So get to work an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier! Jesus, I thought people on this site generally had higher than average IQs. Not judging by the remarks on this topic they don't!
Do you have comprehension problems? What difference does it make if the clock says 5pm and you leave work then, or it says the real time of 4pm and you leave then having got into work an hour earlier? The real time you leave work will be the same. Are you too dumb to understand this?
... recognition in a standalone device with current hardware. Did amazon skimp on alexas spec?
Also smartphones have more than enough power to do it too (look at the realtime video image recognition they can do for example) and so I can only assume the reason Siri (and whatever android has) send the speech to be processed in the cloud is for data capture purposes, not because the devices themselves are not up to it.
... and then setting them an hour out? Plenty of idiots above have talked about the "extra hour" of daylight they get with DST. Err, no, you don't. The earth doesn't rotate any quicker, you get exactly the same amount of light FFS. Want some more during winter? Then get your arses out of bed an hour earlier! All DST does is fool your mind into think its an hour later than it actually is so whats the point? Just keep the clocks the same and get up an hour earlier.
You do realise that the actual amount of daylight doesn't change , right? Its just a number on a clock. If you want more light then get up earlier! All DST does is fool your mind into thinking its later than it is so whats the difference?
"Dude, liberals don't give a shit about sex or violence in TV shows, that has always been conservatives."
Yeah, you're right, liberals priorities are completely fucked - they make a big fuss about utter trivia instead. Oh no, some bed wetting snowflakes have been offended, quick, pull his ads! Pathetic.
Agreed. So long as he hasn't broken the law it should be up to viewers and advertisers to decide.
But then youtube/google are stinking hypocrits anyway - they're quite happy to have videos of people burning to death or dying in vehicle accidents but some guy who's a bit of a dick and perhaps doesn't follow the liberal party line? Well, thats a different story - ban him, cast him out!
FTA: "But no human being has written even one line of code for this controller"
Umm, excuse me? Its a simulation running on a computer, of course someone wrote some code - probably quite a lot of it in fact for both the training and the actual running even if these researchers themselves just used some off the shelf library such as tensorflow.
ANNs are simply code running processing data whatever the high level logical view of them may be. The fact that the data (weights and thresholds) itself is the main driver of end behaviour rather than hard coded program logic doesn't mean its not a computer program.
Anyway, neurons are simply complex highly interlinked analogue logic gates - given enough time it would be possible to codify any neural network in boolean logic using thousands or millions of if-then statements and jumps.
"You're failing to take into account how many acres are strip-mined because uranium is literally the least concentrated ore we mine. The environmental impact of nuclear is all out of proportion to the amount of material used for this reason."
... you worked there. The chances of Mr A Random Hacker gaining access to their core systems are as close to zero as makes no difference. If original code is truly from the NSA then it was leaked by an employee.
Oh, yet another project management/workflow system with a kids playgroup style logo. Just what the world needed. As if the shear Web 2.0 crapfest** that is Asana wasn't enough.
** One of many examples: Invisible add and delete attached file buttons until the pointer hovers over a particular location. And they're both cross icons! If this interface was designed to be as unintuitive as possible the coders deserve a gold medal.
Got it in one, well done. The first is clear and you know exactly what is going on, the 2nd could be using any type. Code brevity is not an end in itself, code is a description of the logic and the clearer it is the better.
If you used auto in any code I was in charge with I'd tell you to rewrite it or find a new job. Automatic type assignment of variables has no place in a systems programming language, it belongs in kiddy scripting languages for 2nd rate coders who have a poor grasp of the codebase they're working on and need the runtime to fix their ignorance for them.
If you need generics use templates, auto is just an abortion.
" And auto is much better than having to remember the exact type of an object. "
No, it really isn't. Auto is just a nasty hack that allows variable types to be defined on the fly which is fine for a scripting language written by beginners but has no place in a professional system level language. Its for lazy coders who don't really have a full grasp of the codebase they're working on. Any autos I see in code are ripped out and if any of my team use them they get told to sort it out or I get someone else to do it.
"Rust was, by far, the most difficult-to-learn, difficult-to-research, counter-intuitive, unfriendly, constrained, unappealing, etc. of all of them. Warnings and errors appeared systematically and, despite their verbosity, were rarely helpful."
I don't know rust so I can't comment on it directly, but I'm a C++ dev and a lot of that applies to C++ which - it pains me to say - has become a designed-by-commitee dogs dinner with some appalling, borderline unreadable, syntatic hacks and yet they still just can't leave well alone. I first learnt C++ 2 decades ago and even I have given up trying to keep up with the latest pointless additions to the language that no one outside a small circle of language geeks was asking for. I feel sorry for anyone trying to learn it from scratch today as the learning curve eventually gets as close to vertical as you can get in a programming language.
As for useless warnings and errors - thats just bad compiler design. gcc is notorious for utterly unhelpful C++ error messages that can literally got on for pages, whereas Clang is far far better in that respect.
Unfortunately judges in the UK have aquired a taste for power in recent decades and have a habit of overturning laws that were passed by the democratically elected MPs in the commons.
I'm no fan of the snoopers charter either but I'm even less of a fan of old men in wigs most of whom only got where their are partly through the old boys network overturning laws because they personally don't happen to agree with them and so find some obscure clause in UK or european law to be able to do so.
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"My employer won't change my work schedule because you say so,"
Unless you're a medical or emergency worker or you working in a factory then the chances are these days that yes, you can shift your schedule an hour.
So get to work an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier! Jesus, I thought people on this site generally had higher than average IQs. Not judging by the remarks on this topic they don't!
Do you have comprehension problems? What difference does it make if the clock says 5pm and you leave work then, or it says the real time of 4pm and you leave then having got into work an hour earlier? The real time you leave work will be the same. Are you too dumb to understand this?
I guess you've never heard of flexitime.
... recognition in a standalone device with current hardware. Did amazon skimp on alexas spec?
Also smartphones have more than enough power to do it too (look at the realtime video image recognition they can do for example) and so I can only assume the reason Siri (and whatever android has) send the speech to be processed in the cloud is for data capture purposes, not because the devices themselves are not up to it.
... and then setting them an hour out? Plenty of idiots above have talked about the "extra hour" of daylight they get with DST. Err, no, you don't. The earth doesn't rotate any quicker, you get exactly the same amount of light FFS. Want some more during winter? Then get your arses out of bed an hour earlier! All DST does is fool your mind into think its an hour later than it actually is so whats the point? Just keep the clocks the same and get up an hour earlier.
You do realise that the actual amount of daylight doesn't change , right? Its just a number on a clock. If you want more light then get up earlier! All DST does is fool your mind into thinking its later than it is so whats the difference?
"Dude, liberals don't give a shit about sex or violence in TV shows, that has always been conservatives."
Yeah, you're right, liberals priorities are completely fucked - they make a big fuss about utter trivia instead. Oh no, some bed wetting snowflakes have been offended, quick, pull his ads! Pathetic.
Agreed. So long as he hasn't broken the law it should be up to viewers and advertisers to decide.
But then youtube/google are stinking hypocrits anyway - they're quite happy to have videos of people burning to death or dying in vehicle accidents but some guy who's a bit of a dick and perhaps doesn't follow the liberal party line? Well, thats a different story - ban him, cast him out!
FTA:
"But no human being has written even one line of code for this controller"
Umm, excuse me? Its a simulation running on a computer, of course someone wrote some code - probably quite a lot of it in fact for both the training and the actual running even if these researchers themselves just used some off the shelf library such as tensorflow.
ANNs are simply code running processing data whatever the high level logical view of them may be. The fact that the data (weights and thresholds) itself is the main driver of end behaviour rather than hard coded program logic doesn't mean its not a computer program.
Anyway, neurons are simply complex highly interlinked analogue logic gates - given enough time it would be possible to codify any neural network in boolean logic using thousands or millions of if-then statements and jumps.
All C compilers allow embedded assembler which the C can interact with so anything assembler can do, a C compiler can do.
"Being able to introspect and alter the stack"
If you don't know how to get the size and top of the stack in C then you're not a low level C coder. Hint: alloca() , getrlimit()
"Being able to programmatically control and manage symbol linkage"
Thats odd given the linux kernel and program loader is written in C.
"due to the lack of any maps of the data structures."
Data structure maps are meta data. You don't get this with low level programming.
I think its fair to say you're full of it.
This boot loader consists of:
13 python tool files (what, not Swift Apple?)
ONE objective-C file (a test program)
16 C++ files which seem to be library related
767 C files + 1196 C .h header files.
C dying? I don't think so.
"You're failing to take into account how many acres are strip-mined because uranium is literally the least concentrated ore we mine. The environmental impact of nuclear is all out of proportion to the amount of material used for this reason."
Clearly you've never seen an open cast coal mine.
"the fuel is NOT cheap or plentiful"
It doesn't need to be given how little of it is used in comparison to fossil fuels for the same number of joules of energy produced.
"Better off dumping 1 billion into more fusion research for 10 years instead of 1 more nuclear plant"
Fusion research has been going on since at least the 80s and is still nowhere. Right now its a money pit whereas fission is tested and proven.
"Yeah, it's over a billion per plant."
And? How much do you think a wind farm that had the same average power output would cost?
"Spend 1 billion to make a massive battery and in less than 10 years we'll have it."
Great - and what charges the battery? Solar? Yeah, right, that'll work well in northern latitudes in winter. Idiot.
... you worked there. The chances of Mr A Random Hacker gaining access to their core systems are as close to zero as makes no difference. If original code is truly from the NSA then it was leaked by an employee.
Oh, yet another project management/workflow system with a kids playgroup style logo. Just what the world needed. As if the shear Web 2.0 crapfest** that is Asana wasn't enough.
** One of many examples: Invisible add and delete attached file buttons until the pointer hovers over a particular location. And they're both cross icons! If this interface was designed to be as unintuitive as possible the coders deserve a gold medal.
"std::vector::const_iterator citer = v.cbegin();
is better than:
auto citer = v.cbegin(); "
Got it in one, well done. The first is clear and you know exactly what is going on, the 2nd could be using any type. Code brevity is not an end in itself, code is a description of the logic and the clearer it is the better.
IMO of course. YMMV.
Young? Thanks for the complement! However I was probably coding while you were still sucking from your mothers tit.
Sure, the type is actually decided at compile time, but the effect is to all intents and purposes the same as far as reading the code goes.
If you used auto in any code I was in charge with I'd tell you to rewrite it or find a new job. Automatic type assignment of variables has no place in a systems programming language, it belongs in kiddy scripting languages for 2nd rate coders who have a poor grasp of the codebase they're working on and need the runtime to fix their ignorance for them.
If you need generics use templates, auto is just an abortion.
" And auto is much better than having to remember the exact type of an object. "
No, it really isn't. Auto is just a nasty hack that allows variable types to be defined on the fly which is fine for a scripting language written by beginners but has no place in a professional system level language. Its for lazy coders who don't really have a full grasp of the codebase they're working on. Any autos I see in code are ripped out and if any of my team use them they get told to sort it out or I get someone else to do it.
"Rust was, by far, the most difficult-to-learn, difficult-to-research, counter-intuitive, unfriendly, constrained, unappealing, etc. of all of them. Warnings and errors appeared systematically and, despite their verbosity, were rarely helpful."
I don't know rust so I can't comment on it directly, but I'm a C++ dev and a lot of that applies to C++ which - it pains me to say - has become a designed-by-commitee dogs dinner with some appalling, borderline unreadable, syntatic hacks and yet they still just can't leave well alone. I first learnt C++ 2 decades ago and even I have given up trying to keep up with the latest pointless additions to the language that no one outside a small circle of language geeks was asking for. I feel sorry for anyone trying to learn it from scratch today as the learning curve eventually gets as close to vertical as you can get in a programming language.
As for useless warnings and errors - thats just bad compiler design. gcc is notorious for utterly unhelpful C++ error messages that can literally got on for pages, whereas Clang is far far better in that respect.
Unfortunately judges in the UK have aquired a taste for power in recent decades and have a habit of overturning laws that were passed by the democratically elected MPs in the commons.
I'm no fan of the snoopers charter either but I'm even less of a fan of old men in wigs most of whom only got where their are partly through the old boys network overturning laws because they personally don't happen to agree with them and so find some obscure clause in UK or european law to be able to do so.
... use flushing toilets.
"Unfortunately no one else replied :)"
Reset your threshold then look again you clown.
"Just open a physics book and calculate it ... it is not that hard, I learned it in 8th or 9th grade"
At a guess - you failed. I won't reiterate what the other poster said in reply. Face it - you don't have a clue.