Except in Germany they built two new ones and closed six old ones, so there were 4 fewer than before... And the new new ones were more efficient too boot.
Nah, they are just trying to block those tech support scams where they convince the victim that their computer is broken and charge them silly money to "fix" it.
It's just the usual greed from the music industry. They love the idea of streaming but not the fact that they missed the boat and all their own platforms are failing and dying off. They could have been the new radio... But were too busy soiling their pants over stream ripping and trying to release broken DRM-infested crap.
Piracy is their go-to excuse for their own incompetence. "Oh, we would have made so much more money if only people weren't downloading from YouTube so they can listen in the car! Surely they would have paid $9.99/month for the extra mobile data and $19.99/month for Tidal Premium if only YouTubeMp3Ripper.com was blocked!"
Copyright destroys businesses. The only way to innovate is to stop worrying about it, and the moment you do start getting overly concerned someone else will come along and replace you.
You can make 50% good enough to do a lot of development work. There are tiers of developers. Most of the ones using those Javascript libraries or SQL databases wouldn't have the faintest idea of where to even begin implementing those technologies themselves, but produce useful applications anyway.
True, what I mean is I thought it was the word "wend" when it is in fact an abbreviation of "while end".
"Wending" was a fairly common word in children's literature of the day, which is probably where I heard it. Roads and paths were always wending through the hills and valleys, if not meandering too.
This really boils down to if you believe that Microsoft has a genuine need for talented people or if you believe that Microsoft is trying to force down wages.
Same with H1B. Either you think Microsoft can't find the skills it needs so gets people in from other parts of the world (despite the extra costs to find those people, hire them and get them visas which are limited in number), or you think that Microsoft uses cheap foreign labour to drive down wages but for some reason doesn't just open a Bangalore office.
That's not how school works. School serves two functions.
1. Give a general education in things like language, maths, social skills/civic knowledge, help kids develop into healthy adults.
2. Provide an opportunity to try different things, so kids can find out what they like and what they are good at, and to give them a broader understanding of the world.
I was lucky enough to be taught my first bit of coding at age 4, and although it was extremely simple it made me realize that machines were not magical black boxes and that I could learn to control them. I began to imagine the possibilities and every time I saw a new bit of technology that was the context I viewed it in.
Exposing kids to programming gives them an opportunity to try it and learn the basics that they can then take further if they want to.
Not really. The reason French nuclear energy companies are struggling to stay in business and desperately looking overseas for business is that the French taxpayer got fed up of them living off nuclear welfare. It was supposed to be cheap and clean, but turned out to be neither and as usual all the costs were socialized (i.e. taxpayers pick up the bills).
Of course now they want the same level of subsidy from other governments, but are maintaining their standard level of incompetence with cost overruns and the most expensive form of energy on the planet. The new reactors being built in the UK by French company EDF (with Chinese investment money) are guaranteed to get 3x the price of current wind energy, and that ratio is getting worse every day.
They should have put the money into offshore wind + storage, but lacked vision and EDF is good at bribery.
China hit peak coal about five years ago. The new plants are actually reducing emissions by replacing older, less efficient ones.
People made the same mistake when looking at Germany building new coal plants, while either not noticing or wilfully ignoring the fact that they were closing even more old ones.
You are begging the question by making two faulty assumptions.
1. Technology never gets more efficient. Clearly modern cars are more efficient, electronics have got orders of magnitude more efficient (not least because we want to run on battery power). Modern homes require less heating and cooling and there are still big improvements that can be made there.
2. Renewable energy can't provide a significant proportion of the energy we need. Clearly it can, especially in areas of high growth like India and China and Africa.
Coding was a great motivator for me when it came to learning boring maths, because I could see practical applications for it. I remember the first time we did algebra and it was all familiar BASIC variables.
Even in English language I started to care more about being able to spell, not least because I got fed up with syntax errors due to not remembering how many Ls are in "until"... I used to think "wend" was a word too. I was pretty young.
It says right in the summary that the other developers agreed to the change, then changed their minds after the backlash.
As someone who has frequently complained about people reacting to outrage you should be supporting their right to speech free from consequences and criticism.
That's not how I recall it happening. The GOP rigged the vote with voter suppression and gerrymandering. After a couple of decades it's really paying off, but even so they only have a small majority and their president lost the popular vote.
Pretending to care and making political noise isn't caring. Actually, genuinely helping individual people is caring.
Trying to effect political change will help more people than trying to help one or two individually. Also, claiming that any sentiment you don't like is posturing (or "virtue signalling" in newspeak) is not an argument, it's just an out of hand dismissal.
You don't know which stories are true or false or 40% true/60% false.
Claiming that the truth is unknowable because all media lies all the time is a standard post-truth tactic to avoid criticism and generate apathy by making misdeeds easier to ignore.
Because we're pretending laws might somehow change?
It didn't even take a change in the law for ICE to start separating children from their parents, and it didn't take a chance in the law to stop it either. You argue that trying for political change is ineffective, when clearly it was effective in that case.
Protest is an important part of democracy. Trying to suppress protest by suggesting that people should not do it is anti-democratic.
Democracy is a balance. Direct democracy is a bad idea because it leads to the tyranny of the majority, so we have representative democracy. Sometimes the representation is broken though, as it currently is in the highly polarized United States. In which case protest is an important balance, and important way to address issues without resorting to civil war or direct attacks on politicians.
Did you actually read those links? He is complaining about Microsoft violating the MIT licence that Lerna was released under, not about them buying GitHub.
It seems that Microsoft created their own fork of Lerna called "Rush" that was substantially the same. If the code wasn't copied and refactored directly it was at least heavily based off Lerna. The MIT licence states that the copyright message must remain on such code, so if he is right (and a quick scan at the version he was talking about before Microsoft tried to obfuscate it suggests that he is) then Microsoft is violating the Lerna project contributors' copyright.
The discover is not the emotional component of procrastination, it's the physical component that can only be seen with a brain scan.
It's like how in physics many principals were known and thought to be true, but couldn't be proven and fully understood until the invention of particle accelerators.
It's impossible to separate politics from daily life, because politics is how we manage our daily lives. I say this as someone who was driven from their home, their family, their country of birth by politics.
But sometimes you also have to recognize that there are other issues. In this case the integrity of free software really matters. I take a hard line on it, I'm a strong supporter of the GPL and its principals, even when they meant that software can be used for evil.
Not sure I get your meaning here. Isn't caring about other people a pretty fundamental and important part of humanity? In fact people who really don't care about others are called psychopaths.
Surely that's not what you meant, but I feel like caring about the activities of ICE is important and a good thing. Especially when your actions at the voting booth directly lead to those actions and their effect on other people's lives.
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Except in Germany they built two new ones and closed six old ones, so there were 4 fewer than before... And the new new ones were more efficient too boot.
It's mostly due to economics. Coal is still very cheap, even compared to renewables.
Nah, they are just trying to block those tech support scams where they convince the victim that their computer is broken and charge them silly money to "fix" it.
It's just the usual greed from the music industry. They love the idea of streaming but not the fact that they missed the boat and all their own platforms are failing and dying off. They could have been the new radio... But were too busy soiling their pants over stream ripping and trying to release broken DRM-infested crap.
Piracy is their go-to excuse for their own incompetence. "Oh, we would have made so much more money if only people weren't downloading from YouTube so they can listen in the car! Surely they would have paid $9.99/month for the extra mobile data and $19.99/month for Tidal Premium if only YouTubeMp3Ripper.com was blocked!"
Copyright destroys businesses. The only way to innovate is to stop worrying about it, and the moment you do start getting overly concerned someone else will come along and replace you.
You can make 50% good enough to do a lot of development work. There are tiers of developers. Most of the ones using those Javascript libraries or SQL databases wouldn't have the faintest idea of where to even begin implementing those technologies themselves, but produce useful applications anyway.
True, what I mean is I thought it was the word "wend" when it is in fact an abbreviation of "while end".
"Wending" was a fairly common word in children's literature of the day, which is probably where I heard it. Roads and paths were always wending through the hills and valleys, if not meandering too.
This really boils down to if you believe that Microsoft has a genuine need for talented people or if you believe that Microsoft is trying to force down wages.
Same with H1B. Either you think Microsoft can't find the skills it needs so gets people in from other parts of the world (despite the extra costs to find those people, hire them and get them visas which are limited in number), or you think that Microsoft uses cheap foreign labour to drive down wages but for some reason doesn't just open a Bangalore office.
That's not how school works. School serves two functions.
1. Give a general education in things like language, maths, social skills/civic knowledge, help kids develop into healthy adults.
2. Provide an opportunity to try different things, so kids can find out what they like and what they are good at, and to give them a broader understanding of the world.
I was lucky enough to be taught my first bit of coding at age 4, and although it was extremely simple it made me realize that machines were not magical black boxes and that I could learn to control them. I began to imagine the possibilities and every time I saw a new bit of technology that was the context I viewed it in.
Exposing kids to programming gives them an opportunity to try it and learn the basics that they can then take further if they want to.
Not really. The reason French nuclear energy companies are struggling to stay in business and desperately looking overseas for business is that the French taxpayer got fed up of them living off nuclear welfare. It was supposed to be cheap and clean, but turned out to be neither and as usual all the costs were socialized (i.e. taxpayers pick up the bills).
Of course now they want the same level of subsidy from other governments, but are maintaining their standard level of incompetence with cost overruns and the most expensive form of energy on the planet. The new reactors being built in the UK by French company EDF (with Chinese investment money) are guaranteed to get 3x the price of current wind energy, and that ratio is getting worse every day.
They should have put the money into offshore wind + storage, but lacked vision and EDF is good at bribery.
China hit peak coal about five years ago. The new plants are actually reducing emissions by replacing older, less efficient ones.
People made the same mistake when looking at Germany building new coal plants, while either not noticing or wilfully ignoring the fact that they were closing even more old ones.
You are begging the question by making two faulty assumptions.
1. Technology never gets more efficient. Clearly modern cars are more efficient, electronics have got orders of magnitude more efficient (not least because we want to run on battery power). Modern homes require less heating and cooling and there are still big improvements that can be made there.
2. Renewable energy can't provide a significant proportion of the energy we need. Clearly it can, especially in areas of high growth like India and China and Africa.
I remember reading exactly the same thing in the 90s, and in old magazines from the 80s, and then in CS history books about the 60s.
Coding was a great motivator for me when it came to learning boring maths, because I could see practical applications for it. I remember the first time we did algebra and it was all familiar BASIC variables.
Even in English language I started to care more about being able to spell, not least because I got fed up with syntax errors due to not remembering how many Ls are in "until"... I used to think "wend" was a word too. I was pretty young.
I'm reminded of that poem starting "first they came for..."
Aside from the moral imperative I hope that by standing up for others I have no personal connection to, one day I may get similar support.
I'm genuinely interested in what research you would do to confirm the activities of ICE in relation to family separation.
It says right in the summary that the other developers agreed to the change, then changed their minds after the backlash.
As someone who has frequently complained about people reacting to outrage you should be supporting their right to speech free from consequences and criticism.
That's not how I recall it happening. The GOP rigged the vote with voter suppression and gerrymandering. After a couple of decades it's really paying off, but even so they only have a small majority and their president lost the popular vote.
What research would you recommend people do?
Very timely, very relevant: https://youtu.be/l63nY0AYebI
Most of this meta-outrage is manufactured.
Pretending to care and making political noise isn't caring. Actually, genuinely helping individual people is caring.
Trying to effect political change will help more people than trying to help one or two individually. Also, claiming that any sentiment you don't like is posturing (or "virtue signalling" in newspeak) is not an argument, it's just an out of hand dismissal.
You don't know which stories are true or false or 40% true/60% false.
Claiming that the truth is unknowable because all media lies all the time is a standard post-truth tactic to avoid criticism and generate apathy by making misdeeds easier to ignore.
Because we're pretending laws might somehow change?
It didn't even take a change in the law for ICE to start separating children from their parents, and it didn't take a chance in the law to stop it either. You argue that trying for political change is ineffective, when clearly it was effective in that case.
Protest is an important part of democracy. Trying to suppress protest by suggesting that people should not do it is anti-democratic.
Democracy is a balance. Direct democracy is a bad idea because it leads to the tyranny of the majority, so we have representative democracy. Sometimes the representation is broken though, as it currently is in the highly polarized United States. In which case protest is an important balance, and important way to address issues without resorting to civil war or direct attacks on politicians.
Did you actually read those links? He is complaining about Microsoft violating the MIT licence that Lerna was released under, not about them buying GitHub.
It seems that Microsoft created their own fork of Lerna called "Rush" that was substantially the same. If the code wasn't copied and refactored directly it was at least heavily based off Lerna. The MIT licence states that the copyright message must remain on such code, so if he is right (and a quick scan at the version he was talking about before Microsoft tried to obfuscate it suggests that he is) then Microsoft is violating the Lerna project contributors' copyright.
The discover is not the emotional component of procrastination, it's the physical component that can only be seen with a brain scan.
It's like how in physics many principals were known and thought to be true, but couldn't be proven and fully understood until the invention of particle accelerators.
It's impossible to separate politics from daily life, because politics is how we manage our daily lives. I say this as someone who was driven from their home, their family, their country of birth by politics.
But sometimes you also have to recognize that there are other issues. In this case the integrity of free software really matters. I take a hard line on it, I'm a strong supporter of the GPL and its principals, even when they meant that software can be used for evil.
They aren't about you.
Not sure I get your meaning here. Isn't caring about other people a pretty fundamental and important part of humanity? In fact people who really don't care about others are called psychopaths.
Surely that's not what you meant, but I feel like caring about the activities of ICE is important and a good thing. Especially when your actions at the voting booth directly lead to those actions and their effect on other people's lives.