Last few years it was 'Cloud', cloud this cloud that, got very annoying, well heck it still annoying, but there is some interesting tech to play with there, have been testing Docker thingies alot recently.
Now its AI, with so much hyperbolic nonsense about AI too, Musks fearmongering amongst many in the media.
I still prefer to call what we have now even at the highest end, to be good Expert Systems, but nothing close to AI, even if you want to try to define some 'stages of AI' we are way down the bottom of the list.
Tomorrow of course there will be some new startup offering 'AI' toasters, and all the VCs will get on board because AI is the new Cloud.
I miss the old days when we could get some reliable information from the MSM and make up our own minds, rather than this general collection of very politicized opinions with almost no facts.
Nowadays I am getting my info from many many locations and doing my best with it. Seems like a luxury item now to have a news organization actually do some real ground pounding legwork investigative journalism.
I have been predicting that at some point in the future, all switches, routers, etc will have a firewall per port so you can control access to well everything but especially this proliferation of IOT.
Make them easily configurable so your tv and refrigerator can talk to each other but nothing else etc.
No matter what its going to be another wild wild west of security problems going forward, so many things have zero support after being shipped, it just works without any regard to security.
Of course there is inflation, too much money chasing limited supply of goods. Macro scale, bubble after bubble after bubble goes pop. Micro scale, you wont find a single person here saying they actually want prices of things they buy daily to keep climbing, but they sure do keep climbing.
So yes, you can claim no inflation on super special magic double bond accounting paper, hold it up for everyone to see, and point at the special bold words on the page, but for regular people there definitely is inflation.
I disagree, and instead I would suggest that most SJW self describe themselves unapologetically as such, including all the various nonsense associated with it.
Compare that to the so called 'alt-right' who were originally hard core trolls(and everyone fell for it), and now is almost exclusively used as a pejorative by the left and they associate it without any evidence with racism sexism, and a few phobias too.
I love it, 'everyone who thinks differently than me isn't intelligent'.
You have just given a near perfect example of at least one of the main points in the memo, that its a different kind of thinking and using polarizing language such as yours is very divisive. If you were 'smarter' maybe you would be able to see that and perhaps even find some common ground. Heck maybe you are even wrong about some of your most closely held beliefs.
Or you can just lump half the country into the 'bad' pile and continue to pretend they are all stupid because they dont think the same as you.
I haven't looked much but I expect there are many many more scientific studies on this crazy idea that some people are different than others for all kinds of reasons. But no need to get more agitated, everyone is already afraid that you will be violent because 'words', and we 'get it' that its inconvenient and it must instead be some kind of 'ism'.
Or maybe you could link some studies that show all conservative white males are racists, bigots and hate women?
Does that group of people have the conviction of what they claim to believe about equality?
Where are the programs to increase the male representation in the fields of Veterinary / Teaching or Child Care workers? And we clearly need programs to get more women into logging, garbage collection and construction too.
Its my understanding that bitcoin is not a fiat currency there is no proclamation from anyone with authority claiming its value, as well its not a currency backed by a commodity or good, so controlling the scarcity seems to be an incredibly important factor.
If I understand it correctly, previously the rate was limited to a linear function of time, but now this appears to be very broken as it can be doubled at any time?
And lastly I haven't even looked to see how the market for the currency has been affected but I would assume that it has to decrease as people come to understand the total amount of currency can be doubled or more at any time?
Not even sure what you are suggesting is coherent, adults are not perfect, they cannot protect children perfectly at all times. And of course every responsible gun owner locks their gun up, or has a locking trigger guard.
BUT Are all adults responsible and conscientious? No of course not, hence:
Are you suggesting that we dont teach children anything and just bubble wrap them from 1-17, then let them loose at 18 and 'hope' it works out somehow?
There are endless 'tragedies in the making', are you suggesting that we lock everything and everyone down 'for our own good?'?
Or do we make some kind of effort however feeble and try to teach children something? Yes including about guns, and car seats, and whatever else.
Or did you just want to link a 'think about the children!' thing and moonwalk out of here?
Fired my first gun at the age of 9, owned my first gun at 11 and was allowed to take it out and use it anytime I wanted unsupervised.
Was taught some very simple rules about guns and have followed them my whole life, without exception ever.
1. Treat a gun as if its always loaded, even if you just unloaded it yourself, you act as if it is still loaded. 2. Never ever point a gun at anything you dont actually intend to shoot. 3. Finger off the trigger. 4. Identify risk down range.
There are more rules, but good teachers and role models make a big difference too.
I suppose its just not inflammatory/sensational enough to say: "Some programmers gave an expert system some data to look at and it gave a result."
Instead they want us to pretend there are actual thinking computers that are racist or sexist or something else even more silly, AND lets start changing them to be more politically correct because 'reasons'.
This madness will never end will it? It will just cycle around from obscurity to inflammatory and we have to keep beating it down forever?
The 'classic' yelling fire in a crowded theater example was never law, and the case in which it was said was overturned in 1969.
The original author Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes just 1 year later ruled completely the opposite in a similar case. In that 2nd case Holmes has a line which ought to be more quoted by everyone when talking about free speech:
"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas - that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."
You have leapt to a conclusion that I clearly did not suggest "when the bus isn't full of 64bit instructions and data". I was talking about 64 bit CPUs and 64 bit OS. Specifically 32 bit and 64 bit programs running on that platform. In general 64 bit program offers no increase in speed and is quite often slower. Yes there are all kinds of cases and programs where its faster, but the key delineator is probably a very large problem size, data size, level of accuracy required, things that require the program to need more than 2GB of address space, etc etc.
So for example if/when someone offers a 64bit text editor and no one is using it to edit gigantic files then its probably slower.
I keep wondering if people in general are thinking (wrongly) that 64bit is faster than 32bit as well.
Off the top of my head SIMD style instructions/programming makes many programs on newer CPUs run faster when the bus isn't full of 64bit instructions and data.
So many people lost their lives when we undertook learning to fly, all the way through to rocketry and going to outer space. Every step of the way there were failures and we learned something new re engineered and now we take flying for granted. So maybe someday this kind of travel will be workable, but I dont see it anytime soon.
I just can't get the idea out of my head that when this idea fails, its going to fail in a very catastrophic way, something that 'wasn't considered possible', or wasn't even considered. The forces involved here are pretty hefty, the environment uncontrollable and unforgiving. Let alone any consideration for vandalism or worse, a structure like that seems especially vulnerable to those kinds of things.
Once robust standards were being followed and browser speed went past some point, I stopped caring about which was the fastest. Care much more about interface features and plugins that I want. Next was the many other annoying things that I was able to customize to my taste, a menu item up or down on a list, a button I could or could not move, maintaining a familiar interface, etc.
". 'Cash has lost its credibility and payments are no longer perceived in the same way,' says Upasana Taku, the cofounder of Indian mobile wallet company MobiKwik"
I was reading the same thing and actually laughed out loud. Its another of those thin edge of the wedge 'we are doing it for your own good, get in the right line to wait for your goods' things.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm with you on this, stopped watching the series with episode 5.
"Its me, its not you." I just can't get past an instantaneous veggie drive (fungi whatever, I will continue to call it a veggie drive).
Last few years it was 'Cloud', cloud this cloud that, got very annoying, well heck it still annoying, but there is some interesting tech to play with there, have been testing Docker thingies alot recently.
Now its AI, with so much hyperbolic nonsense about AI too, Musks fearmongering amongst many in the media.
I still prefer to call what we have now even at the highest end, to be good Expert Systems, but nothing close to AI, even if you want to try to define some 'stages of AI' we are way down the bottom of the list.
Tomorrow of course there will be some new startup offering 'AI' toasters, and all the VCs will get on board because AI is the new Cloud.
I miss the old days when we could get some reliable information from the MSM and make up our own minds, rather than this general collection of very politicized opinions with almost no facts.
Nowadays I am getting my info from many many locations and doing my best with it. Seems like a luxury item now to have a news organization actually do some real ground pounding legwork investigative journalism.
I have been predicting that at some point in the future, all switches, routers, etc will have a firewall per port so you can control access to well everything but especially this proliferation of IOT.
Make them easily configurable so your tv and refrigerator can talk to each other but nothing else etc.
No matter what its going to be another wild wild west of security problems going forward, so many things have zero support after being shipped, it just works without any regard to security.
Of course there is inflation, too much money chasing limited supply of goods. Macro scale, bubble after bubble after bubble goes pop. Micro scale, you wont find a single person here saying they actually want prices of things they buy daily to keep climbing, but they sure do keep climbing.
So yes, you can claim no inflation on super special magic double bond accounting paper, hold it up for everyone to see, and point at the special bold words on the page, but for regular people there definitely is inflation.
Pointing out how a word is being used is intolerant, got it, thanks for the insight.
I disagree, and instead I would suggest that most SJW self describe themselves unapologetically as such, including all the various nonsense associated with it.
Compare that to the so called 'alt-right' who were originally hard core trolls(and everyone fell for it), and now is almost exclusively used as a pejorative by the left and they associate it without any evidence with racism sexism, and a few phobias too.
I love it, 'everyone who thinks differently than me isn't intelligent'.
You have just given a near perfect example of at least one of the main points in the memo, that its a different kind of thinking and using polarizing language such as yours is very divisive. If you were 'smarter' maybe you would be able to see that and perhaps even find some common ground. Heck maybe you are even wrong about some of your most closely held beliefs.
Or you can just lump half the country into the 'bad' pile and continue to pretend they are all stupid because they dont think the same as you.
The 'alt-right' is the catchall boogyman of the authoritarian left.
http://quillette.com/2017/08/0...
Science would appear to disagree with you, but maybe you didn't read the memo with the citations:
https://diversitymemo-static.s...
Wish I had mod points for an AC. This is one of the many points of the memo, thanks for pointing it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He already has job offers.
http://www.human.cornell.edu/h...
I haven't looked much but I expect there are many many more scientific studies on this crazy idea that some people are different than others for all kinds of reasons. But no need to get more agitated, everyone is already afraid that you will be violent because 'words', and we 'get it' that its inconvenient and it must instead be some kind of 'ism'.
Or maybe you could link some studies that show all conservative white males are racists, bigots and hate women?
Amongst many others, you have made a major point.
Does that group of people have the conviction of what they claim to believe about equality?
Where are the programs to increase the male representation in the fields of Veterinary / Teaching or Child Care workers?
And we clearly need programs to get more women into logging, garbage collection and construction too.
Its my understanding that bitcoin is not a fiat currency there is no proclamation from anyone with authority claiming its value, as well its not a currency backed by a commodity or good, so controlling the scarcity seems to be an incredibly important factor.
If I understand it correctly, previously the rate was limited to a linear function of time, but now this appears to be very broken as it can be doubled at any time?
And lastly I haven't even looked to see how the market for the currency has been affected but I would assume that it has to decrease as people come to understand the total amount of currency can be doubled or more at any time?
I expect you were just a troll but whatever.
Not even sure what you are suggesting is coherent, adults are not perfect, they cannot protect children perfectly at all times. And of course every responsible gun owner locks their gun up, or has a locking trigger guard.
BUT Are all adults responsible and conscientious? No of course not, hence:
Example of adults 'contributing' to child death (as of 2014 leading cause of child death is improper restraint in motor vehicle accidents):
https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns...
http://www.jpeds.com/pb/assets...
Are you suggesting that we dont teach children anything and just bubble wrap them from 1-17, then let them loose at 18 and 'hope' it works out somehow?
There are endless 'tragedies in the making', are you suggesting that we lock everything and everyone down 'for our own good?'?
Or do we make some kind of effort however feeble and try to teach children something? Yes including about guns, and car seats, and whatever else.
Or did you just want to link a 'think about the children!' thing and moonwalk out of here?
Fired my first gun at the age of 9, owned my first gun at 11 and was allowed to take it out and use it anytime I wanted unsupervised.
Was taught some very simple rules about guns and have followed them my whole life, without exception ever.
1. Treat a gun as if its always loaded, even if you just unloaded it yourself, you act as if it is still loaded.
2. Never ever point a gun at anything you dont actually intend to shoot.
3. Finger off the trigger.
4. Identify risk down range.
There are more rules, but good teachers and role models make a big difference too.
I suppose its just not inflammatory/sensational enough to say: "Some programmers gave an expert system some data to look at and it gave a result."
Instead they want us to pretend there are actual thinking computers that are racist or sexist or something else even more silly, AND lets start changing them to be more politically correct because 'reasons'.
This madness will never end will it? It will just cycle around from obscurity to inflammatory and we have to keep beating it down forever?
The 'classic' yelling fire in a crowded theater example was never law, and the case in which it was said was overturned in 1969.
The original author Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes just 1 year later ruled completely the opposite in a similar case. In that 2nd case Holmes has a line which ought to be more quoted by everyone when talking about free speech:
"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas - that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."
Ticket style, vending machine style, and probably kiosks too, who knows.
I'm not sure how long this has been common there but it seems like quite a while.
Random sample:
http://jpninfo.com/31417
You have leapt to a conclusion that I clearly did not suggest "when the bus isn't full of 64bit instructions and data". I was talking about 64 bit CPUs and 64 bit OS. Specifically 32 bit and 64 bit programs running on that platform. In general 64 bit program offers no increase in speed and is quite often slower. Yes there are all kinds of cases and programs where its faster, but the key delineator is probably a very large problem size, data size, level of accuracy required, things that require the program to need more than 2GB of address space, etc etc.
So for example if/when someone offers a 64bit text editor and no one is using it to edit gigantic files then its probably slower.
I keep wondering if people in general are thinking (wrongly) that 64bit is faster than 32bit as well.
Off the top of my head SIMD style instructions/programming makes many programs on newer CPUs run faster when the bus isn't full of 64bit instructions and data.
So many people lost their lives when we undertook learning to fly, all the way through to rocketry and going to outer space. Every step of the way there were failures and we learned something new re engineered and now we take flying for granted. So maybe someday this kind of travel will be workable, but I dont see it anytime soon.
I just can't get the idea out of my head that when this idea fails, its going to fail in a very catastrophic way, something that 'wasn't considered possible', or wasn't even considered. The forces involved here are pretty hefty, the environment uncontrollable and unforgiving. Let alone any consideration for vandalism or worse, a structure like that seems especially vulnerable to those kinds of things.
Once robust standards were being followed and browser speed went past some point, I stopped caring about which was the fastest. Care much more about interface features and plugins that I want. Next was the many other annoying things that I was able to customize to my taste, a menu item up or down on a list, a button I could or could not move, maintaining a familiar interface, etc.
". 'Cash has lost its credibility and payments are no longer perceived in the same way,' says Upasana Taku, the cofounder of Indian mobile wallet company MobiKwik"
I was reading the same thing and actually laughed out loud. Its another of those thin edge of the wedge 'we are doing it for your own good, get in the right line to wait for your goods' things.