I don't know about the Get Down, but my impression of Sense8 is that it was a good show with probably decent but not blockbuster ratings that was just too expensive to produce. Flying all of the actors around the world every season and maintaining so many sets just wasn't practical.
I also tend to think they were running a bit low on ideas about midway through season 2. Oh, another scene were thugs randomly show up but using the power of Korean ex-CEO punching we can knock them out and escape! That said, they did keep the plotline moving at a good clip, commendable for a show like this that can so easily get sucked into the vortex of dealing with dead end sideplots and social moralizing and forget what it was supposed to be doing.
I would be quite happy with a special/movie to tie up the loose ends (like the people in the van at the end of season 2) and call it done, but I'm not going to be angry at them like I was at Fox for Firefly if they just decide to cancel it entirely.
This is exactly the kind of thing you see from people gearing up for a Presidential run. I wouldn't think he has a chance, but I thought the same thing about Trump.
Traditional lie detectors are not admissible in court, but they're not unconstitutional. They are selling this as basically a lie detector that actually works.
Expense would not be an issue if the thing actually worked as advertised, at least for the national security scenarios. If this worked everybody down in Gitmo would be strapped to it the first day they arrived. There would be units in Afganistan working nonstop.
If the MRI can read your brain why don't we use them for police investigations and national security stuff? It seems like someone is grossly overselling what you can do with an MRI.
Do I think the Republican held House is going to start impeachment proceedings? In a word: no.
The first chance at impeachment proceedings is after the 2018 elections, and only if they are a massive landslide. IIRC the Democrats need a 10 point spread nationally to get a simple majority in the House, and a simple majority won't get much done.
Drug abuse and other mental health issues come with stress. Poverty and insecurity produce stress. Stability reduces these problems. Individual economic stability is much-more-likely to reduce drug abuse than it is to increase it--along with reducing things like prostitution and gang crimes.
This sounds nice, but I've done a fair bit of volunteer work down in south West Virginia. It's basically a welfare state down there since the mines closed and about the only thing people do down there is drugs. To be fair, this is skewed by the fact that anybody with any sort of drive got out a long time ago, but there are still thousands of people who sit idle all day long every day. Nobody is writing a novel. Nobody is practicing their drawing. Nobody is taking classes to learn a new skill. They just sit. It's intensely depressing. These people need a purpose in life and they're no good at making one for themselves.
IMHO UBI is one of those things that sounds super nice on paper, but fails in the real world due to people not being as awesome as you want them to be. Everybody thinks "That's great, I could finally code up that game I've always wanted to write!" but in practice it would probably be a disaster. Any social system that doesn't take human nature into account is doomed to failure.
Repair bridges. Install fiber optic cables to every house in the country. Plant trees. There are a lot of jobs that aren't profitable that need to be done. Paying for it is a different problem, but its the same one you have with UBI.
On a side note, does anybody believe that UBI has even the slightest amount of traction with the current administration? I can't even picture Trump saying the words except as an epithet.
UBI has been getting more press lately and it's a little hard for me to see how it makes sense. It seems like welfare for everybody, regardless of need. IMHO it tries to solve the problem from the wrong direction. One of the most important things for human mental health is to have something to do. UBI does nothing to address that, and without opportunity the money will just be used for drugs far too often. Programs like the New Deal make a lot more sense. Paying people's expenses while they are in training also make sense. Blank checks require more personal responsibility than you can expect out of the population at large.
They were a multibillion dollar conglomerate with products ranging from streaming video, home electronics, handheld electronics, and even futuristic electric vehicles. They were not well known in the English speaking US outside of their Faraday Future division, but that doesn't mean they were some tiny mom and pop outfit. At least they are failing early so there isn't as much pressure for an investor or a government to step in and save them at great expense.
The problem of course is that if you has an affordable machine then you couldn't run those DOS or Windows apps because there wasn't enough computer power left over for them. I bought an honest to god IBM P75 with 16MB of RAM back in 1995 and it came with OS/2 Warp 3.0 preinstalled alongside DOS/Windows 3.0. I tried using OS/2 a bit but I personally found the interface to be somewhat inscrutable and it was really vulnerable to random interface lockups when running the included applications. Virtually no DOS games worked in OS/2. I can't remember ever getting a Windows app to run in there either. In the end there just wasn't any reason to run it.
While it was technically true you couldn't crash the OS very easily, it was pretty easy for a badly behaving application to lock up the entire interface due to a quirk in the way it handled events. I can't remember the details exactly, but I do remember some apps that would effectively freeze the machine when they crashed, even though technically the OS was still chugging along.
What is frustrating about this is how easy it would be for the cops to roll these guys up if they wanted to. I mean they're providing a mailing address, even if it is a PO Box that isn't going to keep them anonymous for long. I bet it wouldn't even take too many arrests before the volume of mail really dropped. The people who do this need to mail fraud thousands of times every week just to get a few bites.
For the scam to work at all they need a US address. Ain't nobody gonna fill out a SCE "bill" and then mail it in an international envelope to Belarus or something. I guess they could be using a remailing service, but at the least the cops could get their account shut down.
The list consists of only two types of countries: "third world war torn shithole" and "tiny island". Some of the islands would sound nice, but they would be a prison. You would be trapped on there for the rest of your life.
Or someone just used a BCD 2 digit counter for the age because they somehow are old enough for that to sound reasonable, but too young to remember Y2K.
Computer operated quadcopters can theoretically deal with vortices better than human pilots in traditional helicopters, but yeah, that's a definite concern. I expect their flight profile to be more or less straight up, fly to destination, straight down, even thought that's a rather inefficient flight plan.
They're basically building giant quadcopters. I've seen some of the prototypes. You are right that the range will not be very long, but most taxi rides are less than a couple of miles as I recall.
I do think this idea is going to require a whole lot more work than Uber is hoping for, but I don't think it's an impossible problem. It is going to be mostly for the rich, but who knows, maybe it will let some dad get to the hospital in time to see his baby born despite it being rush hour. I'd imagine the cost would run around $70-$200/mile or so when all is said and done and the system is scaled up a bit. The other big problem will be getting high enough density on the helipads to make them useful. It's no good if the nearest helipad is always a mile away.
The notation is simplified Erlang omitting the syntax I wasn't using and tweaking the glyphs a bit to make it look similar to the other example. Even if you wouldn't implement this example this way, it is the general way you program in a regex-argument functional language.
function do_stuff_loop(x, x)
{ }
function do_stuff_loop(x, y)
{
do_stuff()
do_stuff_loop(x + 1, y)
}
do_stuff_loop(0, 10)
In the iterative example you have a variable which changes, causing pain to functional programmers who gaze upon it. In the second your iterator is still there, but it's hidden in the stack instead of being explicitly declared.
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I don't know about the Get Down, but my impression of Sense8 is that it was a good show with probably decent but not blockbuster ratings that was just too expensive to produce. Flying all of the actors around the world every season and maintaining so many sets just wasn't practical.
I also tend to think they were running a bit low on ideas about midway through season 2. Oh, another scene were thugs randomly show up but using the power of Korean ex-CEO punching we can knock them out and escape! That said, they did keep the plotline moving at a good clip, commendable for a show like this that can so easily get sucked into the vortex of dealing with dead end sideplots and social moralizing and forget what it was supposed to be doing.
I would be quite happy with a special/movie to tie up the loose ends (like the people in the van at the end of season 2) and call it done, but I'm not going to be angry at them like I was at Fox for Firefly if they just decide to cancel it entirely.
This is exactly the kind of thing you see from people gearing up for a Presidential run. I wouldn't think he has a chance, but I thought the same thing about Trump.
Meanwhile on Facebook: Turkeydance is now friends with NAMBLA, the KKK, The Communist Party, and ISIS.
Seemed like pretty standard technical reporting from a major news agency. In other words all of the details are wrong and/or overstated.
Traditional lie detectors are not admissible in court, but they're not unconstitutional. They are selling this as basically a lie detector that actually works.
Expense would not be an issue if the thing actually worked as advertised, at least for the national security scenarios. If this worked everybody down in Gitmo would be strapped to it the first day they arrived. There would be units in Afganistan working nonstop.
If the MRI can read your brain why don't we use them for police investigations and national security stuff? It seems like someone is grossly overselling what you can do with an MRI.
Back in the day they put out the best LCD panels period, but sometime in the early 2000s they lost their way and faded from the top end entirely.
Do I think the Republican held House is going to start impeachment proceedings? In a word: no.
The first chance at impeachment proceedings is after the 2018 elections, and only if they are a massive landslide. IIRC the Democrats need a 10 point spread nationally to get a simple majority in the House, and a simple majority won't get much done.
This sounds nice, but I've done a fair bit of volunteer work down in south West Virginia. It's basically a welfare state down there since the mines closed and about the only thing people do down there is drugs. To be fair, this is skewed by the fact that anybody with any sort of drive got out a long time ago, but there are still thousands of people who sit idle all day long every day. Nobody is writing a novel. Nobody is practicing their drawing. Nobody is taking classes to learn a new skill. They just sit. It's intensely depressing. These people need a purpose in life and they're no good at making one for themselves.
IMHO UBI is one of those things that sounds super nice on paper, but fails in the real world due to people not being as awesome as you want them to be. Everybody thinks "That's great, I could finally code up that game I've always wanted to write!" but in practice it would probably be a disaster. Any social system that doesn't take human nature into account is doomed to failure.
If Appalachia is a worthwhile example the answer is Drugs.
Repair bridges. Install fiber optic cables to every house in the country. Plant trees. There are a lot of jobs that aren't profitable that need to be done. Paying for it is a different problem, but its the same one you have with UBI.
On a side note, does anybody believe that UBI has even the slightest amount of traction with the current administration? I can't even picture Trump saying the words except as an epithet.
UBI has been getting more press lately and it's a little hard for me to see how it makes sense. It seems like welfare for everybody, regardless of need. IMHO it tries to solve the problem from the wrong direction. One of the most important things for human mental health is to have something to do. UBI does nothing to address that, and without opportunity the money will just be used for drugs far too often. Programs like the New Deal make a lot more sense. Paying people's expenses while they are in training also make sense. Blank checks require more personal responsibility than you can expect out of the population at large.
They were a multibillion dollar conglomerate with products ranging from streaming video, home electronics, handheld electronics, and even futuristic electric vehicles. They were not well known in the English speaking US outside of their Faraday Future division, but that doesn't mean they were some tiny mom and pop outfit. At least they are failing early so there isn't as much pressure for an investor or a government to step in and save them at great expense.
The problem of course is that if you has an affordable machine then you couldn't run those DOS or Windows apps because there wasn't enough computer power left over for them. I bought an honest to god IBM P75 with 16MB of RAM back in 1995 and it came with OS/2 Warp 3.0 preinstalled alongside DOS/Windows 3.0. I tried using OS/2 a bit but I personally found the interface to be somewhat inscrutable and it was really vulnerable to random interface lockups when running the included applications. Virtually no DOS games worked in OS/2. I can't remember ever getting a Windows app to run in there either. In the end there just wasn't any reason to run it.
While it was technically true you couldn't crash the OS very easily, it was pretty easy for a badly behaving application to lock up the entire interface due to a quirk in the way it handled events. I can't remember the details exactly, but I do remember some apps that would effectively freeze the machine when they crashed, even though technically the OS was still chugging along.
What is frustrating about this is how easy it would be for the cops to roll these guys up if they wanted to. I mean they're providing a mailing address, even if it is a PO Box that isn't going to keep them anonymous for long. I bet it wouldn't even take too many arrests before the volume of mail really dropped. The people who do this need to mail fraud thousands of times every week just to get a few bites.
For the scam to work at all they need a US address. Ain't nobody gonna fill out a SCE "bill" and then mail it in an international envelope to Belarus or something. I guess they could be using a remailing service, but at the least the cops could get their account shut down.
The list consists of only two types of countries: "third world war torn shithole" and "tiny island". Some of the islands would sound nice, but they would be a prison. You would be trapped on there for the rest of your life.
Or someone just used a BCD 2 digit counter for the age because they somehow are old enough for that to sound reasonable, but too young to remember Y2K.
Computer operated quadcopters can theoretically deal with vortices better than human pilots in traditional helicopters, but yeah, that's a definite concern. I expect their flight profile to be more or less straight up, fly to destination, straight down, even thought that's a rather inefficient flight plan.
They're basically building giant quadcopters. I've seen some of the prototypes. You are right that the range will not be very long, but most taxi rides are less than a couple of miles as I recall.
I do think this idea is going to require a whole lot more work than Uber is hoping for, but I don't think it's an impossible problem. It is going to be mostly for the rich, but who knows, maybe it will let some dad get to the hospital in time to see his baby born despite it being rush hour. I'd imagine the cost would run around $70-$200/mile or so when all is said and done and the system is scaled up a bit. The other big problem will be getting high enough density on the helipads to make them useful. It's no good if the nearest helipad is always a mile away.
Even better, the 10% that will be underwater is most of the of the tourist traps.
That doesn't illustrate tail recursion though. Also, nobody who is not already a functional programmer is going to have a chance of following that.
Someone else is going to come in and say the iterative version should be do_stuff().iterate(10) next.
I'm trying to illustrate the difference in the language, not give a course on abstraction primitives.
The notation is simplified Erlang omitting the syntax I wasn't using and tweaking the glyphs a bit to make it look similar to the other example. Even if you wouldn't implement this example this way, it is the general way you program in a regex-argument functional language.
Iterative program:
Functional program:
In the iterative example you have a variable which changes, causing pain to functional programmers who gaze upon it. In the second your iterator is still there, but it's hidden in the stack instead of being explicitly declared.