And nobody wants to fucking see them in films they paid to see, and had to watch ads and trailers as well, unless it's a character that's necessarily a fatty.
Yeah, the thing is... reviled as evolutionary psychology is for its quotation as part of many social-darwinist pieces, it does very cleanly trump things like Freudian, or (much worse!) Lacanian theories of the mind. This does nothing to take it out of the bracket of soft sciences on its own, and its productions are still subject to political oversight -- which is to say, the social darwinist upshot isn't going to get implemented, this isn't the damn 1900s, we've learned our lessons with medical experiments on the infirm.
This is a pretty nice ideal until you gotta feed a program something that another program output. Like a PDF file generated by dvipdfmx (or some such), to a PDF reader (like mupdf).
Unless each program is intended to be its own little fiefdom, dealing in at most persistent application state. But those are knick-knacks and games at best.
My hypothesis is that the so-called Java Generation was taught from their individual beginnings to always go further from "low-level" code. Subsequently the definition of "low level" has changed so that e.g. setting parameters in a template engine to generate HTML on server side is considered "low level" and beneath the programmer (or, more likely, too scary to get into).
They fear the computer. So they resort to bloat in order to make it less frightening. In truth we've had MMUs in every computer since the mid-nineties, so their worries and their anthropomorphized segfaults have been pointless since (typically) before their births.
Jon Blow only knows about micro-optimizations. Worse, his are the ones from the Pentium era, when instruction pairing was significant and syscalls were bloody slow.
As such, he'll fall victim to architectural bloat just as previous prophet-wannabes have, and then he'll have no idea how to paint himself out again. His preemptive solutions will be worthless, and his fixes will be a decade out of date at birth.
Look, even Safari shouldn't take more than 1/60 of a second to start. It's a web browser that starts to a blank page; it shouldn't spend two seconds figuring out which part is elbow and which is arse.
Two seconds is like, 4 billion clock cycles on a single ARM core. On desktops it's far more. Multicore programs can spend cycles on other cores as well. And it shouldn't fucking take a hundred million clocks to fucking start a fucking program to its fucking first empty screen.
It's like the journalist is trying to shove ordinary industry co-operation (or "collusion") into some kind of a conspiracy template. Even the/. abstract starts out with emissions something-or-other, sounding like it's about emissions cheating like WV etc., but then it comes down to allegations of price-fixing of diesel exhaust fluid and BMW building their diesel cars' tanks for it too small.
Not exactly a scandal here, not an environmental "we're all gonna die because of the free market solution being collusion and cheating" kind of scenario.
Rather, it's the claim that even the very best programmers are shitty and need a compiler to handhold them by force. The shitty average uses Java, or other languages that succeeded at memory safety while approximating C's performance (over time, as JIT profiling kicks in).
The problem with Rust is that the only modes of concurrency it permits are "write before publication, read only until disposal", single copy (arbitrated by channels), and various unsafe BYOB things. This isn't enough for the cost it exacts from e.g. algorithms and data structures. Me, I like my languages with doubly linked lists that aren't built on reference counting.
Worse, since DRM tends to require direct, encrypted, "trusted" access to a DRM'd audio/video output path, these closed source modules will necessarily be in a privileged position. As in, direct access to DMA hardware privileged. The damage this level of access can do is unlimited, and will never be subject to sandboxing.
>I am white, and I don't get offended at people insulting my race.
Calls for structural discrimination against whites is always an item of racism that you, even if you weren't white, are obliged to oppose; or fall short of the generally-approved ideas concerning the abolition of racism.
>It's impossible because it's not possible for them to be victimized in that way.
Yeah, that's what the racist would say. Can't possibly murder a negro; at most it's damage to property, right?
>Having your feelings hurt != hate speech.
Concrete discrimination against whites today starts from exactly the ideology where whitey cannot possibly be hurt, or damaged, or discriminated against in any way. So we have things like gender-based admission quotas that stop applying the second that the proportion of women to men increases past 1:1, 3:2, or whatever it was; and assistance for the underclasses that're deliberately inapplicable to white people regardless of background.
The author goes off the deep end when her ideology comes out somewhere halfway through the summary. To wit, the bit where she decries the disallowing of hate speech against white men in particular, because it's of course not possible to hate-speak against whitey for ~reasons~.
It's still striking how inefficient the process was, like, fifty years ago. On the other hand fifty years is nearly two generations, so perhaps the writer was underemphasizing the degree of advancement over that time.
On the third hand, we're going to need some better economic models than the one where replaced workers go starve. Used to be that retirees would be fired one month before their time was done, so that the per-company private pension system wouldn't have to cough up; that incentive doesn't exist anymore.
I'm not aware how anesthesiology is related to smartphones and/or children. This sounds more like he's failed as a parent, or that his kids are turning out indoorsy (just like he did, being a doctor and all).
Anyway, he seems to be at a certain age where he's willing to get his knickers in a twist like he had menopause, which is weird for a guy.
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Hasn't killed anyone yet.
And nobody wants to fucking see them in films they paid to see, and had to watch ads and trailers as well, unless it's a character that's necessarily a fatty.
Or SNUSP, the other path-routing esolang?
Yeah, the thing is... reviled as evolutionary psychology is for its quotation as part of many social-darwinist pieces, it does very cleanly trump things like Freudian, or (much worse!) Lacanian theories of the mind. This does nothing to take it out of the bracket of soft sciences on its own, and its productions are still subject to political oversight -- which is to say, the social darwinist upshot isn't going to get implemented, this isn't the damn 1900s, we've learned our lessons with medical experiments on the infirm.
> Sandbox everything 100%, FTW.
This is a pretty nice ideal until you gotta feed a program something that another program output. Like a PDF file generated by dvipdfmx (or some such), to a PDF reader (like mupdf).
Unless each program is intended to be its own little fiefdom, dealing in at most persistent application state. But those are knick-knacks and games at best.
My hypothesis is that the so-called Java Generation was taught from their individual beginnings to always go further from "low-level" code. Subsequently the definition of "low level" has changed so that e.g. setting parameters in a template engine to generate HTML on server side is considered "low level" and beneath the programmer (or, more likely, too scary to get into).
They fear the computer. So they resort to bloat in order to make it less frightening. In truth we've had MMUs in every computer since the mid-nineties, so their worries and their anthropomorphized segfaults have been pointless since (typically) before their births.
Like I said: idiots.
Jon Blow only knows about micro-optimizations. Worse, his are the ones from the Pentium era, when instruction pairing was significant and syscalls were bloody slow.
As such, he'll fall victim to architectural bloat just as previous prophet-wannabes have, and then he'll have no idea how to paint himself out again. His preemptive solutions will be worthless, and his fixes will be a decade out of date at birth.
Look, even Safari shouldn't take more than 1/60 of a second to start. It's a web browser that starts to a blank page; it shouldn't spend two seconds figuring out which part is elbow and which is arse.
Two seconds is like, 4 billion clock cycles on a single ARM core. On desktops it's far more. Multicore programs can spend cycles on other cores as well. And it shouldn't fucking take a hundred million clocks to fucking start a fucking program to its fucking first empty screen.
It's 2017 and programs still have a "loading screen".
Idiots, all of you.
It's like the journalist is trying to shove ordinary industry co-operation (or "collusion") into some kind of a conspiracy template. Even the /. abstract starts out with emissions something-or-other, sounding like it's about emissions cheating like WV etc., but then it comes down to allegations of price-fixing of diesel exhaust fluid and BMW building their diesel cars' tanks for it too small.
Not exactly a scandal here, not an environmental "we're all gonna die because of the free market solution being collusion and cheating" kind of scenario.
Rather, it's the claim that even the very best programmers are shitty and need a compiler to handhold them by force. The shitty average uses Java, or other languages that succeeded at memory safety while approximating C's performance (over time, as JIT profiling kicks in).
The problem with Rust is that the only modes of concurrency it permits are "write before publication, read only until disposal", single copy (arbitrated by channels), and various unsafe BYOB things. This isn't enough for the cost it exacts from e.g. algorithms and data structures. Me, I like my languages with doubly linked lists that aren't built on reference counting.
Conversely, commodity things are no better with arab-approved bling-bling.
Worse, since DRM tends to require direct, encrypted, "trusted" access to a DRM'd audio/video output path, these closed source modules will necessarily be in a privileged position. As in, direct access to DMA hardware privileged. The damage this level of access can do is unlimited, and will never be subject to sandboxing.
And I think he's long for a pie to the face.
AI has a transparency problem. A massive, huge one. This'll be made worse as people learn to trust the computer, and to regard it as their friend.
How exciting!
>By assuming it's just not possible for them to be discriminated against, [...]
Moreover this assures that discrimination is exactly what will happen.
>I am white, and I don't get offended at people insulting my race.
Calls for structural discrimination against whites is always an item of racism that you, even if you weren't white, are obliged to oppose; or fall short of the generally-approved ideas concerning the abolition of racism.
>It's impossible because it's not possible for them to be victimized in that way.
Yeah, that's what the racist would say. Can't possibly murder a negro; at most it's damage to property, right?
>Having your feelings hurt != hate speech.
Concrete discrimination against whites today starts from exactly the ideology where whitey cannot possibly be hurt, or damaged, or discriminated against in any way. So we have things like gender-based admission quotas that stop applying the second that the proportion of women to men increases past 1:1, 3:2, or whatever it was; and assistance for the underclasses that're deliberately inapplicable to white people regardless of background.
The author goes off the deep end when her ideology comes out somewhere halfway through the summary. To wit, the bit where she decries the disallowing of hate speech against white men in particular, because it's of course not possible to hate-speak against whitey for ~reasons~.
One planet among many. Why should humanity stay just here?
It's still striking how inefficient the process was, like, fifty years ago. On the other hand fifty years is nearly two generations, so perhaps the writer was underemphasizing the degree of advancement over that time.
On the third hand, we're going to need some better economic models than the one where replaced workers go starve. Used to be that retirees would be fired one month before their time was done, so that the per-company private pension system wouldn't have to cough up; that incentive doesn't exist anymore.
Now where can I get myself some assembling machine threes...
I'm not aware how anesthesiology is related to smartphones and/or children. This sounds more like he's failed as a parent, or that his kids are turning out indoorsy (just like he did, being a doctor and all).
Anyway, he seems to be at a certain age where he's willing to get his knickers in a twist like he had menopause, which is weird for a guy.
What would he know about AI, outside of chess? I suppose he's got opinions about economics next.