Certainly, the system in Canada would be superior to Obamacare. Unfortunately, that's not politcally tenable in this country infested with right wing "free market" fanbois such as yourself. So you get what you get.
No, it's more because very few families don't have at least one person without some kind of preexisting condition. Individual insurance was simply not an option.
The Apollo program nearly missed JFK's deadline because it was taking so long to devlop the < 100K of code for the flight computers.
The first moon landing was nearly scrubbed seconds before landing because of a bug in that same few kilobytes of code.
Now computers hold millions of times more code, and computer science has made few genuine advances in actually writing that code. It's no surprise that they've run into problems.
Note that the Affordable Care act is now resposible for far more people losing their plans
That's good.
Everybody should lose their employee-sponsored plans. Everybody should make their own choices and buy their own insurance Tying health coverage to employment is idiotic, and has become a modern-day form of feudalism.
That's nice and all but can we trust our data formats to stay static for that long? Having the data but being unable to open it seems rather useless to me.
If we've been able to decipher obscure hieroglyphs and number systems from dozens of long-dead civilizations, I'm sure that 1 billion years from now scholars will be able to solve the arcane puzzle of ASCII and the VFAT file system. The much tougher problem would be: Once they have all the words extracted from the files, figuring out what they mean.
Java might be a shitty language, but the JVM blows away any existing Python implementation
You're right: The JVM blows away almost any other language in terms of megabytes of physical memory wasted and CPU cycles consumed before getting to main(). And you're not going to be able to run the whole system in one JVM to try to combat this.
and is still significantly faster than any JavaScript implementation.
Mostly irrelevant. Java needs to be fast because most of its libraries are written in Java. Other languages tend to use native code for most libraries, and that's just tied together with the users' business logic. A high-tech JIT-compiled Python would almost certainly be "fast enough".
Great idea! Let's implement everything on our phone in an incredibly slow, dynamically typed language, whose only relevant implementation has a GIL and a pathetically bad concurrency model! That will be great for performance and battery life!
Google is dropping Python for a reason.
If Google had used Sun's Java VM for Android, performance and battery life would have been even worse than you predict for Python. However, Google deployed their own implementation of Java that was specifially tailored for mobile platforms.
There's no reason they couldn't have done the same thing with Python; there are several independent implementations of Python targeted at different use cases. They have the relevant technologies with their accelerated Javascript engines.
He's saying that he's too stupid to understand functional languages, therefore functional languages are bad.
It's more like the average Joe-sixpack developer doesn't want to have to spend weeks learning the subtle distinctions between "let", "let*" and "letrec" just so they can add some scripting to their makefiles.
I always use '-Wall -pedantic' for gcc, and if my code is producing any warnings, I always fix them all.
If the kernel developers had been doing this, they would have seen a big fat warning. For those who still like to use this dubious idiom, putting double parentheses around the assignment make the side effects more explicit to the reader and disables the warning.
Exactly. Some genius at a corporate HQ figured out that at any given moment, tens of thousands of people are standing around waiting for their fast food orders to come up. This represented a vast untapped pool of willing and free labor.
If you look at the soda fountains of a large restaurant at a busy time, it often looks like it would easily take two dedicated employees to just to fill drinks at the rate that customers are filling their own. Maybe even more would be required to keep track of all the drinks and match them to orders. That's a lot of extra staffing.
That device is cheating. Most of the energy output is from fission. Most "hydrogen" bombs use the fusion as a neutron generator to induce fast fission.
I realize that. That's why I only said the gain was about 100X, instead of the much higher number one might assume by using the total yield. However, it was still really only a wild-assed guess, because I don't actually know how much energy the primary trigger plus plutonium spark plug generated.
define facility, because fusion is known to release energy with great facility.
Here is a picture that looks to me very much like a facility.
It achieved a net fusion output about 100X as much as the energy input. (This facility did have the drawback that it was vaporized within a few microseconds after startup, but that's just a cooling issue.)
I'd be more concerned with a bunch of cell phones, each with a GPS receiver built in, interfering with the aircraft's GPS based systems.
You can rest assured that that scenario has been thoroughly tested. When the flight attendants tell people to shut off their electronic devices and stow them, many if not most people simply shut off the screen, believing that means "off", or simply not giving a damn. The GPS and cell functions continue merrily running for the whole flight, including takeoff and landing. Since planes aren't falling out of the sky already, it's almost certainly safe enough.
A lot of people have no clue what "airplane mode" is or what it's for, and there probably are also a lot people who have no inkling of even how to actually power down their phones. None of this is enforced anyway, beyond checking that someone isn't blatantly operating a screen.
Of course, even if some of these creatures are in the US, the chances of encountering one - much less being killed by one - will be less than that of being hit by lightning while clutching a winning lottery ticket
Some people probably thought the same thing when the first Asian carp and the first Asian ladybug were spotted on this continent.
I've never understood the "additional security" argument for CAD. Bollocks if you ask me.
The theory was that nefarious actors would boot DOS from a floppy on public machines and run a simple program that would spoof the Windows login screen, thereby collecting account names and passwords. If people had to press Ctl+Alt+Del first, it would force any DOS impostor to reboot instead. Of course, that still wouldn't protect from a bad guy who was able to put more sophisticated software on the floppy.
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Certainly, the system in Canada would be superior to Obamacare. Unfortunately, that's not politcally tenable in this country infested with right wing "free market" fanbois such as yourself. So you get what you get.
Are you suggesting that people should dispose of all their assets as soon as they lose their job so they can qualify for Medicaid?
No, it's more because very few families don't have at least one person without some kind of preexisting condition. Individual insurance was simply not an option.
And your point is?
If you lose your job, there's a big difference between losing some service upgrades and being thrown under the bus.
The Apollo program nearly missed JFK's deadline because it was taking so long to devlop the < 100K of code for the flight computers.
The first moon landing was nearly scrubbed seconds before landing because of a bug in that same few kilobytes of code.
Now computers hold millions of times more code, and computer science has made few genuine advances in actually writing that code. It's no surprise that they've run into problems.
Note that the Affordable Care act is now resposible for far more people losing their plans
That's good.
Everybody should lose their employee-sponsored plans. Everybody should make their own choices and buy their own insurance Tying health coverage to employment is idiotic, and has become a modern-day form of feudalism.
Then so does the mugger, if the victim is taking risks by walking around alone in a dangerous neighborhood.
It also stretches credibility to argue that a computer bug is equivalent to an "agreement".
What value was created by this errant trading algorithm?
It is usually just wasted.
By your own previous logic, money can never be "wasted", just redistributed.
Every dollar that the government collects in taxes or creates out of thin air is redistributed back into the private sector.
That's one writing system out of dozens.
That's nice and all but can we trust our data formats to stay static for that long? Having the data but being unable to open it seems rather useless to me.
If we've been able to decipher obscure hieroglyphs and number systems from dozens of long-dead civilizations, I'm sure that 1 billion years from now scholars will be able to solve the arcane puzzle of ASCII and the VFAT file system. The much tougher problem would be: Once they have all the words extracted from the files, figuring out what they mean.
Java might be a shitty language, but the JVM blows away any existing Python implementation
You're right: The JVM blows away almost any other language in terms of megabytes of physical memory wasted and CPU cycles consumed before getting to main(). And you're not going to be able to run the whole system in one JVM to try to combat this.
and is still significantly faster than any JavaScript implementation.
Mostly irrelevant. Java needs to be fast because most of its libraries are written in Java. Other languages tend to use native code for most libraries, and that's just tied together with the users' business logic. A high-tech JIT-compiled Python would almost certainly be "fast enough".
Great idea! Let's implement everything on our phone in an incredibly slow, dynamically typed language, whose only relevant implementation has a GIL and a pathetically bad concurrency model! That will be great for performance and battery life!
Google is dropping Python for a reason.
If Google had used Sun's Java VM for Android, performance and battery life would have been even worse than you predict for Python. However, Google deployed their own implementation of Java that was specifially tailored for mobile platforms.
There's no reason they couldn't have done the same thing with Python; there are several independent implementations of Python targeted at different use cases. They have the relevant technologies with their accelerated Javascript engines.
He's saying that he's too stupid to understand functional languages, therefore functional languages are bad.
It's more like the average Joe-sixpack developer doesn't want to have to spend weeks learning the subtle distinctions between "let", "let*" and "letrec" just so they can add some scripting to their makefiles.
I always use '-Wall -pedantic' for gcc, and if my code is producing any warnings, I always fix them all.
If the kernel developers had been doing this, they would have seen a big fat warning. For those who still like to use this dubious idiom, putting double parentheses around the assignment make the side effects more explicit to the reader and disables the warning.
Exactly. Some genius at a corporate HQ figured out that at any given moment, tens of thousands of people are standing around waiting for their fast food orders to come up. This represented a vast untapped pool of willing and free labor.
If you look at the soda fountains of a large restaurant at a busy time, it often looks like it would easily take two dedicated employees to just to fill drinks at the rate that customers are filling their own. Maybe even more would be required to keep track of all the drinks and match them to orders. That's a lot of extra staffing.
That device is cheating. Most of the energy output is from fission. Most "hydrogen" bombs use the fusion as a neutron generator to induce fast fission.
I realize that. That's why I only said the gain was about 100X, instead of the much higher number one might assume by using the total yield. However, it was still really only a wild-assed guess, because I don't actually know how much energy the primary trigger plus plutonium spark plug generated.
define facility, because fusion is known to release energy with great facility.
Here is a picture that looks to me very much like a facility.
It achieved a net fusion output about 100X as much as the energy input. (This facility did have the drawback that it was vaporized within a few microseconds after startup, but that's just a cooling issue.)
I'd be more concerned with a bunch of cell phones, each with a GPS receiver built in, interfering with the aircraft's GPS based systems.
You can rest assured that that scenario has been thoroughly tested. When the flight attendants tell people to shut off their electronic devices and stow them, many if not most people simply shut off the screen, believing that means "off", or simply not giving a damn. The GPS and cell functions continue merrily running for the whole flight, including takeoff and landing. Since planes aren't falling out of the sky already, it's almost certainly safe enough.
A lot of people have no clue what "airplane mode" is or what it's for, and there probably are also a lot people who have no inkling of even how to actually power down their phones. None of this is enforced anyway, beyond checking that someone isn't blatantly operating a screen.
Of course, even if some of these creatures are in the US, the chances of encountering one - much less being killed by one - will be less than that of being hit by lightning while clutching a winning lottery ticket
Some people probably thought the same thing when the first Asian carp and the first Asian ladybug were spotted on this continent.
What happens if the aircraft depressurizes?
They attach Charlton Heston to a cable and drop him in from a helicopter.
He wouldn't need any maps or manuals to land that bird.
What exactly do you suggest they do?
Stop billing themselves as "clean" until they figure out what to do with their hoarded mess.
force them to clean up every single bit of pollution, etc
To this date, the nuclear industry have not actually "cleaned up" a single gram of any of the spent nuclear fuel ever produced.
They've just neatly stacked it, waiting for someone else to deal with it.
But why did they choose that silly key chord for Windows in the first place? Because it reboots DOS.
If not for that "feature", they could have used a more reasonable choice for a non-trappable key in their new OS, such as SysRq.
I've never understood the "additional security" argument for CAD. Bollocks if you ask me.
The theory was that nefarious actors would boot DOS from a floppy on public machines and run a simple program that would spoof the Windows login screen, thereby collecting account names and passwords. If people had to press Ctl+Alt+Del first, it would force any DOS impostor to reboot instead. Of course, that still wouldn't protect from a bad guy who was able to put more sophisticated software on the floppy.