... Every Uber ride carrying a passenger is a car drive not taken by that passenger. Because rideshare drivers do not have to loiter or deadhead like cabdrivers, there is no net contribution to traffic.
That would be true only if you assume the passenger would drive if did not have the Uber ride. If someone instead of using an Uber car takes the metro, a bus, a train or uses a bicycle or walks then it is the case where Uber increases traffic.
So there is a hodgepodge of mutually incompatible dialects of Pascal that are available, some of which are useful?
Practically, Delphi and Free Pascal (with Lazarus being the IDE that uses Free Pascal as a compiler) have the majority of mind share in the Pascal World, and they are mostly compatible. A few years ago Delphi used the Free Pascal Compiler to target iOS. Of course, those who sell Delphi are not very keen to advertise the Open Source competitor...
This is not helping Pascal's case, and makes it look more and more like my C++.NET analogy was accurate.
Most criticisms come from people that are completely out of touch with the modern Pascal Compilers/IDEs. Just take a look at
http://newpascal.org/assets/mo... to learn its current state.
So you are saying that the years since BWK wrote that article have given us even more reasons to dislike Pascal, such as the fact that the only versions that are useful are either dead for 20+ years (Turbo Pascal) or need vendor-proprietary extensions (Delphi)?
No. You have fallen prey to the common hype.
There is, the GCC of Pascal world, that is Free Pascal https://www.freepascal.org/ : an Open Source version with a modern syntax and concepts. The complaints on the article seem someone complaining about Linux arguing that you have to compile the Kernel to add mouse support.
Also, Lazarus https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ is a modern Open Source IDE that picked where Delphi stop and you can develop and compile applications for Windows, Linux and OSX.
... Accept that it is outside of your control. Pretend we live in a monarchy. And live your life accordingly. Obsession with politics is a symptom of childish weakness.
You are the fertile ground where dictatorship grows...
22/7 is a marginally better estimate than 3.14 (~.04% vs ~.05%), both at the "cost" of remembering 3 digits. Are you suggesting that it's easier to remember "." than "/"? Not sure where you're going with this.
Both have, more or less, the same the difficulty to remember. The "22/7'" disadvantage is that you still have to perform the division to have the value while 3.14 already is the number.
I remember out to 3.14159, but that's wasted space and I'm not sure how those wasted digits snuck in there. Either 3-digit estimate is good enough for just about everything you're likely to run into.
I remember also 3.14159.
Of course, when you are in a situation where you need more digits. (I faced moments like that...) you probably already have the tools to fetch an approximation with more digits...
it's worse for technologies that are not a single, atomic (as in undividable) invention - depending on who you ask you will hear lots of different names as "The Father Of X". "Inventor" of the telephone? Marconi, Reiss, Bell, depending on who you're asking. Not even possible to agree on a single "first" here.
The "inventor" is most of the time wrongly attributed. It is so common that there is a law (Stigler's law of eponymy) for that:
"These kinds of questions led Jack Reeves to suggest that in fact the source code is a design document and that the construction phase is actually the use of the compiler and linker. Indeed anything that you can treat as construction can and should be automated.
This, This, A thousand time this...
I am still amazed how difficult it is to accept this. It's like people can't handle the truth...
(and there are many, also deluded on not, just using that to make a buck)
I gave you reasons, you insulted people. You lost.
Are you saying that "Maybe Franklin and Washington were wrong. Ever thought of that?" is insulting people?
For example, those were slave owner, weren't they?
I mean that if you get a paycheck in Drachmas, and the Drachma drops in value, your paycheck is effectively gone down when measured in euros. You can get the same effect by keeping euros, and just lowering the amount. The difference is psychological. People don't like it when the number on the paycheck drops. They don't mind it as much when the number stays the same, and the currency drops by an equal amount.
No it is not psychological, you are forgetting a few details:
- If you own the bank $$$ Drachmas and the Drachmas drops in value, the amount you own also drops, while if you drop your paycheck and the $$$ amount you own the does not drop YOU are literally worse off.
- If you are rich and have a lot of Drachmas and the Drachmas drops in value, you are literally worse off. On the other side if If you are rich and your employees take a pay cut, that is good for you.
- Also, when the Drachmas drops in value the German cars become more expensive and the Greeks will buy less of them while some local goods keep their relative price. That is not good for Germany. Worse, some other EU countries can get the same ideas...
Thomas Jefferson said "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." I warn you - A government big enough to protect you is strong enough to destroy you.
Well. The bad part is that "A government that is not big enough to give you everything you want is still strong enough to take everything you have."
Worse: "A government that is not big enough to protect you is still strong enough to destroy you."
Even worse: if your government is not big enough to protect you then there are a lot of people strong enough to destroy you.
I suspect there are some mission critical projects which have decided to not use Linux when they found out how unprofessionally the leader acts. "Cool kernel, but can we really put our trust on this kind of guy?"
They looked at his track record, leading a 23 year project from something that he started alone to having a global community of developers. How linux it is the kernel in the majority of mobile devices and supercomputers and said: "No, we need to choose something else marketed by a sensitive weasel..."
I just hope that those mission critical projects stay very far from me...
No need to. In terms of safety the biggest catastrophe with the largest kill count and biggest population displacement was wonderful green hydroelectric dams.
That is why there are so many people afraid of hydroelectric dams! Oh wait... Aren't they?
No one is hiding nuclear from renewables using coal. Renewables is not the answer due to their inherent lack of baseload, so you compare nuclear to any other baseload system. Coal just happens to be the most popular and also a natural fallback for when.... e.g. the Germans shutter nuclear facilities. So why wouldn't you compare them?
You are wrong (from Wikipedia):
" Among the renewable energy sources, hydroelectric, geothermal,[3] biogas, biomass, solar thermal with storage and ocean thermal energy conversion can provide baseload power."
Renewable energy sources can provide baseload and, right now, coal just happens to be the most popular because things are rigged to make others pay the real price of using it. Again, don't hide the nuclear problems comparing it to coal.
A coal plant, working absolutely perfectly according to its design parameters, will cause much more environmental and health damage than even a "catastrophic" nuclear failure. So no, it's not a technical issue. It's an emotional issue.
...
Why is that, in every discussion about renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar), the pro nuclear crowd has to bring the coal, only to try to make nuclear look better?
Those pushing for renewable sources also don't like coal, so don't hide the nuclear problems with the coal problems.
How many times do you generally read a novel you purchase? The minor risk that I won't be able to re-read a book some years from now because Amazon has folded or otherwise stopped honoring my purchase is an easy price to pay for the convenience. I enjoy the look of a well stocked home library as much as the next guy, but why really hoard stacks of books you will never open again?
There are other uses for the books.
I regularly lend, to friends, some dead tree books that I bought more than ten years ago. Many were bought from Amazon...
Slashdot Mirror
Vinyl is the music equivalent of homeopathy.
Well. Not quite... homeopathy would be a track with only the cracks and other noises and then you would imagine that the music is playing.
That site is a block of JS.
For the first hits (for me) it wasn't. But now is.
It's not very easy to find an alternative...
Another try:
https://netmarketshare.com/ope...
Further, their share of smartphones is growing with respect to Android. So their 30% commission isn't in danger.
Well:
https://www.statista.com/stati...
Does not look like that...
His claim is that Outreachy is discriminatory because it's mission is to increase visible minority and female participation in open source.
No, Outreachy is discriminatory because it hires interns based on their sex and ancestry.
It's called 'positive discrimination' in the real world.
Yes! Putting 'positive' before is the answer!
I can't wait for the next 'positives':
- 'Positive vandalism'
- 'Positive burglary'
- 'Positive corruption'
Better: 'positive evil'! Yes...
... Every Uber ride carrying a passenger is a car drive not taken by that passenger. Because rideshare drivers do not have to loiter or deadhead like cabdrivers, there is no net contribution to traffic.
That would be true only if you assume the passenger would drive if did not have the Uber ride. If someone instead of using an Uber car takes the metro, a bus, a train or uses a bicycle or walks then it is the case where Uber increases traffic.
So there is a hodgepodge of mutually incompatible dialects of Pascal that are available, some of which are useful?
Practically, Delphi and Free Pascal (with Lazarus being the IDE that uses Free Pascal as a compiler) have the majority of mind share in the Pascal World, and they are mostly compatible. A few years ago Delphi used the Free Pascal Compiler to target iOS. Of course, those who sell Delphi are not very keen to advertise the Open Source competitor...
This is not helping Pascal's case, and makes it look more and more like my C++.NET analogy was accurate.
Most criticisms come from people that are completely out of touch with the modern Pascal Compilers/IDEs. Just take a look at http://newpascal.org/assets/mo... to learn its current state.
Pascal, whose sole flaw is using verbose keywords like "begin/end" instead of the concise "{ }".
...most issues the paper mentions have been solved in TP/Delphi.
There have been several attempts to fix the "flawless" language, yes.
(despite even it's creator abandoning it for something better).
No. That branch is the fix for the original Pascal, the one that earned the outdated critique.
TP/Delphi and then Free Pascal/Lazarus are another branch that solved the earlier problems and do not have the original flaws.
So you are saying that the years since BWK wrote that article have given us even more reasons to dislike Pascal, such as the fact that the only versions that are useful are either dead for 20+ years (Turbo Pascal) or need vendor-proprietary extensions (Delphi)?
No. You have fallen prey to the common hype.
There is, the GCC of Pascal world, that is Free Pascal https://www.freepascal.org/ : an Open Source version with a modern syntax and concepts. The complaints on the article seem someone complaining about Linux arguing that you have to compile the Kernel to add mouse support.
Also, Lazarus https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ is a modern Open Source IDE that picked where Delphi stop and you can develop and compile applications for Windows, Linux and OSX.
You are the fertile ground where dictatorship grows...
ANY government is big enough to take from you everything you have.
Even the ones that can't give you almost anything.
22/7 is a marginally better estimate than 3.14 (~.04% vs ~.05%), both at the "cost" of remembering 3 digits. Are you suggesting that it's easier to remember "." than "/"? Not sure where you're going with this.
Both have, more or less, the same the difficulty to remember. The "22/7'" disadvantage is that you still have to perform the division to have the value while 3.14 already is the number.
I remember out to 3.14159, but that's wasted space and I'm not sure how those wasted digits snuck in there. Either 3-digit estimate is good enough for just about everything you're likely to run into.
I remember also 3.14159.
Of course, when you are in a situation where you need more digits. (I faced moments like that...) you probably already have the tools to fetch an approximation with more digits...
Pi is 22/7. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
You have to remember 3 digits: 2,2 and 7 plus the "/" to get three digits right from pi...
22/7 = 3.142857142857142857142857(142857) while the
real pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795...
Does't look like a good deal...
So, why aren't you wealthier than Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg together?
Probably, because THEY did not use Financial "Advisors"...
it's worse for technologies that are not a single, atomic (as in undividable) invention - depending on who you ask you will hear lots of different names as "The Father Of X". "Inventor" of the telephone? Marconi, Reiss, Bell, depending on who you're asking. Not even possible to agree on a single "first" here.
The "inventor" is most of the time wrongly attributed. It is so common that there is a law (Stigler's law of eponymy) for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"These kinds of questions led Jack Reeves to suggest that in fact the source code is a design document and that the construction phase is actually the use of the compiler and linker. Indeed anything that you can treat as construction can and should be automated.
This, This, A thousand time this...
I am still amazed how difficult it is to accept this. It's like people can't handle the truth... (and there are many, also deluded on not, just using that to make a buck)
I gave you reasons, you insulted people. You lost.
Are you saying that "Maybe Franklin and Washington were wrong. Ever thought of that?" is insulting people? For example, those were slave owner, weren't they?
I mean that if you get a paycheck in Drachmas, and the Drachma drops in value, your paycheck is effectively gone down when measured in euros. You can get the same effect by keeping euros, and just lowering the amount. The difference is psychological. People don't like it when the number on the paycheck drops. They don't mind it as much when the number stays the same, and the currency drops by an equal amount.
No it is not psychological, you are forgetting a few details:
- If you own the bank $$$ Drachmas and the Drachmas drops in value, the amount you own also drops, while if you drop your paycheck and the $$$ amount you own the does not drop YOU are literally worse off.
- If you are rich and have a lot of Drachmas and the Drachmas drops in value, you are literally worse off. On the other side if If you are rich and your employees take a pay cut, that is good for you.
- Also, when the Drachmas drops in value the German cars become more expensive and the Greeks will buy less of them while some local goods keep their relative price. That is not good for Germany. Worse, some other EU countries can get the same ideas...
I hope it can rival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From the summary, it looks promising.
Thomas Jefferson said "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." I warn you - A government big enough to protect you is strong enough to destroy you.
Well. The bad part is that "A government that is not big enough to give you everything you want is still strong enough to take everything you have."
Worse: "A government that is not big enough to protect you is still strong enough to destroy you."
Even worse: if your government is not big enough to protect you then there are a lot of people strong enough to destroy you.
I suspect there are some mission critical projects which have decided to not use Linux when they found out how unprofessionally the leader acts. "Cool kernel, but can we really put our trust on this kind of guy?"
They looked at his track record, leading a 23 year project from something that he started alone to having a global community of developers. How linux it is the kernel in the majority of mobile devices and supercomputers and said: "No, we need to choose something else marketed by a sensitive weasel..."
I just hope that those mission critical projects stay very far from me...
(That could be better or worse, of course...)
No need to. In terms of safety the biggest catastrophe with the largest kill count and biggest population displacement was wonderful green hydroelectric dams.
That is why there are so many people afraid of hydroelectric dams! Oh wait... Aren't they?
No one is hiding nuclear from renewables using coal. Renewables is not the answer due to their inherent lack of baseload, so you compare nuclear to any other baseload system. Coal just happens to be the most popular and also a natural fallback for when .... e.g. the Germans shutter nuclear facilities. So why wouldn't you compare them?
You are wrong (from Wikipedia):
" Among the renewable energy sources, hydroelectric, geothermal,[3] biogas, biomass, solar thermal with storage and ocean thermal energy conversion can provide baseload power."
Renewable energy sources can provide baseload and, right now, coal just happens to be the most popular because things are rigged to make others pay the real price of using it. Again, don't hide the nuclear problems comparing it to coal.
A coal plant, working absolutely perfectly according to its design parameters, will cause much more environmental and health damage than even a "catastrophic" nuclear failure. So no, it's not a technical issue. It's an emotional issue.
...
Why is that, in every discussion about renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar), the pro nuclear crowd has to bring the coal, only to try to make nuclear look better?
Those pushing for renewable sources also don't like coal, so don't hide the nuclear problems with the coal problems.
Our brains were made for the 4 F's: fighting, fleeing, foraging and reproducing.
Reproducing doesn't start with F. Whatever could the fourth F be? :) It's ok, we're all adults here, you can say it.
Fourletterword?
How many times do you generally read a novel you purchase? The minor risk that I won't be able to re-read a book some years from now because Amazon has folded or otherwise stopped honoring my purchase is an easy price to pay for the convenience. I enjoy the look of a well stocked home library as much as the next guy, but why really hoard stacks of books you will never open again?
There are other uses for the books. I regularly lend, to friends, some dead tree books that I bought more than ten years ago. Many were bought from Amazon...