You stupid sonofabitch. Who do you think edits the journals?
Mostly? No one. If they were actually doing a reasonable job of copyediting, then I wouldn't have a problem with them. Instead, they'll let poor English through, but just to show that they're doing something worthwhile they'll make some gratuitous changes that alter the meaning. I saw a particularly amusing example of this where someone had cited some of our work and used an acronym. The editor had obviously searched for the acronym and expanded it without considering the context and inserted a blatantly incorrect expansion.
Yes, but all that old testament shit is superseded by (a) the Ten Commandments, which is supposed to be a direct order from god and categorically says thou shalt not kill, and thou shalt not commit adultery
Have you read the bible? The Ten Commandments are handed down in exodus, the second book. Immediately after it comes Leviticus, which lists a whole load of reasons why it's acceptable to kill someone (including as punishment for being raped). The remaining books are full of examples, for example Elijah (profit, direct representative of God on Earth) killing people for believing in a different god and the Hebrew God explicitly endorsing this behaviour.
(b) the teachings of Jesus, who is basically Communications From God 2: This Time, In Person, and who also said it's wrong to kill and that if someone smites you, you should turn the other cheek and let them smite that too
That's a better argument, though not one that seemed to stop any of the last two thousand years of crusades and so on in the name of Jesus.
Go and read the Old Testament and then get back to me on that. It doesn't have that exact quote, but it does say that it's okay to kill the men and rape the women of all enemies of your tribe, for example, and that it's okay to own slaves as long as they're of a different tribe.
It was signed, but then for the next 2-3 years there were constant rumblings from IRA splinters about returning to violence. Then the funding dried up in 2001 for anyone involved in terrorism and suddenly they were silent.
And why would the country of his ancestors let him back in? Should the UK allow all Americans residence automatically if any of their ancestors came from here? If not, then why should Syria?
I've found that this is actually a feature of git. The CLI is so spectacularly bad that it's actually motivated people to write decent GUIs so that they don't have to use it. In contrast, the svn and hg CLIs are just mediocre and so persevere trying to use them directly.
And Microsoft is not using Linus' implementation of git, they have written their own (permissively licensed) version written in C#. So they're using their own VCS, which uses ideas from BitKeeper, and is interoperable with git.
Marijuana has a history going back thousands of years, with essentially zero fatalities related to its use. I don't believe for one second that anything else is safer for you when it comes to recreational or medical use.
Depends on how you're consuming the marijuana. If you're eating or drinking it, I might believe you, but the negative health impact of inhaling burning hydrocarbons is well documented, even ignoring the drug content.
Spoke like someone who has never read the XML spec. If it correctly handled XML namespaces, I'd be happy with it as an undergraduate project. It's trivial to write something that will handle 90% of valid XML. The remaining 10% is really hard!
If you want an historical perspective, here's the big difference: Growing food in Europe is much harder than growing food in Africa. The need to improve efficiency led to the agricultural revolution happening in Europe (and it's no coincidence that it happened to the north of Europe). This, in turn, provided a sudden glut of available labour, which drove the industrial revolution. This, in turn, drove a wave of colonisation and exploitation of less technologically advanced parts of the world, in particular Africa.
Indeed. There are no cultural, educational, nutritional, or climate differences between African and European countries. All differences between them are entirely down to race.
Exactly. It also depends a bit on what you mean by 'AI'. If you mean 'correlation engine' (which seems to be what the media means most of the time it says AI), then whoever decided that it's safe to use it without checking that there's any causal relationship and deployed it without human oversight. If you mean 'expert system', then it's just another tool and depends heavily on the input from the doctor or nurse to work towards a diagnosis. If it goes wrong, either the tool was faulty or the operator was incompetent.
The other thing TFA seems to be missing is that we're not trying to teach everyone some programming because we expect that they will become programmers, we are teaching them programming because it is going to be as relevant to any job as writing was a hundred years ago. Sure, there are some jobs that don't require it and more where you can get away without doing it or doing it badly, but they're increasingly few.
Even if the only programming that you do is a little bit of VBA to automate some common task in Word or Excel, it will probably save you a lot of time overall. Even people who don't work in offices end up having to do some programming. Before he retired, my stepfather was head groundskeeper on a golf course, a job about as far from computers as you'd hope to find, yet he was responsible for an irrigation system that was configured using a domain-specific (graphical) programming language.
The grandparent is referring to the Official IRA, which is commonly referred to simply as the IRA as it has had the greatest claim to the name since 1969. During the period the OIRA was active, The Republic of Ireland was (and remains) an independent Catholic country. Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but has a majority Protestant population who do not wish to become part of the Republic of Ireland. Attempting to incorporate Northern Ireland into The Republic of Ireland against the wishes of the majority of the population of Northern Ireland sounds like conquest to me.
During the period that the OIRA was active, they killed more people in the UK than Islamic terrorists have done in total. They did not cause Catholic churches to empty and their supporters toured America (particularly New York) raising funds to buy weapons. The US Government refused to block this. It only ended when, for some reason, around 2001 it became unfashionable to fund terrorists.
They can only do so because Google and Apple are siding with app developers to the detriment of their real customers. Don't know why (perhaps app-revenue/payment intermediation)
App developers are Google's real customers. Both Apple and Google take a cut of any app sales through their store, but of the two only Apple gets any money from the person who buys the phone directly (and so has two sets of real customers, the phone users and the app developers).
You don't know what the word "democratically" means
Not the GP, but in this thread the person who doesn't know what democracy means is you. Democracy means rule by the people (literally, by the city). Implementations of democracy are referred to as either direct democracy or indirect / representative democracy. In a direct democracy, eligible voters are permitted to decide issues directly. In a representative democracy, the people select, via some mechanism, representatives who decide issues on their behalf. Nothing in the definition of a representative democracy requires that the representatives be selected via a straight first-past-the-post single-constituency election.
You seem to have been taught a fallacy that is common in the US, that a democracy and a republic are different and incompatible systems of government, rather than orthogonal aspects of a system of government (you can have a democratic monarchy and an authoritarian republic, for example, but you can also have a democratic republic).
If you work at a site that stores and tracks nuclear waste, then you probably know that a smoke detector contains radioactive materials and so shouldn't be just thrown away. You put it in your backpack to take it somewhere to dispose of safely. You forget that you did it and go into work with that backpack. Not a particularly far-fetched set of circumstances...
Look at the JavaCard spec. Almost all smartcards run it. You'll find it on pretty much every SIM card, every credit card that has a chip, and a lot of corporate door-access cards. Does that count?
Why are we teaching kids to write when there won't be as many jobs for scribes in 3 years? Because there are very few jobs that don't benefit from some level of automation and it's increasingly essential that you are able to formulate solutions to problems as programs.
Let's look at some examples of things running on a typical computer:
Operating system: If it's *NIX, mostly C with some C++. If it's Windows, then mostly C++ with some C.
Web browser: Chrome, Firefox and Edge are all written in a mixture of languages, with C++ being the dominant one.
Office suite: Microsoft Office, Open/LibreOffice, and KOffice are all mostly C++.
Video and music player: The UI is often C# or Objective-C, but the code that handles the file metadata parsing, decoding, and playback is all C or C++, depending on the platform.
Yup, sounds like the entire world has gone to Java or.NET to me...
Yes, you can, and it's DDR4, with a power drain of around 12W idle (and even in standby mode). These laptops exist, but they have such terrible battery life that they barely count as laptops.
Are you saying the backend is working for configuring the OS to be hardened against all sorts of malicious software, but the OS isn't configured/shipped that way?
I'm saying that the OS provides all of the features that you're requesting, but they're generally configured in a permissive way because users favour being able to run their legacy code over security.
Because regardless of ACLs, any.exe that I run can wipe most or all of the important files on my hard disk
Only if the files are writeable / deletable for the combination of application and user (the two keys in Windows ACLs). You can configure a default policy of no access for all apps other than whitelisted ones, and Windows 10 S does this, but then you won't be able to download a random app and have it able to access arbitrary files. Oh, and on vaguely recent Windows installs, the system files are not modifiable by normal users, so they can't wipe most of the files that are important to the system, only files that are important to the user (who explicitly or implicitly granted the app the right to do so).
This is not granular permissions
No, this is not granular permissions configured with the policy that you request. Don't conflate policy and mechanism. The mechanism is there.
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You stupid sonofabitch. Who do you think edits the journals?
Mostly? No one. If they were actually doing a reasonable job of copyediting, then I wouldn't have a problem with them. Instead, they'll let poor English through, but just to show that they're doing something worthwhile they'll make some gratuitous changes that alter the meaning. I saw a particularly amusing example of this where someone had cited some of our work and used an acronym. The editor had obviously searched for the acronym and expanded it without considering the context and inserted a blatantly incorrect expansion.
Yes, but all that old testament shit is superseded by (a) the Ten Commandments, which is supposed to be a direct order from god and categorically says thou shalt not kill, and thou shalt not commit adultery
Have you read the bible? The Ten Commandments are handed down in exodus, the second book. Immediately after it comes Leviticus, which lists a whole load of reasons why it's acceptable to kill someone (including as punishment for being raped). The remaining books are full of examples, for example Elijah (profit, direct representative of God on Earth) killing people for believing in a different god and the Hebrew God explicitly endorsing this behaviour.
(b) the teachings of Jesus, who is basically Communications From God 2: This Time, In Person, and who also said it's wrong to kill and that if someone smites you, you should turn the other cheek and let them smite that too
That's a better argument, though not one that seemed to stop any of the last two thousand years of crusades and so on in the name of Jesus.
Go and read the Old Testament and then get back to me on that. It doesn't have that exact quote, but it does say that it's okay to kill the men and rape the women of all enemies of your tribe, for example, and that it's okay to own slaves as long as they're of a different tribe.
When I'm judging the severity of a terrorist attack the fact that the terrorist didn't survive definitely makes it seem more terrifying to me...
It was signed, but then for the next 2-3 years there were constant rumblings from IRA splinters about returning to violence. Then the funding dried up in 2001 for anyone involved in terrorism and suddenly they were silent.
And if ousting a small number of homosexuals would make the majority feel safer? Or gingers? Or geeks?
And why would the country of his ancestors let him back in? Should the UK allow all Americans residence automatically if any of their ancestors came from here? If not, then why should Syria?
I've found that this is actually a feature of git. The CLI is so spectacularly bad that it's actually motivated people to write decent GUIs so that they don't have to use it. In contrast, the svn and hg CLIs are just mediocre and so persevere trying to use them directly.
And Microsoft is not using Linus' implementation of git, they have written their own (permissively licensed) version written in C#. So they're using their own VCS, which uses ideas from BitKeeper, and is interoperable with git.
Do you mean Apple deciding to ditch their proprietary ADB in favour of USB?
Apple adopting using UNIX as the core of their OS and having it certified as conforming to the Single UNIX Specification?
Apple using an implementation of the OpenStep specification as their GUI app development framework?
Apple replacing ADC with DVI?
Apple contributing their mini DisplayPort plug to the DisplayPort consortium, royalty free?
Apple replacing their proprietary MagSave power connectors with USB-C?
Or did you have some other examples in mind?
Marijuana has a history going back thousands of years, with essentially zero fatalities related to its use. I don't believe for one second that anything else is safer for you when it comes to recreational or medical use.
Depends on how you're consuming the marijuana. If you're eating or drinking it, I might believe you, but the negative health impact of inhaling burning hydrocarbons is well documented, even ignoring the drug content.
Spoke like someone who has never read the XML spec. If it correctly handled XML namespaces, I'd be happy with it as an undergraduate project. It's trivial to write something that will handle 90% of valid XML. The remaining 10% is really hard!
If you want an historical perspective, here's the big difference: Growing food in Europe is much harder than growing food in Africa. The need to improve efficiency led to the agricultural revolution happening in Europe (and it's no coincidence that it happened to the north of Europe). This, in turn, provided a sudden glut of available labour, which drove the industrial revolution. This, in turn, drove a wave of colonisation and exploitation of less technologically advanced parts of the world, in particular Africa.
Indeed. There are no cultural, educational, nutritional, or climate differences between African and European countries. All differences between them are entirely down to race.
Exactly. It also depends a bit on what you mean by 'AI'. If you mean 'correlation engine' (which seems to be what the media means most of the time it says AI), then whoever decided that it's safe to use it without checking that there's any causal relationship and deployed it without human oversight. If you mean 'expert system', then it's just another tool and depends heavily on the input from the doctor or nurse to work towards a diagnosis. If it goes wrong, either the tool was faulty or the operator was incompetent.
The other thing TFA seems to be missing is that we're not trying to teach everyone some programming because we expect that they will become programmers, we are teaching them programming because it is going to be as relevant to any job as writing was a hundred years ago. Sure, there are some jobs that don't require it and more where you can get away without doing it or doing it badly, but they're increasingly few.
Even if the only programming that you do is a little bit of VBA to automate some common task in Word or Excel, it will probably save you a lot of time overall. Even people who don't work in offices end up having to do some programming. Before he retired, my stepfather was head groundskeeper on a golf course, a job about as far from computers as you'd hope to find, yet he was responsible for an irrigation system that was configured using a domain-specific (graphical) programming language.
The grandparent is referring to the Official IRA, which is commonly referred to simply as the IRA as it has had the greatest claim to the name since 1969. During the period the OIRA was active, The Republic of Ireland was (and remains) an independent Catholic country. Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but has a majority Protestant population who do not wish to become part of the Republic of Ireland. Attempting to incorporate Northern Ireland into The Republic of Ireland against the wishes of the majority of the population of Northern Ireland sounds like conquest to me.
During the period that the OIRA was active, they killed more people in the UK than Islamic terrorists have done in total. They did not cause Catholic churches to empty and their supporters toured America (particularly New York) raising funds to buy weapons. The US Government refused to block this. It only ended when, for some reason, around 2001 it became unfashionable to fund terrorists.
They can only do so because Google and Apple are siding with app developers to the detriment of their real customers. Don't know why (perhaps app-revenue/payment intermediation)
App developers are Google's real customers. Both Apple and Google take a cut of any app sales through their store, but of the two only Apple gets any money from the person who buys the phone directly (and so has two sets of real customers, the phone users and the app developers).
You don't know what the word "democratically" means
Not the GP, but in this thread the person who doesn't know what democracy means is you. Democracy means rule by the people (literally, by the city). Implementations of democracy are referred to as either direct democracy or indirect / representative democracy. In a direct democracy, eligible voters are permitted to decide issues directly. In a representative democracy, the people select, via some mechanism, representatives who decide issues on their behalf. Nothing in the definition of a representative democracy requires that the representatives be selected via a straight first-past-the-post single-constituency election.
You seem to have been taught a fallacy that is common in the US, that a democracy and a republic are different and incompatible systems of government, rather than orthogonal aspects of a system of government (you can have a democratic monarchy and an authoritarian republic, for example, but you can also have a democratic republic).
If you work at a site that stores and tracks nuclear waste, then you probably know that a smoke detector contains radioactive materials and so shouldn't be just thrown away. You put it in your backpack to take it somewhere to dispose of safely. You forget that you did it and go into work with that backpack. Not a particularly far-fetched set of circumstances...
Look at the JavaCard spec. Almost all smartcards run it. You'll find it on pretty much every SIM card, every credit card that has a chip, and a lot of corporate door-access cards. Does that count?
Why are we teaching kids to write when there won't be as many jobs for scribes in 3 years? Because there are very few jobs that don't benefit from some level of automation and it's increasingly essential that you are able to formulate solutions to problems as programs.
Yup, sounds like the entire world has gone to Java or .NET to me...
Yes, you can, and it's DDR4, with a power drain of around 12W idle (and even in standby mode). These laptops exist, but they have such terrible battery life that they barely count as laptops.
Are you saying the backend is working for configuring the OS to be hardened against all sorts of malicious software, but the OS isn't configured/shipped that way?
I'm saying that the OS provides all of the features that you're requesting, but they're generally configured in a permissive way because users favour being able to run their legacy code over security.
Because regardless of ACLs, any .exe that I run can wipe most or all of the important files on my hard disk
Only if the files are writeable / deletable for the combination of application and user (the two keys in Windows ACLs). You can configure a default policy of no access for all apps other than whitelisted ones, and Windows 10 S does this, but then you won't be able to download a random app and have it able to access arbitrary files. Oh, and on vaguely recent Windows installs, the system files are not modifiable by normal users, so they can't wipe most of the files that are important to the system, only files that are important to the user (who explicitly or implicitly granted the app the right to do so).
This is not granular permissions
No, this is not granular permissions configured with the policy that you request. Don't conflate policy and mechanism. The mechanism is there.