You're probably the exception. I have numerous friends who are millenials, A disturbing number of them have no savings, no significant assets (don't own their own house), have kids to provide for, and no plans for retirement other than assuming the government's grand Ponzi scheme will still be running in 20-30 years' time.
I would have expected that everyone wants functional programming. Well, except for people being specifically paid to fix up dysfunctional programming, but I'll take functional code any day of the week.
Simple medical problems are simple. Typical medical problems are not.
Oh I don't know, I've always had great success treating patients using a course of leeches. A leech on the ear for ear ache, a leech on the bottom for constipation, just pop a couple down your codpiece before your go to bed.
There's nothing indicating that the second or third opinion is correct.
Or will lead to a different outcome. The article says that in 21% of cases the diagnosis was completely changed, but not what the outcome of the treatment was. For a non-medical analogy, consider you have a rotting deck that needs fixing. You ask five builders in for a quote and get give different ways of addressing the problem. Most of them will probably end up fixing your deck, but they're all slightly different. Does this mean any of them are right or wrong?
An example from the medical field is blood pressure. Doctors are rewarded by their HMOs (see Goodhart's Law) for getting blood pressure within certain limits, so they aim for that even when it doesn't make sense - you get far, far more effect from lowering blood pressure at the extremes, even if you don't hit your target, compared to lowering it a few percent to hit your target.
So while the results are interesting, this needs more work to determine whether it's actually an issue or not.
Since the article that reports this has followed the standard media practice of never, ever linking to the paper whose results you're mangling, here's a link to the original. You're pretty close, the top tool is LogMeIn, followed by Citrix, followed by TeamViewer. Looks like we need to get those banned under the CFAA as hacker tools.
Ah, so I'm not the only person who had that as their first system. In my case it was a 68K done with Vero Speedwire, all 3,000 connections, with an NS455-based video subsystem. I had more fun designing and hacking around with the hardware than anything else, once I got the monitor running on it I kinda lost interest because all the cool stuff had been done.
The summary should have clarified that this does not involve St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. The article seems to be about a facility in California.
Exactly. The one they're talking about is St.Jude Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes and Buggy Medical Devices Inc, California.
The U.S. has used F-16 drones before as realistic targets for the F-35 to blow up in training
Sorta like MS discontinuing support for new processors/chipsets in order to force people onto Win10, the Air Farce has finally figured out how to get the F-35 adopted: Destroy anything else that might compete with it so you don't have any choice.
Correct. There's been a lot of work done on this, you can identify encrypted video, voice, web browsing, you name it. They just happened to target Netflix this time.
My only complaint with the work is that this stuff isn't exactly news, it's been known for years. The only novel aspect is that they get 99.99% accuracy while others have got lower accuracy scores... of course that's for blind ID, not using a fixed training data set.
That depends on what you value. If you value having 19 nuclear aircraft carrier groups which enable the ability to interfere in anybody's business anywhere in the world pretty much at a moment's notice, US taxes are quite reasonable.
It's still pretty unreasonable. Scandinavians have lutfisk and surstromming and rakfisk and other unspeakable weapons, which scare me a lot more than some floating airstrip does, and are much better value for money. So it's not how much money you have, it's how you spend it.
So we've had the loudness wars and now the shortness wars. By the time the rest of Idiocracy becomes real, songs will be just one 120dB ear-splitting bang that lasts two seconds.
The whole article seems to be pretty sycophantic, for example:
the browser was unfairly labeled as a memory hog
"unfairly"? I guess Hitler was also unfairly labelled as being a bit antisemitic, but he wasn't really such a bad guy when you got to know him. Firefox is the single biggest memory hog on my machine, it's currently using more memory than all other apps and the OS combined, and that's SOP, not some one-off that's just popped up today.
Yes they are. The fact that they don't work is entirely different to the concepts within the scope of discussion. Whether or not it works is irrelevant.
"Here's a solution. It's gonna be great, you'll love it. The fact that it doesn't work is irrelevant".
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I'm a millennial and expect to retire at 55.
You're probably the exception. I have numerous friends who are millenials, A disturbing number of them have no savings, no significant assets (don't own their own house), have kids to provide for, and no plans for retirement other than assuming the government's grand Ponzi scheme will still be running in 20-30 years' time.
I pulled my data out of the cloud when I realized that I didn't need to have it on the Internet 24/7.
Pity T J Maxx, Target, and Yahoo didn't do the same.
Naah, they should have used StackOverflow's programming tutorials instead.
I would have expected that everyone wants functional programming. Well, except for people being specifically paid to fix up dysfunctional programming, but I'll take functional code any day of the week.
They did two independent studies and both had the same result.
There's also a litte-known third study, done several years earlier, that confirms the results.
"Windows 10 ain't done until Kaby Lake don't run".
Wait, wasn't there something similar from Microsoft in the 1908s?
MorsÃrfossar... I'm curious, what was it called before the earthquake shook up the name?
AÃfmoosssrrr.
The Miss would have jumped over to the Atchafalaya channel years ago
Is that the one that looks like a shark?
so now you have two coders looking at every line of code?
You really only need one, as long as the one is called something like Knuth or Venema.
Simple medical problems are simple. Typical medical problems are not.
Oh I don't know, I've always had great success treating patients using a course of leeches. A leech on the ear for ear ache, a leech on the bottom for constipation, just pop a couple down your codpiece before your go to bed.
Signed: Dr. Hoffmann of Stuttgart.
There's nothing indicating that the second or third opinion is correct.
Or will lead to a different outcome. The article says that in 21% of cases the diagnosis was completely changed, but not what the outcome of the treatment was. For a non-medical analogy, consider you have a rotting deck that needs fixing. You ask five builders in for a quote and get give different ways of addressing the problem. Most of them will probably end up fixing your deck, but they're all slightly different. Does this mean any of them are right or wrong?
An example from the medical field is blood pressure. Doctors are rewarded by their HMOs (see Goodhart's Law) for getting blood pressure within certain limits, so they aim for that even when it doesn't make sense - you get far, far more effect from lowering blood pressure at the extremes, even if you don't hit your target, compared to lowering it a few percent to hit your target.
So while the results are interesting, this needs more work to determine whether it's actually an issue or not.
the paper whose results you're mangling
Ooops, that was meant to be saying that the media mangles scientific research results, not the OP.
Since the article that reports this has followed the standard media practice of never, ever linking to the paper whose results you're mangling, here's a link to the original. You're pretty close, the top tool is LogMeIn, followed by Citrix, followed by TeamViewer. Looks like we need to get those banned under the CFAA as hacker tools.
Ah, so I'm not the only person who had that as their first system. In my case it was a 68K done with Vero Speedwire, all 3,000 connections, with an NS455-based video subsystem. I had more fun designing and hacking around with the hardware than anything else, once I got the monitor running on it I kinda lost interest because all the cool stuff had been done.
The summary should have clarified that this does not involve St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. The article seems to be about a facility in California.
Exactly. The one they're talking about is St.Jude Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes and Buggy Medical Devices Inc, California.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
The U.S. has used F-16 drones before as realistic targets for the F-35 to blow up in training
Sorta like MS discontinuing support for new processors/chipsets in order to force people onto Win10, the Air Farce has finally figured out how to get the F-35 adopted: Destroy anything else that might compete with it so you don't have any choice.
Correct. There's been a lot of work done on this, you can identify encrypted video, voice, web browsing, you name it. They just happened to target Netflix this time. My only complaint with the work is that this stuff isn't exactly news, it's been known for years. The only novel aspect is that they get 99.99% accuracy while others have got lower accuracy scores... of course that's for blind ID, not using a fixed training data set.
That depends on what you value. If you value having 19 nuclear aircraft carrier groups which enable the ability to interfere in anybody's business anywhere in the world pretty much at a moment's notice, US taxes are quite reasonable.
It's still pretty unreasonable. Scandinavians have lutfisk and surstromming and rakfisk and other unspeakable weapons, which scare me a lot more than some floating airstrip does, and are much better value for money. So it's not how much money you have, it's how you spend it.
So we've had the loudness wars and now the shortness wars. By the time the rest of Idiocracy becomes real, songs will be just one 120dB ear-splitting bang that lasts two seconds.
The whole article seems to be pretty sycophantic, for example:
the browser was unfairly labeled as a memory hog
"unfairly"? I guess Hitler was also unfairly labelled as being a bit antisemitic, but he wasn't really such a bad guy when you got to know him. Firefox is the single biggest memory hog on my machine, it's currently using more memory than all other apps and the OS combined, and that's SOP, not some one-off that's just popped up today.
I also don't like the UI, who needs sliders and whatnot when all they need to add are the following config toggles:
[X] Use 100% of CPU performing almost any operation.
[X] Consume GB of memory with more than a handful of web pages open.
[X] Leak memory.
[X] Burn up CPU and run down the laptop battery while doing absolutely nothing.
Then you could just uncheck all those enabled-by-default options and get decent performance from your browser.
Exactly. Humano pibil is actually pretty nice provided they weren't smokers and got at least a bit of exercise on occasion.
It also depends on what you compare it to. Bhutan, for example, hasn't had a recession ever as far as I know.
Yes they are. The fact that they don't work is entirely different to the concepts within the scope of discussion.
Whether or not it works is irrelevant.
"Here's a solution. It's gonna be great, you'll love it. The fact that it doesn't work is irrelevant".
Wait.... Donald, is that you? Mr. President?