"Some states are so stupid they just need to go away for good and California is one of them."
I agree. Once we disrupt the 8th largest economy in the world, all that excess production can be re-distributed to other places, improving more people's lives. The people there can then vote with their shoes and find other places to live. Roll out the welcome wagon--Californians, here they come!
No, because all stations would have been on the same playing field. When one player decides to behave with especial assholiness, then, yes, people will remember that.
Perhaps we could also work on a spaceship that instead of propelling itself through the universe, remained stationary and moved the universe around it.
And we can call the universe warping mode "The Paradigm Shift".
"That's a great ID10T story. Right up there with INSERT INTO MyHugeTable (ID, Value) Values (SELECT MAX(ID)+1 From MyHugeTable, "Value") which I found on a table with one million rows when client asked why his website was so slow. "
I see almost exactly this in a newly mis-behaving app that I have to deal with. The table in question has grown very large. It bothered me when I saw it the logic. I don't have great SQL chops, but this kind of logic only works well with a serial column, right, as the DBMS will track the highest assigned value? If not, then the thing has to do index or table scans to find the value in each invocation.
"You know, when the complexity of a problem is growing exponential, even if you could use all the energy in the universe you will not able to solve it. That is the point."
I believe that I read that before the end of classical physics, things were getting very complicated. It took various theories--electo-magnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc--to make sense of the experiments that were being done at the end of that era.
Similarly, we're now trying to resolve relativity vs. quantum mechanics. I believe that the complexity that we have now is due to the fact that we have to reconcile two theories that don't match "reality", and today's experiments have complex results, and when the answer to life, the universe and everything is found, and a new unified theory supersedes modern physics, a lot of the theoretical complexity will go away.
I expect it to be less than two centuries for that to happen.
Interesting. Of course, the people who actually run the county will then "fire" the sheriff due to all the fedmoney drying up. Greed crosses all boundaries.
I thought of this too, but couldn't remember who wrote it. I remember reading one of the series he did on slow glass waybackwhen. It definitely caught my imagination then. Good stuff.
If you're not zapped by the primary blast of radiation, the next thing to defend against is inhaling radioactive dust. While skin can provide some defense against radiation, the lungs have no defenses at all. "Hunker down until the dust settles" is a good defense. If I remember my old training correctly, it should be relatively safe to come out after 7 days.
"People want space flight because space flight is sciencey. They'll talk about colonizing Mars and saving ourselves from extinction, but that's really fancy talk. They want to live in Star Trek, end of story."
Hell yeah. Wouldn't need your "socialized medical research institute" in that case.
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Except for minor details like child sacrifice.
Betcha most of their kids were well-behaved.
"Some states are so stupid they just need to go away for good and California is one of them."
I agree. Once we disrupt the 8th largest economy in the world, all that excess production can be re-distributed to other places, improving more people's lives. The people there can then vote with their shoes and find other places to live. Roll out the welcome wagon--Californians, here they come!
No, because all stations would have been on the same playing field. When one player decides to behave with especial assholiness, then, yes, people will remember that.
All's fair in love and business.
Perhaps we could also work on a spaceship that instead of propelling itself through the universe, remained stationary and moved the universe around it.
And we can call the universe warping mode "The Paradigm Shift".
"That's a great ID10T story. Right up there with INSERT INTO MyHugeTable (ID, Value) Values (SELECT MAX(ID)+1 From MyHugeTable, "Value") which I found on a table with one million rows when client asked why his website was so slow. "
I see almost exactly this in a newly mis-behaving app that I have to deal with. The table in question has grown very large. It bothered me when I saw it the logic. I don't have great SQL chops, but this kind of logic only works well with a serial column, right, as the DBMS will track the highest assigned value? If not, then the thing has to do index or table scans to find the value in each invocation.
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It reminds me of all the fun in the past where various people or groups have tried to legislate pi.
I don't think she'll fit.
If IT were easy and things never changed then anybody could do it. If you expect long term stability then you are in the wrong field.
Yep. Job security.
Hi there Hi there, thanks for the incredibly large low-rez picture of a gorge cut by a river.
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
On the comet, the mighty comet,
the lander sleeps tonight.
On the comet, the quiet comet,
the lander sleeps tonight.
woo-oo-OO-oo..
Remember: No matter what your political beliefs are, you can always use them to be stupid.
Truth.
"You know, when the complexity of a problem is growing exponential, even if you could use all the energy in the universe you will not able to solve it. That is the point."
I believe that I read that before the end of classical physics, things were getting very complicated. It took various theories--electo-magnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc--to make sense of the experiments that were being done at the end of that era.
Similarly, we're now trying to resolve relativity vs. quantum mechanics. I believe that the complexity that we have now is due to the fact that we have to reconcile two theories that don't match "reality", and today's experiments have complex results, and when the answer to life, the universe and everything is found, and a new unified theory supersedes modern physics, a lot of the theoretical complexity will go away.
I expect it to be less than two centuries for that to happen.
Interesting. Of course, the people who actually run the county will then "fire" the sheriff due to all the fedmoney drying up. Greed crosses all boundaries.
You want to test someone for STD's for a job?
You have to find bombers and subs before you can target them
Security by obscurity?
I thought of this too, but couldn't remember who wrote it. I remember reading one of the series he did on slow glass waybackwhen. It definitely caught my imagination then. Good stuff.
Too bad no-one's come up with a way to account for deviant numbers.
"A plan to try is to go to bed at least 8 1/2 hours before the time your alarm is set"
'Tis a good plan. Tends not to work for people with a shifted diurnal pattern.
Obama is now Nixon? The man's rep is growing to mythical proportions.
If you're not zapped by the primary blast of radiation, the next thing to defend against is inhaling radioactive dust. While skin can provide some defense against radiation, the lungs have no defenses at all. "Hunker down until the dust settles" is a good defense. If I remember my old training correctly, it should be relatively safe to come out after 7 days.
They explored unknown flight envelopes.
"We're Gonna Be In the Hudson"
"People want space flight because space flight is sciencey. They'll talk about colonizing Mars and saving ourselves from extinction, but that's really fancy talk. They want to live in Star Trek, end of story."
Hell yeah. Wouldn't need your "socialized medical research institute" in that case.
Hear, hear! That comment about heroes rubbed me the wrong way, too.