the use of sizeof on pointers isn't the worst, but it is near the worst. The worst is the fact that bitwise operators don't do what you expect in boolean expressions, because their precedence is incorrectly specified, or that '=' is allowed in any expression (including those you may have wished to type '==' in)
I'm happy I use python or matlab for everything these days. Using "C" was just getting annoying, living in terror of forgetting to initialize a pointer, having it then pick up crap from the stack, use it to silently corrupt memory, and then attack me several billion instructions later.
There are entire teams of people dedicated to finding things like that at cisco, where the collision of 30 million lines of C code with newly minted java programmers invariably produces hundreds of these untraceable errors per year. No wonder nobody wants to install the newer release trains anymore.
General Relativity predicted that light would be affected by Sun's gravitational field, which was later observed during a solar eclipse, which is a naturally occurring event.
Actually, that experiment has been replicated many times. The sun and moon were both part of the apparatus used to conduct the experiment.
I grant that some fields have difficult time with replication. Consider economics. There are 'natural experiments' that occur because of policy changes. However, replicating them can rarely be done, due to the complexity, and also due to the ethical implications.
However, this is rarely true in psychology. Those experiments can be redone cheaply again and again. The fact that they aren't replicated has more to do with lack of will than anything else.
Someone needs to start a journal of 'reproducible results', that will only publish articles about experiments that have results which have been replicated by three independent teams. To hell with reviewers, they just push their hidden agendas anyway.
This isn't how evolution works. It doesn't work on groups, it works on individuals. So, unless high-T folks got less food than they needed, and thus did not reproduce as often, high-T-ism would not decrease in the population.
If it is true that high testosterone increases one's ability to compete for food and mates (which it does) then it should increase over all, since the high-T guys would reproduce more often.
So, having testosterone levels drop suddenly is a puzzle. There was probably some unrelated mutation that conferred a benefit, like disease resistance, that swept through the population, and that had low-T as a side effect. That would have allowed the small groups to coalesce into larger groups, due to lowered levels of competition.
I've been rewatching the original star trek. The monsters in "Operation: Annihilate!" are flying bags of joke vomit
In another episode, the monster in "The Devil in the Dark" was basically a rug with lights in it.
The only reasonable sets I can recall from the period was Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Talk about lovingly hand crafted sets. 10 years before had such masterpieces as "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (sets a bit wonky, but fun) and "Forbidden Planet". Now those were fun sets. "Gort! Klatu barada nikto!"
I'm always amazed at how many people that outright reject Rush Limbaugh still listen to his show.
I tried listening to his show in 2003* at one point. After a few minutes, I was literally yelling at my radio. Never again...
* I know it was 2003, because it happened while I was driving to a job I particularly hated, that forced me to drive in during rush hour. I quit in mid 2003, after 4 months.
And perhaps, instead of waking up every day wondering if today is the day the Yellowstone super volcano or a planet killer comet wipes us all out, we should just dance (and code) while the sun shines and not worry so much about the future.
"My name is X, and legal service may be made to Y. Acting on behalf of the information identified at Z I assert under penalty of perjury my belief that the material does not infringe a copyright as claimed. I request and require that the material be restored until such time as any dispute regarding infringement is resolved at law. I respectfully remind you that only timely compliance with this put-back notice absolves you of liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
That's it. That's all you say. Nothing more. Nothing less. You don't have to justify yourself. In fact, you SHOULDN'T justify yourself -- that just gives the bastards ammo. Your rights convey from the bare assertion. Let the bastards drag any justification out of your lawyer if they dare.
So, they took down the sources for cyanogenmod. Do you have any idea what you would be claiming is not patented by them if you sent this little note? They could sue you for damages.
51 of the 53 Dixicrats went back to the DNC, the GOP got 1 and a few years later got a second one. Notable ones sticking with the DNC are Robert Byrd, who personally ran a filibuster the Civil Rights act, and Al Gore Sr. Byrd was celebrated as a hero of the DNC a few years ago when he finally died.
So we have 96% of the racist Dixicrats going to the DNC, and 4% going to the GOP. In order to make your point you had to outright lie, but you just got called out on it.
Cisco made me sign a 'MUST COMPETE" clause when I took their retirement package. They gave me a year's salary, 2 years of health care, and said I couldn't come back, or work for a contractor on cisco contracts for 2 years. So, in order to work, I had to work for a competitor.
Very clever of them. They offered that to every employee over 50 that had 5 years or more of service, other than 'distinguished engineers', who were deemed indispensable. So, much of their intellectual property (such as it is) was transferred to their competitors.
I started getting calls from prior managers the week the 2 year time limit was over. Not a bad paid vacation, hey?
Whilst I have no patience for people using alternative medicine over real medicine, it's over-stating to say that it killed him. He would most likely have still died had he gone for real medical treatment straight away.
Actually, the type of tumor Jobs had is typically survivable, at least according to a harvard medical school researcher. I was also going to state that he lived longer than most people with pancreatic cancer, but found out that he didn't have adenocarcinoma, which is the bad kind. He probably could have lived.
He tried to outsmart his cancer. Once he gave in, he did go to great lengths to survive, since he had a whipple procedure, a liver transplant, had his cancer sequenced, and got targeted chemotherapy.
it is to our advantage to pay for their contraception. then, we won't have to pay for their unwanted children, and they won't be saddled with a kid they don't want and can't take care of.
Actually, the government already pays for contraception for church workers. They are going to step up and pay for it here too, I suspect. That means YOU are going to pay for it, instead of the hobby brothers.
It is their property. They have a right to sell sandwiches. The NASA budget these days means they probably pay the security guard's salary out of the proceeds of those sandwiches. So, he has a vested interest in making sure you don't smuggle in your own food.
Actually, the thing I hate is when they make me leave my 'tinker' swiss army knife behind. The thing is so dull it'll only strip wires, but I guess you never know. Watch out! Fat bald guy with a tiny pocket knife! It was on my keychain until I got sick of having to walk back to the car. Now, of course, I never have a knife when I need one.
A few years ago, there were a couple of black guys who evaded capture for weeks after killing people with sniper rifles at target stores on the east coast. DWB is a well-known cop attractant.
If Iran really wanted to mess with the US, they could dispatch 100 teams of well spoken/well dressed people to hang out around walmarts and freeway overpasses. These hitmen wouldn't even need to bring their own weapons. They could get better ones here at gun shows and by mail order. It would stop commerce completely, tank our 'financial markets', and cause mass chaos.
Add a few dozen really big fertilizer bombs, and 20 bizjets flown into high value targets like the white house, congress, and the various stock exchanges, and our government would be effectively brought to its knees.
Given that, flying my parrot drone around the neighborhood seems unlikely to be a bother.
I used to have a doctor who, rather than actually examining me, would quiz me about software engineering. That was all he was interested in. He eventually left Kaiser to start a small programming business. So, I guess it goes the other way as well. He wasn't very good at being a doctor. This was the late 80s, so he is probably a billionaire venture capitalist by now.
I don't want to be a dick here, since we are clearly on the same side of most of this. However, you can't really call a decrease in government employment an increase because the private sector lost more jobs. That is faulty logic. In addition, during the sort of recession we've been through, you WANT to spend more government dollars to promote demand. The fact that government spending has gone down for the last 4 years (as a percent of GDP) is due to misguided nonsense like saying that government employment and private employment are a zero sum game. Not even close to being true.
I am really just pointing out that government is already pretty efficient. You claim to work in an agency that is really efficient, but you say that it isn't as efficient as any business. You probably haven't worked in business much. I've worked in various large, successful computer companies over the years (cisco and apple spring to mind. Cisco in particular is 'known' for being cheap), and they are all incredibly inefficient, starting projects and then canning them, buying lots of crap they don't need when they are having a good year, running parallel development efforts, and laying off whole teams they will just need to rebuild in a year. Other things include buying shit nobody needs because "if you don't use up your budget, they will cut it next year". At cisco, there are about 20 labs, each of which have thousands of routers for 'testing and development'. In my racks, at least 80% of the machines were powered on and unused most of the time. This was true of most of the other racks. The power waste must have been 10s of millions of dollars per year, with equivalent air conditioning costs. Nobody cared.
I get what you are saying about government, and not wanting it to be efficient, but that is wrong. Government is obviously not a business (which is why business guys like Bush and Cheney don't really understand it;) it has different goals. However, given a mandate and resources, it should effectively fulfill that mandate using the least amount of resources possible. Serving the most people with the given resources is a matter of pride for many in government (state government, and I suspect federal government.)
The post office won't ever make a profit, but, as you say, that isn't its purpose.
It's not really fraud. If they were still advertising the specs of the hardware they no longer ship, yes. That would be misleading advertising and is illegal in many countries.
It's a little more complicated when it's other people not affiliated with the seller who are making the claims.
It could just be a coincidence that the first production runs yielded better devices while later runs, while still meeting advertised specs, were not so good.
Did you read the article? They swapped out synchronous for asynchronous NAND, which seems to have a large effect on throughput. The graph they show is startling. However, I agree that it isn't fraud. There was no implied contract to ship synchronous NAND. They also are shipping product that conforms to the original claims (just not the claims of reviewers).
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They could also put in 4 hours of making license plates. That would help with the funding of schools too.
In California, you can get educational waivers for kids in public schools for trips that have educational value.
the use of sizeof on pointers isn't the worst, but it is near the worst. The worst is the fact that bitwise operators don't do what you expect in boolean expressions, because their precedence is incorrectly specified, or that '=' is allowed in any expression (including those you may have wished to type '==' in)
I'm happy I use python or matlab for everything these days. Using "C" was just getting annoying, living in terror of forgetting to initialize a pointer, having it then pick up crap from the stack, use it to silently corrupt memory, and then attack me several billion instructions later.
There are entire teams of people dedicated to finding things like that at cisco, where the collision of 30 million lines of C code with newly minted java programmers invariably produces hundreds of these untraceable errors per year. No wonder nobody wants to install the newer release trains anymore.
General Relativity predicted that light would be affected by Sun's gravitational field, which was later observed during a solar eclipse, which is a naturally occurring event.
Actually, that experiment has been replicated many times. The sun and moon were both part of the apparatus used to conduct the experiment.
I grant that some fields have difficult time with replication. Consider economics. There are 'natural experiments' that occur because of policy changes. However, replicating them can rarely be done, due to the complexity, and also due to the ethical implications.
However, this is rarely true in psychology. Those experiments can be redone cheaply again and again. The fact that they aren't replicated has more to do with lack of will than anything else.
Someone needs to start a journal of 'reproducible results', that will only publish articles about experiments that have results which have been replicated by three independent teams. To hell with reviewers, they just push their hidden agendas anyway.
This isn't how evolution works. It doesn't work on groups, it works on individuals. So, unless high-T folks got less food than they needed, and thus did not reproduce as often, high-T-ism would not decrease in the population.
If it is true that high testosterone increases one's ability to compete for food and mates (which it does) then it should increase over all, since the high-T guys would reproduce more often.
So, having testosterone levels drop suddenly is a puzzle. There was probably some unrelated mutation that conferred a benefit, like disease resistance, that swept through the population, and that had low-T as a side effect. That would have allowed the small groups to coalesce into larger groups, due to lowered levels of competition.
Hmmm. Here is an article that seems to assert the opposite. It is newer (2012 vs 2009 for your link.)
Here is another article, that suggests that testosterone actually affects dominance, which makes more sense, and supports the original article.
I've been rewatching the original star trek. The monsters in "Operation: Annihilate!" are flying bags of joke vomit
In another episode, the monster in "The Devil in the Dark" was basically a rug with lights in it.
The only reasonable sets I can recall from the period was Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Talk about lovingly hand crafted sets. 10 years before had such masterpieces as "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (sets a bit wonky, but fun) and "Forbidden Planet". Now those were fun sets. "Gort! Klatu barada nikto!"
Ah, like the original star trek, and their lovingly crafted Styrofoam rocks. Yep, the good old days.
Automation and/or skyrocketing inequality will soon bring capitalism as we know it today crashing down. This is just sticking your finger in the dam.
The only way forward that doesn't involve revolution and bloodshed starts with mincome.
I wanna be a rider of the purple wage.
I'm always amazed at how many people that outright reject Rush Limbaugh still listen to his show.
I tried listening to his show in 2003* at one point. After a few minutes, I was literally yelling at my radio. Never again...
* I know it was 2003, because it happened while I was driving to a job I particularly hated, that forced me to drive in during rush hour. I quit in mid 2003, after 4 months.
Go look at existing decay images from Chernobyl, Salton Sea, and Code (California) to see how fast certain environments encroach.
I've heard of bitrot, but Code, California? Some google employee enclave? And you say it is deteriorating?
And perhaps, instead of waking up every day wondering if today is the day the Yellowstone super volcano or a planet killer comet wipes us all out, we should just dance (and code) while the sun shines and not worry so much about the future.
FTFY
Why on Earth did TFA call it 'illegal and dangerous'?
It's only dangerous to the drone. There are no humans up there to crash into.
He could be hit by a firework, causing the firework to go off course. Not likely, but you never know.
What fine tuning?
"My name is X, and legal service may be made to Y. Acting on behalf of the information identified at Z I assert under penalty of perjury my belief that the material does not infringe a copyright as claimed. I request and require that the material be restored until such time as any dispute regarding infringement is resolved at law. I respectfully remind you that only timely compliance with this put-back notice absolves you of liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
That's it. That's all you say. Nothing more. Nothing less. You don't have to justify yourself. In fact, you SHOULDN'T justify yourself -- that just gives the bastards ammo. Your rights convey from the bare assertion. Let the bastards drag any justification out of your lawyer if they dare.
So, they took down the sources for cyanogenmod. Do you have any idea what you would be claiming is not patented by them if you sent this little note? They could sue you for damages.
51 of the 53 Dixicrats went back to the DNC, the GOP got 1 and a few years later got a second one. Notable ones sticking with the DNC are Robert Byrd, who personally ran a filibuster the Civil Rights act, and Al Gore Sr. Byrd was celebrated as a hero of the DNC a few years ago when he finally died.
So we have 96% of the racist Dixicrats going to the DNC, and 4% going to the GOP. In order to make your point you had to outright lie, but you just got called out on it.
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Cisco made me sign a 'MUST COMPETE" clause when I took their retirement package. They gave me a year's salary, 2 years of health care, and said I couldn't come back, or work for a contractor on cisco contracts for 2 years. So, in order to work, I had to work for a competitor.
Very clever of them. They offered that to every employee over 50 that had 5 years or more of service, other than 'distinguished engineers', who were deemed indispensable. So, much of their intellectual property (such as it is) was transferred to their competitors.
I started getting calls from prior managers the week the 2 year time limit was over. Not a bad paid vacation, hey?
Whilst I have no patience for people using alternative medicine over real medicine, it's over-stating to say that it killed him. He would most likely have still died had he gone for real medical treatment straight away.
Not according to this guy
Actually, the type of tumor Jobs had is typically survivable, at least according to a harvard medical school researcher. I was also going to state that he lived longer than most people with pancreatic cancer, but found out that he didn't have adenocarcinoma, which is the bad kind. He probably could have lived.
He tried to outsmart his cancer. Once he gave in, he did go to great lengths to survive, since he had a whipple procedure, a liver transplant, had his cancer sequenced, and got targeted chemotherapy.
it is to our advantage to pay for their contraception. then, we won't have to pay for their unwanted children, and they won't be saddled with a kid they don't want and can't take care of.
Actually, the government already pays for contraception for church workers. They are going to step up and pay for it here too, I suspect. That means YOU are going to pay for it, instead of the hobby brothers.
It is their property. They have a right to sell sandwiches. The NASA budget these days means they probably pay the security guard's salary out of the proceeds of those sandwiches. So, he has a vested interest in making sure you don't smuggle in your own food.
Actually, the thing I hate is when they make me leave my 'tinker' swiss army knife behind. The thing is so dull it'll only strip wires, but I guess you never know. Watch out! Fat bald guy with a tiny pocket knife! It was on my keychain until I got sick of having to walk back to the car. Now, of course, I never have a knife when I need one.
A few years ago, there were a couple of black guys who evaded capture for weeks after killing people with sniper rifles at target stores on the east coast. DWB is a well-known cop attractant.
If Iran really wanted to mess with the US, they could dispatch 100 teams of well spoken/well dressed people to hang out around walmarts and freeway overpasses. These hitmen wouldn't even need to bring their own weapons. They could get better ones here at gun shows and by mail order. It would stop commerce completely, tank our 'financial markets', and cause mass chaos.
Add a few dozen really big fertilizer bombs, and 20 bizjets flown into high value targets like the white house, congress, and the various stock exchanges, and our government would be effectively brought to its knees.
Given that, flying my parrot drone around the neighborhood seems unlikely to be a bother.
I used to have a doctor who, rather than actually examining me, would quiz me about software engineering. That was all he was interested in. He eventually left Kaiser to start a small programming business. So, I guess it goes the other way as well. He wasn't very good at being a doctor. This was the late 80s, so he is probably a billionaire venture capitalist by now.
I don't want to be a dick here, since we are clearly on the same side of most of this. However, you can't really call a decrease in government employment an increase because the private sector lost more jobs. That is faulty logic. In addition, during the sort of recession we've been through, you WANT to spend more government dollars to promote demand. The fact that government spending has gone down for the last 4 years (as a percent of GDP) is due to misguided nonsense like saying that government employment and private employment are a zero sum game. Not even close to being true.
I am really just pointing out that government is already pretty efficient. You claim to work in an agency that is really efficient, but you say that it isn't as efficient as any business. You probably haven't worked in business much. I've worked in various large, successful computer companies over the years (cisco and apple spring to mind. Cisco in particular is 'known' for being cheap), and they are all incredibly inefficient, starting projects and then canning them, buying lots of crap they don't need when they are having a good year, running parallel development efforts, and laying off whole teams they will just need to rebuild in a year. Other things include buying shit nobody needs because "if you don't use up your budget, they will cut it next year". At cisco, there are about 20 labs, each of which have thousands of routers for 'testing and development'. In my racks, at least 80% of the machines were powered on and unused most of the time. This was true of most of the other racks. The power waste must have been 10s of millions of dollars per year, with equivalent air conditioning costs. Nobody cared.
I get what you are saying about government, and not wanting it to be efficient, but that is wrong. Government is obviously not a business (which is why business guys like Bush and Cheney don't really understand it;) it has different goals. However, given a mandate and resources, it should effectively fulfill that mandate using the least amount of resources possible. Serving the most people with the given resources is a matter of pride for many in government (state government, and I suspect federal government.)
The post office won't ever make a profit, but, as you say, that isn't its purpose.
It's not really fraud. If they were still advertising the specs of the hardware they no longer ship, yes. That would be misleading advertising and is illegal in many countries.
It's a little more complicated when it's other people not affiliated with the seller who are making the claims.
It could just be a coincidence that the first production runs yielded better devices while later runs, while still meeting advertised specs, were not so good.
Did you read the article? They swapped out synchronous for asynchronous NAND, which seems to have a large effect on throughput. The graph they show is startling. However, I agree that it isn't fraud. There was no implied contract to ship synchronous NAND. They also are shipping product that conforms to the original claims (just not the claims of reviewers).
Still, crappy PR.