I've never been a fan of putting multi-threading/multi-tasking in a programming language.
Well, that's the one thing I truly miss in C. I've used Ada where the multithreading model is part of the language, is brilliantly clear, a joy to use and SAFE. In C, using either posix threads of MS threads it's a nightmare and I've had to scrap entire programs because the logic of the program simply wouldn't work with this mess of threads, semaphores and whatnot.
illegal arrest can be resisted with any force necessary
I really would like to know how many times this has successfully been used with success (meaning either the cops backed off or in the trial that certainly followed). Otherwise it seems like one of those purely theoretical points of law that are one never see in real use.
Indeed there is more to it. This is a screen for "smartphones and tablets" ie. a touchscreen with a matt finish. That is the novelty here.
The problem with matte screens is that they are besically impossible to clean. I punch my cow workers if they put their greasy fingers on my screen after the 1st warning. So hopefuly they've found a screen surface that cleans easily like a glossy one, but without the reflections.
He should also have received it for his explanation of brownian motion, which relaunched the whole thermodynamics / statistical mechanics field. All those contributions in less than ONE year. And I'm still trying to make the front page of slashdot for the 2nd time in 20 years...
2) Another large group of people who have figured out that criminals and governments don't obey laws and that their fellow-citizens can generally be trusted to not fly into a killing rage because they have access to firearms.
LOL, reminds me one of my 1st time in America, when as a simpleton teenager I stated at the dinner table that a society without gun was simply safer (like most of Europe) when a guy flew into a rage, stating that even though he owned 20 guns he'd never killed anyone, pulling out his gun in order to make his point. To which his girlfriend said "you shot my dog when you first came to my place". "Yes, but he was barking at me, so it was justified". I was terrified but to this day I think this cemented my point.
I have a friend who has a small commercial website selling niche equipment. He sent a big purchase to a customer before discovering that the credit card was invalid or stolen (don't remember). It turned out that it really was niche equipment and a few google searches turned out one guy who was just expecting the very same equipment to launch an expedition. That guy had a website where it was all advertised for sponsors. He used the same login credentials on both sites ! So my friend logged into his customer's website, changed the front page to a message such as "I'm a big fat thieve and I just stole $$$ worth of equipment", changed the password and waited. He quickly received the money and an apology.
Its just a matter of time before someone is going to try to genetically engineer superintelligent humans.
There's a whole bunch of reason why that's not possible without resorting to external hardware additions. Our brains have been optimized by a billion years of evolution and the gains to be had are very tiny, unless you want to rebuild the whole thing from scratch ! The main limit is energetic: our brain already consumes an awful lot of energy to run even in 'sleep' mode. But there are other limits like the number of neurons, the number of connections, evacuation of waste heat, etc... Read a paper about that recently and it was interesting.
Yeah, and with the end of easy accessibility the following basic elements in sight right now or within a single generation, there's going to be hell to pay: Potassium, Copper, Zinc, and several of the little known rare earth metals used in high-tech.
Knowledge and technological advance keep solving and bringing back this age old problem. I wonder if we bent all of Earth's resources to our needs how much of the biomass of the Earth could be comprised of human beings.
Well, there have been plenty of evaluations made over time, ranging from 500 million to 20 billion. But all the papers I've seen recently on this subject tend towards the former rather than the latter... Draw your own conclusion. Yeah, citation needed, yadada, yadada. They aren't hard to find.
Well, there are open headphones and closed headphones. Open ones allow you to hear your surroundings, which is sometimes a wanted feature, like when you are biking. I use both kinds: open ones on my bike and closed one with active noise cancelation on the bus.
To stay on-topic, my favourites headphones are these JVCs [HAFX67R]
Well, I hope they are better than the JVC HA-NCX78 I just got to replace my excellent but broken Sennhauser PCX250. First they don't hold in my ears, having to push them back every 5 seconds. But above all the active noise cancelation is utter rubbish. I can barely tell the difference at some frequencies and none at all at most others. With the Sennhauser the difference was like when you turn off the woodworking machine !!!
Some languages fail simply because the creators have chosen stupid names in the age of Internet searches: try searching for one liners or tutorials in 'R' or 'Go' or 'D' and you'll find tons of irrelevant links. I'll make an exception with C since there's simply more stuff out there about the language than about any other use of the letter. Now Brainfuck, that's a perfect name for a language.
I know many students who were held back merely because they had to wait to go on to the next year
But then if you let the brighter students advance faster, it means you lump all the others in 'stupid school'. And most/everybody agrees that it's good to have the brighter students mixed in with those too stupid to tie their own shoes, for the sake of the 2nd category. I've never really understood it, but there's a name for it: elitism. There's only one place where I've seen it applied with success without favoritism nor nepotism: french Grandes Ecoles.
I read it and found it completely lacking. Sure there are feedback loops. But is that enough to call earth a super-organism ?!? I think the main point against this theory is the existence of several phases of whole earth glaciation. And it pulled out of it not thanks to life itself, but through volcanic CO2 at a time when there was no plant life to consume it. It has some neat ideas, but on the whole I call it wishful thinking.
Can someone explain to me the challenges and state of the art in creating artificial sensors capable of replicating, e.g., dog's amazing sniffing abilities, even if only for specific compounds (I imagine replicating the amazing generality of canine sniffers is for now "very sci-fi").
A couple years ago, long after I read The Baroque Cycle and its ending about strange alchemic gold coming from The Solomon islands, they discovered traces of what must be the wreck of La Perouse expedition, 230 years after it disapeared. For mind blowing reference: the last words of Louis XVI as he walked up the steps to the scaffold were 'Is there any news of La Pérouse?'. It was begging for volume 4 to be written...
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I've never been a fan of putting multi-threading/multi-tasking in a programming language.
Well, that's the one thing I truly miss in C. I've used Ada where the multithreading model is part of the language, is brilliantly clear, a joy to use and SAFE. In C, using either posix threads of MS threads it's a nightmare and I've had to scrap entire programs because the logic of the program simply wouldn't work with this mess of threads, semaphores and whatnot.
illegal arrest can be resisted with any force necessary
I really would like to know how many times this has successfully been used with success (meaning either the cops backed off or in the trial that certainly followed). Otherwise it seems like one of those purely theoretical points of law that are one never see in real use.
Indeed there is more to it. This is a screen for "smartphones and tablets" ie. a touchscreen with a matt finish. That is the novelty here.
The problem with matte screens is that they are besically impossible to clean. I punch my cow workers if they put their greasy fingers on my screen after the 1st warning. So hopefuly they've found a screen surface that cleans easily like a glossy one, but without the reflections.
He should also have received it for his explanation of brownian motion, which relaunched the whole thermodynamics / statistical mechanics field. All those contributions in less than ONE year. And I'm still trying to make the front page of slashdot for the 2nd time in 20 years...
2) Another large group of people who have figured out that criminals and governments don't obey laws and that their fellow-citizens can generally be trusted to not fly into a killing rage because they have access to firearms.
LOL, reminds me one of my 1st time in America, when as a simpleton teenager I stated at the dinner table that a society without gun was simply safer (like most of Europe) when a guy flew into a rage, stating that even though he owned 20 guns he'd never killed anyone, pulling out his gun in order to make his point. To which his girlfriend said "you shot my dog when you first came to my place". "Yes, but he was barking at me, so it was justified". I was terrified but to this day I think this cemented my point.
No one is ever going to discuss anything, because obviously they are 100% right, and everyone else is 100% wrong.
Well, so far most of the discussion has been pretty civil, which is kind of surprinsing on this touchy subject.
And if the average citizen of Paris was armed, how many pickpockets do you think there'd be?
They wouldn't be pickpocket, they'd be car jackers just like in America. Next question ?
Come on, don't tell me there isn't a downsampling algorithm that can generate good 24fps from 48 or 60fps besides decimation ?!?
Aliens ? In District 13 ?!? I must have skipped something going to the bathroom. Or something.
I have a friend who has a small commercial website selling niche equipment. He sent a big purchase to a customer before discovering that the credit card was invalid or stolen (don't remember). It turned out that it really was niche equipment and a few google searches turned out one guy who was just expecting the very same equipment to launch an expedition. That guy had a website where it was all advertised for sponsors. He used the same login credentials on both sites ! So my friend logged into his customer's website, changed the front page to a message such as "I'm a big fat thieve and I just stole $$$ worth of equipment", changed the password and waited. He quickly received the money and an apology.
Teeth or spines ?
Its just a matter of time before someone is going to try to genetically engineer superintelligent humans.
There's a whole bunch of reason why that's not possible without resorting to external hardware additions. Our brains have been optimized by a billion years of evolution and the gains to be had are very tiny, unless you want to rebuild the whole thing from scratch ! The main limit is energetic: our brain already consumes an awful lot of energy to run even in 'sleep' mode. But there are other limits like the number of neurons, the number of connections, evacuation of waste heat, etc... Read a paper about that recently and it was interesting.
Yeah, and with the end of easy accessibility the following basic elements in sight right now or within a single generation, there's going to be hell to pay: Potassium, Copper, Zinc, and several of the little known rare earth metals used in high-tech.
Knowledge and technological advance keep solving and bringing back this age old problem. I wonder if we bent all of Earth's resources to our needs how much of the biomass of the Earth could be comprised of human beings.
Well, there have been plenty of evaluations made over time, ranging from 500 million to 20 billion. But all the papers I've seen recently on this subject tend towards the former rather than the latter... Draw your own conclusion. Yeah, citation needed, yadada, yadada. They aren't hard to find.
almost transparent to sound
Well, there are open headphones and closed headphones. Open ones allow you to hear your surroundings, which is sometimes a wanted feature, like when you are biking. I use both kinds: open ones on my bike and closed one with active noise cancelation on the bus.
To stay on-topic, my favourites headphones are these JVCs [HAFX67R]
Well, I hope they are better than the JVC HA-NCX78 I just got to replace my excellent but broken Sennhauser PCX250. First they don't hold in my ears, having to push them back every 5 seconds. But above all the active noise cancelation is utter rubbish. I can barely tell the difference at some frequencies and none at all at most others. With the Sennhauser the difference was like when you turn off the woodworking machine !!!
Some languages fail simply because the creators have chosen stupid names in the age of Internet searches: try searching for one liners or tutorials in 'R' or 'Go' or 'D' and you'll find tons of irrelevant links. I'll make an exception with C since there's simply more stuff out there about the language than about any other use of the letter. Now Brainfuck, that's a perfect name for a language.
But to the smart kids, it feels like a punishment. Not just 'feels', you actually make them waste years of their life. Is that just ?
I know many students who were held back merely because they had to wait to go on to the next year
But then if you let the brighter students advance faster, it means you lump all the others in 'stupid school'. And most/everybody agrees that it's good to have the brighter students mixed in with those too stupid to tie their own shoes, for the sake of the 2nd category. I've never really understood it, but there's a name for it: elitism. There's only one place where I've seen it applied with success without favoritism nor nepotism: french Grandes Ecoles.
I read it and found it completely lacking. Sure there are feedback loops. But is that enough to call earth a super-organism ?!? I think the main point against this theory is the existence of several phases of whole earth glaciation. And it pulled out of it not thanks to life itself, but through volcanic CO2 at a time when there was no plant life to consume it. It has some neat ideas, but on the whole I call it wishful thinking.
Can someone explain to me the challenges and state of the art in creating artificial sensors capable of replicating, e.g., dog's amazing sniffing abilities, even if only for specific compounds (I imagine replicating the amazing generality of canine sniffers is for now "very sci-fi").
Here: How electronic smell detection works
Yeah, but I find 27" way too big. I'd need a bigger appartment first ! I want the same resolution in 21 to 24"...
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Movie's coming out soon...
A couple years ago, long after I read The Baroque Cycle and its ending about strange alchemic gold coming from The Solomon islands, they discovered traces of what must be the wreck of La Perouse expedition, 230 years after it disapeared. For mind blowing reference: the last words of Louis XVI as he walked up the steps to the scaffold were 'Is there any news of La Pérouse?'. It was begging for volume 4 to be written...