Python is quite powerful - it can do almost anything. Basic was quite limited.
That claim doesn't even make sense. It might be more difficult to perform certain operations in BASIC (or Python, for that matter), but neither is "more powerful" than the other.
You can shoot yourself in the foot with any Turing-complete programming language, and most of the items noted in "The R Inferno," are in no way unique to R, such as floating-point operations, the pros and cons of various memory allocation strategies, and inherent problems in dynamically typed languages. These are CS101 issues, and the target audience of the book seems to be mathematicians with little or no exposure to programming.
Sounds more like that was the streaming quality adjusting upwards. If you use the settings to force HD (whatever your monitor can support), it will be in "focus" the whole time.
Yes. When you are attacked by Russia, feel free to launch a stuxnet-like attack and destroy the computer systems of the Kremlin. In fact, you don't even have to wait. Go ahead and do it now. We'll wait.
Paradoxically (perhaps), developing countries are often the first to embrace new technologies because they don't have the inertia of existing industry to content with. For example, many dirt poor countries have excellent cellular coverage. In many cases, this is the only access to phone or internet that citizens have. If self driving cars cut transportation costs dramatically relative to car ownership, then I would expect them to flourish in poorer economies.
unchanging organisms in a forever changing environment cannot adapt. You need death to promote life in this Universe
First off, that's how, not why. Why is a question of motive, which presumes will, and to which there is likely no answer.
Second, death isn't a prerequisite for life, or even necessarily an adaptation. Trees can live for thousands of years, for example, and perhaps indefinitely. Trees might be less adept at handling change -- although many are incredibly resilient -- but death isn't required for adaptation. Genes can and do change in living creatures, and we humans adapt to a range of environments without dying to do it. If anything, intelligence is a viable alternative to the chaotic randomness and ruthlessness of natural selection, as evidenced by our ability to flourish in habitats that would otherwise be unsuitable.
Right. Protestants say you just have to believe -- anything else you say, think, or do is immaterial. Sin is bad, but we're all sinners so it doesn't matter, and it definitely won't keep you out of heaven. Party on!
Like most holy texts, The Bible can be used to justify just about anything.
Paul wrote "to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion."
Of course, that was Paul, not Jesus, but Paul's words are often taken as Gospel, quite literally.
As much as I wish ISPs and their shills would be this transparent, this seems like a false flag to me. ISPs exert enough influence that they don't need to fabricate a grassroots effort, let alone one that's so clearly astroturf. OTOH, I can believe some script kiddy thinking this would somehow appear damaging to ISPs.
The problem is that the ML was trained on existing data, which is itself based on human and systemic biases, which means it's going to reinforce those biases. If someone is more closely watched because of some characteristic (age, gender, race, zip code, online habits), they are more likely to be caught for the same crime as someone who is not watched as closely. It *might* be possible to control for this, but it should at least be identified as a risk.
Talking about running a VM, on a laptop no less, is just muddying the waters. It's a completely separate discussion. Don't use the drawbacks of a VM as a reason for people to avoid it "unless you have no other option."
Also, partitioning is almost entirely pointless. If you can use a separate physical drive with the same or comparable specs, you'll get far better performance.
Exactly. I find OS X itself to be both more powerful and aesthetically pleasing than anything Microsoft has released since Windows 8. To me, OS X is an adult OS, where Windows is the perfect complement for an Xbox One fan who digs color-changing gaming keyboards and Live Tiles. OS X is a POSIX compliant OS that also has a respectable volume of commercial applications and games, a huge array of command-line software through Brew and MacPorts, vendor support for video cards and most hardware, as well as access to Xcode for iOS development. In fact, it's pretty rare not to find a Mac version of popular software these days... CrashPlan has a Mac client, as does WhatsApp, TeamViewer, DropBox, Plex, all major non-MS browsers, VLC, VirtualBox, VMWare, and even MS Office.
OS X was originally the alternate boot choice on my desktop, but now it's the default. I have a Win 10 VM for the few things I need to use Windows to do, which is usually just using IE-specific webapps. Even lately, where I haven't been doing any iOS development and don't have a business need to use OS X, I find it preferable to Windows in almost every way. The only thing that might send be back to Windows would be if the OS X ecosystem collapsed, but for now it only appears to be growing, not shrinking.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "parsing" in this instance, but a decoder is free to skip over irrelevant chunks (real name for them) in a PNG file and access only the chunks it needs (header, palette, image data, etc.).
No they shouldn't. Creating a *policy* of stripping metadata and enforce it through code audits. Embedding resources (or not) into a file is a developer decision, not a compiler decision. The compiler has no way of knowing which bytes of the resource you embed are important and which are not, be they strings, PNGs, or anything else.
Maybe they have in-person communities and social interactions. We Americans are far more socially isolated from the people around us and geographically isolated from our long-term friends and family than most other countries I've visited.
And that's why it needs to be included in the price, the way it is in most of Europe and Japan. Idiots like you believe that tips aren't necessary to earn a living wage, but when minimum wage is halved simply because someone *might* give you more income, that's BS. Tips are essential. Moreover, other customers are subsidizing your tip-free existence, and on top of it, there's a good chance the employees aren't including all of their tips in their taxable income, which means we're all subsidizing them even more. Honestly, that shouldn't be your responsibility anyway, or mine -- it should be the employer's. So yeah, fuck tipping, once it's not necessary. Until then, fuck you.
That's not what the article says. It says 45% of households pay no or negative taxes, but it doesn't say where they fall on income brackets. Some (many) could be retirees. It *does* say that the bottom 40%, on average, have a negative tax burden, but that's not quite the same thing, as some of the people paying no or negative taxes are undoubtedly in higher income brackets, or would be if not for clever accounting.
The last time this happened, the average TV season went from 22 episodes per year to 11. A few more iterations and we'll have to measure it in years-per-episode.
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That claim doesn't even make sense. It might be more difficult to perform certain operations in BASIC (or Python, for that matter), but neither is "more powerful" than the other.
You can shoot yourself in the foot with any Turing-complete programming language, and most of the items noted in "The R Inferno," are in no way unique to R, such as floating-point operations, the pros and cons of various memory allocation strategies, and inherent problems in dynamically typed languages. These are CS101 issues, and the target audience of the book seems to be mathematicians with little or no exposure to programming.
Sounds more like that was the streaming quality adjusting upwards. If you use the settings to force HD (whatever your monitor can support), it will be in "focus" the whole time.
Update your resume to reflect 10 yrs of experience in 2 year-old technology.
Yes, the Obama-era CIA wanted to hack the DNC so that Trump would win, and then framed Russia for it. Because that makes sense.
Yes. When you are attacked by Russia, feel free to launch a stuxnet-like attack and destroy the computer systems of the Kremlin. In fact, you don't even have to wait. Go ahead and do it now. We'll wait.
Paradoxically (perhaps), developing countries are often the first to embrace new technologies because they don't have the inertia of existing industry to content with. For example, many dirt poor countries have excellent cellular coverage. In many cases, this is the only access to phone or internet that citizens have. If self driving cars cut transportation costs dramatically relative to car ownership, then I would expect them to flourish in poorer economies.
First off, that's how, not why. Why is a question of motive, which presumes will, and to which there is likely no answer.
Second, death isn't a prerequisite for life, or even necessarily an adaptation. Trees can live for thousands of years, for example, and perhaps indefinitely. Trees might be less adept at handling change -- although many are incredibly resilient -- but death isn't required for adaptation. Genes can and do change in living creatures, and we humans adapt to a range of environments without dying to do it. If anything, intelligence is a viable alternative to the chaotic randomness and ruthlessness of natural selection, as evidenced by our ability to flourish in habitats that would otherwise be unsuitable.
Right. Protestants say you just have to believe -- anything else you say, think, or do is immaterial. Sin is bad, but we're all sinners so it doesn't matter, and it definitely won't keep you out of heaven. Party on!
Like most holy texts, The Bible can be used to justify just about anything.
Paul wrote "to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion."
Of course, that was Paul, not Jesus, but Paul's words are often taken as Gospel, quite literally.
As much as I wish ISPs and their shills would be this transparent, this seems like a false flag to me. ISPs exert enough influence that they don't need to fabricate a grassroots effort, let alone one that's so clearly astroturf. OTOH, I can believe some script kiddy thinking this would somehow appear damaging to ISPs.
The problem is that the ML was trained on existing data, which is itself based on human and systemic biases, which means it's going to reinforce those biases. If someone is more closely watched because of some characteristic (age, gender, race, zip code, online habits), they are more likely to be caught for the same crime as someone who is not watched as closely. It *might* be possible to control for this, but it should at least be identified as a risk.
Get started??? Your rant on salaries and benefits was due last Friday!
Talking about running a VM, on a laptop no less, is just muddying the waters. It's a completely separate discussion. Don't use the drawbacks of a VM as a reason for people to avoid it "unless you have no other option."
Also, partitioning is almost entirely pointless. If you can use a separate physical drive with the same or comparable specs, you'll get far better performance.
You don't have to "make full use of" something for it to be worthwhile. My car is parked for 95% of the day.
Apple believes it's big enough to focus on.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04...
Exactly. I find OS X itself to be both more powerful and aesthetically pleasing than anything Microsoft has released since Windows 8. To me, OS X is an adult OS, where Windows is the perfect complement for an Xbox One fan who digs color-changing gaming keyboards and Live Tiles. OS X is a POSIX compliant OS that also has a respectable volume of commercial applications and games, a huge array of command-line software through Brew and MacPorts, vendor support for video cards and most hardware, as well as access to Xcode for iOS development. In fact, it's pretty rare not to find a Mac version of popular software these days... CrashPlan has a Mac client, as does WhatsApp, TeamViewer, DropBox, Plex, all major non-MS browsers, VLC, VirtualBox, VMWare, and even MS Office.
OS X was originally the alternate boot choice on my desktop, but now it's the default. I have a Win 10 VM for the few things I need to use Windows to do, which is usually just using IE-specific webapps. Even lately, where I haven't been doing any iOS development and don't have a business need to use OS X, I find it preferable to Windows in almost every way. The only thing that might send be back to Windows would be if the OS X ecosystem collapsed, but for now it only appears to be growing, not shrinking.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "parsing" in this instance, but a decoder is free to skip over irrelevant chunks (real name for them) in a PNG file and access only the chunks it needs (header, palette, image data, etc.).
No they shouldn't. Creating a *policy* of stripping metadata and enforce it through code audits. Embedding resources (or not) into a file is a developer decision, not a compiler decision. The compiler has no way of knowing which bytes of the resource you embed are important and which are not, be they strings, PNGs, or anything else.
Maybe they have in-person communities and social interactions. We Americans are far more socially isolated from the people around us and geographically isolated from our long-term friends and family than most other countries I've visited.
And that's why it needs to be included in the price, the way it is in most of Europe and Japan. Idiots like you believe that tips aren't necessary to earn a living wage, but when minimum wage is halved simply because someone *might* give you more income, that's BS. Tips are essential. Moreover, other customers are subsidizing your tip-free existence, and on top of it, there's a good chance the employees aren't including all of their tips in their taxable income, which means we're all subsidizing them even more. Honestly, that shouldn't be your responsibility anyway, or mine -- it should be the employer's. So yeah, fuck tipping, once it's not necessary. Until then, fuck you.
That's not what the article says. It says 45% of households pay no or negative taxes, but it doesn't say where they fall on income brackets. Some (many) could be retirees. It *does* say that the bottom 40%, on average, have a negative tax burden, but that's not quite the same thing, as some of the people paying no or negative taxes are undoubtedly in higher income brackets, or would be if not for clever accounting.
The last time this happened, the average TV season went from 22 episodes per year to 11. A few more iterations and we'll have to measure it in years-per-episode.
I'm new to this whole landmine detection thing, but perhaps red would have been a better choice of color than green.
Booty.