Over time I've noticed various programming-related phrases that come up as the first result if I'm on my account, but are burried if I'm not.
So, I'd say it works good for me. Now, if things need to be stored long-term to get the same benefit versus, say, only a couple months, I have no idea.
I'm not excusing the language, but any gamer will tell you that when you play online you're surrounded by people saying things that would be incredibly hateful in person. You become desensitized until it just isn't even offensive anymore -- it's just some immature dude and you don't pay attention. Not only does it become not offensive to you, it just becomes "one of those stupid things people say".
And then you have that one night, maybe you're tired or angry or whatever and you're in the moment, and suddenly you say one of those things in a game. In the ~20 years I've been gaming online I know I've done it once or twice. And you immediately recognize right after that you did it, and feel stupid and not proud of yourself, but it doesn't mean you were using it in a hateful way -- you were just using some stupid common phrase the kids say in the game.
I don't care about Pewdiepie, but I can totally see how it'd happen. Language in games is different from in person. It just is.
I love WPF, but I'm not holding my breath. Core was built around websites -- originally, to simply make deploying them easier -- and continues to focus on that today.
I just don't see WPF being a priority. The API space is massive; probably the largest API within.NET. While it doesn't actually use Windows controls, there is still a deep integration with the OS that'll take a lot of effort to port.
Guys, a) shut up, or b) you prove the point of shutting down women.
Or we can look at it a different way -- that you're proving the point that women can't "hang with men" without the special treatment of quieting the men.
Or maybe claiming that such trivial examples "prove the point" is just bullshit.
General rule of thumb as always... a vague security announcement is never as big a deal as its title makes it out to be.
There really isn't much of a problem. Reading TFA, a few vulnerabilities have been discovered in a couple applications and libraries. None of these were part of.NET, and no systemic issues in how people code for.NET have been found.
SoundCloud is one of the few social platforms that just stays out of your way and lets you enjoy the thing you're there for. It's just so functional and clean and focused on the music.
I hope they figure out how to save things. And I hope they don't destroy the platform to do it.
The worst is when they don't properly virtualize the scroll bar, so it's impossible to get back to the top without loading all the pages again as you page back through them. Lookin at you, Thingiverse.
Yes, ideally these businesses could just go elsewhere and thrive... but if we're pragmatic this is a very difficult thing to succeed at. This will decimate the amount of competition because many of them will fail on their own.
The problem is that Amazon has more or less locked in a large market of people who don't shop around, enjoy their Prime shipping, and are afraid of putting their credit card into a random business's site.
The idealist in me agrees with you, but I don't feel idealism is the correct approach here. We should also acknowledge that business is a two-way street (or at least should be) and it's not exactly whining for these small businesses to be voicing an opinion on the new terms.
Get a HDHomeRun and you can watch broadcast TV from pretty much any modern device. Each one has two tuners, and they can be split across devices. Want to record? Connect a cheap NAS. Want more than two channels at once? Just get another one -- they work in tandem.
Been using these for about a decade now and couldn't be happier. The quality is even better than basic cable because you don't need to deal with their re-encoding antics.
It reminds me of that court case vs Toyota where they were citing (iirc) strcpy as proof that there was a braking issue. Not the usage of strcpy, no... just the presence of it. Not reproducing a bug... just show that strcpy was being used.
The hand-waving loose definitions non-coders get when they talk about code is amazing. While I think some regulation might be good, it would be a pretty jarring shift in how fast-and-loose the majority of the industry has become with code these days if people actually became liable for bad design. I wouldn't trust congress to come up with sensible regulation.
On second thought, this would mean those of us who do understand security could make bank consulting for way more companies than we did before. So, maybe lets do it.
To use the Windows Store at all (even for free things), you need to log in with your Microsoft account. Once that is done, you have now matched your install of windows directly to YOU. Congrats, now you get ads and you get a screwed up log in system.
This is not true. If you don't login to Windows with a Microsoft account, you can login directly on a per-app basis (including the Store app) without messing with anything else on the system.
2 - Gaming is not single threaded unless you're an idiot or living in 1993. At the very least, physics can run separate from display, and every modern game on the planet runs at least 1 frame lag for that same reason.
Gaming is not single-threaded, but multi-threaded games still only tend to fully load a single core. The other cores tend to only be very lightly used. Having more than 4 cores is simply not helpful for 99% of games, AAA or otherwise.
I literally just finished playing a game that uses 100% GPU, 6 cores, and the other 2 I used for encoding the video recording.
I'd love to know which game, because I find this extremely hard to believe.
I love my Rift but I'll be the first to admit it's still a compromised experience. It's too blurry and causes eye strain. And it needs a stupidly powerful PC to have a great experience.
Everyone I know with a high-end gaming PC capable of running VR either already has a headset or has decided to wait for next-gen headsets -- exciting things like eye tracking, improved depth of field, and simply higher res are all on the horizon *if* VR can survive long enough to give us the 2nd gen it needs.
I'd like to see comparisons too but history shows this isn't really needed at this level. Intel has always been relatively price competitive with AMD, but then also had their super expensive enthusiast CPUs that had no competition from AMD. That is likely going to be the case with these.
If anything, employers will need to raise salaries, since potential employees will have less incentive to work.
Employers would need to get better in all parts. When the populace no longer fears for their lives upon losing their job, they would be far more apt to quit a shitty job to find something better. Over a generation or two it'd weed out bad businesses, making the country more efficient with higher quality output and faster economic growth.
But I don't know what I'm talking about. Walmart would probably find a way to game the system like do currently.
...people are buying these purely for vanity reasons. A few teenage boys and overgrown teenage boys, including one guy in my neighborhood with the license plate "808HP" care but most people tend to make smarter choices.
I'm troubled by the characterization you're making. There do exist people who view a car as more than a way to get from A to B, and more than something to show off. They enjoy driving. Some people go to movies, or take vacations, etc. -- and others buy a nice car. Owning one does not make you an overgrown teenager, it just means you have different priorities.
Also, your comment was needlessly sexist -- as someone who goes on cruises with his car club, women, while not equally represented, make up a significant portion of people attending.
The best functional programming to me, is the kind being integrated into various primarily procedural languages. I use it daily in C# at work, and find it invaluable in performing complex transformations on data. Python, C#, etc. have the best of both worlds --
the choice to use whatever is best for your situation.
I'll expand further, maybe to start an interesting conversation because I'm sure someone will disagree: purely- or mostly-functional languages are the original hype-driven languages. A lot of people say they're amazing, but don't actually do anything useful with them. Sure, some are making great apps with them, but they're clearly the exception. At the end of the day most of the people I've talked to who preach about how awesome their favorite functional language is have only gone skin-deep. Their experience is limited to the academic or experimental, and has never gone into the practical.
The few times I've tried to really master these languages, I've been left with no epiphanies. I've found it extremely useful for some problems, like data processing mentioned above. But for most everything else, it doesn't get me anything useful. On some level it is nice having the flow of immutability -- it "feels" right, like you've discovered something special. The same way adding an extra layer of abstraction on top of something might feel. But when I'd look back on it and ask myself what I gained from having it, there's really very little to be found. It is, mostly, a dogma.
The Creators Update adds a fair amount of stuff for desktop systems, but for mobile it's a pretty minor update. They essentially took all the desktop updates,
and gave mobile the handful of ones that made sense. There are no mobile-specific updates.
For example... Edge is updated to latest version. And it goes downhill from there. Their really slow biometric login is now a little faster, their digital assistant supports a few more commands, you can uninstall apps that previously came with the OS.
It's a little different this time.
This is NUMA-aware design. Something that is actually pretty difficult, requiring broad architectural changes that can't simply be bolted onto an app. Most parallel apps don't bother. And similarly, the change isn't "free" like a new instruction: older apps that don't get with the program will run slower and might hit pathological cases.
Realistically, NUMA is going to be needed to efficiently scale CPUs beyond 4 cores. Without it, die size increases really fast and it only staves off Amdahl's law by a tiny amount. So, I think it'll get there eventually where it's big enough that apps start to support it and move to a more share-nothing kind of design. But, I very much doubt we'll start seeing that happen any time soon.
The most interesting part to me is the TLAs -- organizations full of experts in the field -- deciding it's worth the risk. That so long as they get to snoop, it's okay to risk literally everything should someone with malice get access to the same backdoor.
How anyone can consider it acceptable with a straight face -- especially in light of the CIA leak -- is beyond me.
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Over time I've noticed various programming-related phrases that come up as the first result if I'm on my account, but are burried if I'm not.
So, I'd say it works good for me. Now, if things need to be stored long-term to get the same benefit versus, say, only a couple months, I have no idea.
I'm not excusing the language, but any gamer will tell you that when you play online you're surrounded by people saying things that would be incredibly hateful in person. You become desensitized until it just isn't even offensive anymore -- it's just some immature dude and you don't pay attention. Not only does it become not offensive to you, it just becomes "one of those stupid things people say".
And then you have that one night, maybe you're tired or angry or whatever and you're in the moment, and suddenly you say one of those things in a game. In the ~20 years I've been gaming online I know I've done it once or twice. And you immediately recognize right after that you did it, and feel stupid and not proud of yourself, but it doesn't mean you were using it in a hateful way -- you were just using some stupid common phrase the kids say in the game.
I don't care about Pewdiepie, but I can totally see how it'd happen. Language in games is different from in person. It just is.
I love WPF, but I'm not holding my breath. Core was built around websites -- originally, to simply make deploying them easier -- and continues to focus on that today.
I just don't see WPF being a priority. The API space is massive; probably the largest API within .NET. While it doesn't actually use Windows controls, there is still a deep integration with the OS that'll take a lot of effort to port.
Guys, a) shut up, or b) you prove the point of shutting down women.
Or we can look at it a different way -- that you're proving the point that women can't "hang with men" without the special treatment of quieting the men.
Or maybe claiming that such trivial examples "prove the point" is just bullshit.
General rule of thumb as always... a vague security announcement is never as big a deal as its title makes it out to be.
There really isn't much of a problem. Reading TFA, a few vulnerabilities have been discovered in a couple applications and libraries. None of these were part of .NET, and no systemic issues in how people code for .NET have been found.
SoundCloud is one of the few social platforms that just stays out of your way and lets you enjoy the thing you're there for. It's just so functional and clean and focused on the music.
I hope they figure out how to save things. And I hope they don't destroy the platform to do it.
The worst is when they don't properly virtualize the scroll bar, so it's impossible to get back to the top without loading all the pages again as you page back through them. Lookin at you, Thingiverse.
Yes, ideally these businesses could just go elsewhere and thrive... but if we're pragmatic this is a very difficult thing to succeed at. This will decimate the amount of competition because many of them will fail on their own.
The problem is that Amazon has more or less locked in a large market of people who don't shop around, enjoy their Prime shipping, and are afraid of putting their credit card into a random business's site.
The idealist in me agrees with you, but I don't feel idealism is the correct approach here. We should also acknowledge that business is a two-way street (or at least should be) and it's not exactly whining for these small businesses to be voicing an opinion on the new terms.
Get a HDHomeRun and you can watch broadcast TV from pretty much any modern device. Each one has two tuners, and they can be split across devices. Want to record? Connect a cheap NAS. Want more than two channels at once? Just get another one -- they work in tandem.
Been using these for about a decade now and couldn't be happier. The quality is even better than basic cable because you don't need to deal with their re-encoding antics.
It reminds me of that court case vs Toyota where they were citing (iirc) strcpy as proof that there was a braking issue. Not the usage of strcpy, no... just the presence of it. Not reproducing a bug... just show that strcpy was being used.
The hand-waving loose definitions non-coders get when they talk about code is amazing. While I think some regulation might be good, it would be a pretty jarring shift in how fast-and-loose the majority of the industry has become with code these days if people actually became liable for bad design. I wouldn't trust congress to come up with sensible regulation.
On second thought, this would mean those of us who do understand security could make bank consulting for way more companies than we did before. So, maybe lets do it.
To use the Windows Store at all (even for free things), you need to log in with your Microsoft account. Once that is done, you have now matched your install of windows directly to YOU. Congrats, now you get ads and you get a screwed up log in system.
This is not true. If you don't login to Windows with a Microsoft account, you can login directly on a per-app basis (including the Store app) without messing with anything else on the system.
2 - Gaming is not single threaded unless you're an idiot or living in 1993. At the very least, physics can run separate from display, and every modern game on the planet runs at least 1 frame lag for that same reason.
Gaming is not single-threaded, but multi-threaded games still only tend to fully load a single core. The other cores tend to only be very lightly used. Having more than 4 cores is simply not helpful for 99% of games, AAA or otherwise.
I literally just finished playing a game that uses 100% GPU, 6 cores, and the other 2 I used for encoding the video recording.
I'd love to know which game, because I find this extremely hard to believe.
I love my Rift but I'll be the first to admit it's still a compromised experience. It's too blurry and causes eye strain. And it needs a stupidly powerful PC to have a great experience. Everyone I know with a high-end gaming PC capable of running VR either already has a headset or has decided to wait for next-gen headsets -- exciting things like eye tracking, improved depth of field, and simply higher res are all on the horizon *if* VR can survive long enough to give us the 2nd gen it needs.
So much this. I have a couple choices. One of them is 10/2, the other is 200/20. There's so much choice!
I'd like to see comparisons too but history shows this isn't really needed at this level. Intel has always been relatively price competitive with AMD, but then also had their super expensive enthusiast CPUs that had no competition from AMD. That is likely going to be the case with these.
I've always liked comedian Bo Burnham's advice. He clearly gets it.
Relevant
If anything, employers will need to raise salaries, since potential employees will have less incentive to work.
Employers would need to get better in all parts. When the populace no longer fears for their lives upon losing their job, they would be far more apt to quit a shitty job to find something better. Over a generation or two it'd weed out bad businesses, making the country more efficient with higher quality output and faster economic growth.
But I don't know what I'm talking about. Walmart would probably find a way to game the system like do currently.
I'm troubled by the characterization you're making. There do exist people who view a car as more than a way to get from A to B, and more than something to show off. They enjoy driving. Some people go to movies, or take vacations, etc. -- and others buy a nice car. Owning one does not make you an overgrown teenager, it just means you have different priorities.
Also, your comment was needlessly sexist -- as someone who goes on cruises with his car club, women, while not equally represented, make up a significant portion of people attending.
Yet another phone to do away with the audio jack.
LG seems to be the only one committed to supporting headphones right now, and I have to wonder how long that'll last.
I'm all for the Trump hate, but wasn't it some senator who "leaked" Comey's private memo to the press?
The best functional programming to me, is the kind being integrated into various primarily procedural languages. I use it daily in C# at work, and find it invaluable in performing complex transformations on data. Python, C#, etc. have the best of both worlds -- the choice to use whatever is best for your situation.
I'll expand further, maybe to start an interesting conversation because I'm sure someone will disagree: purely- or mostly-functional languages are the original hype-driven languages. A lot of people say they're amazing, but don't actually do anything useful with them. Sure, some are making great apps with them, but they're clearly the exception. At the end of the day most of the people I've talked to who preach about how awesome their favorite functional language is have only gone skin-deep. Their experience is limited to the academic or experimental, and has never gone into the practical.
The few times I've tried to really master these languages, I've been left with no epiphanies. I've found it extremely useful for some problems, like data processing mentioned above. But for most everything else, it doesn't get me anything useful. On some level it is nice having the flow of immutability -- it "feels" right, like you've discovered something special. The same way adding an extra layer of abstraction on top of something might feel. But when I'd look back on it and ask myself what I gained from having it, there's really very little to be found. It is, mostly, a dogma.
The Creators Update adds a fair amount of stuff for desktop systems, but for mobile it's a pretty minor update. They essentially took all the desktop updates, and gave mobile the handful of ones that made sense. There are no mobile-specific updates.
For example... Edge is updated to latest version. And it goes downhill from there. Their really slow biometric login is now a little faster, their digital assistant supports a few more commands, you can uninstall apps that previously came with the OS.
It's a little different this time. This is NUMA-aware design. Something that is actually pretty difficult, requiring broad architectural changes that can't simply be bolted onto an app. Most parallel apps don't bother. And similarly, the change isn't "free" like a new instruction: older apps that don't get with the program will run slower and might hit pathological cases. Realistically, NUMA is going to be needed to efficiently scale CPUs beyond 4 cores. Without it, die size increases really fast and it only staves off Amdahl's law by a tiny amount. So, I think it'll get there eventually where it's big enough that apps start to support it and move to a more share-nothing kind of design. But, I very much doubt we'll start seeing that happen any time soon.
The most interesting part to me is the TLAs -- organizations full of experts in the field -- deciding it's worth the risk. That so long as they get to snoop, it's okay to risk literally everything should someone with malice get access to the same backdoor.
How anyone can consider it acceptable with a straight face -- especially in light of the CIA leak -- is beyond me.