You are free to express your views. You don't necessarily have the freedom to express them wherever you want.
I wouldn't like it if someone busted into my house and started giving me a political lecture. It doesn't matter if what he says is reasonable or not --- I want him to get the fuck out of my house!
Also, being pro-freedom of expression and tolerance requires being anti those who are against freedom of expression and tolerance. If someone wants to kill all the jews and you give them a public forum to speak, you're not being tolerant, you're being the opposite of tolerant. You're granting them a way to spread and amplify their message.
You are free to express your views in a public space and I won't get up in your shit. I might even come and listen to you. But I'm not necessarily going to give you a platform to spread your views to a wider audience. It's insane that bigots think they are entitled to everyone bowing and making way for them at all times.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with no free lunch... read the goddamn article if you want to know what the authors are actually saying. http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.0487...
It's an asymptotic speedup for certain classes of problems.
Sigh. I didn't want to copy-and-paste my own comment. I don't mean to be an ass, but I offered a link to my comment so that you could be educated and enlightened.
While it's true that nuclear weapons usually have to be detonated in a very precise manner to create a full yield explosion, it's not true that accidental detonation is not a possibility. Depending on the weapon design, accidental detonation can actually be quite likely (a few percent of all hypothetical impact/fire scenarios). The details of this can get very technical, but the gist of it is that due to various size constraints many weapons were designed with two-point detonation systems ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and these are very prone to accidental nuclear detonation. It was partly as a response to this that insensitive high explosive detonators were developed. Labs like DART have the responsibility of thoroughly testing nuclear weapons primaries to make sure that (1) they will explode when required and (2) will not explode when not required.
'Safety devices' are a completely different issue and they prevent an unauthorized person from activating the device's detonator.
Luckily I remember the good old days, and they were terrible.
Having to pull the choke every time you turn off the engine or risk not being able to start it again? No thanks.
All the fun-filled mornings spent with the family pushing your car until it started? No thanks.
Brakes on your car suddenly failing for no reason when you're going down the highway? (yes this actually happened to me) No thanks.
Bursting radiators, torn up drive belts, worn clutch discs? I think I'll pass on those as well.
And not to mention if you got in an accident even at relatively low speed you were literally dead meat. The word 'death can' used to have a very real and chilling meaning.
Modern cars are way safer and more reliable; it's so silly it's not even a comparison
I'm going to invent a gun that 1/10 of the time shoots the bullet out from the back, towards the user's face. I will call anyone who can't use my gun safely a bad gun user.
Has anyone ever been 'taught C properly'? Look at the code from the 'good ole days' of unix that you probably masturbate to... the code is terrible. I mean just flat out horrible. And K&R openly endorses obfuscatory and insane coding practices. Throw it in the trash bin and read stuff that will actually make you a better programmer, like Knuth or Sussman.
You're probably someone who considers themselves and 'old school hacker' and have been out of a programming job for twenty years. Things have changed, dude.
I know that's a joke, but it's of course nonsense. Plenty of people have gotten fired for using C, especially when their code had dangerous security vulnerabilities (which it ALWAYS does).
Most serious devs on the Linux project get paid to work on it. This isn't some weekend hobby project by a bunch of enthusiasts. Especially, the Linux Foundation pays its devs very well, and the various contributors from IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Google, and other companies get paid to work on Linux as part of their jobs. There's also a number of PhD students and so on who work on the kernel as part of their research.
It's not a binary between "coddling" (by which I assume you mean making sure no one's feelings ever get hurt) and "being a relentless fucking asshole." It's possible to strike a balance.
Anonymous coward, there are only two ways to learn something:
1. Learn from your own experience. 2. Learn from other people's experiences.
Sometimes it's impossible to do (2). You can't learn to drive by reading a book. But when it's at all possible, (2) is vastly preferable to (1) in terms of time and effort.
No one could ever hope to personally accumulate all the experiences necessary to be a leader on their own. You have no CHOICE but to learn from others.
If Linus really said that, then the situation is even worse than I thought. Linus seems to be way more out of touch than I'd given him the benefit of doubt for.
I've been in plenty of workplaces where acting professionally didn't result in backstabbing, passive aggressiveness, and so on. In fact, that's probably the very definition of a non-professional workplace.
The entire point of a team is people giving up some of their own personal goals in exchange for the rewards that are made possible by acting as a group. Otherwise what's the point? Let's say someone does something you don't like. Do you (a) proceed to verbally assault them until they leave and never come back, or (b) do you give reserved, on-topic criticism, and praise if they carry out your suggestions, resulting in them being a better worker and the project carrying on forward? The worst-case scenario is that they don't learn from their mistakes in which case you respectfully tell them to leave the project. It's that simple.
That entire Linus quote should be a representative example of what happens when you have no clue how to lead. People should print it and hang it up on their office walls as a good example of what has gone wrong with the Linux community.
My first knee-jerk reaction was also, "Yeah, SHE couldn't take it." But after reflecting on Linus Torvald's style and comparing it with workplaces that I've been at over the years... yeah, I can't say I blame her. The key to successful leadership is giving criticism when it's due and also giving praise when it's due. Books have been written about how to be a successful manager and leader. A few I can think of off the top of my head:
How to Make Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey The Art of War by Sun Tzu
You have to be able to understand what motivates and what de-motivates people. The Linux community has a hard time attracting talent precisely because the people in charge have essentially zero skill in interpersonal relationships, and often they are completely unaware of this. Looking at it from the perspective of pure instrumental rationality, when you're leading a project, your primary focus should be saying and doing things that advance the project. Taking glee in dishing verbal abuse does not, most of the time, advance this goal.
I 100% agree that this would be a kick-ass display for a laptop, IF:
1. The OS and programs were actually written to support it, 2. The display has good contrast and color reproduction (which, at these high PPIs, is far more important than sheer resolution anyway), and 3. Pushing all these pixels doesn't heat up or slow down the system unacceptably.
Unfortunately we're probably a bit far from ANY of these being true, so the experience might as well be a net negative one. Windows has laughable high-resolution support (and Linux doesn't fare too awesomely either - and I'm a devout Linux user). And doing anything on an 8K display is likely going to eat into your battery like no tomorrow, both in terms of powering the display itself and powering the graphics chipset hardware.
I have a Galaxy S6 edge that has an insane AMOLED 2560x1440 display. I'm absolutely in love with the display, but power consumption is a huge issue.
Holy shit, I'm not talking about the 'hiatus', I'm talking about the suitability of climate models. Something that you still seem to be unable to understand, which leads me to conclude that you're either 1) trolling me, 2) being purposefully dense, or 3) just a moron. I'm going to go with the simplest explanation, which is 3.
In my initial comment, I was talking about climate models. You linked the von Storch paper, supposedly to show that the climate models were incorrect. I correctly pointed out that his statistical analysis was very flawed and that you couldn't simply dismiss the climate models so easily. But I also addressed your point about the hiatus, in that even if it does exist in the time-series data, it could (as a possibility, not a definitive one) simply be due to bad data. That SHOULD have ended the discussion... but no, morons like you always just continue to dribble and dribble (which is great actually because you nuts always wind up revealing yourselves).
Just stop talking and maybe you won't dig yourself any deeper.
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You are free to express your views. You don't necessarily have the freedom to express them wherever you want.
I wouldn't like it if someone busted into my house and started giving me a political lecture. It doesn't matter if what he says is reasonable or not --- I want him to get the fuck out of my house!
Also, being pro-freedom of expression and tolerance requires being anti those who are against freedom of expression and tolerance. If someone wants to kill all the jews and you give them a public forum to speak, you're not being tolerant, you're being the opposite of tolerant. You're granting them a way to spread and amplify their message.
You are free to express your views in a public space and I won't get up in your shit. I might even come and listen to you. But I'm not necessarily going to give you a platform to spread your views to a wider audience. It's insane that bigots think they are entitled to everyone bowing and making way for them at all times.
Look at the big brain on Brad.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with no free lunch... read the goddamn article if you want to know what the authors are actually saying. http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.0487...
It's an asymptotic speedup for certain classes of problems.
Sigh. I didn't want to copy-and-paste my own comment. I don't mean to be an ass, but I offered a link to my comment so that you could be educated and enlightened.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
minor correction: It's DARHT, not DART.
While it's true that nuclear weapons usually have to be detonated in a very precise manner to create a full yield explosion, it's not true that accidental detonation is not a possibility. Depending on the weapon design, accidental detonation can actually be quite likely (a few percent of all hypothetical impact/fire scenarios). The details of this can get very technical, but the gist of it is that due to various size constraints many weapons were designed with two-point detonation systems ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and these are very prone to accidental nuclear detonation. It was partly as a response to this that insensitive high explosive detonators were developed. Labs like DART have the responsibility of thoroughly testing nuclear weapons primaries to make sure that (1) they will explode when required and (2) will not explode when not required.
'Safety devices' are a completely different issue and they prevent an unauthorized person from activating the device's detonator.
Luckily I remember the good old days, and they were terrible.
Having to pull the choke every time you turn off the engine or risk not being able to start it again? No thanks.
All the fun-filled mornings spent with the family pushing your car until it started? No thanks.
Brakes on your car suddenly failing for no reason when you're going down the highway? (yes this actually happened to me) No thanks.
Bursting radiators, torn up drive belts, worn clutch discs? I think I'll pass on those as well.
And not to mention if you got in an accident even at relatively low speed you were literally dead meat. The word 'death can' used to have a very real and chilling meaning.
Modern cars are way safer and more reliable; it's so silly it's not even a comparison
I'm going to invent a gun that 1/10 of the time shoots the bullet out from the back, towards the user's face. I will call anyone who can't use my gun safely a bad gun user.
More power to you, but AC's tone was quite different.
Has anyone ever been 'taught C properly'? Look at the code from the 'good ole days' of unix that you probably masturbate to... the code is terrible. I mean just flat out horrible. And K&R openly endorses obfuscatory and insane coding practices. Throw it in the trash bin and read stuff that will actually make you a better programmer, like Knuth or Sussman.
You're probably someone who considers themselves and 'old school hacker' and have been out of a programming job for twenty years. Things have changed, dude.
The whole point of assembly is to be close to the hardware. The hardware has registers. Why obfuscate?
I know that's a joke, but it's of course nonsense. Plenty of people have gotten fired for using C, especially when their code had dangerous security vulnerabilities (which it ALWAYS does).
Perhaps you can enlighten me on what that book is about? That is, once you're finished with your non-constructive insecure dribble.
Most serious devs on the Linux project get paid to work on it. This isn't some weekend hobby project by a bunch of enthusiasts. Especially, the Linux Foundation pays its devs very well, and the various contributors from IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Google, and other companies get paid to work on Linux as part of their jobs. There's also a number of PhD students and so on who work on the kernel as part of their research.
You can't make everyone happy, and that's not what this is about. This is about not objectively being a fucking asshole, which Linus Torvalds is.
I love your optimism, but I doubt even Dubai would be stupid enough to provide the funds to build it....
It's not a binary between "coddling" (by which I assume you mean making sure no one's feelings ever get hurt) and "being a relentless fucking asshole." It's possible to strike a balance.
Anonymous coward, there are only two ways to learn something:
1. Learn from your own experience.
2. Learn from other people's experiences.
Sometimes it's impossible to do (2). You can't learn to drive by reading a book. But when it's at all possible, (2) is vastly preferable to (1) in terms of time and effort.
No one could ever hope to personally accumulate all the experiences necessary to be a leader on their own. You have no CHOICE but to learn from others.
If Linus really said that, then the situation is even worse than I thought. Linus seems to be way more out of touch than I'd given him the benefit of doubt for.
I've been in plenty of workplaces where acting professionally didn't result in backstabbing, passive aggressiveness, and so on. In fact, that's probably the very definition of a non-professional workplace.
The entire point of a team is people giving up some of their own personal goals in exchange for the rewards that are made possible by acting as a group. Otherwise what's the point? Let's say someone does something you don't like. Do you (a) proceed to verbally assault them until they leave and never come back, or (b) do you give reserved, on-topic criticism, and praise if they carry out your suggestions, resulting in them being a better worker and the project carrying on forward? The worst-case scenario is that they don't learn from their mistakes in which case you respectfully tell them to leave the project. It's that simple.
That entire Linus quote should be a representative example of what happens when you have no clue how to lead. People should print it and hang it up on their office walls as a good example of what has gone wrong with the Linux community.
minor correction: How to WIN friends and influence people. This is what I get for not using google.
My first knee-jerk reaction was also, "Yeah, SHE couldn't take it." But after reflecting on Linus Torvald's style and comparing it with workplaces that I've been at over the years... yeah, I can't say I blame her. The key to successful leadership is giving criticism when it's due and also giving praise when it's due. Books have been written about how to be a successful manager and leader. A few I can think of off the top of my head:
How to Make Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
You have to be able to understand what motivates and what de-motivates people. The Linux community has a hard time attracting talent precisely because the people in charge have essentially zero skill in interpersonal relationships, and often they are completely unaware of this. Looking at it from the perspective of pure instrumental rationality, when you're leading a project, your primary focus should be saying and doing things that advance the project. Taking glee in dishing verbal abuse does not, most of the time, advance this goal.
I 100% agree that this would be a kick-ass display for a laptop, IF:
1. The OS and programs were actually written to support it,
2. The display has good contrast and color reproduction (which, at these high PPIs, is far more important than sheer resolution anyway), and
3. Pushing all these pixels doesn't heat up or slow down the system unacceptably.
Unfortunately we're probably a bit far from ANY of these being true, so the experience might as well be a net negative one. Windows has laughable high-resolution support (and Linux doesn't fare too awesomely either - and I'm a devout Linux user). And doing anything on an 8K display is likely going to eat into your battery like no tomorrow, both in terms of powering the display itself and powering the graphics chipset hardware.
I have a Galaxy S6 edge that has an insane AMOLED 2560x1440 display. I'm absolutely in love with the display, but power consumption is a huge issue.
Complaining about being called a lunatic is the fastest way to show everyone you have nothing substantive to say.
Holy shit, I'm not talking about the 'hiatus', I'm talking about the suitability of climate models. Something that you still seem to be unable to understand, which leads me to conclude that you're either 1) trolling me, 2) being purposefully dense, or 3) just a moron. I'm going to go with the simplest explanation, which is 3.
In my initial comment, I was talking about climate models. You linked the von Storch paper, supposedly to show that the climate models were incorrect. I correctly pointed out that his statistical analysis was very flawed and that you couldn't simply dismiss the climate models so easily. But I also addressed your point about the hiatus, in that even if it does exist in the time-series data, it could (as a possibility, not a definitive one) simply be due to bad data. That SHOULD have ended the discussion... but no, morons like you always just continue to dribble and dribble (which is great actually because you nuts always wind up revealing yourselves).
Just stop talking and maybe you won't dig yourself any deeper.