It's fairly common to have programs specifically for underrepresented groups, especially if there is a goal of changing traditional perceptions that led to that underrepresentation. With gender it works the other way as well, with male-targeted programs in traditionally female occupations, such as those run by the American Assembly for Men in Nursing.
In principle none of these occupations have to do with gender, but due to the significant imbalance and cultural attitudes around it, I think being a man in nursing, or a woman in programming, can be a bit weird, different from just "any other job".
I could've sworn I've seen videos of big warehouses that are mainly automated, with footage that looked pretty '80s at the latest. And looking around at what's been written about the topic, people as far back as the '70s were already writing algorithms to optimize movement of the robots up and down the warehouse aisles. Maybe that was just in Japan?
I don't think Amazon is really ahead of the curve here either way, just implementing what's pretty standard warehouse technology by now.
Yeah I agree it varies. They're all pretty good here though; I take the metro usually, but sometimes take the bus, and I don't find the bus to be too much of a problem. Slow-ish, but they have free wifi if you're going a long enough distance for it to be worth working on your laptop, and the ride is fairly smooth due to the way the stops are engineered to not usually require really pulling over.
What do you find stressful about the "El"? I've found metros stressful in Asia, but only because they're so crowded that it's just physically difficult to get on, and then difficult to get off again, and you're packed like sardines. But I've never encountered that level of crowding in Europe. Even when the metro is crowded here I don't usually find it stressful; I mostly just stand in a corner somewhere and read RSS feeds on my phone. It's better if it's less crowded, but it's still, though imperfect, better than driving. I used to commute daily by car when I lived in the U.S., and I found that very stressful, basically 30 minutes of watching for idiots so they don't hit you.
The "offense" in this case is a threat of violence directed at specific people with whom the speaker has a dispute with, which is rather more serious than someone just finding the lyrics in poor taste.
You don't necessarily have to outlaw cars, just not actively provide parking for them everywhere. Many U.S. cities have minimum-parking-spot laws requiring a certain number of parking spots for various kinds of developments, regardless of whether the property owner actually wants to put them in. And the cities themselves frequently provide a bunch of free or cheap parking themselves, by allowing street parking (instead of using that lane for transportation), building lots, etc. In cities that don't require the private sector to provide parking, and don't provide much parking themselves, cars end up discouraged if the land is valuable enough that other uses crowd out parking lots. That has happened in Copenhagen, for example: it's very expensive to park in the city. It's legal to drive into downtown, but most people either bike or transit, because it's more practical.
(Another thing that helps: don't bulldoze giant freeways through city centers.)
A bus in the UK has 9 passengers, averaged across the entire UK. One major reason for that: the UK subsidizes bus routes to small towns that are probably lucky to have 2-3 people on average taking them most of the day.
The first Hayabusa mission, also by the Japanese space agency, successfully returned a small amount of material taken from the surface of a comet. Blasting to extract some more material seems likely to add additional scientific data, while building on technology and a mission profile that has already been successfully used once.
It's fairly common at the high-school level to include a brief overview of human biology within the biology class. Looking through the ToC, it looks like some of the general topics have companion chapters specifically about human biology, e.g. there's a discussion of immune systems in general, but then also a chapter specifically on human immune systems.
Varies by engine, but a lot of game logic these days is specified via visual programming languages, especially at big "AAA" game companies. The engine itself and the graphics/rendering parts, along with some computationally sensitive AI bits, will be written in C++, but a lot of the actual gameplay-relevant logic and events are scripted using something like Kismet (UDK3) or Blueprints (UDK4). Partly this is because in big companies, game logic has moved more and more towards becoming the responsibility of the level and character designers, while the "programmers" have become more specialized engine/graphics coders who don't actually program anything to do with gameplay.
I don't recall claiming it was biased towards either Republicans or Democrats. I was simply responding to a post that incorrectly claimed it was a public university.
The great virtue of 'first past the post' is that it forces parties to appeal to a wider group than their obvious supporters
With the increase of uncompetitive districts in the U.S., I think this is no longer the case. The real decision-making in many districts happens in the caucuses or primaries (depending on the state), not in the general election. And in those cases it's typically a narrow slice of grassroots party activists, jockeying with party establishment insiders and major donors, who select the candidate.
A corollary of that is that this style of development is a huge mess for game preservation. Imagine if you had a collection of NES games, but none of them really worked, because the original boxed game was unplayably buggy, and the update servers were discontinued many years ago. Pretty much the only hope for a game like this being playable in 20 years is: 1) the company itself eventually releases a self-contained, all-patches included version that works, or 2) some warez group does so.
I was approaching it the same way. The American intelligence community has major ethical problems, and distributing malware is not in the top-10 list of the worst ones.
So how NSA would be able to explain to a child that computer virus and malware represent the highest standard of behavior.
By the standards of the traditional "black ops" business, isn't computer malware among the easier things to explain to a child? At least there are no hidden knives or exotic poisons involved.
if the interface is the only one and you are connnected via ssh you are screwed. or you have to reboot the server to get the changes to take effect. Nitpick, but it's perfectly possible to ifdown/up even over the network without a reboot (I do this not that infrequently). Just type "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" in a shell (as root). When you hit enter, the entire command is sent to the server at once, and the 2nd one is executed if the first one succeeds. The first command will kill your ssh link if it succeeds, but the second one still executes even after you've been disconnected, bringing the link back up.
Well, ifconfig on Linux hasn't had a release since 2001, and is considered deprecated by the Linux devs. Some distributions provide its former functionality via iproute2, which is sort of a successor. However it's pretty low-level. In some environments (esp. servers sitting in a colo) it's perfectly fine. It tends not to do what people expect from a network stack on movable devices though: saved wifi networks and wifi autoconnect, sane management of hotpluggable interfaces, etc. For that, you need some kind of wrapper around it, which is what network-management daemons provide (in varying forms).
I don't see why your BeagleBone black example is systemd's fault. It has a convoluted way of managing network interfaces because it uses connman, a network-management daemon from Intel that is not part of systemd.
It's a bit more of a meta-outcome. The option that won the vote said, more or less: the General Resolution (GR) process in Debian is not the right way to resolve this dispute.
There was a proposed option which would actually have explicitly said: packages are not required to maintain non-systemd compatibility. But that option did not win.
Really depends on what you're doing. If it's server-side C++, it's probably on Linux and uses g++ or Clang. If it's desktop software, it's probably on Windows and using MSVC++. Both markets are pretty big.
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It's fairly common to have programs specifically for underrepresented groups, especially if there is a goal of changing traditional perceptions that led to that underrepresentation. With gender it works the other way as well, with male-targeted programs in traditionally female occupations, such as those run by the American Assembly for Men in Nursing.
In principle none of these occupations have to do with gender, but due to the significant imbalance and cultural attitudes around it, I think being a man in nursing, or a woman in programming, can be a bit weird, different from just "any other job".
I could've sworn I've seen videos of big warehouses that are mainly automated, with footage that looked pretty '80s at the latest. And looking around at what's been written about the topic, people as far back as the '70s were already writing algorithms to optimize movement of the robots up and down the warehouse aisles. Maybe that was just in Japan?
I don't think Amazon is really ahead of the curve here either way, just implementing what's pretty standard warehouse technology by now.
Yeah I agree it varies. They're all pretty good here though; I take the metro usually, but sometimes take the bus, and I don't find the bus to be too much of a problem. Slow-ish, but they have free wifi if you're going a long enough distance for it to be worth working on your laptop, and the ride is fairly smooth due to the way the stops are engineered to not usually require really pulling over.
What do you find stressful about the "El"? I've found metros stressful in Asia, but only because they're so crowded that it's just physically difficult to get on, and then difficult to get off again, and you're packed like sardines. But I've never encountered that level of crowding in Europe. Even when the metro is crowded here I don't usually find it stressful; I mostly just stand in a corner somewhere and read RSS feeds on my phone. It's better if it's less crowded, but it's still, though imperfect, better than driving. I used to commute daily by car when I lived in the U.S., and I found that very stressful, basically 30 minutes of watching for idiots so they don't hit you.
The "offense" in this case is a threat of violence directed at specific people with whom the speaker has a dispute with, which is rather more serious than someone just finding the lyrics in poor taste.
Don't underestimate how draining public transit is.
I take public transit every day (I live in Copenhagen) and I don't find it draining at all. It's clean, safe, and efficient.
You don't necessarily have to outlaw cars, just not actively provide parking for them everywhere. Many U.S. cities have minimum-parking-spot laws requiring a certain number of parking spots for various kinds of developments, regardless of whether the property owner actually wants to put them in. And the cities themselves frequently provide a bunch of free or cheap parking themselves, by allowing street parking (instead of using that lane for transportation), building lots, etc. In cities that don't require the private sector to provide parking, and don't provide much parking themselves, cars end up discouraged if the land is valuable enough that other uses crowd out parking lots. That has happened in Copenhagen, for example: it's very expensive to park in the city. It's legal to drive into downtown, but most people either bike or transit, because it's more practical.
(Another thing that helps: don't bulldoze giant freeways through city centers.)
A bus in the UK has 9 passengers, averaged across the entire UK. One major reason for that: the UK subsidizes bus routes to small towns that are probably lucky to have 2-3 people on average taking them most of the day.
You can install Linux on it. Whether you can get everything to work well is another matter, though.
Whoops, I mis-typed: of course, it was from the surface of an asteroid, not comet. Same as with this mission.
There has actually been one sample-return mission to a comet, NASA's Stardust, but it didn't land on it.
The first Hayabusa mission, also by the Japanese space agency, successfully returned a small amount of material taken from the surface of a comet. Blasting to extract some more material seems likely to add additional scientific data, while building on technology and a mission profile that has already been successfully used once.
Did he really spend his last millions on the political campaign, and not save any for legal costs? That seems unlikely / not very smart.
It's fairly common at the high-school level to include a brief overview of human biology within the biology class. Looking through the ToC, it looks like some of the general topics have companion chapters specifically about human biology, e.g. there's a discussion of immune systems in general, but then also a chapter specifically on human immune systems.
Varies by engine, but a lot of game logic these days is specified via visual programming languages, especially at big "AAA" game companies. The engine itself and the graphics/rendering parts, along with some computationally sensitive AI bits, will be written in C++, but a lot of the actual gameplay-relevant logic and events are scripted using something like Kismet (UDK3) or Blueprints (UDK4). Partly this is because in big companies, game logic has moved more and more towards becoming the responsibility of the level and character designers, while the "programmers" have become more specialized engine/graphics coders who don't actually program anything to do with gameplay.
Some people pay good money to have a candle held behind their scrotum.
I don't recall claiming it was biased towards either Republicans or Democrats. I was simply responding to a post that incorrectly claimed it was a public university.
Duke is a private university. And its main external funding comes from a rich industrialist's foundation.
The great virtue of 'first past the post' is that it forces parties to appeal to a wider group than their obvious supporters
With the increase of uncompetitive districts in the U.S., I think this is no longer the case. The real decision-making in many districts happens in the caucuses or primaries (depending on the state), not in the general election. And in those cases it's typically a narrow slice of grassroots party activists, jockeying with party establishment insiders and major donors, who select the candidate.
A corollary of that is that this style of development is a huge mess for game preservation. Imagine if you had a collection of NES games, but none of them really worked, because the original boxed game was unplayably buggy, and the update servers were discontinued many years ago. Pretty much the only hope for a game like this being playable in 20 years is: 1) the company itself eventually releases a self-contained, all-patches included version that works, or 2) some warez group does so.
I was approaching it the same way. The American intelligence community has major ethical problems, and distributing malware is not in the top-10 list of the worst ones.
So how NSA would be able to explain to a child that computer virus and malware represent the highest standard of behavior.
By the standards of the traditional "black ops" business, isn't computer malware among the easier things to explain to a child? At least there are no hidden knives or exotic poisons involved.
if the interface is the only one and you are connnected via ssh you are screwed. or you have to reboot the server to get the changes to take effect.
Nitpick, but it's perfectly possible to ifdown/up even over the network without a reboot (I do this not that infrequently). Just type "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" in a shell (as root). When you hit enter, the entire command is sent to the server at once, and the 2nd one is executed if the first one succeeds. The first command will kill your ssh link if it succeeds, but the second one still executes even after you've been disconnected, bringing the link back up.
Well, ifconfig on Linux hasn't had a release since 2001, and is considered deprecated by the Linux devs. Some distributions provide its former functionality via iproute2, which is sort of a successor. However it's pretty low-level. In some environments (esp. servers sitting in a colo) it's perfectly fine. It tends not to do what people expect from a network stack on movable devices though: saved wifi networks and wifi autoconnect, sane management of hotpluggable interfaces, etc. For that, you need some kind of wrapper around it, which is what network-management daemons provide (in varying forms).
I don't see why your BeagleBone black example is systemd's fault. It has a convoluted way of managing network interfaces because it uses connman, a network-management daemon from Intel that is not part of systemd.
It's a bit more of a meta-outcome. The option that won the vote said, more or less: the General Resolution (GR) process in Debian is not the right way to resolve this dispute.
There was a proposed option which would actually have explicitly said: packages are not required to maintain non-systemd compatibility. But that option did not win.
Really depends on what you're doing. If it's server-side C++, it's probably on Linux and uses g++ or Clang. If it's desktop software, it's probably on Windows and using MSVC++. Both markets are pretty big.