No, simply wrong. Code is a plural noun. Just like sheep is a plural noun, and rice is a plural noun. The word codes refers to the plural of a completely different meaning of code –i.e. cyphers.
Um, no. God only shrinks if you're explanation for every problem is "God did it". If that's why you believe in a deity, then you miss the point of faith.
Not at all, that was the exact purpose of faith in it's original form –to explain away thing we couldn't yet explain, and to explain things to people who couldn't understand them.
Why did this huge flood happen that ruined our crops? Dunno^W I mean... God did it! Why do we celebrate $festival around the end of december? Because god told you to! (Or alternatively, because it's when you need to feast on the animals you don't need to survive the winter, because otherwise they'll eat all the grain stores and no animals at all will survive, including you) Why do we have a 40 day fast at the end of winter? Because god told you to! (Or alternatively, because the village elder didn't want to tell you that the supplies were running out and that everyone needed to survive on fuck all until the harvest came in)...
You're both right, in a way. You're right that the definition of "outlier" is a data point that's outside a band around the trend line. However, I believe a WHOOSH is in order. He's suggesting that the data we don't have (for other years) might make the higher data points the outliers, not the 2012 result.
The problem I have is that if bandwidth costs money (which it does)... CHARGE ME FOR IT... Why are we paying 30€ for a bandwidth capped 60GB service and then being rate limited, when they could just charge 0€50 per gig, and be done with it.
No. Studies that actually score the damage these things do consistently put Canabis very low down the list. Generally far below Alcohol and even Nicotine. The reason it's illegal is purely political.
To be honest, I find people who write everything like Java is a much bigger problem than people who write java like C. Almost all coders can manage to get their head around OOP, what's rare is one with the breadth of knowledge to understand how to write imperative (but not OO) programs well, how to write functional programs well, how to write logic programs well, and how to know when to use each one of them. The guy who sits there going "zomg, Java, must write OO code" is a moron.
The point being not that it's legal or illegal, but that it's the only possible way to do it safely. It's nothing to do with having to speed to making passing worth while – it's to do with having to speed to make passing safe.
It's entirely possible to come up behind someone (e.g. a lorry) that's doing near the speed limit on any straight section of road where you might pass, but significantly slower than you can go through corners (due to lack of manoeuvrability) or up hills (due to weight).
By the way, it's not different limiter settings that cause this, the lorry drivers do it deliberately. They travel in groups of 4ish, and take turns to lead the pack. That way all of them save fuel, as they're in a slip stream for 3/4 of the journey.
No, the big issue here is actually that if I pass a truck on a country road, I will momentarily do 80mph (despite the 60mph speed limit) to pass it, because that gets me a 25mph passing speed. If you limit my car to 60, suddenly I only have a 5mph passing speed, and accidents on country roads become much more common.
This becomes an even bigger problem when you consider the idiots who drive very powerful cars, very slowly around all the bends, and then accelerate to the speed limit on the straights. You now can't pass them on the straight, because you have no speed delta. Cue lots of idiots starting to overtake in unsafe locations, and causing accidents.
Thankfully, the UK just gave powers to the police to pull people over for a whole bunch more "simple" offences like tailgating and changing lanes unsafely, and give them on the spot fines.
It's impossible to pass someone safely on the motorway if you can only get your speed 1mph higher than theirs – it means you sit in their blind spot for ages. It's worse on country roads, where you're going to make it completely impossible to overtake someone doing any speed over 50mph, because a 10mph passing speed is not significant enough to get you past on any of the short straights on Britain's windy country roads. Worse, if you come up against someone doing 60mph on the straights, but slowing down unduly on the bends, you now have only one option –to overtake them on the bends. I'd bet heavily that that alone would increase the accident rate, not decrease it, because people would start overtaking in stupid places.
Yep, in the UK, 100mph or double the speed limit will get your driving license immediately invalidated. You're likely to pay a huge fine as well, but I don't think it's jailable.
Actually, the UK is officially a metric country. We just decided that it was too much hassle to change every single distance and speed sign in the entire road network when we made the move to becoming metric.
I actually recently discovered why BMW drivers love your arse so much.
It's because of their active cruise control system. I was demonstrated a 5 series' cruise control system, which got so close to the car in front it terrified me. If I were driving the car in front, I would probably have been thinking "bloody beemer driver" at that point.
So actually, it's already the fault of autonomous cars that people get up close and personal behind you.
I don't buy it when you discount a large number of anecdotal experiences with short lived SSD's... add up all the anecdotes and eventually you reach reality when most of the stories match...
The problem is that for each person with anecdotal evidence of SSDs failing, there's 200 other people not commenting about their entirely working SSD.
This is total bullshit. Every single SSD I had owned has failed within a year.
Damn it, I covered off one anecdote approach, and you found a different one.
For those who don't know how anecdotes work –if your sample size is incredibly small, you can not draw meaningful results from it. I don't care if you have a single 20 year old disk, 20 6 year old disks, or 20 SSDs that failed within the first year, none of these give you a full enough picture to actually tell you what's going on.
The actual stats on return rates show that SSD return rates are around 0.5% of all drives per year, while HDD return rates are about 5% of all drives per year. There's one notable exception, which is that if you bought OCZ drives a couple of years ago, you were looking at about a 10% failure rate.
The bottom line is, SSDs are now more reliable, and more long lasting than hard disks in a consumer setting. In an enterprise setting, you need to be careful and make sure that you get enterprise level SSDs because your write patterns will likely involve far more writing than any consumer will ever do.
Actually, no, that maths was done with the assumption that wear levelling would be able to do the average case job for a consumer drive which is reasonably full. If you assume ideal conditions the life span is in fact much longer than that.
Why, once again, actually figuring out the life of these devices shows that TLC devices will live a perfectly acceptable length of time, so why should we use SLC or MLC for consumer devices?
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No, simply wrong. Code is a plural noun. Just like sheep is a plural noun, and rice is a plural noun. The word codes refers to the plural of a completely different meaning of code –i.e. cyphers.
Exactly –it's a way of explaining to people how to live, when they're too stupid and/or ignorant to understand it themselves.
Um, no. God only shrinks if you're explanation for every problem is "God did it". If that's why you believe in a deity, then you miss the point of faith.
Not at all, that was the exact purpose of faith in it's original form –to explain away thing we couldn't yet explain, and to explain things to people who couldn't understand them.
Why did this huge flood happen that ruined our crops? Dunno^W I mean... God did it! ...
Why do we celebrate $festival around the end of december? Because god told you to! (Or alternatively, because it's when you need to feast on the animals you don't need to survive the winter, because otherwise they'll eat all the grain stores and no animals at all will survive, including you)
Why do we have a 40 day fast at the end of winter? Because god told you to! (Or alternatively, because the village elder didn't want to tell you that the supplies were running out and that everyone needed to survive on fuck all until the harvest came in)
They don't? I think about 90% of the web's images are JPEG. PNG is great for replacing non animated GIF
Actually, there's animation in the png spec too.
Think about this: what is better - a 6400 dpi high quality JPEG, or a 1600 dpi lossless PNG, both similar in size?
Almost certainly the png. Less, useful information is better than more, noisy information in most cases.
You're both right, in a way. You're right that the definition of "outlier" is a data point that's outside a band around the trend line. However, I believe a WHOOSH is in order. He's suggesting that the data we don't have (for other years) might make the higher data points the outliers, not the 2012 result.
Personally, I doubt that though.
What makes you think that the switches in your exchange don't have a maximum bandwidth they can deal with?
The problem I have is that if bandwidth costs money (which it does)... CHARGE ME FOR IT... Why are we paying 30€ for a bandwidth capped 60GB service and then being rate limited, when they could just charge 0€50 per gig, and be done with it.
No. Studies that actually score the damage these things do consistently put Canabis very low down the list. Generally far below Alcohol and even Nicotine. The reason it's illegal is purely political.
In all honesty, having crossed the atlantic with BA, AirFrance, KLM and American Airlines, BA is by far the best of those 4, shorty followed by AA.
To be honest, I find people who write everything like Java is a much bigger problem than people who write java like C. Almost all coders can manage to get their head around OOP, what's rare is one with the breadth of knowledge to understand how to write imperative (but not OO) programs well, how to write functional programs well, how to write logic programs well, and how to know when to use each one of them. The guy who sits there going "zomg, Java, must write OO code" is a moron.
The point being not that it's legal or illegal, but that it's the only possible way to do it safely. It's nothing to do with having to speed to making passing worth while – it's to do with having to speed to make passing safe.
It's entirely possible to come up behind someone (e.g. a lorry) that's doing near the speed limit on any straight section of road where you might pass, but significantly slower than you can go through corners (due to lack of manoeuvrability) or up hills (due to weight).
By the way, it's not different limiter settings that cause this, the lorry drivers do it deliberately. They travel in groups of 4ish, and take turns to lead the pack. That way all of them save fuel, as they're in a slip stream for 3/4 of the journey.
No, the big issue here is actually that if I pass a truck on a country road, I will momentarily do 80mph (despite the 60mph speed limit) to pass it, because that gets me a 25mph passing speed. If you limit my car to 60, suddenly I only have a 5mph passing speed, and accidents on country roads become much more common.
This becomes an even bigger problem when you consider the idiots who drive very powerful cars, very slowly around all the bends, and then accelerate to the speed limit on the straights. You now can't pass them on the straight, because you have no speed delta. Cue lots of idiots starting to overtake in unsafe locations, and causing accidents.
Your GPS was almost certainly telling the truth, not your speedo.
Thankfully, the UK just gave powers to the police to pull people over for a whole bunch more "simple" offences like tailgating and changing lanes unsafely, and give them on the spot fines.
What about simply overtaking safely.
It's impossible to pass someone safely on the motorway if you can only get your speed 1mph higher than theirs – it means you sit in their blind spot for ages.
It's worse on country roads, where you're going to make it completely impossible to overtake someone doing any speed over 50mph, because a 10mph passing speed is not significant enough to get you past on any of the short straights on Britain's windy country roads.
Worse, if you come up against someone doing 60mph on the straights, but slowing down unduly on the bends, you now have only one option –to overtake them on the bends. I'd bet heavily that that alone would increase the accident rate, not decrease it, because people would start overtaking in stupid places.
Yep, in the UK, 100mph or double the speed limit will get your driving license immediately invalidated. You're likely to pay a huge fine as well, but I don't think it's jailable.
Actually, the UK is officially a metric country. We just decided that it was too much hassle to change every single distance and speed sign in the entire road network when we made the move to becoming metric.
I actually recently discovered why BMW drivers love your arse so much.
It's because of their active cruise control system. I was demonstrated a 5 series' cruise control system, which got so close to the car in front it terrified me. If I were driving the car in front, I would probably have been thinking "bloody beemer driver" at that point.
So actually, it's already the fault of autonomous cars that people get up close and personal behind you.
No, I mean this, which has a detailed explanation of what's going on, and why you shouldn't care.
I don't buy it when you discount a large number of anecdotal experiences with short lived SSD's... add up all the anecdotes and eventually you reach reality when most of the stories match...
The problem is that for each person with anecdotal evidence of SSDs failing, there's 200 other people not commenting about their entirely working SSD.
This is total bullshit. Every single SSD I had owned has failed within a year.
Damn it, I covered off one anecdote approach, and you found a different one.
For those who don't know how anecdotes work –if your sample size is incredibly small, you can not draw meaningful results from it. I don't care if you have a single 20 year old disk, 20 6 year old disks, or 20 SSDs that failed within the first year, none of these give you a full enough picture to actually tell you what's going on.
The actual stats on return rates show that SSD return rates are around 0.5% of all drives per year, while HDD return rates are about 5% of all drives per year. There's one notable exception, which is that if you bought OCZ drives a couple of years ago, you were looking at about a 10% failure rate.
The bottom line is, SSDs are now more reliable, and more long lasting than hard disks in a consumer setting. In an enterprise setting, you need to be careful and make sure that you get enterprise level SSDs because your write patterns will likely involve far more writing than any consumer will ever do.
Actually, no, that maths was done with the assumption that wear levelling would be able to do the average case job for a consumer drive which is reasonably full. If you assume ideal conditions the life span is in fact much longer than that.
Why, once again, actually figuring out the life of these devices shows that TLC devices will live a perfectly acceptable length of time, so why should we use SLC or MLC for consumer devices?
You're talking about testing a device that doesn't even saturate 3 PCIe lanes, and complaining the test bed "only" has 16? Really?