Can I come up with a neat solution for my house that works just fine but violates code and get it approved? No. If that neat solution is widely available, there will be a lot of pressure, and code will be changed.
And, fortunately, things always happen the way they've happened in the past. Right.
Human labor doesn't have to become obsolete in order for displacement to be a big problem. We've been continuing to automate away low-skilled jobs. If the economy is thriving without providing enough low-skill jobs for the low-skill people (and we'll always have those), we've got a problem.
In developed countries, births are not at replacement rate. In some, they fall pretty far short, potentially causing a serious demographic problem. Telling people "Sure, you'll have to scrimp and save to have kids, but isn't it worth it?" isn't a promising fix.
To look at it another way, we're all dependent on the next generations to support us in our old age. It isn't a matter of money, it's a matter of having enough people to do the work and still keep the economy going. Anyone who picks an increased standard of living rather than having kids is a leech on society, deliberately profiting by relying on other people to pay for what that person will need.
Not to mention the Catholic actions in protecting priests, which included putting them in other situations with contact with children. Those were definitely newsworthy.
No matter what the contractual or physical arrangements, I can't, from here. open a safety deposit box in Ireland. I'd have to go there or have someone do it for me. If I'm there, I'm subject to Irish law, and if I employ someone to do it they're subject also. A US court could order me to provide the contents of the box, but I might not be able to comply.
However, I may be able to access data in Ireland without anyone in Ireland doing anything to help me. From where I'm sitting, I'm not actually subject to Irish law, and the ones who are aren't doing anything. A US court could order me to hand over the data, and I sure can comply without involving anyone in Ireland.
There was a case a few years back when Target's systems figured out that a certain young woman was pregnant, and sent her appropriate coupons. That's how her father found out about it. We've already got that going on.
I have a Costco card. I wave it at the greeter when I enter the store. If I were using someone else's I'd still get in. If I were using a nice reproduction, I could get in, although I probably couldn't buy anything or take anything out with me.
You should pay attention to the facts. The Democrats went along with the CR as long as they got something they wanted (CHIPS funding). They'll be back looking for DACA for the next CR.
What Schuler wasn't doing was being a doormat, which you seem to think he should have been.
And, to repeat, the Republicans have a majority in the House, a majority in the Senate, and the White House. Budget bills can't be filibustered, which means Republicans can pass budgets all on their lonesome, removing the need for continuing resolutions (which can be filibustered). The Republicans haven't been able to come up with a budget for a long time, so since they can't do their jobs they need some Democrat assistance to get out of a situation of their own doing. They need to offer the Democrats something to get their cooperation. It's called "politics", and the Republicans seem to want to do without it.
Why don't you read some real history or economics? Fascists are capitalistic and nationalist, which the left wing isn't and the right wing is. Any viewpoint that says the right wing can't do wrong and the left wing is vile is way off base (as would be the reverse viewpoint) and tells me you don't know anything about politics worth talking about.
Okay, what do you want done with the Dreamers? Deport them? Keep them? Shoot them? We need to take some course of action that will either throw them out of the country or encourage other people to bring their underage children. There's really no way to avoid one or the other.
The Democrats were acting in bad faith? Schumer negotiated a deal that all parties thought acceptable, then it was stopped by Republicans. In voting for the latest CR, Schumer got CHIPS funded for the next six years. That's at least a partial victory. Moreover, the CR doesn't last until Trump's deadline for DACA, so he's going to see about getting DACA through.
Few Democrats want a wide open border. Most Americans want DACA, to normalize the lives of a certain group of people.
Um, yes. If you use a floating-point number of insufficient precision, it won't work well. People generally know this stuff.
As a competent programmer, I do know that decimal calculations do not do well with transcendental numbers or trigonometric functions, and you should just go with regular floating-point. It's just as accurate (given enough precision), it's faster, and it's probably more predictable.
As you say, the decimal data type supports decimal places exactly. (Duh.) So, what's that useful for? If you use it for calculations in general, it's no more accurate than a regular floating-point number of adequate precision, and it's slower. It works great for financial calculations, which are done in decimal and have to come out the same way every time. Financial calculations involve numbers with exact decimal representations (such as a 3.25% interest rate, not 22/7% or pi%), and when there is necessary inaccuracy there are rules saying how to handle it. Financial calculations were built around base 10, unlike most calculations, which are merely expressed in base 10 when convenient.
You really don't know much about floating-point, do you? Here is a copy of "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic". I strongly suggest that you read it. Floating-point calculations are by nature inexact, unless by chance the numbers have an exact representation in the base being used, and most don't. It's hard to know exactly where the errors come in, and in complex calculations it becomes pretty much impossible.
There is a discipline in computer science that deals with this, and that's what I mean when I refer to "numerics" people. You are obviously not one of them. They are going to come up with better ways to calculate things than you or I will. As far as third-party code, if you're going to be consistent about it you'll have to write your own.NET runtime and program directly in its intermediate language, without using a compiler.
There's quite a few people who know they're good people, and the police will never hassle them (even when they commit crimes, they're good people). These are the people who push for police violence, thinking it's only against bad people. They never think that they might be subject to a police error or anything.
In my experience, if someone's for law and order, they want order, and don't give a crap about the law.
The person doesn't have to be found guilty. The police can take stuff and claim it was involved in a crime, and at that point it gets real hard to stop them legally. The Supreme Court has ignored the Fourth Amendment and allowed civil forfeiture to continue.
"People" are generally mostly harmless to me, and if they turn harmful they've got a reasonable chance of being caught and punished. Police carry firearms and can use them almost with impunity. They can also legally haul my ass in and throw me in a jail cell for a few days, something most people simply aren't going to do.
You can talk to police if you initiate the conversation, say if you want the officer to do something for you. If they are questioning you, shut up except for asking for your lawyer.
The set of rationals is closed under ordinary arithmetic operations. It isn't closed if you add square roots or trigonometric functions. Such rational arithmetic was required in the Common Lisp standard of about 1994, and present in implementations going a good deal further back, long before Perl 6.
Exact decimal representations only work if all the numbers are exactly representable in a decimal representation of bounded length. That isn't the case with something as simple as 1.0/3.0. The decimal numbers are primarily designed for financial calculations, in which all the numbers are normally set up to only require a few decimal places, and where the rounding methods are fixed. In any situation where we're dealing with numbers that haven't been deliberately picked to be easy special cases, regular floating-point arithmetic is better.
Floating-point arithmetic is inexact. What the decimal types you mention do is be inexact in the exact same way financial calculations were done by hand, which is exactly what you need for some calculations and irrelevant in most others. Floating-point error is almost inevitable, no matter the skill of the programmer. Figuring out what the errors do gets increasingly difficult real fast, and most people just use the algorithms the numerics people recommend.
Who cares? If the nukes are flying, the USN surface ships aren't all that important anyway. Nobody's going to get a nuke into Pearl Harbor without being identified.
We've been facing a potential decapitation system for a long time, with a nuke smuggled into the Potomac or a depressed-trajectory SLBM launch. I'd assume that the command and control structure exists to retaliate in that eventuality.
Supersonic torpedoes have got to use a lot of energy, and that energy has to come from somewhere. Running one for 15km is one thing; running one for thousands of km is another thing entirely.
You can just launch an ICBM, and ballistics will work very well at determining where it ends up. One of these torpedoes would be underwater, where it can't use GPS, and where just pointing in the right direction won't work over very many km.
One of those things would be very noisy and easy to track. It might well be possible to drop a net that will entangle it.
Also, we can't stop Russian missiles. There's too many of them. The Russians know perfectly well that they can do incredible amounts of harm to the US, at which point we do incredible amounts of harm to Russia. That's what keeps the peace. Another unstoppable nuclear delivery vehicle would not change the situation.
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Can I come up with a neat solution for my house that works just fine but violates code and get it approved? No. If that neat solution is widely available, there will be a lot of pressure, and code will be changed.
And, fortunately, things always happen the way they've happened in the past. Right.
Human labor doesn't have to become obsolete in order for displacement to be a big problem. We've been continuing to automate away low-skilled jobs. If the economy is thriving without providing enough low-skill jobs for the low-skill people (and we'll always have those), we've got a problem.
In developed countries, births are not at replacement rate. In some, they fall pretty far short, potentially causing a serious demographic problem. Telling people "Sure, you'll have to scrimp and save to have kids, but isn't it worth it?" isn't a promising fix.
To look at it another way, we're all dependent on the next generations to support us in our old age. It isn't a matter of money, it's a matter of having enough people to do the work and still keep the economy going. Anyone who picks an increased standard of living rather than having kids is a leech on society, deliberately profiting by relying on other people to pay for what that person will need.
Idiots don't realize they have an OS, or what one is, but that tells you something anyway.
Indeed, they do have the potential to increase AMD's sales.
Not to mention the Catholic actions in protecting priests, which included putting them in other situations with contact with children. Those were definitely newsworthy.
No matter what the contractual or physical arrangements, I can't, from here. open a safety deposit box in Ireland. I'd have to go there or have someone do it for me. If I'm there, I'm subject to Irish law, and if I employ someone to do it they're subject also. A US court could order me to provide the contents of the box, but I might not be able to comply.
However, I may be able to access data in Ireland without anyone in Ireland doing anything to help me. From where I'm sitting, I'm not actually subject to Irish law, and the ones who are aren't doing anything. A US court could order me to hand over the data, and I sure can comply without involving anyone in Ireland.
There was a case a few years back when Target's systems figured out that a certain young woman was pregnant, and sent her appropriate coupons. That's how her father found out about it. We've already got that going on.
I have a Costco card. I wave it at the greeter when I enter the store. If I were using someone else's I'd still get in. If I were using a nice reproduction, I could get in, although I probably couldn't buy anything or take anything out with me.
You should pay attention to the facts. The Democrats went along with the CR as long as they got something they wanted (CHIPS funding). They'll be back looking for DACA for the next CR.
What Schuler wasn't doing was being a doormat, which you seem to think he should have been.
And, to repeat, the Republicans have a majority in the House, a majority in the Senate, and the White House. Budget bills can't be filibustered, which means Republicans can pass budgets all on their lonesome, removing the need for continuing resolutions (which can be filibustered). The Republicans haven't been able to come up with a budget for a long time, so since they can't do their jobs they need some Democrat assistance to get out of a situation of their own doing. They need to offer the Democrats something to get their cooperation. It's called "politics", and the Republicans seem to want to do without it.
Why don't you read some real history or economics? Fascists are capitalistic and nationalist, which the left wing isn't and the right wing is. Any viewpoint that says the right wing can't do wrong and the left wing is vile is way off base (as would be the reverse viewpoint) and tells me you don't know anything about politics worth talking about.
Okay, what do you want done with the Dreamers? Deport them? Keep them? Shoot them? We need to take some course of action that will either throw them out of the country or encourage other people to bring their underage children. There's really no way to avoid one or the other.
The Democrats were acting in bad faith? Schumer negotiated a deal that all parties thought acceptable, then it was stopped by Republicans. In voting for the latest CR, Schumer got CHIPS funded for the next six years. That's at least a partial victory. Moreover, the CR doesn't last until Trump's deadline for DACA, so he's going to see about getting DACA through.
Few Democrats want a wide open border. Most Americans want DACA, to normalize the lives of a certain group of people.
Um, yes. If you use a floating-point number of insufficient precision, it won't work well. People generally know this stuff.
As a competent programmer, I do know that decimal calculations do not do well with transcendental numbers or trigonometric functions, and you should just go with regular floating-point. It's just as accurate (given enough precision), it's faster, and it's probably more predictable.
As you say, the decimal data type supports decimal places exactly. (Duh.) So, what's that useful for? If you use it for calculations in general, it's no more accurate than a regular floating-point number of adequate precision, and it's slower. It works great for financial calculations, which are done in decimal and have to come out the same way every time. Financial calculations involve numbers with exact decimal representations (such as a 3.25% interest rate, not 22/7% or pi%), and when there is necessary inaccuracy there are rules saying how to handle it. Financial calculations were built around base 10, unlike most calculations, which are merely expressed in base 10 when convenient.
You really don't know much about floating-point, do you? Here is a copy of "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic". I strongly suggest that you read it. Floating-point calculations are by nature inexact, unless by chance the numbers have an exact representation in the base being used, and most don't. It's hard to know exactly where the errors come in, and in complex calculations it becomes pretty much impossible.
There is a discipline in computer science that deals with this, and that's what I mean when I refer to "numerics" people. You are obviously not one of them. They are going to come up with better ways to calculate things than you or I will. As far as third-party code, if you're going to be consistent about it you'll have to write your own .NET runtime and program directly in its intermediate language, without using a compiler.
There's quite a few people who know they're good people, and the police will never hassle them (even when they commit crimes, they're good people). These are the people who push for police violence, thinking it's only against bad people. They never think that they might be subject to a police error or anything.
In my experience, if someone's for law and order, they want order, and don't give a crap about the law.
The person doesn't have to be found guilty. The police can take stuff and claim it was involved in a crime, and at that point it gets real hard to stop them legally. The Supreme Court has ignored the Fourth Amendment and allowed civil forfeiture to continue.
Was it Mark Fuhrman who faked up the evidence against him? If Simpson had actually committed the murder, he should be grateful to Fuhrman.
"People" are generally mostly harmless to me, and if they turn harmful they've got a reasonable chance of being caught and punished. Police carry firearms and can use them almost with impunity. They can also legally haul my ass in and throw me in a jail cell for a few days, something most people simply aren't going to do.
You can talk to police if you initiate the conversation, say if you want the officer to do something for you. If they are questioning you, shut up except for asking for your lawyer.
Insurance evens out risk. It doesn't eliminate it. If a city has to pay out too many judgments, their premiums go up to compensate.
Insurance companies aren't stupid. The average customer pays a little more than the losses covered.
The set of rationals is closed under ordinary arithmetic operations. It isn't closed if you add square roots or trigonometric functions. Such rational arithmetic was required in the Common Lisp standard of about 1994, and present in implementations going a good deal further back, long before Perl 6.
Exact decimal representations only work if all the numbers are exactly representable in a decimal representation of bounded length. That isn't the case with something as simple as 1.0/3.0. The decimal numbers are primarily designed for financial calculations, in which all the numbers are normally set up to only require a few decimal places, and where the rounding methods are fixed. In any situation where we're dealing with numbers that haven't been deliberately picked to be easy special cases, regular floating-point arithmetic is better.
Floating-point arithmetic is inexact. What the decimal types you mention do is be inexact in the exact same way financial calculations were done by hand, which is exactly what you need for some calculations and irrelevant in most others. Floating-point error is almost inevitable, no matter the skill of the programmer. Figuring out what the errors do gets increasingly difficult real fast, and most people just use the algorithms the numerics people recommend.
Who cares? If the nukes are flying, the USN surface ships aren't all that important anyway. Nobody's going to get a nuke into Pearl Harbor without being identified.
We've been facing a potential decapitation system for a long time, with a nuke smuggled into the Potomac or a depressed-trajectory SLBM launch. I'd assume that the command and control structure exists to retaliate in that eventuality.
It might be more accurate to say that submarines can be tracked than to say they're always trackable.
However, the US has some big advantages in keeping submarines tracked in the North Atlantic. It's easier for us to track them than them to track us.
Also, a SLBM can be thousands of kilometers away from its target, so the sub can attack from almost anywhere. A torpedo would have much shorter range.
Supersonic torpedoes have got to use a lot of energy, and that energy has to come from somewhere. Running one for 15km is one thing; running one for thousands of km is another thing entirely.
You can just launch an ICBM, and ballistics will work very well at determining where it ends up. One of these torpedoes would be underwater, where it can't use GPS, and where just pointing in the right direction won't work over very many km.
One of those things would be very noisy and easy to track. It might well be possible to drop a net that will entangle it.
Also, we can't stop Russian missiles. There's too many of them. The Russians know perfectly well that they can do incredible amounts of harm to the US, at which point we do incredible amounts of harm to Russia. That's what keeps the peace. Another unstoppable nuclear delivery vehicle would not change the situation.