It reminds me of the intro sequence from an Ian Banks book (I can't remember which one) where a robot is on a ship which is attacked and is forced to eject different levels of consciousness each of which uses a different underlying technology. The photonic brain was the third most powerful level of consciousness it had. It eventually has to resort to it's "primitive" silicon brain because everything else has been corrupted. Maybe the book was by Vinge Verge. I can't remember...
I'm a professional software programmer/engineer and I shutter to think what might happen if society can't understand how all of the complex computing machinery works. Or gives up because of the overwhelming complexity.
But seeing articles like this gives me hope. It means that we are successfully simplifying/explaining the really difficult bits and allowing more creativity to be layered on top of the complex parts. The author didn't need to know any details about how Twitter, the web, or tcp/ip works in order to build his search app. That's pretty cool.
It was sad that he gave up on coding a website because there were too many braces in JavaScript. I guess that with practice the braces fall away and the underlying logic shines through. If he wants to get really shook up, he should check out LISP, the ultimate symbolic language. The parentheses will either break him or make him experience true programming bliss.
craigslist isn't all that shady; also, if you have the wrong impression and I think it will be fun to leave you with it; I will likely encourage your fantasy.
CL is usually fine except for the times that the people selling the item didn't actually acquire them legally. I went to the sellers place to buy an expensive projector, bought the projector at the agreed on price (and it worked) and then I realized afterwards that there was NO furniture in the apartment and it looked like he had just arrived there right before me.
I didn't get ripped off but the ethics of the situation did bother me afterwards....
That is how Scientology works. "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win.
That is correct. In other cases (Donald Trump), the aggressive party just threatens to sue and hopes that will shut-up his critics or make the other party back down.
Never a dull moment in the US courtrooms....
I can't figure out why the defendant doesn't counter sue the plaintiff for harassment and emotional distress. I imagine that he could easily get triple damages... however, collecting from such a person would be difficult.
I volunteered at the FRC at SJSU and the best team there had an auto aim and fire system for shooting into the top targets. Their bot almost always got the ball in.
I was really impressed with the teams there and the kids competitiveness and drive. All of them wanted to win and had put in a huge amount of time and effort into their robots.
It was a pretty awesome event and volunteering was a blast.
Then what's std::shared_ptr if not an efficient reference counting garbage collector?
If there are circular references, then shared_ptr won't help you. That being said, there are garbage collectors in C++ that are implemented in the memory allocation system but they aren't great.
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I would never install an OS update blocker.
I enjoy killing GWX.exe as the first thing I do after logging into my Windows 7 machine way too much
NOx emissions also causes global cooling through the formation of OH groups that destroy methane molecules, countering the effect of greenhouse gases. The effect can be significant. For instance, according to the OECD "the large NOx emissions from ship traffic lead to significant increases in hydroxyl (OH), which is the major oxidant in the lower atmosphere. Since reaction with OH is a major way of removing methane from the atmosphere, ship emissions decrease methane concentrations. (Reductions in methane lifetimes due to shipping-based NOx emissions vary between 1.5% and 5% in different calculations)." "In summary, most studies so far indicate that ship emissions actually lead to a net global cooling. This net global cooling effect is not being experienced in other transport sectors. However, it should be stressed that the uncertainties with this conclusion are large, in particular for indirect effects, and global temperature is only a first measure of the extent of climate change in any event."
So by emitting NOx, the cars were actually acting to reduce methane which is a lot worse of a greenhouse gas then CO2. Weird, right?
1) Buy a lot of rainforst and set aside a trust to protect it in perpetuity. 2) Pay off the college debt of some struggling entry level workers 3) Fund schools 4) fund food banks 5) Support the politician of your choice - maybe he/she really will make a difference 6) Give all of your money to charity and go find a real job - you will be happier and you'll definitely get laid by a chick who digs you
I don't understand why a 4 pin passcode is blocking the feds from cracking the encryption. I mean, if they had an intern sit with the phone and go through all 10000 combinations, it would probably work.
If md5 is venerable to being cracked, how is this any different? Ben
After his second questionable 2 letter word we added a rule (democratically voted on and adopted) that you must be able to define your word and use it properly in a sentence if anyone asks.
But that's just boring. A scrabble word is a scrabble word. Just agree on a dictionary and be done with it.
If you really wanted to mess up your professional scrabble playing foe, you should have insisted on using a non-scrabble dictionary. Then qi and za (amoung others) wont be available and he'll be a lot easier to challenge.
Besides which, any scrabble player worth his salt will be able to give the definition that is in the scrabble dictionary
I think half the fun is out memorizing the competition.
Slashdot Mirror
It reminds me of the intro sequence from an Ian Banks book (I can't remember which one) where a robot is on a ship which is attacked and is forced to eject different levels of consciousness each of which uses a different underlying technology. The photonic brain was the third most powerful level of consciousness it had. It eventually has to resort to it's "primitive" silicon brain because everything else has been corrupted. Maybe the book was by Vinge Verge. I can't remember...
Amen
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman pours hot grits on naked and petrified you. Lol
I'm a professional software programmer/engineer and I shutter to think what might happen if society can't understand how all of the complex computing machinery works. Or gives up because of the overwhelming complexity.
But seeing articles like this gives me hope. It means that we are successfully simplifying/explaining the really difficult bits and allowing more creativity to be layered on top of the complex parts. The author didn't need to know any details about how Twitter, the web, or tcp/ip works in order to build his search app. That's pretty cool.
It was sad that he gave up on coding a website because there were too many braces in JavaScript. I guess that with practice the braces fall away and the underlying logic shines through. If he wants to get really shook up, he should check out LISP, the ultimate symbolic language. The parentheses will either break him or make him experience true programming bliss.
They forgot to mention using a giant vacuum with a charcoal filter attached.
craigslist isn't all that shady; also, if you have the wrong impression and I think it will be fun to leave you with it; I will likely encourage your fantasy.
CL is usually fine except for the times that the people selling the item didn't actually acquire them legally.
I went to the sellers place to buy an expensive projector, bought the projector at the agreed on price (and it worked) and then I realized afterwards that there was NO furniture in the apartment and it looked like he had just arrived there right before me.
I didn't get ripped off but the ethics of the situation did bother me afterwards....
That is how Scientology works.
"The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win.
That is correct. In other cases (Donald Trump), the aggressive party just threatens to sue and hopes that will shut-up his critics or make the other party back down.
Never a dull moment in the US courtrooms....
I can't figure out why the defendant doesn't counter sue the plaintiff for harassment and emotional distress.
I imagine that he could easily get triple damages... however, collecting from such a person would be difficult.
name the attached dinghy Boaty McBoatface so the internet poll is at least honoured as a consolation prize....
I volunteered at the FRC at SJSU and the best team there had an auto aim and fire system for shooting into the top targets. Their bot almost always got the ball in.
I was really impressed with the teams there and the kids competitiveness and drive. All of them wanted to win and had put in a huge amount of time and effort into their robots.
It was a pretty awesome event and volunteering was a blast.
Erk, nevermind. I just realized that you were being sarcastic....
Then what's std::shared_ptr if not an efficient reference counting garbage collector?
If there are circular references, then shared_ptr won't help you.
That being said, there are garbage collectors in C++ that are implemented in the memory allocation system but they aren't great.
Thats really funny. And sad
Um, no.
A bullet will always be cheaper then a gun.
Too bad.
I wonder if his parents were huge trekkie fans...
Here ya go, just use this simple windows OS update blocker, no need to even install, just run it, and you too will never see Windows OS upgrade infections again...oh and you're welcome, old Hairy is glad to help ;-)
I would never install an OS update blocker.
I enjoy killing GWX.exe as the first thing I do after logging into my Windows 7 machine way too much
Along with Adobe Creative Cloud.
It gets my juices going in the morning
I just love the graphical concepts behind TermKit.
Really, I use Konsole all of the time but I'd love to step up and get to use a TermKit lookalike.
Just needs support
Weirdly yes. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
NOx emissions also causes global cooling through the formation of OH groups that destroy methane molecules, countering the effect of greenhouse gases. The effect can be significant. For instance, according to the OECD "the large NOx emissions from ship traffic lead to significant increases in hydroxyl (OH), which is the major oxidant in the lower atmosphere. Since reaction with OH is a major way of removing methane from the atmosphere, ship emissions decrease methane concentrations. (Reductions in methane lifetimes due to shipping-based NOx emissions vary between 1.5% and 5% in different calculations)." "In summary, most studies so far indicate that ship emissions actually lead to a net global cooling. This net global cooling effect is not being experienced in other transport sectors. However, it should be stressed that the uncertainties with this conclusion are large, in particular for indirect effects, and global temperature is only a first measure of the extent of climate change in any event."
So by emitting NOx, the cars were actually acting to reduce methane which is a lot worse of a greenhouse gas then CO2.
Weird, right?
1) Buy a lot of rainforst and set aside a trust to protect it in perpetuity.
2) Pay off the college debt of some struggling entry level workers
3) Fund schools
4) fund food banks
5) Support the politician of your choice - maybe he/she really will make a difference
6) Give all of your money to charity and go find a real job - you will be happier and you'll definitely get laid by a chick who digs you
I don't understand why a 4 pin passcode is blocking the feds from cracking the encryption. I mean, if they had an intern sit with the phone and go through all 10000 combinations, it would probably work.
If md5 is venerable to being cracked, how is this any different?
Ben
Even the NSA couldn't keep Snowden for walking away with tons of highly secure data.
All too true
Killing him will do nothing. You have to kill his computer.
You mean like in the "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez?
They tried doing that and it failed...
Happy SysAdmin day to you!
You live in a print queue,
Your life is like a code monkey,
And you smell like one too!
He also broke a contract (Non Disclosure Agreement), which has pretty strict terms in it.
Any idea what the actual NDA he signed says?
Just curious,
Ben
After his second questionable 2 letter word we added a rule (democratically voted on and adopted) that you must be able to define your word and use it properly in a sentence if anyone asks.
But that's just boring.
A scrabble word is a scrabble word. Just agree on a dictionary and be done with it.
If you really wanted to mess up your professional scrabble playing foe, you should have insisted on using a non-scrabble dictionary. Then qi and za (amoung others) wont be available and he'll be a lot easier to challenge.
Besides which, any scrabble player worth his salt will be able to give the definition that is in the scrabble dictionary
I think half the fun is out memorizing the competition.
Cheers
Ben
Can you hear it, my son? This is the voice of ignorance.
Mod parent up!