PEP 8 says that Guido prefers spaces. It doesn't say tabs are bad, and it certainly doesn't say they're wrong. It DOES say mixing tabs and spaces is bad, Python 3 doesn't allow it, and you're recommended to run Python 2 in such a way that it doesn't allow it either.
Enforced indentation in Python is great, but I have to agree: allowing the use of tabs or spaces was a horrible idea. I assume supporting spaces was a bad habit held over from C.
Enforced indentation enhances readability. Perhaps you've never run into any godawful code where the programmer decided to follow his own arbitrary indentation system.
You don't have to do everything on a single line in Python. Where'd you get that idea? You can split statements across lines just fine. Most Python programmers do so.
That's not *quite* true. An efficient market isn't at all like gambling. It allocates resources where they are best used. Investing in that market means your money is used as efficiently as possible, earning you the best possible return. Trying to *beat* that market is gambling.
Investors in an efficient market aren't gambling. Hedge fund managers aren't gambling either: they're fleecing the sheep by charging commissions for basically flipping coins.
First step: stop believing in the nonsense you've been told about the economy. "The economy" will work better with automation. It always has.
The problem is with distribution of wealth. Right now we have this quaint system developed during one of the nastier periods of human history where we give all of it to a few people and everyone else does what those people say in exchange for whatever the "bosses" think they deserve. You're absolutely right, we're going to have to come up with some better way.
You got your funny mod, but there have been several scientific papers showing hedge fund managers don't do any better than chance. There have been demonstrations where they are literally replaced by cats or monkeys throwing things.
At least a high school dropout burger flipper flips something other than a coin.
True, and it's a lot more convenient than a USB device. On the other hand, it's a lot more convenient than a USB device. You can phish TOTP authenticators by convincing someone to send you the QR code.
I use TOTP authenticators. If I had something really important to protect I might make all the users get the USB sticks.
Nature doesn't have a single example of a macroscopic rotating propulsive structure (a wheel that's not microscopic). It seems to be something evolution has a hard time making. Coupling between the wheel and the rest of the organism would be tricky, among other things.
Flukes on a submarine are a bad idea because it takes a lot of coordination and whole-body muscles to make it work, and it means that your head moves perpendicular to your direction of travel whenever you thrust.
Getting a bunch of grad students qualified on trimix, getting the equipment and breathing mix where you need it and making sure you've got decompression facilities available in case of an accident is complicated. In contrast, marine archeology at 30 m usually involves renting a dive boat and maybe sending some students to a recreation dive course (available in any city; mine cost $500) if they're not already qualified.
Academics usually don't have quite the resources of corporations or navies.
Neutrino detectors aren't that sensitive. You'd be making a very small change in neutrino flux, if any. If your hypothesis is true, the device would change the *energy* of ambient neutrinos, not create more of them.
Testing the EM drive next to a nuclear reactor to see if you get more thrust might be a better experiment.
The trick with the photon thrusters (they are not "rockets") is that you get an equal force on both ends. The idea is to let one of those ends be a small spacecraft carrying no fuel and the other end be a spacecraft that stays at Earth with a bunch of big lasers and conventional propulsion. Photon thrusters are really a way of efficiently "beaming thrust".
Doubt it. In Canada we did this kind of thing with phone service. Everyone has phone service now, and the CRTC mandates that the owners of the lines must make the available at regulated wholesale prices to other companies that want to sell phone, long distance or Internet service. It seems to have worked out pretty well.
We often write "percent", but the word actually means "per cent," i.e. "for each hundred." 0.53 per cent literally means 0.53 for every hundred.
You maybe were thinking $0.53 per cent, which could be interpreted as meaning 53 cents for every cent earned. Yeah, one character makes a lot of difference, but it isn't the space.
Why does it take so long to switch between tabs? Why does the browser pre-render tabs when I start it? Why when I have a hundred tabs open each containing a complex and sizeable document do things slow down?
Seriously? The question started out possibly interesting and soon degenerated into contradictory whining.
Musk created a successful online payment system. He created a company that builds high performance electric cars, and appears to be an industry leader in that market; who cares how much they cost? He created a rocket company that seems to be doing well, winning contracts for deliveries to ISS and creating (one of?) the first reusable first stage rockets; IIRC SpaceX launches are also much cheaper than anyone else's.
Musk has started companies that have been successful innovators in several areas. I doubt very much he's personally responsible for technical success in each. More likely he's got an inspiring personality and enough sense to find people who know what they're doing, acquire resources for them to do it, and get out of the way.
We're considerably ahead of where 60s and 70s era fusion projections put us, given the rate of funding. It's just that we've funded fusion research at considerably less than the worst case scenario back then.
Truly energy-producing fusion is not available even in bombs.
Sure it is. The fusion components of boosted and multi-stage bombs produce lots of energy. In two or three stage devices that use inert tampers fusion produces the vast amount of energy.
The earliest known incidence of a three-stage device being tested, with the third stage, called the tertiary, being ignited by the secondary, was May 27, 1956 in the Bassoon device. This device was tested in the Zuni shot of Operation Redwing. This shot used non fissionable tampers; an inert substitute material such as tungsten or lead was used. Its yield was 3.5 megatons, 85% fusion and only 15% fission.
The public records for devices that produced the highest proportion of their yield via fusion-only reactions are the Peaceful nuclear explosions of the 1970s, with the 3 detonations that excavated part of Pechora–Kama Canal, being cited as 98% fusion each in the Taiga test's 15 kiloton explosive yield devices, that is, a total fission fraction of 0.3 kilotons in a 15 kt device.[35] The 50 megaton Tsar Bomba at 97% fusion,[36] the 9.3 megaton Hardtack Poplar test at 95.2%,[37] and the 4.5 megaton Redwing Navajo test at 95% fusion.[38]
My parents gave me an aeropress for Christmas last year. It does as you say. I don't really use it much though, because I prefer my coffee steeped in a french press on my desk for most of a workday. THAT is "black blood of the earth."
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PEP 8 says that Guido prefers spaces. It doesn't say tabs are bad, and it certainly doesn't say they're wrong. It DOES say mixing tabs and spaces is bad, Python 3 doesn't allow it, and you're recommended to run Python 2 in such a way that it doesn't allow it either.
Another one of the enlightened. People in my lab get a look when I tell them that they will use tabs as indentation. Then they come back and thank me.
Enforced indentation in Python is great, but I have to agree: allowing the use of tabs or spaces was a horrible idea. I assume supporting spaces was a bad habit held over from C.
Enforced indentation enhances readability. Perhaps you've never run into any godawful code where the programmer decided to follow his own arbitrary indentation system.
You don't have to do everything on a single line in Python. Where'd you get that idea? You can split statements across lines just fine. Most Python programmers do so.
That's not *quite* true. An efficient market isn't at all like gambling. It allocates resources where they are best used. Investing in that market means your money is used as efficiently as possible, earning you the best possible return. Trying to *beat* that market is gambling.
Investors in an efficient market aren't gambling. Hedge fund managers aren't gambling either: they're fleecing the sheep by charging commissions for basically flipping coins.
Survivor Wall Street. I'd watch. But only if they let them get a bit hungry before they give them giant bags of rice so they don't actually starve.
First step: stop believing in the nonsense you've been told about the economy. "The economy" will work better with automation. It always has.
The problem is with distribution of wealth. Right now we have this quaint system developed during one of the nastier periods of human history where we give all of it to a few people and everyone else does what those people say in exchange for whatever the "bosses" think they deserve. You're absolutely right, we're going to have to come up with some better way.
You got your funny mod, but there have been several scientific papers showing hedge fund managers don't do any better than chance. There have been demonstrations where they are literally replaced by cats or monkeys throwing things.
At least a high school dropout burger flipper flips something other than a coin.
True, and it's a lot more convenient than a USB device. On the other hand, it's a lot more convenient than a USB device. You can phish TOTP authenticators by convincing someone to send you the QR code.
I use TOTP authenticators. If I had something really important to protect I might make all the users get the USB sticks.
Nature doesn't have a single example of a macroscopic rotating propulsive structure (a wheel that's not microscopic). It seems to be something evolution has a hard time making. Coupling between the wheel and the rest of the organism would be tricky, among other things.
Flukes on a submarine are a bad idea because it takes a lot of coordination and whole-body muscles to make it work, and it means that your head moves perpendicular to your direction of travel whenever you thrust.
Getting a bunch of grad students qualified on trimix, getting the equipment and breathing mix where you need it and making sure you've got decompression facilities available in case of an accident is complicated. In contrast, marine archeology at 30 m usually involves renting a dive boat and maybe sending some students to a recreation dive course (available in any city; mine cost $500) if they're not already qualified.
Academics usually don't have quite the resources of corporations or navies.
Neutrino detectors aren't that sensitive. You'd be making a very small change in neutrino flux, if any. If your hypothesis is true, the device would change the *energy* of ambient neutrinos, not create more of them.
Testing the EM drive next to a nuclear reactor to see if you get more thrust might be a better experiment.
The trick with the photon thrusters (they are not "rockets") is that you get an equal force on both ends. The idea is to let one of those ends be a small spacecraft carrying no fuel and the other end be a spacecraft that stays at Earth with a bunch of big lasers and conventional propulsion. Photon thrusters are really a way of efficiently "beaming thrust".
You just made orbital mechanics cry.
Doubt it. In Canada we did this kind of thing with phone service. Everyone has phone service now, and the CRTC mandates that the owners of the lines must make the available at regulated wholesale prices to other companies that want to sell phone, long distance or Internet service. It seems to have worked out pretty well.
We often write "percent", but the word actually means "per cent," i.e. "for each hundred." 0.53 per cent literally means 0.53 for every hundred.
You maybe were thinking $0.53 per cent, which could be interpreted as meaning 53 cents for every cent earned. Yeah, one character makes a lot of difference, but it isn't the space.
Why does it take so long to switch between tabs? Why does the browser pre-render tabs when I start it? Why when I have a hundred tabs open each containing a complex and sizeable document do things slow down?
Seriously? The question started out possibly interesting and soon degenerated into contradictory whining.
Move the goal posts much?
Musk created a successful online payment system. He created a company that builds high performance electric cars, and appears to be an industry leader in that market; who cares how much they cost? He created a rocket company that seems to be doing well, winning contracts for deliveries to ISS and creating (one of?) the first reusable first stage rockets; IIRC SpaceX launches are also much cheaper than anyone else's.
Musk has started companies that have been successful innovators in several areas. I doubt very much he's personally responsible for technical success in each. More likely he's got an inspiring personality and enough sense to find people who know what they're doing, acquire resources for them to do it, and get out of the way.
Kind of like Uber wants to have a benefit for their cars (drive without government papers) that isn't given to citizens?
We're considerably ahead of where 60s and 70s era fusion projections put us, given the rate of funding. It's just that we've funded fusion research at considerably less than the worst case scenario back then.
Sure it is. The fusion components of boosted and multi-stage bombs produce lots of energy. In two or three stage devices that use inert tampers fusion produces the vast amount of energy.
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He says it will disrupt development. He gives Intellisense as an example. Code completion has always disrupted by development.
Those stupid code completion add ons always disrupt my development. Which is why my IDE is a text editor.
It's interesting to hear just how much money Apple has loaned the people of the United States at very low interest rates.
My parents gave me an aeropress for Christmas last year. It does as you say. I don't really use it much though, because I prefer my coffee steeped in a french press on my desk for most of a workday. THAT is "black blood of the earth."