The internet is a public place. Do not do anything on the internet that you wouldn't do in your front yard. To expect more privacy than that is to completely, utterly fail to understand the internet.
That's the stupidest false equivalence I've heard all day. Truly.
This, 100 million times. I used to be embarrassed to ask such basic questions, but so many people miss the most fundamental things that I don't apologize any more.
My favorite question to determine if someone likely has spent any time at all in C: ask them to describe how a C string is stored in memory. I find a lot of people who know some OO derivative of C will think they are, by definition, also C programmers, but this tends to utterly stump them.
Why is this important? Well, I'm a career OS engineer, so I'm biased. But if you don't have the faintest idea how a C string is stored, you probably also can't tell me how the stack works, or know intrinsically (without thinking about it) whether a given hunk of memory is on the stack or on the heap. I've done probably 1000 technical phone screens in the last 4-5 years, and I see a pretty clear pattern emerging: Java programmers (those whose primary instructional language during college was Java) are, by and large, awful programmers. Even if you put aside the fact that they don't understand memory basics, can't use pointers (and often argue with me as to whether that matters) and don't know how anything outside of Java works, they are just plain shite programmers with bad instincts and bad coding habits.
I have often found it necessary to restrain myself from telling a candidate that they should go back to their alma mater and ask for their money back. Seriously, college CS programs are doing an enormous disservice to their students by sticking primarily to Java.
Most of the water problems are created by stupidity.
I hear this sentiment a lot from otherwise smart people. What those smart people don't seem to grasp, though, is that these situations exist because we live in a free, capitalist country. If someone thinks they can make a go of growing rice in California, there's nothing to stop them from doing so, except simple economics. If they can obtain the water, and the numbers pencil out, then they are free to grow what they want.
Your implication seems to be that you think we are currently living in a centrally-planned society (aka "communism") or you are actually advocating that we should abide by some kind of central planning doctrine (aka "communism"). But you'd be wrong on both counts.
TL;DR: You're not actually as smart as you think you are.
In the event that you didn't know there are 5 vineyards within an hour drive from my home in Kansas.
Those aren't vineyards. Those are grape farms. And sure, they probably try to ferment the grapes. But any similarity to wine or vineyards ends there.
On a broader note, virtually all of the actual wine (as opposed to fermented grape juice) comes from grapes grown on the western edge of a continent or peninsula, between a narrow band of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
The dam is for water management first, electrical power generation second, and flood control third. You can concern troll about hydro if you want, but it's mostly inappropriate here.
I never said it was a Republican problem. I simply pointed (to an audience that is concerned with such things) that we have been sold out. The fact that you read partisanship into the equation says much more about you than it does about me.
Hey, raymorris -- rather than barrage us with an unending series of bullshit examples, why don't you volunteer to write the legal text that would enable the objectives of net neutrality (and everyone here, including you, knows damn well what those objectives are) and post it for review? I mean, you've got a good grasp of the technical details, but your stance that carriers ought to be able to do anything they want with the traffic ignores the fact that AT&T, Verizon, and several other behemoths have already engaged in anticompetitive practices, and will surely do so again if nobody stops them.
Stop barraging us with bullshit and offer a workable solution.
Apple has an unfortunate habit of releasing an operating system update that technically supports older devices, but in practice brings them to their knees- operations which previously were quite snappy become unbearably sluggish, or cause the device to crash.
This is hardly unique to Apple. In fact, I'd say this is endemic to software, period.
I blame the punk-ass programmers being churned out of universities that rely on Java as a primary teaching language. Though I'll admit there are other reasons, too.
Maybe you shouldn't let HR make your hiring decisions.
Agreed. If HR is making your hiring decisions, no wonder you have shitty talent. This is not an H1-B issue, this is a you and your company are doing it wrong issue.
Until you take into account that production causes about half the pollution as the entire lifetime of the car. Better to just drive the car you have for a few more years.
Did you know that gasoline production has its own carbon footprint, on top of the tailpipe emissions when you burn it?
I tend not to charge at work. It's available, but there are far more electric cars at work than there are chargers.
I charge at home, on 120v/15A. It's slow, but extremely convenient. Once or twice a week, I just plug in and let it charge all night. By morning, it's back to full.
That's some twisted logic you've got there. Congratulations, you must be proud of yourself. But it's utter bullshit.
Utilities will continue to add capacity as it becomes necessary, and that capacity increasingly (not always, but increasingly) comes from renewable sources. Furthermore, the technology curve tends to dictate that even when adding fossil-fuel-powered plants, the newer plants will tend to be cleaner and more efficient from the get-go than their decades-old predecessors.
And if all that wasn't enough: upgrading a single power plant from dirty to clean improves the fleet emission levels of all the electric cars in the vicinity. Try doing that with a gasoline-powered fleet.
Gym memberships are near an all-time high. So are gyms.
And we have pretty solid data that supports the notion that when saturated fat (or any fat, since that was the generalized target during the 70s - 90s) is removed from the diet, it gets replaced by carbohydrates. And we know what effect carbohydrates have on blood glucose levels, and in turn we know what effect elevated blood glucose levels have on insulin. And finally, we know *exactly* how insulin levels cause the body to store fat.
But you're going to go with "exercise" as an answer?
Milk isn't nutritious at all if it makes you shit your arse inside-out; it's probably anti-nutritious.
It's fairly nutritious if it doesn't.
Again, that's not a measure of nutrition. That's a measure of whether an individual can tolerate it. The milk doesn't change on the basis of who drinks it -- it's the same substance regardless.
Variation: Once a month, I go visit my parents/grandparents/sweetheart/cat 300 miles away! Between the people who drive 300 miles to work and people like me who travel a long distance once a month, it won't work!
I own one and can confidently state that, for some people, they can be awesome. I wouldn't trade mine for anything (unless that thing was also electric).
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If you think your side of the political coin is any cleaner, you're still part of the system.
This is what people say when the candidate they voted for turns out to be a fuckwit after all.
The internet is a public place. Do not do anything on the internet that you wouldn't do in your front yard. To expect more privacy than that is to completely, utterly fail to understand the internet.
That's the stupidest false equivalence I've heard all day. Truly.
It will. You won't know it, though, because your head is stuck in a hole in the ground.
This is why hydraulic fracturing has been attacked in order to drive the prices back up.
No. Fracking has been attacked because it runs the risk of poisoning the groundwater.
Animal fat gives you heart disease.
Science does not support your claim, though there are plenty of people who think it does.
This, 100 million times. I used to be embarrassed to ask such basic questions, but so many people miss the most fundamental things that I don't apologize any more.
My favorite question to determine if someone likely has spent any time at all in C: ask them to describe how a C string is stored in memory. I find a lot of people who know some OO derivative of C will think they are, by definition, also C programmers, but this tends to utterly stump them.
Why is this important? Well, I'm a career OS engineer, so I'm biased. But if you don't have the faintest idea how a C string is stored, you probably also can't tell me how the stack works, or know intrinsically (without thinking about it) whether a given hunk of memory is on the stack or on the heap. I've done probably 1000 technical phone screens in the last 4-5 years, and I see a pretty clear pattern emerging: Java programmers (those whose primary instructional language during college was Java) are, by and large, awful programmers. Even if you put aside the fact that they don't understand memory basics, can't use pointers (and often argue with me as to whether that matters) and don't know how anything outside of Java works, they are just plain shite programmers with bad instincts and bad coding habits.
I have often found it necessary to restrain myself from telling a candidate that they should go back to their alma mater and ask for their money back. Seriously, college CS programs are doing an enormous disservice to their students by sticking primarily to Java.
Most of the water problems are created by stupidity.
I hear this sentiment a lot from otherwise smart people. What those smart people don't seem to grasp, though, is that these situations exist because we live in a free, capitalist country. If someone thinks they can make a go of growing rice in California, there's nothing to stop them from doing so, except simple economics. If they can obtain the water, and the numbers pencil out, then they are free to grow what they want.
Your implication seems to be that you think we are currently living in a centrally-planned society (aka "communism") or you are actually advocating that we should abide by some kind of central planning doctrine (aka "communism"). But you'd be wrong on both counts.
TL;DR: You're not actually as smart as you think you are.
In the event that you didn't know there are 5 vineyards within an hour drive from my home in Kansas.
Those aren't vineyards. Those are grape farms. And sure, they probably try to ferment the grapes. But any similarity to wine or vineyards ends there.
On a broader note, virtually all of the actual wine (as opposed to fermented grape juice) comes from grapes grown on the western edge of a continent or peninsula, between a narrow band of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
The dam is for water management first, electrical power generation second, and flood control third. You can concern troll about hydro if you want, but it's mostly inappropriate here.
All I see here are more bullshit examples.
Because it makes you look stupid as fuck.
Disagree.
I never said it was a Republican problem. I simply pointed (to an audience that is concerned with such things) that we have been sold out. The fact that you read partisanship into the equation says much more about you than it does about me.
Hey, raymorris -- rather than barrage us with an unending series of bullshit examples, why don't you volunteer to write the legal text that would enable the objectives of net neutrality (and everyone here, including you, knows damn well what those objectives are) and post it for review? I mean, you've got a good grasp of the technical details, but your stance that carriers ought to be able to do anything they want with the traffic ignores the fact that AT&T, Verizon, and several other behemoths have already engaged in anticompetitive practices, and will surely do so again if nobody stops them.
Stop barraging us with bullshit and offer a workable solution.
Apple has an unfortunate habit of releasing an operating system update that technically supports older devices, but in practice brings them to their knees- operations which previously were quite snappy become unbearably sluggish, or cause the device to crash.
This is hardly unique to Apple. In fact, I'd say this is endemic to software, period.
I blame the punk-ass programmers being churned out of universities that rely on Java as a primary teaching language. Though I'll admit there are other reasons, too.
Well, gentleman, we've been sold out.
Maybe you shouldn't let HR make your hiring decisions.
Agreed. If HR is making your hiring decisions, no wonder you have shitty talent. This is not an H1-B issue, this is a you and your company are doing it wrong issue.
Ummmm... No, nevermind.
Until you take into account that production causes about half the pollution as the entire lifetime of the car.
Better to just drive the car you have for a few more years.
Did you know that gasoline production has its own carbon footprint, on top of the tailpipe emissions when you burn it?
Yeah, betcha didn't.
I tend not to charge at work. It's available, but there are far more electric cars at work than there are chargers.
I charge at home, on 120v/15A. It's slow, but extremely convenient. Once or twice a week, I just plug in and let it charge all night. By morning, it's back to full.
That's some twisted logic you've got there. Congratulations, you must be proud of yourself. But it's utter bullshit.
Utilities will continue to add capacity as it becomes necessary, and that capacity increasingly (not always, but increasingly) comes from renewable sources. Furthermore, the technology curve tends to dictate that even when adding fossil-fuel-powered plants, the newer plants will tend to be cleaner and more efficient from the get-go than their decades-old predecessors.
And if all that wasn't enough: upgrading a single power plant from dirty to clean improves the fleet emission levels of all the electric cars in the vicinity. Try doing that with a gasoline-powered fleet.
Then take the other one. Problem solved!
Gym memberships are near an all-time high. So are gyms.
And we have pretty solid data that supports the notion that when saturated fat (or any fat, since that was the generalized target during the 70s - 90s) is removed from the diet, it gets replaced by carbohydrates. And we know what effect carbohydrates have on blood glucose levels, and in turn we know what effect elevated blood glucose levels have on insulin. And finally, we know *exactly* how insulin levels cause the body to store fat.
But you're going to go with "exercise" as an answer?
Interesting.
Milk isn't nutritious at all if it makes you shit your arse inside-out; it's probably anti-nutritious.
It's fairly nutritious if it doesn't.
Again, that's not a measure of nutrition. That's a measure of whether an individual can tolerate it. The milk doesn't change on the basis of who drinks it -- it's the same substance regardless.
Variation: Once a month, I go visit my parents/grandparents/sweetheart/cat 300 miles away! Between the people who drive 300 miles to work and people like me who travel a long distance once a month, it won't work!
Take the wife's car.
Electric cars suck.
I own one and can confidently state that, for some people, they can be awesome. I wouldn't trade mine for anything (unless that thing was also electric).