Having a baseline understanding of four function math (for finance), physics (mechanical advantage, kitchen/garage safety, home maintenance), biology (disease prevention, first aid), and even gym class (health fitness), is a requisite for living life even if the student never touches an equation again after high school.
1. Security, especially with crypted filesystems 2. sleep/hibernate doesn't always work 3. Nothing like a fresh reboot to start the day, especially if your work involves programming that messes with OS internals..
1. Lack of choice due to monopoly status over land and radio spectrum rights granted by the state to specific companies.
2. Most of big pharma is here so we don't get access to generics right away. The state funds a lot of research as well as medical school. This glut of cash drives up the 'market-bearing' price. It's why medical school costs $100k -> a hospital stay costing $50000.
3. Technology that hellpits like africa don't have. We also are expected to work too many hours a week for salaried positions. It isn't healthy.
4. Because we let it get away with it. Too many liberals and too many neocons are more concerned with defending their camps from each other to give a shit about what their dear leaders are actually doing with their power.. This is the 'circus' part of 'bread and circuses.'
5. I'm not sure what you mean by 'ability.' A quick glance at their site suggests it's about globalization. Well, the only thing a global economy has done for america so far is drive up costs, drive down quality, reduce wages, and drive quality of life closer to subsistence levels. If we're failing at that according to this OECD, then I consider it a good thing.
6. Because that's how society works? Socialism is not the answer to everything. We are not equals. We are individuals, with different strengths and weaknesses. We've seen what happens when governments attempt this square peg for square hole philosophy. Those who have wealth, bail, leaving the rest with the bill, and the bureaucrats eventually get used to spending other people's money like it's nothing, leading to crazy debt and unstable economy.
7. because the ideals america stands for on paper (constitution) are worth a little allegiance, though we are far from it nowadays.
the majority of indians and chinese live in shit as bad or far worse than those in detroit. these people literally live as peasant farmers without much in the way of clean water or basic utilities..
The people who offer alternatives for thought are the ones who are modded down by fanbois on all sides. Then there are people like you claiming at first to be objective, waiting to expose their bias until the last statement.
Define 'craziest' for us. If you do it by relative 'extremity', I'll beat you over the head myself! That is not a valid critique, unless the goal is to have 'consensus' instead of deriving truth.
Teachers, like any other group, tend to run in packs and protect their own, lashing out at anyone on the outside that dare questions their motives.. It's human nature. We see this with the catholic church too...and cops..and soldiers...and the NSA, FBI, CIA et al. Over time, the cultures organizations brew become less and less focused on external realities as they accrue power. The more power they accrue the more they can get away with this. The problem is that they quickly become worse than useless to free society in the process.
If you want to talk about 'guilty-upon-accusation' accusations, just look what feminism is doing to men in 'family' court...that's a left wing thing, mostly, with the neocons latching on when they're in man-up-it's-chivalry mode. Fox is one of many news organizations with political agendas. It's no worse than CNN or MSNBC but people pick on it because it's the minority view in that arena. None of them can be relied on to tell the whole truth.
Please, enough of this no true scotsman shit.. The democrats in this country support:
1. wealth redistribution 2. encouraging class segregation across race, gender, sexual orientation under the guise of promoting unity. This ensures support at the polls. 3. encouraging policy that encroaches on an ever growing list of daily life activities for various fallacious reasons (safety, the children, and other usual suspects). 4. using tax as a punitive measure to curb undesirable behavior/freedom.
That's 'socialist' in my book. Usually these statements come from EU countries run by 'social democrats' who are simply further along this agenda than their brothers are in the US. It's just a question of degree, not intent or philosophy.
Why not? While I do not have proof, it would not shock me if there weren't many people between the sitting president and the koch brothers. Parties are irrelevant that high up.
Argument from authority, in this case an irrelevant one. Knowledge in physics does not give credence to a political philosophy...and in case you didn't notice, the nobels are mostly handed out for pro-left political 'victories' these days. Obama comes to mind. His 'accomplishment'? Being not-bush. In 2009, he had only been in office a little more than a year or so. Then there were the three women who were awarded it for....being women and politically active in a pro-left fashion. Oh, and here's another one. The IAEA in 2005.. you know, the organization that systematically covered up the true extent of the damage caused by chernobyl to appease the politicians in both east and west? The nobel is just a blue ribbon panel that rewards proper leftist thought and action taken by people known to promote that agenda. Whatever the intents of the originators, that's what it's become.
I don't trust the rigor of the nobel any more than awards handed out by the heritage foundation or any other politically motivated institution. It's just like getting a gold star for being the teacher's pet in 1st grade. Universities would do well to avoid such biases in their campus culture...at least in staff and faculty.
chicken/egg syndrome much? Every side points to the others and labels them 'extreme.' It's called an ad hominem attack. Communism sprung from the minds of ivy league utopianism, and capitalism was an extrapolation of barter, both of which are enabled by human nature at work. One did not 'cause' the other.
It's not like whatever country you hail from has an unbiased educational system. If it's state sponsored, which is likely, it's definitely not. It's going to spin the narrative to its benefit so that young minds like yours grow up and hurl its agenda out into the open as the truth, calling everyone else ignorant.
Try thinking for yourself. You won't have the peace of mind that comes from thinking you were taught everything you need to know, but at least you'll know what you've verified yourself, and perhaps more importantly, what you don't know as well.
Actually, the majority political position on this site is center left.. neocon/pro religion perspectives are almost unheard of, and there is a slightly larger libertarian contingent. It makes sense as the majority of nerds posting here grow up with silly utopian stuff like star trek, then go off to ivy league universities whose cultures are loaded with marxist philosophy.
The only benches I've seen are from phoronix, and that showed a hit or miss result, largely dependent on the application compiled. You claim it's faster, then state you don't have any benches to prove it? Why did you bother posting?
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Knuth
I'd say misinterpretations of this statement are the root of all evil. They have led to a world full of slow running bloated runtimes doing little more than shoving strings around because today's programmers were quoted this line by professors, and interpreted it to mean "never bother because the user will always have more ram/cpu." It's the reason for all the trashy software out there.
Yeah, because those interpreted/bytecode 'point-and-stick' languages are the wave of the future right? Most of their interpreters are written in C++ too. Now we have applications that used to need 1MB in 1998 needing hundreds of MB of ram to do the same remedial things. Also, don't forget to add all the 'binding' dependencies needed to link that script-land with the real system libraries, which are also C/C++, so that it is actually useful. In most cases, a competent programmer can put together an equivalent program with a binary size less in the hundreds of kB using C/C++. It's smaller, faster, and has fewer dependencies and potential bugs because there's less code running in the first place.
There will always be at least one 'bare metal' language around because we have to be able to write for the hardware, whether it be C/C++ or something else, and every programmer should be familiar with its basics at least.
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Having a baseline understanding of four function math (for finance), physics (mechanical advantage, kitchen/garage safety, home maintenance), biology (disease prevention, first aid), and even gym class (health fitness), is a requisite for living life even if the student never touches an equation again after high school.
daemontools seems a lot simpler than all the other complexities systemd and its zombified minions (udev) bring to the table.
1. Security, especially with crypted filesystems
2. sleep/hibernate doesn't always work
3. Nothing like a fresh reboot to start the day, especially if your work involves programming that messes with OS internals..
I use vi(m) regularly, but nano comes on most distros' install images, so I use that when no vi(m) is available.
What a deal eh?
1. Lack of choice due to monopoly status over land and radio spectrum rights granted by the state to specific companies.
2. Most of big pharma is here so we don't get access to generics right away. The state funds a lot of research as well as medical school. This glut of cash drives up the 'market-bearing' price. It's why medical school costs $100k -> a hospital stay costing $50000.
3. Technology that hellpits like africa don't have. We also are expected to work too many hours a week for salaried positions. It isn't healthy.
4. Because we let it get away with it. Too many liberals and too many neocons are more concerned with defending their camps from each other to give a shit about what their dear leaders are actually doing with their power.. This is the 'circus' part of 'bread and circuses.'
5. I'm not sure what you mean by 'ability.' A quick glance at their site suggests it's about globalization. Well, the only thing a global economy has done for america so far is drive up costs, drive down quality, reduce wages, and drive quality of life closer to subsistence levels. If we're failing at that according to this OECD, then I consider it a good thing.
6. Because that's how society works? Socialism is not the answer to everything. We are not equals. We are individuals, with different strengths and weaknesses. We've seen what happens when governments attempt this square peg for square hole philosophy. Those who have wealth, bail, leaving the rest with the bill, and the bureaucrats eventually get used to spending other people's money like it's nothing, leading to crazy debt and unstable economy.
7. because the ideals america stands for on paper (constitution) are worth a little allegiance, though we are far from it nowadays.
Because the state interferes by granting monopolies over land rights for cabling and radio spectrum.
fuck pico, nano is where it's at!
'feel connected' and 'are connected' are not the same thing.
the majority of indians and chinese live in shit as bad or far worse than those in detroit. these people literally live as peasant farmers without much in the way of clean water or basic utilities..
The people who offer alternatives for thought are the ones who are modded down by fanbois on all sides. Then there are people like you claiming at first to be objective, waiting to expose their bias until the last statement.
Leftists, neo-rightists and other hard liners on the spectrum often share a hatred for free expression of any kind by the general population.
Define 'craziest' for us. If you do it by relative 'extremity', I'll beat you over the head myself! That is not a valid critique, unless the goal is to have 'consensus' instead of deriving truth.
Teachers, like any other group, tend to run in packs and protect their own, lashing out at anyone on the outside that dare questions their motives.. It's human nature. We see this with the catholic church too...and cops..and soldiers...and the NSA, FBI, CIA et al. Over time, the cultures organizations brew become less and less focused on external realities as they accrue power. The more power they accrue the more they can get away with this. The problem is that they quickly become worse than useless to free society in the process.
If you want to talk about 'guilty-upon-accusation' accusations, just look what feminism is doing to men in 'family' court...that's a left wing thing, mostly, with the neocons latching on when they're in man-up-it's-chivalry mode. Fox is one of many news organizations with political agendas. It's no worse than CNN or MSNBC but people pick on it because it's the minority view in that arena. None of them can be relied on to tell the whole truth.
Please, enough of this no true scotsman shit.. The democrats in this country support:
1. wealth redistribution
2. encouraging class segregation across race, gender, sexual orientation under the guise of promoting unity. This ensures support at the polls.
3. encouraging policy that encroaches on an ever growing list of daily life activities for various fallacious reasons (safety, the children, and other usual suspects).
4. using tax as a punitive measure to curb undesirable behavior/freedom.
That's 'socialist' in my book. Usually these statements come from EU countries run by 'social democrats' who are simply further along this agenda than their brothers are in the US. It's just a question of degree, not intent or philosophy.
Why not? While I do not have proof, it would not shock me if there weren't many people between the sitting president and the koch brothers. Parties are irrelevant that high up.
likely this is a no true scotsman fallacy..
I don't see why the usg should be largely exempt from critique here.. the site has a politics section for stuff like this.
Argument from authority, in this case an irrelevant one. Knowledge in physics does not give credence to a political philosophy. ..and in case you didn't notice, the nobels are mostly handed out for pro-left political 'victories' these days. Obama comes to mind. His 'accomplishment'? Being not-bush. In 2009, he had only been in office a little more than a year or so. Then there were the three women who were awarded it for....being women and politically active in a pro-left fashion. Oh, and here's another one. The IAEA in 2005.. you know, the organization that systematically covered up the true extent of the damage caused by chernobyl to appease the politicians in both east and west? The nobel is just a blue ribbon panel that rewards proper leftist thought and action taken by people known to promote that agenda. Whatever the intents of the originators, that's what it's become.
I don't trust the rigor of the nobel any more than awards handed out by the heritage foundation or any other politically motivated institution. It's just like getting a gold star for being the teacher's pet in 1st grade. Universities would do well to avoid such biases in their campus culture...at least in staff and faculty.
chicken/egg syndrome much? Every side points to the others and labels them 'extreme.' It's called an ad hominem attack. Communism sprung from the minds of ivy league utopianism, and capitalism was an extrapolation of barter, both of which are enabled by human nature at work. One did not 'cause' the other.
It's not like whatever country you hail from has an unbiased educational system. If it's state sponsored, which is likely, it's definitely not. It's going to spin the narrative to its benefit so that young minds like yours grow up and hurl its agenda out into the open as the truth, calling everyone else ignorant.
Try thinking for yourself. You won't have the peace of mind that comes from thinking you were taught everything you need to know, but at least you'll know what you've verified yourself, and perhaps more importantly, what you don't know as well.
Actually, the majority political position on this site is center left.. neocon/pro religion perspectives are almost unheard of, and there is a slightly larger libertarian contingent. It makes sense as the majority of nerds posting here grow up with silly utopian stuff like star trek, then go off to ivy league universities whose cultures are loaded with marxist philosophy.
There's really no reason not to offer them for xp.. The code is already written, so why not keep support in until xp really drops off the radar?
The only benches I've seen are from phoronix, and that showed a hit or miss result, largely dependent on the application compiled. You claim it's faster, then state you don't have any benches to prove it? Why did you bother posting?
Oh. What should we be using?
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Knuth
I'd say misinterpretations of this statement are the root of all evil. They have led to a world full of slow running bloated runtimes doing little more than shoving strings around because today's programmers were quoted this line by professors, and interpreted it to mean "never bother because the user will always have more ram/cpu." It's the reason for all the trashy software out there.
Yeah, because those interpreted/bytecode 'point-and-stick' languages are the wave of the future right? Most of their interpreters are written in C++ too. Now we have applications that used to need 1MB in 1998 needing hundreds of MB of ram to do the same remedial things. Also, don't forget to add all the 'binding' dependencies needed to link that script-land with the real system libraries, which are also C/C++, so that it is actually useful. In most cases, a competent programmer can put together an equivalent program with a binary size less in the hundreds of kB using C/C++. It's smaller, faster, and has fewer dependencies and potential bugs because there's less code running in the first place.
There will always be at least one 'bare metal' language around because we have to be able to write for the hardware, whether it be C/C++ or something else, and every programmer should be familiar with its basics at least.