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  1. AGW on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The most likely culprit by far is global warming.

    Really? The most likely culprit?

  2. Re: User choice on Firefox 69 Will Disable Adobe Flash Plugin by Default (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You make a LOT more money showing video ads. Everyone does, except for the ones buying ads, of course. That is the reason.

  3. Re: A slim minority of ads aren't hostile on Firefox 69 Will Disable Adobe Flash Plugin by Default (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ads are user-hostile because, in any form, they distort the incentive structure of people creating content. If it weren't for ads, most of the dake newe we see would go away.

  4. Re:The sun is the largest nuclear reactor on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem appears to be that while tech is found to be perfectly adequate and safe, regulatory regime handling nuclear power construction has effectively been sabotaged by our green party, who sat in the government a few times at this point. They now require full vetting of the entirety of design process of the power plant down to the last designer (as in people, not just plans), arcane requirements on leadership systems within organisations designing, building and running the power plant and so on. Things that have essentially nothing to do with building and running the actual power plant. It has little to nothing to do with safety, but it basically puts a massive bureaucratic paperwork load on every company involved, making building new power plants almost impossible.

    This is the problem in America, too.

  5. Re:Can we quit with the myth that Python is slow ? on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    Mostly steady.

    Great! Hopefully soon it turns the corner and starts decreasing.

    On the plus side, at least we're getting a lot of new users.

    Great! Best of luck to you.

  6. Re:Tanned people are better mates? on There's No Such Thing as a Safe Tan (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    So if a Tan is such a leading indicator, it might be rooted in biological fitness.

    It's not. It's one of those beauty indicators that changes in favorability over generations. One group of people might think a tan is great, and another group might think it's not great. It's not based in biology.

  7. Re:Really on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    HVDC lines, and grid-scale storage.

    Nuclear might have issues, but so do these.

  8. Re:Okay, but... on Hack Allows Escape of Play-With-Docker Containers (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    , if they can set up complex environments, including networks, hosts, DNS and the like

    Even Windows can do all that on the command-line, are you setting up DNS from a GUI app or something?

    Anyway, it doesn't really matter. There are certainly some cases where Docker is a good idea, and maybe your setup is one of them. You can tell pretty easily: are your install scripts a mess? Or can you install your software to a new target with a single command? Why is your build and deploy so complex?

  9. Re:Okay, but... on Hack Allows Escape of Play-With-Docker Containers (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Being able to set up complete development environments (cache, database, reverse proxies, app servers etc) on each developers box with a single command - brilliant

    So, I want you to know, if your install scripts aren't able to do this, your install scripts are broken. You can add "check out and build it" with a single command, too.

  10. Re:Okay, but... on Hack Allows Escape of Play-With-Docker Containers (threatpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK, imagine you are a dev team, and you don't know how to write an install script for your software. No problem, just load it into docker once, and you don't have to worry about cleaning up your install scripts.

    There are some valid use cases, but what I just described is the main one people use in the modern world. There are people who think things like, "Makefiles (or Maven or whatever) are too complicated because they don't allow you to have loops and functions." Nah, these are signs you are making things too complicated and they should be simplified.

    Oh, and while I'm criticizing things like an old man, I'll just add that the primary use for mongodb is people who don't know SQL or how to write a schema. That isn't everyone, and there are some valid reasons to use NoSQL, but a primary use case is people who don't know databases.

  11. Re:Can we quit with the myth that Python is slow ? on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's unfortunate.

    Is the bug count going up or down?

  12. Re:Clever but pointless on A Guy Made a Computer Mouse That is Also a Functional Laptop (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's kind of retarded. People are making things they want to make, and other people enjoy seeing that, so there's a community. If you don't like that, go away. You can pay someone to make the things you like.

    A computer in a mouse is pretty cool.

  13. Re:Can we quit with the myth that Python is slow ? on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    Fix your bugs. Looking at the bug tracker is the top indicator of your skill as a software developer.

  14. Re:Cue the next tax increase... on Pedestrians, E-Scooters Are Clashing In the Struggle For Sidewalk Space (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, read the headline, it says: "55% of all river marine plastic pollution." I hope you can see the differences.

    The website might be trying to write in a confusing way, but "55% of all river marine plastic pollution" is not the same as 55% of all trash in the entire world. It's not the same as 55% of all plastic trash. "River marine" is a fairly specific, dense set of qualifiers.

  15. Re:lots of bad lingo hiding interesting article. on Arborists Are Bringing the 'Dinosaur of Trees' Back To Life (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They said dinosaur, climate change, clone, "super grove", "super trees," and probably giant redwoods to get everyone's intention.

    It's hard to know what these people are actually trying to accomplish. The trees didn't die out because of climate change, their population was reduced because of logging, and there are lots of them growing now (mostly not as big, though). All up and down the coast of California, and even in the Sierra's, there are plenty of places for these trees to grow, and where they are growing.

  16. Re:Cue the next tax increase... on Pedestrians, E-Scooters Are Clashing In the Struggle For Sidewalk Space (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    the Yangtze - which is responsible for 55 percent of the trash in the entire world.

    That's.......so far from true I can only imagine you were drunk when you wrote it.

    I imagine you meant to say, "55% of the plastic that got to oceans from rivers came from the Yangtze river" but that is very far from what you actually said.

  17. Re:Can we quit with the myth that Python is slow ? on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    It also decreases your productivity by 50%, which is most commonly spent between writing class definitions, untangling inheritance trees and maintaining conversion functions between functionally identical but differently named types.

    Heh, now you're making up numbers. I can already guess that your bug tracker is filled with bugs.

  18. Re:Fucking stupid on GPU Accelerated Realtime Skin Smoothing Algorithms Make Actors Look Perfect · · Score: 1

    What tool(s) do you use to do that?

  19. Re:Probably not. on GPU Accelerated Realtime Skin Smoothing Algorithms Make Actors Look Perfect · · Score: 1

    The real question I have is, when can I get it as an Instagram filter?

    Better yet, can I get it installed on my date's glasses? Come to think of it, maybe it'd be better to have installed on my glasses.

  20. Re:Can we quit with the myth that Python is slow ? on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Java allows them to produce something that seems to work, but causes more problems than it solves. These people have negative productivity. "Memory corruption" is not the problem, it is just a symptom. Fixing the symptom does not fix the problem.

    Alright, examples, please.

    And the same is true for static type safety. It is a crutch. Those that need it cause numerous problems even with it, the problems are just in other areas. Technology cannot fix incompetence.

    Counter-example: static typing can reduce your bugs by 15%

    And that would be a benefit, because if they had to work in other languages, they would simply get fired for incompetence and be replaced with people that had a clue what they are doing.

    No. There aren't enough good programmers in the world. Managers would rather have something that works poorly than doesn't work at all.

  21. Re:Can we quit with the myth that Python is slow ? on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    I take it you have never done code-review fora larger project in Java? Because industrial Java code is routinely the most unreadable and unmaintainable trash you can run into.

    I have. I agree it can get bad, but the code is still something that can be worked with, as miserable as it may seem.

    Now imagine those same programmers were using C++. Without discipline, there would be memory corruption all over the place. Bugs would be nearly impossible, as the system would crash mysteriously all over the place. Java saves them from this mess.

    What about Python or Javascript? Objects getting passed around all over the place with no type, or whose type changes over the lifecycle of the object. No way of knowing what needs to be passed into a function (safer just rewriting it). No, these programs are unusable. At least in Java, when a function requires a string, you know you should pass a string. There may be other problems, but at least there is clarity on that point.

    I'm not saying that Java code is good, there are plenty of bad programmers in Java. I'm saying those same programmers would write worse code in other languages.

  22. The stuff behind the tech is a mess. I figured we'd have the software engineering thing figured out by now, but we've regressed. The COBOL programmers have taken over, or as Dijkstra said, people who have been permanently brain damaged as programmers (that is, it works once on their desk, so that's good enough, release it. Then they wonder why their bug tracker is full).

  23. cool, thx

  24. Re:Interesting point. Ante hoc, ergo ne propter ho on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, that Pelosi favored the wall in 2015. Quote is good, video is better.

  25. the White House is demanding $563 million for 75 additional immigration judges and support staff,

    Woah, those people are making a lot of money.