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  1. We're Number One! on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    If you still think America is Number One...

    I have a bridge in Florida to sell you.

  2. Re:Insect's revenge on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should make it hard to overuse?

  3. But do they? on Why Humans Learn Faster Than AI (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    The fact that AlphaGo Zero taught itself how to play Go much better than the thousands of years humans have had to perfect the game shows AI is capable of learning much faster than humans.

    At this point, AI naysayers will go for the goalpost shifting argument tactic.

    The more I talk to people, even the very intelligent, the more I see that humans don't really learn all that well. People tend to literally refuse to learn.

  4. They've already started on that.

  5. Re: Obligitory Trump Bashing on After Rising For 100 Years, Electricity Demand is Flat (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    She stands for nothing but power for herself. So let's just let the other candidate roll in, who is even worse in that regard. Not only does he want power for himself, he only wants power for the sake of enriching himself. Yeah. Very clever of you to let the worser person win. That'll teach 'em.

  6. Re:self driving cars will do the same in fleet mod on Studies Are Increasingly Clear: Uber, Lyft Congest Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We all have to pay for something whether we want it or not. I don't want my cities congested. But yet, I'm paying for it with my time.

    There is no such thing as a free lunch. Internet libertarians seem to think they can overcome thermodynamics with an invisible (magical) hand.

  7. Avoid cargo cult programming on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    The ideas of "best practices" and "design patterns" lend themselves to cargo cult programming. So let them be aware of best practices and design patterns, but what you should teach is that you should keep refining code until either the deadline runs out, or there's nothing left to remove.

  8. Re:Job hopping on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    That only happens because they fucked over the good ones in the first place and now all you have left are these people.

    If they did the right thing the first time, then they wouldn't be in this trouble in the first place.

  9. Re:When I did Computer Science... on Scientists Are Failing To Replicate AI Studies (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Then your Computer Science course was wrong. If you did any basic machine learning unit, you'd know that randomized choices play a part in many algorithms.

  10. Re: Probably the sanest use of soldiers on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And the US is willing to forget that lesson bit by bit.

  11. Yet the space shuttle operation over the program's entire lifetime cost less than the F-35 and actually worked for the most part.

  12. Rust aims for thread safety only through the blunt tool of object lifetime management, but people make it out as though it performs magical compile time checks for deeper threading issues.

  13. Re:I am also terrified... by Rust! on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 2

    All the newest additions makes things more readable. Variadic templates are much easier (and faster) to use than the old hacky way of having dummy parameters. constexpr if is much better than using the SFINAE trick or #defines. lambdas are a godsend for using algorithms, or for callbacks or dependency injection. And auto is much better than having to remember the exact type of an object.

    These aren't the stuff of language geeks. Beginner C++ programmers find that stuff more easier.

    The problem is you. It's only unreadable because you're not familiar with it, but you conflate unfamiliarity with some deeper issue of unreadability. I can't read Rust because I don't use it. It doesn't mean Rust is unreadable.

    And syntactic hacks: so what? Just because you describe it with pejorative terms doesn't make it bad. Syntactic hacks are good because no one likes ugly looking code.

  14. Re:is this from the artist himself on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If people valued their "hard-earned" money, they wouldn't be wasting it on a live show that they're watching on their phone. This is about people getting their actual money's worth: seeing a skilled musician performing live, not through a screen.

  15. Re:I want OpenARM on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    We also need some kind of ARM Licence fee Exception Grant.

  16. Psychopath on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Charged; Faces 11 More Years in Prison (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    His earlier response shows he's a psychopath, so there' no doubt that he's only feeling remorseful "for the cameras", so to speak.

  17. Better yet, is Jim Inhofe (Fuckhofe) going to turn up to the Senate and throw a male turtle down on the floor?

  18. Denial on Sea Turtles Under Threat As Climate Change Turns Most Babies Female (futurism.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder what ad-hoc excuse the denialists will come up with this time. A mythical "pause" in the rate of increase of female sea turtles? Sea turtles that live in a specific layer of the upper atmosphere that doesn't fit the trend exactly? Sun spot effects on sea turtle embryonic development? They found a male sea turtle once, so the trend doesn't exist?

  19. What cryptocurrencies measure themselves against on South Korea Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The fact that cryptocurrencies are talked about in terms of "real money" (what's real?) means people know they are lying to themselves about their value. "Real money" today is already measured against a CPI. Until cryptocurrencies are measured against a CPI directly, and not through a proxy measure, it is a pointless currency.

  20. Re:The CEO who thinks differently is a fool on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 1
    If, as a CEO, you can't see opportunities in your own company, then you are a fool. If you already place limits on the opportunities in a hypothetical scenario, what are the chances you'll be any good as CEO in recognizing real opportunities?

    Especially the low-skilled labour.

    Funny how you say that AFTER I suggested, among one of the actions, is to train them with better skills to move them into higher skilled roles. CEOs tend to forget that humans have brains and can be trained with new skills. Loosing organizational knowledge is a hidden cost that CEOs tend to blind to.

  21. Re:The CEO who thinks differently is a fool on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but replacing the workers is only half of the equation. Different CEOs can do different things with the workers that were replaced, such as firing them, or take advantage of their experience and get them working/self-training on better stuff.

    The true fool is the CEO who thinks replace-and-fire is the whole of the strategy and a magical solution.

  22. Maybe they should interview a chair.

  23. Re:Don't have to go Amish to be happy on Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    don't have tens of thousands of dollars in college loan debt

    Pretty much means "don't live in the US". Live somewhere that gives a crap about intelligence and education.

  24. No, the really scary part is that there does not seem to be a time when sex trafficking will be so low that we will ever run out of real perpetrators to hunt.

  25. Re:It's Oprah's fault on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about not treating women like their only purpose is to get men off?