That would be a god send if it was standardized across platforms: Win, Linux, OSX. Gee, how did *nix solve this problem?:-)
Not? Compile something on one version of Linux, and pray it works on another. Sending a binary to a customer is just about plain impossible, it will never work on their system.
I'm sure you guys all love the open source thing, and so do I. But my customers aren't that technical; they don't want to hear about compiler instructions, they want to get a binary they can use without worrying about anything... Copying it to the right location on the machine is about the toughest I can ask of them.
>control over C++ ABI
Agreed. Except the retarded C++ committee doesn't think this is important. Every C++ compiler can call C code generated by ANY compiler but you MUST only call a.lib compiled with the SAME compiler. It is utterly stupid that in 2017 there is STILL no support for an Application Binary Interface.
Amen. As well as the stupid insistence that undefined behaviour is just fine and dandy (I understand it can only be avoided at great cost in some situations, but in others it can be trivially removed from the standard. Forget about that though...), as well as thinking that apparently 'switch' could only ever be used for things that could theoretically be implemented through jump tables... It's 2017, why can't I switch on strings or constexpr classes, at least?
I'd also ask for more money if my boss insisted on spaces. Like I have nothing better to do all day long than correcting code that starts in columns that are not multiples of 4...
That's not 'insightful', that's autistic. The word "centralized" implies a single location for the data of all people, under the control of a single,powerful entity. His own data, on his own computer, is separate from the data of all the other people, and is therefore not centralized.
Anyway, what did mr. Sunde do himself to keep the internet decentralized? Did he, perhaps, build a protocol to have decentralized distribution of.torrent files (which would have been easy enough)? Nope, he set up a single, centralized webserver where he could gain ad revenue. From stealing other people's work, no less.
Do you seriously have 45,000 open issues? I'd say your choice of bug tracker is the least of your problems... How on Earth did you get into a situation that bad? Do you expect to ever get out of it?
Anyway, my two cents: we switched from Bugzilla to Jira two years ago. Bugzilla was ugly and painful, but it worked. Jira is beautiful, but I can never find anything. To be honest, I preferred Bugzilla.
Obviously true, since people would accept this so-called 'UBI' as a windfall, rather than a permanent solution. You get some bonus money - great! But next year you still need to eat, so you keep your job / shop / taxi business going.
This is hardly evidence of the claimed benefits of UBI. Moreover, since it is paid for by oil income (i.e. a limited, finite resource), it isn't sustainable either.
I gotta ask. The travel ban from _some_ muslim countries was called racist in no uncertain terms by a great many people. What is the travel ban from _all_ European countries going to be called by those same people?
Given the number of planes blown up by Europeans (zero, as far as I know), are Europeans really considered to be a greater risk than muslims? Or is it merely the immigrant muslim population of Europe that presents a risk here?
If the last, why are European politicians constantly denying there is any risk from immigrants?
'Dune' did precisely nothing to show that. It asumed that bad things had happened already, that a war had been fought long ago, and that the outcome was a veto on AIs. When the story begins the status quo is that AIs are outlawed, but we are never shown why, or what would happen if they existed. The lack of AIs isn't even central to the plot; it is just a convenient excuse to combine starships with people who live in caves and fight with swords in one story.
Maybe he should play Mass Effect instead. Although I'm still uncertain if the correct answer to "how do we stop AIs from wiping out organic life" should really be "have AIs wipe out organic life periodically"...
It's the bosses' time. If he wants to waste it with interrupting me all day long he can, but he shouldn't act too surprised if I leave for a more pleasant environment.
We'll be moving to open plan in a month. Not looking forward to it, but apparently that only shows I'm being negative so who knows.
You are right, but all of those flaws we have to live with. There is no benevolent intergalactic government we can appeal to for good governance of planet Earth. And I do not buy into the notion that a small elite of 'smarter' people is an acceptable, let alone the best solution. Down that road lie the gas chambers.
Besides, we can do a hell of a lot better than we do now. Too many claims in the media go entirely unsupported by any kind of statistics. I'm not asking for perfection; I'm asking for honesty and an honest effort. That should be good enough.
Are you seriously saying opinion should be force fed to poor people because they are too poor to understand facts? That's just... wow.
Any opinion in the media without underlying facts is mere propaganda. That's precisely what I'm arguing against. And since the government collects pretty much all information anyway, why not give it the task of opening its databases and letting people see facts?
That also costs (some) money, but nobody ever said democracy should be free. In fact, some generations had to give their lives for it. Be glad you can keep the whole thing going just by paying a small fee...
This wouldn't be a problem if the media were still fulfilling their role of informing people of the facts, instead of also taking up the role of interpreter of those facts.
So what if you're influenced by something you hear? That's normal: you receive information and act on it. You should, however, have -all- the information and not just the subset deemed supportive of the cause by invisible people, with the rest made up with suggestive phrasing and outright lies. But reporting of actual facts, supported by accurate and relevant numbers, has become a rarity, and finding those numbers is becoming less and less possible, despite the vast possibilities the internet offers for unlocking information.
So it's all down to hollow phrases, and given that total lack of input, people become suggestible. I would suggest, however, that the solution lies in a well-educated population that is aware of the problem, and is given unlimited access to uncensored facts and figures.
Amiga OFS has 488 _user_ bytes per block. The rest is the block header, which can be used to, I don't know, recover blocks even when part of the disk is lost, for example. The actual block size was still 512 bytes like everybody else uses, because that's something the hardware generally supports.
Structural, or one-off? During a busy period or while he would otherwise be staring out the window? For money, or as a hobby? After having been warned not too, or as a first offense? Doing something that will ultimately take business (not just hours) away from the company, or completely unrelated?
At the lower end of the scale, I don't see much difference between an engineer hobbying around a bit on a lazy afternoon and, say, a female employee rushing out to pick up a sick child from daycare unexpectedly. On the other hand, if someone is structurally working on his own stuff, intended to compete with his current employer, and has been told numerous times not to...
How do you know overruns are way more common? Your sample set consists of two sources of samples: personal experience (and you might just be a bad planner), and events reported in the press (and 'project finishes on time, on budget!' usually doesn't get reported).
I'd like to see some numbers before I believe that statement.
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This is only a draft proposal. By the time it gets through the commission it may (and likely, will) read like the exact opposite.
Oh, and "Time and time again" -> give one more example please?
> Multiple versions locally that don't conflict
That would be a god send if it was standardized across platforms: Win, Linux, OSX. Gee, how did *nix solve this problem? :-)
Not? Compile something on one version of Linux, and pray it works on another. Sending a binary to a customer is just about plain impossible, it will never work on their system.
I'm sure you guys all love the open source thing, and so do I. But my customers aren't that technical; they don't want to hear about compiler instructions, they want to get a binary they can use without worrying about anything... Copying it to the right location on the machine is about the toughest I can ask of them.
>control over C++ ABI
Agreed. Except the retarded C++ committee doesn't think this is important. Every C++ compiler can call C code generated by ANY compiler but you MUST only call a .lib compiled with the SAME compiler. It is utterly stupid that in 2017 there is STILL no support for an Application Binary Interface.
Amen. As well as the stupid insistence that undefined behaviour is just fine and dandy (I understand it can only be avoided at great cost in some situations, but in others it can be trivially removed from the standard. Forget about that though...), as well as thinking that apparently 'switch' could only ever be used for things that could theoretically be implemented through jump tables... It's 2017, why can't I switch on strings or constexpr classes, at least?
Is there a list of packages available through Conan somewhere? Or am I misunderstanding the whole concept?
I'd also ask for more money if my boss insisted on spaces. Like I have nothing better to do all day long than correcting code that starts in columns that are not multiples of 4...
Oh, the irony... What would you call such a negative generalisation about people living in the south, I wonder?
That's not 'insightful', that's autistic. The word "centralized" implies a single location for the data of all people, under the control of a single,powerful entity. His own data, on his own computer, is separate from the data of all the other people, and is therefore not centralized.
Anyway, what did mr. Sunde do himself to keep the internet decentralized? Did he, perhaps, build a protocol to have decentralized distribution of .torrent files (which would have been easy enough)? Nope, he set up a single, centralized webserver where he could gain ad revenue. From stealing other people's work, no less.
Something you know (password), and something you own (the bloody phone itself!). So that's two.
Oh, and I'm already terrified about losing my phone, but the more "security codes" it sends to me, the worse it gets...
Do you seriously have 45,000 open issues? I'd say your choice of bug tracker is the least of your problems... How on Earth did you get into a situation that bad? Do you expect to ever get out of it?
Anyway, my two cents: we switched from Bugzilla to Jira two years ago. Bugzilla was ugly and painful, but it worked. Jira is beautiful, but I can never find anything. To be honest, I preferred Bugzilla.
Obviously true, since people would accept this so-called 'UBI' as a windfall, rather than a permanent solution. You get some bonus money - great! But next year you still need to eat, so you keep your job / shop / taxi business going.
This is hardly evidence of the claimed benefits of UBI. Moreover, since it is paid for by oil income (i.e. a limited, finite resource), it isn't sustainable either.
Then why is there a positive correlation between alcoholism and unemployment?
The ban apparently also includes cameras, and I will not (ever) put my camera in my (for all intents and purposes unlocked) hold luggage.
No matter visiting national parks or interesting cities, and no more doing business in that country.
Well, I suppose I could fly into Canada and cross the border by car. Or are laptops also forbidden on those borders?
I gotta ask. The travel ban from _some_ muslim countries was called racist in no uncertain terms by a great many people. What is the travel ban from _all_ European countries going to be called by those same people?
Given the number of planes blown up by Europeans (zero, as far as I know), are Europeans really considered to be a greater risk than muslims? Or is it merely the immigrant muslim population of Europe that presents a risk here?
If the last, why are European politicians constantly denying there is any risk from immigrants?
The Netherlands has those scanners, for one. And American security officials are active on the airport.
'Dune' did precisely nothing to show that. It asumed that bad things had happened already, that a war had been fought long ago, and that the outcome was a veto on AIs. When the story begins the status quo is that AIs are outlawed, but we are never shown why, or what would happen if they existed. The lack of AIs isn't even central to the plot; it is just a convenient excuse to combine starships with people who live in caves and fight with swords in one story.
Maybe he should play Mass Effect instead. Although I'm still uncertain if the correct answer to "how do we stop AIs from wiping out organic life" should really be "have AIs wipe out organic life periodically"...
Even better: have him watch The Terminator...
I have no problem with opinion. I just have a problem with it being represented as 'news', because it isn't.
It's the bosses' time. If he wants to waste it with interrupting me all day long he can, but he shouldn't act too surprised if I leave for a more pleasant environment.
We'll be moving to open plan in a month. Not looking forward to it, but apparently that only shows I'm being negative so who knows.
While you're balancing on your chair wielding a sword?
Then you can interrupt, but if you don't bring your own chair and sword be prepared for defeat.
You are right, but all of those flaws we have to live with. There is no benevolent intergalactic government we can appeal to for good governance of planet Earth. And I do not buy into the notion that a small elite of 'smarter' people is an acceptable, let alone the best solution. Down that road lie the gas chambers.
Besides, we can do a hell of a lot better than we do now. Too many claims in the media go entirely unsupported by any kind of statistics. I'm not asking for perfection; I'm asking for honesty and an honest effort. That should be good enough.
Are you seriously saying opinion should be force fed to poor people because they are too poor to understand facts? That's just... wow.
Any opinion in the media without underlying facts is mere propaganda. That's precisely what I'm arguing against. And since the government collects pretty much all information anyway, why not give it the task of opening its databases and letting people see facts?
That also costs (some) money, but nobody ever said democracy should be free. In fact, some generations had to give their lives for it. Be glad you can keep the whole thing going just by paying a small fee...
Geez, just check when the compiler is running. If it is, I have a few minutes for you. See? This really isn't so hard, is it?
This wouldn't be a problem if the media were still fulfilling their role of informing people of the facts, instead of also taking up the role of interpreter of those facts.
So what if you're influenced by something you hear? That's normal: you receive information and act on it. You should, however, have -all- the information and not just the subset deemed supportive of the cause by invisible people, with the rest made up with suggestive phrasing and outright lies. But reporting of actual facts, supported by accurate and relevant numbers, has become a rarity, and finding those numbers is becoming less and less possible, despite the vast possibilities the internet offers for unlocking information.
So it's all down to hollow phrases, and given that total lack of input, people become suggestible. I would suggest, however, that the solution lies in a well-educated population that is aware of the problem, and is given unlimited access to uncensored facts and figures.
Oh sorry, I thought he meant the other way around... That his format is a container around existing formats.
Amiga OFS has 488 _user_ bytes per block. The rest is the block header, which can be used to, I don't know, recover blocks even when part of the disk is lost, for example. The actual block size was still 512 bytes like everybody else uses, because that's something the hardware generally supports.
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Structural, or one-off? During a busy period or while he would otherwise be staring out the window? For money, or as a hobby? After having been warned not too, or as a first offense? Doing something that will ultimately take business (not just hours) away from the company, or completely unrelated?
At the lower end of the scale, I don't see much difference between an engineer hobbying around a bit on a lazy afternoon and, say, a female employee rushing out to pick up a sick child from daycare unexpectedly. On the other hand, if someone is structurally working on his own stuff, intended to compete with his current employer, and has been told numerous times not to...
How do you know overruns are way more common? Your sample set consists of two sources of samples: personal experience (and you might just be a bad planner), and events reported in the press (and 'project finishes on time, on budget!' usually doesn't get reported).
I'd like to see some numbers before I believe that statement.