One popular myth these days is the Myth of Progress, you know, the one were we would already be building bridges on Jupiter ("2018!". James Blish. 1956). Adherents of this myth may be found in various corporate and academic environments wherein they may carry out all the usual power and money grubbing activities, cover over, give handsome golden parachutes, have sex scandals, and contribute nothing of value to science...because they're too busy politically infighting or churning out bad papers for bad grants, or doing the latest dutch tulip craze, or so forth, as the humans in those corporate or academic environments aren't very much different from, say, those in the Catholic Church.
Yep, do that in Perl for C libraries (or also in TCL (haven't had a need to do FFI in Common LISP (yet))). I have heard that Python is apparently a good language, but on account of certain members of its community...yeah, no. Maybe when those pythonistas can resist "The Two Minutes Hate" when Perl is mentioned, and stop reaching back down behind where their legs meet for stuff to throw... (such behavior might also help explain your anecdote).
Rust you say...
https://github.com/jwilm/alacr...https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/deta...
off by ones, and where were the unit tests? progress in coding...
as for how one regards all the "have you heard the good word of Rust" evangelism and that cod of conduct, well now that's opinion territory
You should have seen the researcher's face when I told them Excel was (and had been) corrupting his data input (of yes genes). I forget what year this was, somewhere in the 1999-2002 range.
"The American model got us through the last 30 years."
Robber baron inequality levels, some romping good fun via foreign military and financial adventurism, not a little biosphere damage, and how's the middle class doing? A good exercise might be to take a walk by the Interstate and see how many homeless are living there.
"“Both are having a renaissance,” Schmidt said."
A renaissance? What long dead culture are we copying from in computing and biology? Or is this some new use of the term renaissance? If so, what does this use of renaissance mean? Feel-good technobabble? Other?
"political issues that are ultimately not that important...I’m not making a particular political point here"
Yes, they are. Yes, you are.
"more than just a medical bill"
Explain why Americans pay that big fat medical bill and yet only have life expectancies on par with Costa Rica? How exactly will throwing yet more tech at that wallet to see what sticks help (anything but Google's bottom line)?
Good. There have been too many glazed-eye douches in Tesla who have nearly run me down in crosswalks. This does not, alas, mean that American car sitters of other vehicle types are really any better at not running down pedestrians, but when you've built a mostly survivable car hell, what can one expect?
Given the decline of coal usage in the U.K. (on a downwards slope since a now somewhat rusted lady held power, though plateaued of late) and that the U.K. has been a net importer of coal over a similar period of time, phasing out old coal plants may be something of a no-brainer. Granted, the U.K. is now also a net importer of gas, and a net importer of oil, but those declines are much more recent than that of coal. It will be interesting to see, moving forward, how the British economy pays to import those resources, having burned through its own easily obtained stocks with quite some abandon...
Everyone? My refrigerator has been turned off for years, and serves the quiet and inexpensive task of holding up the sourdough starter. The space where the ice box used to be has fermenting lemons, mead, kohlrabi, kraut, etc. Any actual productive use for a refrigerator (extending the life of beet kvaas, for instance) would need to be weighed against the noise and energy wasted on that giant of flavor, iceberg lettuce.
Road widening? While I suppose collecting yet more data on the phenomena known as induced demand might be fun and all, there's probably more sensible transportation investments to be made than laying down yet more expensive tarmac everywhere.
And then you run into the high costs of all that needless parking; see e.g. the research by Donald Shoup, and yet you want *four* spots per apartment? That's going to needlessly jack up the rent, waste valuable urban land, or do both in spades. Maybe for a few fancy luxury condos where they've got swerving beamers coming out of the woodwork, and can afford such, but certainly not for every building. Why not instead of your mandated minimums (which is the present system in America, though thankfully not as bad as you propose), let the market decide how much parking there should be, and how much it should cost?
Yep. Grains, beans and (white) rice, millet, corn, etc. will keep unrefrigerated for a good year or two, toss in some sun-dried tomatoes for flavour (okay, I will admit to cheating and using store-bought ketchup). Ferment the beans or grains for extra flavour (e.g. some corn meal, water to cover, a bit of salt, wait a day or two, depending on ambient temperature). Dried kale also keeps well, mix it into various things. Or try Moroccan preserved lemons (yep, fermented) with rice or chickpeas (these are best sprouted). I am out of sauerkraut at the moment, but do have some fermented kohlrabi from some weeks ago that I should crack open...
I guess I should mention that I turned off the refrigerator at home years ago. It does a fine job holding up the sourdough starter.
> (Also, drinking nine of anything per day sounds horrible.)
Really?/me goes to check on how the huckleberry mead is doing.
(Mead, obviously, has a very poor glycemic index and a poor nutrient balance and is in all ways utterly unhealthy and thus unsuitable for consumption. Citizens should instead for their proper health only drink SteriBland(R) NutryDense(TM).)
Err, no, programming still requires a goodly amount of study and understanding, regardless how the various complexities have been hidden. The margin for error remains rather low--how are those Andriods doing? Car entertainment systems? Browsers? And in the department of learning from history, I present, CVE-2013-4259 and CVE-2014-3563 for two shiny new configuration management softwares. How long have/tmp security problems been known? Two decades, at least? Now, marketing programming to folks that might be interested in beginning that journey is a different story, and probably more in line with what Apple is attempting here.
Mmm, no. One lesson from history would be the technological advance that is the analog computer, and the fact that this technology was lost for some number of centuries. In particular, the Antikythera mechanism (~205 BCE?) and subsequent reinvention of the analog computer (~14th century CE). Thus, technological advance is an insufficient guide, as it did nothing to prevent the Greek and Roman civilizations (and indeed every past civilization, ever) from faceplanting. Such faceplants probably had some impact on the jobs market--mead-maker for local warlord, assuming one survives?
Perhaps optimists would know these cycles of history if they were not so busy fitting straight lines to semi-log graph paper and calling things good?
Yes, yes, everyone gets up and dances until the economy craters due to overproduction and a lack of consumers for said goods. But do let's forget the roaring twenties and associated rampant consumerism and stock market speculation, eh?
No, but I've helped shepherd a six-figure chunk of carbon or two through a small online retailer in my time. Rather uncommon, which I believe is just the point the original poster made. What was yours?
No, Washington could use fewer roads. Seattle in particular has blown the "bridging the gap" funds on mostly making the Mercer mess that much more a horrible stroad, and with WSDOT stuck in pave-like-it's-1959 mode despite construction costs increasing faster than inflation (yeah, maintenance, how about that?) car sitters have the enviable joy of higher taxes--at least they're hitting you with a gas tax increase, instead of the Federal method of pretending that all is well while stealing from the General fund to keep the utterly broken Highway Trust Fund seemingly solvent. Prediction: induced demand will destroy the short-term benefit of any new pavement they might slap down, leaving you once again stuck in congestion, though now with a higher maintenance bill due to all those new roads. Derp! The long future: look to Iowa.
Otherwise, you do sound bitter. Maybe try walking more, or taking the bus? All that stress from road rage really isn't healthy.
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One popular myth these days is the Myth of Progress, you know, the one were we would already be building bridges on Jupiter ("2018!". James Blish. 1956). Adherents of this myth may be found in various corporate and academic environments wherein they may carry out all the usual power and money grubbing activities, cover over, give handsome golden parachutes, have sex scandals, and contribute nothing of value to science...because they're too busy politically infighting or churning out bad papers for bad grants, or doing the latest dutch tulip craze, or so forth, as the humans in those corporate or academic environments aren't very much different from, say, those in the Catholic Church.
Yep, do that in Perl for C libraries (or also in TCL (haven't had a need to do FFI in Common LISP (yet))). I have heard that Python is apparently a good language, but on account of certain members of its community...yeah, no. Maybe when those pythonistas can resist "The Two Minutes Hate" when Perl is mentioned, and stop reaching back down behind where their legs meet for stuff to throw... (such behavior might also help explain your anecdote).
Rust you say... https://github.com/jwilm/alacr... https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/deta... off by ones, and where were the unit tests? progress in coding... as for how one regards all the "have you heard the good word of Rust" evangelism and that cod of conduct, well now that's opinion territory
Laptop 2 of 2, and also my desktop at work.
You should have seen the researcher's face when I told them Excel was (and had been) corrupting his data input (of yes genes). I forget what year this was, somewhere in the 1999-2002 range.
Robber baron inequality levels, some romping good fun via foreign military and financial adventurism, not a little biosphere damage, and how's the middle class doing? A good exercise might be to take a walk by the Interstate and see how many homeless are living there.
A renaissance? What long dead culture are we copying from in computing and biology? Or is this some new use of the term renaissance? If so, what does this use of renaissance mean? Feel-good technobabble? Other?
Yes, they are. Yes, you are.
Explain why Americans pay that big fat medical bill and yet only have life expectancies on par with Costa Rica? How exactly will throwing yet more tech at that wallet to see what sticks help (anything but Google's bottom line)?
Good. There have been too many glazed-eye douches in Tesla who have nearly run me down in crosswalks. This does not, alas, mean that American car sitters of other vehicle types are really any better at not running down pedestrians, but when you've built a mostly survivable car hell, what can one expect?
Given the decline of coal usage in the U.K. (on a downwards slope since a now somewhat rusted lady held power, though plateaued of late) and that the U.K. has been a net importer of coal over a similar period of time, phasing out old coal plants may be something of a no-brainer. Granted, the U.K. is now also a net importer of gas, and a net importer of oil, but those declines are much more recent than that of coal. It will be interesting to see, moving forward, how the British economy pays to import those resources, having burned through its own easily obtained stocks with quite some abandon...
Methinks this car sitter doth protest too much. Isn't there some Alison Liao you could be mowing down instead?
Everyone? My refrigerator has been turned off for years, and serves the quiet and inexpensive task of holding up the sourdough starter. The space where the ice box used to be has fermenting lemons, mead, kohlrabi, kraut, etc. Any actual productive use for a refrigerator (extending the life of beet kvaas, for instance) would need to be weighed against the noise and energy wasted on that giant of flavor, iceberg lettuce.
The history of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency may also be a relevant line of research wrt corporate power.
It's like gets(3), only different!
Road widening? While I suppose collecting yet more data on the phenomena known as induced demand might be fun and all, there's probably more sensible transportation investments to be made than laying down yet more expensive tarmac everywhere.
And then you run into the high costs of all that needless parking; see e.g. the research by Donald Shoup, and yet you want *four* spots per apartment? That's going to needlessly jack up the rent, waste valuable urban land, or do both in spades. Maybe for a few fancy luxury condos where they've got swerving beamers coming out of the woodwork, and can afford such, but certainly not for every building. Why not instead of your mandated minimums (which is the present system in America, though thankfully not as bad as you propose), let the market decide how much parking there should be, and how much it should cost?
Wait, how interactive? Because, you know, Macbeth ain't alls well that ends well...
Yep. Grains, beans and (white) rice, millet, corn, etc. will keep unrefrigerated for a good year or two, toss in some sun-dried tomatoes for flavour (okay, I will admit to cheating and using store-bought ketchup). Ferment the beans or grains for extra flavour (e.g. some corn meal, water to cover, a bit of salt, wait a day or two, depending on ambient temperature). Dried kale also keeps well, mix it into various things. Or try Moroccan preserved lemons (yep, fermented) with rice or chickpeas (these are best sprouted). I am out of sauerkraut at the moment, but do have some fermented kohlrabi from some weeks ago that I should crack open...
I guess I should mention that I turned off the refrigerator at home years ago. It does a fine job holding up the sourdough starter.
> (Also, drinking nine of anything per day sounds horrible.)
Really? /me goes to check on how the huckleberry mead is doing.
(Mead, obviously, has a very poor glycemic index and a poor nutrient balance and is in all ways utterly unhealthy and thus unsuitable for consumption. Citizens should instead for their proper health only drink SteriBland(R) NutryDense(TM).)
Err, no, programming still requires a goodly amount of study and understanding, regardless how the various complexities have been hidden. The margin for error remains rather low--how are those Andriods doing? Car entertainment systems? Browsers? And in the department of learning from history, I present, CVE-2013-4259 and CVE-2014-3563 for two shiny new configuration management softwares. How long have /tmp security problems been known? Two decades, at least? Now, marketing programming to folks that might be interested in beginning that journey is a different story, and probably more in line with what Apple is attempting here.
One need only recall Kurosawa's "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960) to note that nothing really has changed.
Mmm, no. One lesson from history would be the technological advance that is the analog computer, and the fact that this technology was lost for some number of centuries. In particular, the Antikythera mechanism (~205 BCE?) and subsequent reinvention of the analog computer (~14th century CE). Thus, technological advance is an insufficient guide, as it did nothing to prevent the Greek and Roman civilizations (and indeed every past civilization, ever) from faceplanting. Such faceplants probably had some impact on the jobs market--mead-maker for local warlord, assuming one survives?
Perhaps optimists would know these cycles of history if they were not so busy fitting straight lines to semi-log graph paper and calling things good?
Awkward theater? No'h!
Demand does not create wealth. Production does.
Yes, yes, everyone gets up and dances until the economy craters due to overproduction and a lack of consumers for said goods. But do let's forget the roaring twenties and associated rampant consumerism and stock market speculation, eh?
Never heard of luxury goods? Like $17K watches?
No, but I've helped shepherd a six-figure chunk of carbon or two through a small online retailer in my time. Rather uncommon, which I believe is just the point the original poster made. What was yours?
No, Washington could use fewer roads. Seattle in particular has blown the "bridging the gap" funds on mostly making the Mercer mess that much more a horrible stroad, and with WSDOT stuck in pave-like-it's-1959 mode despite construction costs increasing faster than inflation (yeah, maintenance, how about that?) car sitters have the enviable joy of higher taxes--at least they're hitting you with a gas tax increase, instead of the Federal method of pretending that all is well while stealing from the General fund to keep the utterly broken Highway Trust Fund seemingly solvent. Prediction: induced demand will destroy the short-term benefit of any new pavement they might slap down, leaving you once again stuck in congestion, though now with a higher maintenance bill due to all those new roads. Derp! The long future: look to Iowa.
Otherwise, you do sound bitter. Maybe try walking more, or taking the bus? All that stress from road rage really isn't healthy.
Let me guess, it tries to eat the USS Constellation?
They only managed token ring wraiths, though.
... or you buy those two redundant lines and then, some outage later, discover they run through the same Local Exchange Carrier. Good fun!
My money is on a rogue backhoe for this one.