So do I. What I don't see is how that precludes those funds from coming from an investment rather than taxes. What does the source matter if the accountability is there?
Looking at Norway, they have a massive investment fund that they can strategically tap to improve the country. I don't see a downside to that.
Indeed. And after France a few years back where state-supported (or at least tolerated) Russian hooligans brutalized hundreds of fans, Russia even clamped down. We'll see what happens after the world cup is done, however. It's clear that they didn't want blood in their streets. It's unclear whether or not they will lift the ban and oppression on their home-grown hooligans once the danger to their reputation has passed.
All the yelling on both sides? "Listen to me!" "No, listen to MEEEE! HE speaks lies!"
Except that there are objective truths in the world. And it's possible to examine the yelling and disregard that which doesn't seem to match what is true. It does mean you need to brand 90% of one party liars and 65% of the other liars, but you can find one side that leans more towards truth.
Same here. Got a Dell Precision about a year and a half ago, and I've never looked back. Less irritating bugs and quirks than the Mac, and half the price. Sure the case isn't as slick and the desktop isn't as flashy, but I'm really not too upset by that. It's actually lighter by quite a bit than my last MBP. And since I've never been locked into the Apple ecosystem, I'm not missing anything since I switched.
At this amount of content sources, do you actually watch them or just skim through the headlines?
Skim through the headlines until I see something that I'm interested in.
That's the #1 use of RSS in my experience. My news feeds are nicely varied, all in one place, and consist of a headline and the first sentence or two. I skim through very quickly and efficiently, easily skip past crap I'm not interested in or that I've read on another site, and can quickly jump to the full page or save it for later.
RSS lets me very efficiently sort signal from noise. A dozen different web pages with different layouts, constantly changing front pages, flashing ads, auto-play videos, social media feeds, and all the other crap they use to mire you on their page so their ad metrics look better make it fairly impossible to meaningfully find interesting content. RSS makes it trivial.
As an added benefit, I don't need to spend the mental capacity to figure out if I've seen something before or if anything on a website is new. If nothing's new, nothing shows up in my RSS feed. If something is new, I get that in my RSS feed. I use it for science news, regular news, webcomics, the small number of facebook/twitter feeds I follow, forum posts, etc.
For me at least, if a website doesn't have an RSS feed, I'm not likely to frequent it. My RSS reader is how I interact with a large amount of the web. I honestly can't fathom how people can use the internet without one. It's so mentally taxing and you miss so much stuff.
More ram, bigger hard drives, better video cards, better battery life, cheaper.
Software will always need bug fixes...
And a shit-ton of that. They haven't been keeping pace on bug fixes for years now. Even though I've ditched Mac at this point, I still check in MPG to see what I'm missing. And because my wife still has the last MBP.
I stumbled on the Core Rot series googling a very irritating bug which Apple didn't seem to be addressing. Come to find out, it was well known and a year old at that point. Still hasn't gotten fixed 3 years later.
It's not just that people write better when the world is watching - if there's not a business case to fix closed source code, it probably doesn't get fixed. When the choice is more features that a customer is paying for or refactoring code, more features almost always win out.
If there's an ugly buggy hack in open source code, there's a chance that at some point it will irritate someone enough that they'll fix it.
I know that I've personally left comments in my code to the extent of "I know this is a terrible way to do this, but I was in a hurry and couldn't come up with a better way. Fix this when you have some free time." Not a proud moment, but when it's not public code, as you note, it's much more tempting to do that. And I know of a few bits of code with comments along those lines that went to the grave with the company I wrote it for.
Eh, it doesn't even need to be manipulated by someone or done for personal gain to fuck people over. Companies that get large enough often are siloed and at the level where management meets across silos they don't have an operational knowledge of what's happening at the bottom of their silo. That leads to all sorts of issues like "it's nobody's job" and "it's more than one department's job" and as a customer or end user, navigating that can be brutally painful.
Another issue is not understanding how one decision in one department impacts another. A company I work with made a procedural change to the ordering software that prevented two shipments to the same location from being bundled together, because they now got picked and packed slightly out of order. At the same time, the customer service reps were doing a PSA to customers to bundle shipments and save on shipping. Why? Because management had decided that a) they couldn't reduce shipping costs any further, and b) that they were starting to see competition with another company. Why did the ordering software change then? To try to make shipping more efficient.
Absolutely a customer-hostile clusterfuck, but nothing malicious about it. Just too many siloed departments, and upper management too far removed from the work on the ground to understand how their decisions impacted other departments.
I take it that you've seen The Purge. Seems like it should work pretty well.
What real issue do you have with this sort of efficiency? It will make us better as a country. Dare I say, this sort of forward thinking could make America great again.
No. This is the second time in a few days that we have one example out of millions of applications of the algorithms not working as expected.
Anecdotes are not data.
While I'm no fan of google, their algorithms seem to work 99.999% of the time. If there is criticism to be levied, it's that their error correction method is lacking.
It all started when I was doing astronomy for a bit. Everything was in UT, and once I wrapped my head around that, everything time-related was so much easier.
If you work 9 till 17, and I work 15 till 23, it's damn easy to figure out when to schedule a conference call. If you work 9 to 5 and I work 8 till 4 and we're 5 timezones apart and you're on DST and I'm not, it becomes a hell of a lot harder to to figure out when we can do business.
But we can't even get the US to fully adopt the metric system, so I can't imagine people being OK getting up at 12 and heading to work at 14.
Isn't that the one benefit of DST changes? If it wasn't for the clock change, those heart attacks would have happened at random. No way to plan for those. At least with the clock change you can prep for the increased load of patients, right?
That assumes there is competition, or will be. AdSense does not have any meaningful competition at this time. And it also assumes that more people will leave than it will cost them to staff that with humans. I'm not sure that would be true either.
We might be able to find out if the corrupt weasels in the EPA would publish this research. But no.
The warnings are contained in a draft health assessment EPA scientists completed just before Donald Trump became president, according to the officials. They said top advisers to departing Administrator Scott Pruitt are delaying its release as part of a campaign to undermine the agency’s independent research into the health risks of toxic chemicals......The current EPA official told POLITICO that political appointees have managed to avoid creating written evidence of their interference with the formaldehyde assessment by refusing to send emails or create other records that eventually could become public, instead using what the official described as “a children’s game of telephone."
Interestingly, this research comes from the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).
Industry has long faulted the IRIS program, the agency’s only independent scientific division evaluating the health risks of toxic chemicals, whose assessments often form the basis for federal and state regulations.
Why would the chemical industries have issues with IRIS?
The small office of about 35 experts pores over the huge body of existing research on chemicals, including industry-backed studies aimed at proving the substances safe, to independently assess their risks.
Lol. So they actually dig into the industry backed studies and call BS on them. I can see why they'd be a threat.
Are you unaware of who we're talking about here? It's this guy. Even though they seized a lot of his assets, I think he's still outside of the "take a boat" class of wealthy. Yacht? Sure. Private sea plane? Yes.
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So do I. What I don't see is how that precludes those funds from coming from an investment rather than taxes. What does the source matter if the accountability is there?
Looking at Norway, they have a massive investment fund that they can strategically tap to improve the country. I don't see a downside to that.
Indeed. And after France a few years back where state-supported (or at least tolerated) Russian hooligans brutalized hundreds of fans, Russia even clamped down. We'll see what happens after the world cup is done, however. It's clear that they didn't want blood in their streets. It's unclear whether or not they will lift the ban and oppression on their home-grown hooligans once the danger to their reputation has passed.
Found the Neymar fan....
That's not hand-egg. That's rugby football.
And if you're a country of weirdos, you change all the rules to make it stupid and play American/Canadian rugby football.
Government should not be "investing" in any business or industry, full stop.
So you'd rather be taxed than your government find other sources of income?
That's a rather odd position for you to be taking.
Why do programmers adopt new languages so enthusiastically? Is that an interesting hobby?
Why are you on this site? How did you get here? Why do you stay?
I'm really serious. How did you become a /. poster/reader with a moderately low UID while seemingly being totally unfamiliar with programmers?
All the yelling on both sides? "Listen to me!" "No, listen to MEEEE! HE speaks lies!"
Except that there are objective truths in the world. And it's possible to examine the yelling and disregard that which doesn't seem to match what is true. It does mean you need to brand 90% of one party liars and 65% of the other liars, but you can find one side that leans more towards truth.
Same here. Got a Dell Precision about a year and a half ago, and I've never looked back. Less irritating bugs and quirks than the Mac, and half the price. Sure the case isn't as slick and the desktop isn't as flashy, but I'm really not too upset by that. It's actually lighter by quite a bit than my last MBP. And since I've never been locked into the Apple ecosystem, I'm not missing anything since I switched.
At this amount of content sources, do you actually watch them or just skim through the headlines?
Skim through the headlines until I see something that I'm interested in.
That's the #1 use of RSS in my experience. My news feeds are nicely varied, all in one place, and consist of a headline and the first sentence or two. I skim through very quickly and efficiently, easily skip past crap I'm not interested in or that I've read on another site, and can quickly jump to the full page or save it for later.
RSS lets me very efficiently sort signal from noise. A dozen different web pages with different layouts, constantly changing front pages, flashing ads, auto-play videos, social media feeds, and all the other crap they use to mire you on their page so their ad metrics look better make it fairly impossible to meaningfully find interesting content. RSS makes it trivial.
As an added benefit, I don't need to spend the mental capacity to figure out if I've seen something before or if anything on a website is new. If nothing's new, nothing shows up in my RSS feed. If something is new, I get that in my RSS feed. I use it for science news, regular news, webcomics, the small number of facebook/twitter feeds I follow, forum posts, etc.
For me at least, if a website doesn't have an RSS feed, I'm not likely to frequent it. My RSS reader is how I interact with a large amount of the web. I honestly can't fathom how people can use the internet without one. It's so mentally taxing and you miss so much stuff.
Honestly - what is is there to do?
More ram, bigger hard drives, better video cards, better battery life, cheaper.
Software will always need bug fixes...
And a shit-ton of that. They haven't been keeping pace on bug fixes for years now. Even though I've ditched Mac at this point, I still check in MPG to see what I'm missing. And because my wife still has the last MBP.
I stumbled on the Core Rot series googling a very irritating bug which Apple didn't seem to be addressing. Come to find out, it was well known and a year old at that point. Still hasn't gotten fixed 3 years later.
It's not just that people write better when the world is watching - if there's not a business case to fix closed source code, it probably doesn't get fixed. When the choice is more features that a customer is paying for or refactoring code, more features almost always win out.
If there's an ugly buggy hack in open source code, there's a chance that at some point it will irritate someone enough that they'll fix it.
I know that I've personally left comments in my code to the extent of "I know this is a terrible way to do this, but I was in a hurry and couldn't come up with a better way. Fix this when you have some free time." Not a proud moment, but when it's not public code, as you note, it's much more tempting to do that. And I know of a few bits of code with comments along those lines that went to the grave with the company I wrote it for.
You can have my Dogpile when you take it from my warm, smelly hands!
Eh, it doesn't even need to be manipulated by someone or done for personal gain to fuck people over. Companies that get large enough often are siloed and at the level where management meets across silos they don't have an operational knowledge of what's happening at the bottom of their silo. That leads to all sorts of issues like "it's nobody's job" and "it's more than one department's job" and as a customer or end user, navigating that can be brutally painful.
Another issue is not understanding how one decision in one department impacts another. A company I work with made a procedural change to the ordering software that prevented two shipments to the same location from being bundled together, because they now got picked and packed slightly out of order. At the same time, the customer service reps were doing a PSA to customers to bundle shipments and save on shipping. Why? Because management had decided that a) they couldn't reduce shipping costs any further, and b) that they were starting to see competition with another company. Why did the ordering software change then? To try to make shipping more efficient.
Absolutely a customer-hostile clusterfuck, but nothing malicious about it. Just too many siloed departments, and upper management too far removed from the work on the ground to understand how their decisions impacted other departments.
Yeah, but we already won the simulator race back in the late 60s. #moonlandinghoax
I take it that you've seen The Purge. Seems like it should work pretty well.
What real issue do you have with this sort of efficiency? It will make us better as a country. Dare I say, this sort of forward thinking could make America great again.
That makes two of us.
No. This is the second time in a few days that we have one example out of millions of applications of the algorithms not working as expected.
Anecdotes are not data.
While I'm no fan of google, their algorithms seem to work 99.999% of the time. If there is criticism to be levied, it's that their error correction method is lacking.
I've been saying this same thing for years.
It all started when I was doing astronomy for a bit. Everything was in UT, and once I wrapped my head around that, everything time-related was so much easier.
If you work 9 till 17, and I work 15 till 23, it's damn easy to figure out when to schedule a conference call. If you work 9 to 5 and I work 8 till 4 and we're 5 timezones apart and you're on DST and I'm not, it becomes a hell of a lot harder to to figure out when we can do business.
But we can't even get the US to fully adopt the metric system, so I can't imagine people being OK getting up at 12 and heading to work at 14.
Isn't that the one benefit of DST changes? If it wasn't for the clock change, those heart attacks would have happened at random. No way to plan for those. At least with the clock change you can prep for the increased load of patients, right?
....would a $150 cheque really change your life?
Absolutely. I never let myself spend that much on the lottery! And if I spent that much, how could I not win?
That assumes there is competition, or will be. AdSense does not have any meaningful competition at this time. And it also assumes that more people will leave than it will cost them to staff that with humans. I'm not sure that would be true either.
How would that benefit Google? The extra fraction of a cent they'd get for every visit to that website wouldn't pay for the position.
What exactly is the risk?
We might be able to find out if the corrupt weasels in the EPA would publish this research. But no.
The warnings are contained in a draft health assessment EPA scientists completed just before Donald Trump became president, according to the officials. They said top advisers to departing Administrator Scott Pruitt are delaying its release as part of a campaign to undermine the agency’s independent research into the health risks of toxic chemicals......The current EPA official told POLITICO that political appointees have managed to avoid creating written evidence of their interference with the formaldehyde assessment by refusing to send emails or create other records that eventually could become public, instead using what the official described as “a children’s game of telephone."
Interestingly, this research comes from the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).
Industry has long faulted the IRIS program, the agency’s only independent scientific division evaluating the health risks of toxic chemicals, whose assessments often form the basis for federal and state regulations.
Why would the chemical industries have issues with IRIS?
The small office of about 35 experts pores over the huge body of existing research on chemicals, including industry-backed studies aimed at proving the substances safe, to independently assess their risks.
Lol. So they actually dig into the industry backed studies and call BS on them. I can see why they'd be a threat.
Sure, he could take a boat...
Are you unaware of who we're talking about here? It's this guy. Even though they seized a lot of his assets, I think he's still outside of the "take a boat" class of wealthy. Yacht? Sure. Private sea plane? Yes.