Andrew Orlowski of The Register is basically a professional dickhead. His main goal seems to be to be as obnoxious and ignorant as possible presumably with the goal of trolling the readership. He's pretty much the reason I stopped reading the Register because of the constant streem of utter bullshit from that guy.
Surely you jest. I get to listen to how the metric system is so logical, so just right, so "we have ten fingers and ten toes, so it is perfect" when you folks who are simply not capable of using a differnt system use your inability to strut like you asre somehow superior.
You know I did hear that. From a man. Made of straw.
Brittle and maladaptive.
Imperial measurements? Sure. I'll raise my 568ml (or is it 473) glass to that.
In fact, if you came to me requesting a part made in grains, I would do it, maybe crack a smile, but not a word of bitching would leave these lips, because I can work in any unit of measurement provided.
You're confusing "can" and "should". I can work in imperial and have done so many times. But it's full of the most inane conversion factors. So, it's basically more of a pain in the arse.
Once again, give me units, and I'll work in them.
Just because you're able to doesn't make the system good. You're probably able to walk to every destination you go to on a regular basis. Sure it might take days but you could do it. But I suspect you choose to drive a car where you can ond only walk when you must.
Do not disrepect fractions - they are the very base of your unit of measure.
Right so your argument is to simply ignore what I wrote. Good-o.
That's nice. I have metric, Standard, and a few Whitworth even. The last was used on some British motorcycles. Not very adaptable are ya?
You can't have it both ways. What do you think I needed that #7 drill for if not working in imperial. That by your rather silly definition makes me adaptable.
But I'n not fitting your narrative, am I?
Oh god you're the kind of nutjob who uses the word "narrative" when you're not talking about a word of fiction. No wonder this is so painful.
I'm supposed to be the stupid 'Murrican,
You seem to be doing your level best to appear so.
and save the brain cells for more important things, not simple mindless things.
And that's why I prefer the metric system. No need to remember or dig out the conversion factor between cubic feet and gallons. Or BTUs per hour, horsepower and foot-pound-force per second. Or what a #7 drill is in 1/32s of an inch and/or what that is in thou.
understand that the metric system is just as arbitrary as anything else.
Then you understand wrong and don't know either the metric or imperial systems as well as you claim.
Metric has fewer arbitrary choices. You have the meter, second and kilogram. From that you get all lengths, areas, volumes, force, energy and power. That's a grand total of 3 arbitrary choices so far. Everything else is straightforward multiples which I'll discount even though there's a rather less rich variety of multiples than in imperial (that is an understatement).
Imperial. Well it has the second (of course). And the inch based lengths. Two so far. But apparently those aren't sufficient and for sizes there's also the related drill bit and wire guage size which gives us 4 choices. Area's fine (even if acres are based on some rather perverse multiples). Volumes not so much. Cubic inches, sure. But then there's the unrelated floz based units. And we're on to 5 arbitrary choices so far.
So on to mass. Well, we've got lbs. Fine. Force (lbf) is done via the Earth's grvity. Another arbitrary constant added in. That's 6. That gives us the rather natural unit of energy ft-lbf which is passable. And that gives power at er 550 ft-lbf/s. Except there's two more completely arbitrary ones, calories and BTUs. Because water is important and why stick to Farenheit anyway. That's now 8 arbitrary choices.
So no, you're wrong. This is not a matter of opinion. There are demonstrably more arbitrary choices in imperial as opposed to metric.
Huh? No one claimed ever that the overall scale of the metric system isn't arbitrary.
The point is there's only a single scale up to integer powers of 10. There's no sillyness like having to convert gallons to cubic feet.
And BTUs! We've abandoned them so you should probably rename them to ATUs.
Oh and tools don't get me started with tools. So er ok measure in thou except when you don't and it's multiples of 1/32 of an inch except when neither is good enough and you need a #7 bit because what the fuck? I went for metric. It's a nice simple 5.1mm which sits between 5.0mm and 5.2mm in the online store.
If you want to play a stupid game of "mobving the goalposts" then piss off.
Mere speech can be legitimately threatening. You claimed otherwise. I provided proof that was not the case. If you want to make a different point, then do so. But we now both know your original point was a heap of shite.
Being a permanent employee is nothing like tenure.
Thankyou captain obvious. I didn't say that. I said that 5 year contracts are not a thing. They can't simply fire you when the contract's over and hire someone else for the same position. Well, not legally anyway.
That's a flat out fabrication. The guy is currently on the board of a bank, and adviser to two governments. After losing his job at the IMF he also went on the lecture circuit and then joined a (now bankrupt) hedge fund which became " Leyne, Strauss-Kahn and Partners".
That is not by any stretch of the imagination a "destroyed career".
WTF the most popular news show loves Trump. I would say they can't get enough of him though strictly speaking that's not true. That time he phoned up after rambling at the hosts for half an hour he pretty much did get kicked off.
But seriously you're delusional, since you seem to believe fox news somehow isn't part of the media.
Only sort of. That's a conceit by the institutions but it has no basis in law. If you've been employed that long as far as the law is concerned you are a permanent employee and due all the rights of any other permanent employee no matter what the contract claims to say.
That said academic institutions have been playing fast and loose with employment law for a long time. They are lucky that most academics have better things to do than slog through employment tribunals.
Are you seriously arguing that making a "finger gun" at someone and going "bang" is inciting violence? Really?
If a mobster makes a finger fun at you and says bang then if you're not in fear of your life then you have shit for brains. So yeah in the actual real world context matters. Sometimes that gesture can be a very meaningful threat from someone with the means to deliver.
It just means you were an asshat with user data for years and it's coming back to bite. . Users deserve to have their data treated with a modicum of respect and always did regardless of the law.
70% of the budget will be spent on GDPR compliance.
No it won't. It's pretty easy to be compliant. Basically ask yourself:
Are you being an asshat with your users' data?
If the answer is "hell no" you're in the clear. If it's "yes but" then you are not compliant.
The essence is actually easy. Don't keep stuff you don't need to keep. And delete stuff when users tell you to delete it. Everything else follows from that easily (e.g. requests for data). 99.9% of the complaints are from people who can't be arsed to actually treat the data with the respect it deserves or squirrels who don't want to give any of it up in case they can "monetize" it.
The problem is that your music naturally sounds like reproducible, sterile, "Millenial Whoop" and familiarity/brainwashing driven, forgettable and disposable sound bytes - not memorable music.
Old codgers have been saying that about every genreation of music, including the one you think is good.
If you start waving your cane when you say it it's much more convincing.
I find it amusing that programmers, of all people, the very people who are supposed to understand how tools make a difference, argue that they don't. The people who are supposed to ever build better and better tools, insist that whatever tools they made a learning investment in, argue that they don't need to be improved any further.
It's even better. Programming is at its core automation. It seems a startling number of programmers are absolutely dead set against automation though when it comes to the actual thing they do day to day (code).
Its design is overly complex, its performance when you really use OO is problematic, the access rights are a mess,
Sure, bt it's still a much better choice than C.
You can basically only use it as an example how to not design a language. IMO C++ should definitely not be used by anyone.
Yes, well your opinions are silly becase it seems you'd rather micro-manage your computer than automate the task of managing it. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
C++ doesn't have a flagship project that is currently one of the most important and foundational projects of the software world like C does (Linux kernel)
All that C code is compiled with GCC which is now written in C++. Sometimes it's compiled with LLVM which the clang front end and the back ends are in C++.
I'm always amazed at the stupidity of socialists and the general population.
This is one of the most droolingly stupid posts on this thread. How on earth you can you believe that the loan based system with massive protection only for companies is "socalist"?
Yep I mean it's well known that if you loan to people they might not pay it back so you have to accept the risk. Oh wait no, they lobbied big daddy government to protect them so they never had any risk!
I mean it's too much to expect peple to fucking take respnsibility for risks.
Wait you are talking about the loan companies, right?
Why, then, should we be looking to forgive them for making bad choices?
Maybe we think that punishing people in perpetuity for a poor decision (which most variations of are far less harmful) made when they were 18 and had no real means with which to evaluate the various choices is not civilised especially as it's being done to line the pockets of some very greedy people.
Are those really the only two possibilities, totalitarian censorship or horrifying trollscape?
It seems that some people will only be satisfied with "free speech" when every internet forum is nothing buy anonymous trolls barking racial slurs at eah other 24/7.
Myself, I don't think "hate speech" should be banned. When one bans something like that one doesn't actually make it go away, all one does is drive it underground.
I hear this argument a lot, I don't buy it (assuming we're not talking about the government banning it). Giving something a platform also gives it legitimacy.
The correct and only workable solution is to confront it and destroy it on equal footing.
You cannot rationally rebut a position which is based on irrationality. The kind of people who believe there is a cabal of Jewish bankers running the world acting t odestroy their civilisation are not going to be swayed by any facts, any evidence or anything remotely sane.
If the posters of such speech truly have no real value, they will be driven out.
That's irrelevant. Rust isn't going to replace C. It's converting C++ devs not C devs.
Yes very likely. I think at this point nothing will shift the C diehards except for retirement.
Since C++ has all the same faults of C while adding a few more, those same devs will move to Rust.
That's only technically correct (isn't that the best kind?). In practice C++ mitigates a lot of the faults of C (though technically doesn't remove them).
but C++ is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Eventually perhaps? Obviously there's a lot of momentum in C++ right now, and it won't fade to obscurity any faster then C. Rust can certainly make things possible/practical that aren't in C++. Whether that's compelling enough remains to be seen, but it's certainly an interesting direction for native code.
Rust's still behind C++ in some important places, like nontype parametrics.
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Employees are our most valuable asset? I'm pretty sure it's actually still money.
Then stationary.
Andrew Orlowski of The Register is basically a professional dickhead. His main goal seems to be to be as obnoxious and ignorant as possible presumably with the goal of trolling the readership. He's pretty much the reason I stopped reading the Register because of the constant streem of utter bullshit from that guy.
Surely you jest. I get to listen to how the metric system is so logical, so just right, so "we have ten fingers and ten toes, so it is perfect" when you folks who are simply not capable of using a differnt system use your inability to strut like you asre somehow superior.
You know I did hear that. From a man. Made of straw.
Brittle and maladaptive.
Imperial measurements? Sure. I'll raise my 568ml (or is it 473) glass to that.
In fact, if you came to me requesting a part made in grains, I would do it, maybe crack a smile, but not a word of bitching would leave these lips, because I can work in any unit of measurement provided.
You're confusing "can" and "should". I can work in imperial and have done so many times. But it's full of the most inane conversion factors. So, it's basically more of a pain in the arse.
Once again, give me units, and I'll work in them.
Just because you're able to doesn't make the system good. You're probably able to walk to every destination you go to on a regular basis. Sure it might take days but you could do it. But I suspect you choose to drive a car where you can ond only walk when you must.
Do not disrepect fractions - they are the very base of your unit of measure.
Right so your argument is to simply ignore what I wrote. Good-o.
That's nice. I have metric, Standard, and a few Whitworth even. The last was used on some British motorcycles. Not very adaptable are ya?
You can't have it both ways. What do you think I needed that #7 drill for if not working in imperial. That by your rather silly definition makes me adaptable.
But I'n not fitting your narrative, am I?
Oh god you're the kind of nutjob who uses the word "narrative" when you're not talking about a word of fiction. No wonder this is so painful.
I'm supposed to be the stupid 'Murrican,
You seem to be doing your level best to appear so.
and save the brain cells for more important things, not simple mindless things.
And that's why I prefer the metric system. No need to remember or dig out the conversion factor between cubic feet and gallons. Or BTUs per hour, horsepower and foot-pound-force per second. Or what a #7 drill is in 1/32s of an inch and/or what that is in thou.
understand that the metric system is just as arbitrary as anything else.
Then you understand wrong and don't know either the metric or imperial systems as well as you claim.
Metric has fewer arbitrary choices. You have the meter, second and kilogram. From that you get all lengths, areas, volumes, force, energy and power. That's a grand total of 3 arbitrary choices so far. Everything else is straightforward multiples which I'll discount even though there's a rather less rich variety of multiples than in imperial (that is an understatement).
Imperial. Well it has the second (of course). And the inch based lengths. Two so far. But apparently those aren't sufficient and for sizes there's also the related drill bit and wire guage size which gives us 4 choices. Area's fine (even if acres are based on some rather perverse multiples). Volumes not so much. Cubic inches, sure. But then there's the unrelated floz based units. And we're on to 5 arbitrary choices so far.
So on to mass. Well, we've got lbs. Fine. Force (lbf) is done via the Earth's grvity. Another arbitrary constant added in. That's 6. That gives us the rather natural unit of energy ft-lbf which is passable. And that gives power at er 550 ft-lbf/s. Except there's two more completely arbitrary ones, calories and BTUs. Because water is important and why stick to Farenheit anyway. That's now 8 arbitrary choices.
So no, you're wrong. This is not a matter of opinion. There are demonstrably more arbitrary choices in imperial as opposed to metric.
Rather arbitrary one might think
Huh? No one claimed ever that the overall scale of the metric system isn't arbitrary.
The point is there's only a single scale up to integer powers of 10. There's no sillyness like having to convert gallons to cubic feet.
And BTUs! We've abandoned them so you should probably rename them to ATUs.
Oh and tools don't get me started with tools. So er ok measure in thou except when you don't and it's multiples of 1/32 of an inch except when neither is good enough and you need a #7 bit because what the fuck? I went for metric. It's a nice simple 5.1mm which sits between 5.0mm and 5.2mm in the online store.
What would you do?
Steal everything not nailed down and flee to Cuba.
So now Alex Jones is a criminal mobster? Really?
If you want to play a stupid game of "mobving the goalposts" then piss off.
Mere speech can be legitimately threatening. You claimed otherwise. I provided proof that was not the case. If you want to make a different point, then do so. But we now both know your original point was a heap of shite.
Being a permanent employee is nothing like tenure.
Thankyou captain obvious. I didn't say that. I said that 5 year contracts are not a thing. They can't simply fire you when the contract's over and hire someone else for the same position. Well, not legally anyway.
His career was destroyed
That's a flat out fabrication. The guy is currently on the board of a bank, and adviser to two governments. After losing his job at the IMF he also went on the lecture circuit and then joined a (now bankrupt) hedge fund which became " Leyne, Strauss-Kahn and Partners".
That is not by any stretch of the imagination a "destroyed career".
The media lock down?
WTF the most popular news show loves Trump. I would say they can't get enough of him though strictly speaking that's not true. That time he phoned up after rambling at the hosts for half an hour he pretty much did get kicked off.
But seriously you're delusional, since you seem to believe fox news somehow isn't part of the media.
it was replaced by 5-year renewable contracts.
Only sort of. That's a conceit by the institutions but it has no basis in law. If you've been employed that long as far as the law is concerned you are a permanent employee and due all the rights of any other permanent employee no matter what the contract claims to say.
That said academic institutions have been playing fast and loose with employment law for a long time. They are lucky that most academics have better things to do than slog through employment tribunals.
Britain is falling behind on Go-playing technology.
DeepMind is/was a British company and is still based in London, you muppet.
My god you have no idea how reality works, do you.
Try yelling racial slurs as you wander around the store and see how long it takes for you to get kicked out.
Or wander around yelling how your want to legalize paedophilia. I bet that will get you booted even faster.
Are you seriously arguing that making a "finger gun" at someone and going "bang" is inciting violence? Really?
If a mobster makes a finger fun at you and says bang then if you're not in fear of your life then you have shit for brains. So yeah in the actual real world context matters. Sometimes that gesture can be a very meaningful threat from someone with the means to deliver.
Having a sloppy code base falls under "yes but".
It just means you were an asshat with user data for years and it's coming back to bite. . Users deserve to have their data treated with a modicum of respect and always did regardless of the law.
70% of the budget will be spent on GDPR compliance.
No it won't. It's pretty easy to be compliant. Basically ask yourself:
Are you being an asshat with your users' data?
If the answer is "hell no" you're in the clear. If it's "yes but" then you are not compliant.
The essence is actually easy. Don't keep stuff you don't need to keep. And delete stuff when users tell you to delete it. Everything else follows from that easily (e.g. requests for data). 99.9% of the complaints are from people who can't be arsed to actually treat the data with the respect it deserves or squirrels who don't want to give any of it up in case they can "monetize" it.
The problem is that your music naturally sounds like reproducible, sterile, "Millenial Whoop" and familiarity/brainwashing driven, forgettable and disposable sound bytes - not memorable music.
Old codgers have been saying that about every genreation of music, including the one you think is good.
If you start waving your cane when you say it it's much more convincing.
I find it amusing that programmers, of all people, the very people who are supposed to understand how tools make a difference, argue that they don't. The people who are supposed to ever build better and better tools, insist that whatever tools they made a learning investment in, argue that they don't need to be improved any further.
It's even better. Programming is at its core automation. It seems a startling number of programmers are absolutely dead set against automation though when it comes to the actual thing they do day to day (code).
I don't get it.
C++ is also a much worse language than C
that's an opinion and a wrong one at that.
Its design is overly complex, its performance when you really use OO is problematic, the access rights are a mess,
Sure, bt it's still a much better choice than C.
You can basically only use it as an example how to not design a language. IMO C++ should definitely not be used by anyone.
Yes, well your opinions are silly becase it seems you'd rather micro-manage your computer than automate the task of managing it. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
C++ doesn't have a flagship project that is currently one of the most important and foundational projects of the software world like C does (Linux kernel)
All that C code is compiled with GCC which is now written in C++. Sometimes it's compiled with LLVM which the clang front end and the back ends are in C++.
I'm always amazed at the stupidity of socialists and the general population.
This is one of the most droolingly stupid posts on this thread. How on earth you can you believe that the loan based system with massive protection only for companies is "socalist"?
Yep I mean it's well known that if you loan to people they might not pay it back so you have to accept the risk. Oh wait no, they lobbied big daddy government to protect them so they never had any risk!
I mean it's too much to expect peple to fucking take respnsibility for risks.
Wait you are talking about the loan companies, right?
Why, then, should we be looking to forgive them for making bad choices?
Maybe we think that punishing people in perpetuity for a poor decision (which most variations of are far less harmful) made when they were 18 and had no real means with which to evaluate the various choices is not civilised especially as it's being done to line the pockets of some very greedy people.
Are those really the only two possibilities, totalitarian censorship or horrifying trollscape?
It seems that some people will only be satisfied with "free speech" when every internet forum is nothing buy anonymous trolls barking racial slurs at eah other 24/7.
Myself, I don't think "hate speech" should be banned. When one bans something like that one doesn't actually make it go away, all one does is drive it underground.
I hear this argument a lot, I don't buy it (assuming we're not talking about the government banning it). Giving something a platform also gives it legitimacy.
The correct and only workable solution is to confront it and destroy it on equal footing.
You cannot rationally rebut a position which is based on irrationality. The kind of people who believe there is a cabal of Jewish bankers running the world acting t odestroy their civilisation are not going to be swayed by any facts, any evidence or anything remotely sane.
If the posters of such speech truly have no real value, they will be driven out.
That's not how humans work.
Oops! Yes. My apologies.
That's irrelevant. Rust isn't going to replace C. It's converting C++ devs not C devs.
Yes very likely. I think at this point nothing will shift the C diehards except for retirement.
Since C++ has all the same faults of C while adding a few more, those same devs will move to Rust.
That's only technically correct (isn't that the best kind?). In practice C++ mitigates a lot of the faults of C (though technically doesn't remove them).
but C++ is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Eventually perhaps? Obviously there's a lot of momentum in C++ right now, and it won't fade to obscurity any faster then C. Rust can certainly make things possible/practical that aren't in C++. Whether that's compelling enough remains to be seen, but it's certainly an interesting direction for native code.
Rust's still behind C++ in some important places, like nontype parametrics.
I think you forgot to post as AC.