A 3% false positive rate is supposed to be meaningful? That means that 1 out of 33 people who try to login to something they are not authorized for will get in? How is this meaningful in any way? That number needs to decrease by several orders of magnitude before this wacky kludge of an idea should even be considered.
Do you know how many false positives you get from a password? Exactly the odds of someone typing your password in by random, or by guessing. If you pick a reasonable password, that figure will be astronomically small.
This device sounds to me like it hasn't even passed the proof-of-concept stage yet.
The problem is that OEMs seem much more interested in how much shovelware they can cram on to your machine than actually making it work. This goes double when you buy a phone.
I'll second the recommendation for Termux. SInce you can install python, clang, go, lua, etc. and a ton of console apps, you get a goodly portion of Linux desktop functionality right there on Android. No X, but you can be a Real Programmer and use the CLI.
I would have voted for Johnson, too. I mean, we liked our Presidents to be real men, and not be afraid of whipping out their, um, Johnsons. Nowadays you get crucified for saying that women would let you "grab them". In the good old days, our Presidents were horn dogs, gettin' it on with mobster's girlfriends and we liked it that way.
And the worst thing was putting spaces in names of standard directories so that every script that might break would break. Introducing support for spaces in filenames wasn't the problem. Forcing every Windows program and batch file to _have_ to deal with spaces in filenames, for no good reason, was the problem.
Actually, I really wish I could have taught my kids to drive stick. They're good drivers, but we didn't have a manual transmission car when they started driving, so they don't know how. I think learning to drive stick is analogous to learning to program with C. You can do fine without it, but I think you'll do better with it, and have skills that other people will lack.
Of course, it's been close to 30 years since someone who couldn't drive stick asked me to drive something for them, so maybe it's just an obsolete skill.
You are probably not typical of people who start programming as a kid, but I bet you got the fundamentals down better than people start with a higher level language. I started with BASIC in high-school, and in college, most of my software development classes used Pascal (this was the mid-80s). My first professional software development job in 1987 was using C++. I started C++ about 5 years later and have used it for the great majority of time since then. I use Python for side projects, but I still love C++.
The biggest problem I find in other developers is that the code they develop is often way more complex than it needs to be, often to the point where it's almost incomprehensible, even if what it's doing is relatively simple. Often it's a lack of knowledge of the capabilities of stuff like STL, but often it's just, I don't know, not thinking things through, or just not caring. I think laziness is probably the biggest problem in software development.
Defensive programming takes more effort, and it usually takes more thought to write something simple, because you need to design it first instead of just diving in. Creating meaningful and consistent names is probably the most bang-for-the-buck thing you can do when writing software, but very few people do it. Copy-and-paste coding is epidemic, and it causes nothing but pain in the long run. Correcting all these things doesn't always take a whole lot of expertise, but it does require effort and discipline, and those are usually what's lacking.
I read somewhere, can't provide a link, that before she passed away, Majel Barrett made comprehensive records so they could synthesize a computer voice using her voice in the future. It's a cool idea, if true. She always did the computer voice great.
Given that the stormtrooper Finn first fought with the lightsaber was using that weird club thing, I figured it's reasonable to assume that stormtroopers would have training in that kind of hand-to-hand combat, so that it was plausible for Finn to be able to wield a lightsaber with some proficiency. At least, that's my headcanon explanation.
If the Democrats put up another deeply-flawed and wholly unlikeable candidate again, I can see Trump winning a second term. This election was the Democrats' to lose, and they lost it with great aplomb. I've noticed one huge difference between Donald Trump and popular Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I think most people will agree that Trump is an ass, but unlike the Democrats (and a lot of Republicans for that matter, like John McCain), he doesn't regularly insult the voters. He will personally attack individuals, often in ways that are really tacky and immature, but I've never heard him say anything negative about the American people, not even subsets of Americans, like liberals. This is something the Democrats have clearly failed to learn, and a significant reason, I think, why people like Trump despite his flaws.
The gang member types, they can rot in the south pacific for all i care.
I'm from Tahiti, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, this is the real problem. If the border is a free-for-all, then there's no chance to filter the truly undesirables from the vast majority of people who are just looking for work and to take care of themselves or their families.
Our current immigration (non) policy gets the best of all worlds for everyone in the political world and the worst of both worlds for the the actual citizens. Democrats get lots of voters. Republicans get lots of cheap labor. The former can virtue signal about caring about these people (they don't, except in as much as they usually vote Democrat) and the latter can virtue signal about the rule of law (which they also don't care about as long as their business constituents benefit from the cheap labor).
The majority of Americans aren't opposed to immigration. They are opposed to illegal immigration, especially when that means that the gangbangers and drug runners have free rein and American cities are facing things like violence, kidnapping (see Phoenix) or outbreaks of diseases which had been previously eradicated generations ago.
Catholics and Orthodox do not worship Mary. Worship is due to God alone. We venerate and honor Mary much like secular society venerates people like Lincoln and Gandhi.
I don't think the mantra is "carbs are good", but "carbs are cheap".
The government's influence is clearly negative, probably as the result of great cynicism and/or greed, and is definitely causing great harm to citizens. However, I take exception to the idea that they are harming our health on purpose. I think they are harming our health because of indifference, bureaucratic inertia, and influence by corporations who value profits over everything. Since the results are the same, maybe the motives don't matter, but Hanlon's Razor almost certainly applies.
I would think that a little less cynical interpretation of the government's role is in order. I think the biggest problem is government corn subsidies. Sugar (or HFCS) is cheaper than air and it gets pumped into everything because it makes everything taste better, so it sells more. As we become accustomed to sweeter and sweeter foods (not to mention the fact that fruits and even many vegetables are being bred for higher and higher sugar content), we undergo the same kinds of problems people have when they develop tolerance for alcohol or drugs, except that our pancreases and other organs don't adapt as well as our senses of taste, so we end up being obese and diabetic, etc.
I'm overweight, and I try to eat well, but eating well takes more work and costs more, and I know there are a lot of things I do out of convenience or cost that make for a worse diet. No, I don't eat fast food normally... maybe once a week, often less, but the difference in cost between eating healthy food and eating stuff that's not good for you is very significant, if you want to have any satiety and variety in your diet.
What's insane is that while this has become common knowledge, the supermarket shelves are still filled with products based on the 80s idea of low-fat and high-carbs.
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A 3% false positive rate is supposed to be meaningful? That means that 1 out of 33 people who try to login to something they are not authorized for will get in? How is this meaningful in any way? That number needs to decrease by several orders of magnitude before this wacky kludge of an idea should even be considered.
Do you know how many false positives you get from a password? Exactly the odds of someone typing your password in by random, or by guessing. If you pick a reasonable password, that figure will be astronomically small.
This device sounds to me like it hasn't even passed the proof-of-concept stage yet.
The problem is that OEMs seem much more interested in how much shovelware they can cram on to your machine than actually making it work. This goes double when you buy a phone.
On this planet? Of course, there is. There's always more than one of almost everything!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'll second the recommendation for Termux. SInce you can install python, clang, go, lua, etc. and a ton of console apps, you get a goodly portion of Linux desktop functionality right there on Android. No X, but you can be a Real Programmer and use the CLI.
I would have voted for Johnson, too. I mean, we liked our Presidents to be real men, and not be afraid of whipping out their, um, Johnsons. Nowadays you get crucified for saying that women would let you "grab them". In the good old days, our Presidents were horn dogs, gettin' it on with mobster's girlfriends and we liked it that way.
Wait, which Johnson?
Oh, OK. I didn't realize that. Thanks for nit-picking my nit joke. :-)
Maybe OP was complaining about those little bugs in his hair.
Sure he was spelling it wrong, but that doesn't make him a moron.
No, they will do what they can with the people they have and call the results, no matter how horrible, the right thing.
And the worst thing was putting spaces in names of standard directories so that every script that might break would break. Introducing support for spaces in filenames wasn't the problem. Forcing every Windows program and batch file to _have_ to deal with spaces in filenames, for no good reason, was the problem.
Actually, I really wish I could have taught my kids to drive stick. They're good drivers, but we didn't have a manual transmission car when they started driving, so they don't know how. I think learning to drive stick is analogous to learning to program with C. You can do fine without it, but I think you'll do better with it, and have skills that other people will lack.
Of course, it's been close to 30 years since someone who couldn't drive stick asked me to drive something for them, so maybe it's just an obsolete skill.
You are probably not typical of people who start programming as a kid, but I bet you got the fundamentals down better than people start with a higher level language. I started with BASIC in high-school, and in college, most of my software development classes used Pascal (this was the mid-80s). My first professional software development job in 1987 was using C++. I started C++ about 5 years later and have used it for the great majority of time since then. I use Python for side projects, but I still love C++.
The biggest problem I find in other developers is that the code they develop is often way more complex than it needs to be, often to the point where it's almost incomprehensible, even if what it's doing is relatively simple. Often it's a lack of knowledge of the capabilities of stuff like STL, but often it's just, I don't know, not thinking things through, or just not caring. I think laziness is probably the biggest problem in software development.
Defensive programming takes more effort, and it usually takes more thought to write something simple, because you need to design it first instead of just diving in. Creating meaningful and consistent names is probably the most bang-for-the-buck thing you can do when writing software, but very few people do it. Copy-and-paste coding is epidemic, and it causes nothing but pain in the long run. Correcting all these things doesn't always take a whole lot of expertise, but it does require effort and discipline, and those are usually what's lacking.
I read somewhere, can't provide a link, that before she passed away, Majel Barrett made comprehensive records so they could synthesize a computer voice using her voice in the future. It's a cool idea, if true. She always did the computer voice great.
You're comment is very good except for one thing: Google is still evil. They are more evil than ever.
Given that the stormtrooper Finn first fought with the lightsaber was using that weird club thing, I figured it's reasonable to assume that stormtroopers would have training in that kind of hand-to-hand combat, so that it was plausible for Finn to be able to wield a lightsaber with some proficiency. At least, that's my headcanon explanation.
Stimpy, on the other hand, pwned them all.
I don't click on the ad in the case you describe above, because I simply don't trust the ad to be what it appears.
If the Democrats put up another deeply-flawed and wholly unlikeable candidate again, I can see Trump winning a second term. This election was the Democrats' to lose, and they lost it with great aplomb. I've noticed one huge difference between Donald Trump and popular Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I think most people will agree that Trump is an ass, but unlike the Democrats (and a lot of Republicans for that matter, like John McCain), he doesn't regularly insult the voters. He will personally attack individuals, often in ways that are really tacky and immature, but I've never heard him say anything negative about the American people, not even subsets of Americans, like liberals. This is something the Democrats have clearly failed to learn, and a significant reason, I think, why people like Trump despite his flaws.
Nah, Simon wasn't a phone.
Now Merlin on the other hand... just look at it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The gang member types, they can rot in the south pacific for all i care.
I'm from Tahiti, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, this is the real problem. If the border is a free-for-all, then there's no chance to filter the truly undesirables from the vast majority of people who are just looking for work and to take care of themselves or their families.
Our current immigration (non) policy gets the best of all worlds for everyone in the political world and the worst of both worlds for the the actual citizens. Democrats get lots of voters. Republicans get lots of cheap labor. The former can virtue signal about caring about these people (they don't, except in as much as they usually vote Democrat) and the latter can virtue signal about the rule of law (which they also don't care about as long as their business constituents benefit from the cheap labor).
The majority of Americans aren't opposed to immigration. They are opposed to illegal immigration, especially when that means that the gangbangers and drug runners have free rein and American cities are facing things like violence, kidnapping (see Phoenix) or outbreaks of diseases which had been previously eradicated generations ago.
But yeah, we're all racists, blah, blah, blah.
Catholics and Orthodox do not worship Mary. Worship is due to God alone. We venerate and honor Mary much like secular society venerates people like Lincoln and Gandhi.
I think we are talking past each other a bit. I think your assessment is accurate.
I don't think the mantra is "carbs are good", but "carbs are cheap".
The government's influence is clearly negative, probably as the result of great cynicism and/or greed, and is definitely causing great harm to citizens. However, I take exception to the idea that they are harming our health on purpose. I think they are harming our health because of indifference, bureaucratic inertia, and influence by corporations who value profits over everything. Since the results are the same, maybe the motives don't matter, but Hanlon's Razor almost certainly applies.
I would think that a little less cynical interpretation of the government's role is in order. I think the biggest problem is government corn subsidies. Sugar (or HFCS) is cheaper than air and it gets pumped into everything because it makes everything taste better, so it sells more. As we become accustomed to sweeter and sweeter foods (not to mention the fact that fruits and even many vegetables are being bred for higher and higher sugar content), we undergo the same kinds of problems people have when they develop tolerance for alcohol or drugs, except that our pancreases and other organs don't adapt as well as our senses of taste, so we end up being obese and diabetic, etc.
I'm overweight, and I try to eat well, but eating well takes more work and costs more, and I know there are a lot of things I do out of convenience or cost that make for a worse diet. No, I don't eat fast food normally... maybe once a week, often less, but the difference in cost between eating healthy food and eating stuff that's not good for you is very significant, if you want to have any satiety and variety in your diet.
What's insane is that while this has become common knowledge, the supermarket shelves are still filled with products based on the 80s idea of low-fat and high-carbs.
That's because it's in a write-only language called "marketingese". It has no meaning.