket, HTML::Parser, GetOpt::Long, Devel::NYTProf (not really a module but a totally awesome profiler) the list goes on.
Pretty sure I used most of these. These (and the rest of them) is a pittance compared to libraries available for Python. But the quality of libraries also leaves much to desire, for example this: The Pitfall, in none other than the DBI module having crippled parametrized ODBC interface. There are other examples. Let's just say I was pleased to discover after transition that most of the work has been done for me, all that is left is to connect the libraries in the desired manner.
Perl is awesome for system scripting. It's a UNIX shell replacement on steroids. Nevertheless it is no longer a good choice to use for serious projects spanning multiple modules, accessing database, etc (see my post below)
I wrote a couple of large projects in Perl last year, before switching to Python3 and never looking back. There is a plethora of reasons why Perl is ripe for abandonment:
- Hard to read code with multiple '$'s and '@'s on every line
- In-place string modification is asking for bugs
- Clumsy OOP
- Poor selection of publicly available libraries; some have critical bugs that have not been fixed for years
And all this before having to maintain code written by someone else, in a language better suited for one-liner programs.
Actually, I think it should be unlawful to make a business case where the actual cost isn't reflected in the price, which could be like this region based split or like printer companies selling the printer device cheap and the ink or toner very expensive.
IANAL but such a law already exists -- a law against "dumping", or selling product below cost to curtail competition.
Apropos of nothing, since you're familiar with both neural nets and how the brain works
It's funny but the only reason I understand how brain works is because I know how computer neural nets work. There are many common aspects in both operation and shortcomings.
As far as your question goes, brain definitely has a distinct set of inputs (retinas, sensory, etc), but the output is known as "self awareness" and was not covered in my comp sci classes. It is likely that this development brings us one step closer to a working Skynet.
Neural networks are simulations of how brain works. You can lose a significant part of your brain yet change in cognitive abilities will be barely noticeable. Same principle applies to neural nets, including this one.
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I needed a reliable playback of an MP3 file with ability to to seek for my child's school presentation. Lately I noticed being incapable of doing the simpliests of tasks on Android unless it is handled by the pre-installed software. Something as obvious as drawing on a photo or an MP3 playback result in hours of wading through the junk yard known as the Google Play. There is all sorts of bloatware, spyware, apps that cannot open a file, apps that cannot save a file and everything in between. I got too spoiled by "apt-get install".
After 20 years since studying the subject someone explained it to me. It is a kind of resonance since the wind force was applied in phase, but no one ever bothered with the details.
Obviously, there is no conclusive research proving that GMO is harmful, or it would not be peddled to us so aggressively. There are, however, a few caveats:
1. The side effects could take decades to develop
2. Side effects cannot be linked to GMO. Let's say people are dying of cancer, but since GMO is not labelled it is hard to collect relevant statistics.
3. Since GMO is linked to corporate profits, the corporations can cut financing to public GMO research via bribe err...lobbying. They do forbid export of GMO to Europe, maybe the Europeans found something?
Mad cow disease is a good example of how what you eat can look and taste well and be approved by the FDA, yet kill you long term in the most unexpected way. As far as mad cow being predicted beforehand -- there is plenty of research out there indicating potential problems woth GM, yet it is being brushed off, because money talks.
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They don't need to prove anything, just label their produce properly. There will always be demand for both GE and non-GE. Time will show if it is safe. Nobody expected mad cow disease either, you know.
Asbestos was also once safe. And so was Talidomide. You are welcome to choose the GE salmon and save a buck. I want to go with the safer option even if it costs a little more. GE salmon farmers want to engage in unfair competition with regular farmers, even if they need to grease up the FDA. I will now pay double for wild salmon, while all farmers adopt GE, because bad labelling forces them to. Oh, and they can forget about ever exporting farmed salmon to Europe.
Aliluâ! Panacea against copy-paste programmers is finally here!
Welcome to 1979 and DOS...I mean Bash prompts.
Actually, Windows has a 1979 cmd prompt; Bash is ahead by leaps and bounds: adjustable fonts/colors, unicode, piping and redirection. In fact, I am using Cygwin on Windows and Bash works with network drives, while CMD cannot... The funny aspect is that MS copied Unix output redirection: to my amazement a.exe > logfile 2>&1 actually works on Windows "1979" CMD prompt.
second you have to scratch anything below the surface
I found Gnome2 to have all the GUI teaks and controls I ever need. Currently experimenting with Cairo (looks like Mac), and it has more tweaks than I bargained for. On the other hand, if you need to "scratch" REALLY DEEP, the infinite maze of Windows menus with redundancy and some working not as advertized, and yet some not working, and no two versions of Windows having identical mazes -- I will take CLI any day, thank you.
The problem is they ALL have at least a couple Windows programs they consider "must have",
You can always side-step that Using Wine, or a Virtual Machine. Remote Desktop also works, but I never had to go deeper than the virtual machine. The problem I see is that users panic when they hear that the OS is "Not Windows". I have heard it is possible to make desktop look like Windows, but never tried that myself.
Steve Jobs begs to disagree. Companies are made and destroyed by the top management. Look no further than HP.
Not sure how this will affect Tesla, but it is likely that the poached executives will move on to poaching the engineers.
That's because dirty politics have been keeping them off the road until now. Electric cars do not have many liquids flowing, fewer moving parts, reducing cost of maintenance and ownership. The fuel is already 3x cheaper, with the only questionable element being the battery, which the Moore's law should take care of, if it have not already. Also, as the number of gas cars is reduced, the gas stations start closing doors, accelerating the process.
Ads are always a lie, even if they say "truth, only truth and nothing but". Ads are designed to present a lopsided picture of the market in favour of the ad sponsor. I would love to see the entire ad industry banned as they do nothing constructive for the economy, as their purpose is to mislead.
Except it becomes $ during access, And we always pass array by reference. So it boils down to just $. A sea of $.
In a large project of mine, several times. I probably did not develop a habit to look out for these, but the main issue that there is no way to meaningfully transform strings without in-place modification in Perl. For example chop, s///, etc
- Hard to read code with multiple '$'s and '@'s on every line
I prefer to have variables differentiated (scalars, arrays and hashes) and clearly identified from other syntax or text. It makes code more readable IMHO.
I am sorry, how is $$this->{that} for readability? If you still have doubts please show this to a non-zealot for comment.
- In-place string modification is asking for bugs
You mean string interpolation? This in fact is one of Perl strengths
$str = "There are $num apples".
is clearer and less busy, easier to remember than
str = "I have {a} apples".format(a=num)
No I do not mean interpolation, but all the regex transformations modify string in place, sometimes inadvertently destroying needed stuff. Python takes the opposite approach -- to NEVER modify string in place. Compare ;)
$text =~ s/^ *//;
$text =~ s/ *$//;
to
text = text.strip()
Perl modified the string in-place in each line, while in Python I made an explicit assignment (normally not needed)
Going back to your example, it's s = "I have {} apples".format(num), and you omitted a semicolon in Perl statement
- Poor selection of publicly available libraries; some have critical bugs that have not been fixed for years
Now you are well into troll territory or you really haven't used Perl much. DBI, CGI, LWP, IO::Socket, HTML::Parser, GetOpt::Long, Devel::NYTProf (not really a module but a totally awesome profiler) the list goes on.
Pretty sure I used most of these. These (and the rest of them) is a pittance compared to libraries available for Python. But the quality of libraries also leaves much to desire, for example this: The Pitfall, in none other than the DBI module having crippled parametrized ODBC interface. There are other examples. Let's just say I was pleased to discover after transition that most of the work has been done for me, all that is left is to connect the libraries in the desired manner.
Perl is awesome for system scripting. It's a UNIX shell replacement on steroids. Nevertheless it is no longer a good choice to use for serious projects spanning multiple modules, accessing database, etc (see my post below)
I wrote a couple of large projects in Perl last year, before switching to Python3 and never looking back. There is a plethora of reasons why Perl is ripe for abandonment:
- Hard to read code with multiple '$'s and '@'s on every line
- In-place string modification is asking for bugs
- Clumsy OOP
- Poor selection of publicly available libraries; some have critical bugs that have not been fixed for years
And all this before having to maintain code written by someone else, in a language better suited for one-liner programs.
I googled "high yield mutual fund" for you. here it is Enjoy your "free" gas.
Did I die and go to heaven?
Where in the motherfucking hell do you find anything about "federal power" preventing you from hacking
This law does exist, regardless of whether you know about it or not. I think it's called Anti-circumvention millenium.... here you go
Actually, I think it should be unlawful to make a business case where the actual cost isn't reflected in the price, which could be like this region based split or like printer companies selling the printer device cheap and the ink or toner very expensive.
IANAL but such a law already exists -- a law against "dumping", or selling product below cost to curtail competition.
Apropos of nothing, since you're familiar with both neural nets and how the brain works
It's funny but the only reason I understand how brain works is because I know how computer neural nets work. There are many common aspects in both operation and shortcomings.
As far as your question goes, brain definitely has a distinct set of inputs (retinas, sensory, etc), but the output is known as "self awareness" and was not covered in my comp sci classes. It is likely that this development brings us one step closer to a working Skynet.
Electronic brain. You would need to invent positronic computers first, or steal the tech from Silicoids.
Neural networks are simulations of how brain works. You can lose a significant part of your brain yet change in cognitive abilities will be barely noticeable. Same principle applies to neural nets, including this one.