It's also vital for scientists to actually publish papers that disprove their own theories. In these cases, the "negative" is just as important as the "positive."
That doesn't happen directly all that much. It's more common for someone to publish a competing theory (which only disproves the old oe by inference), then the old one slowly falls into obscurity and effectively vanishes.
India's total installed capacity is 340GW. Even with solar's lower capacity factor than most other things, this is still a very substantial amunt extra available.
Now, fair enough, if you don't have a lightbulb and a fridge that sounds jolly nice, but it isn't exactly energy nirvana is it?
The poverty line in India is about 50 cents per day. You decide if that would be trasformational.
Granted, his last works don't exactly give me much confidence, but those movies they made instead, let's just cut the crap and agree that they were bad.
No, I'm not going to agree by reason of I disagree. Ep 7 was a complete retread of Ep 4, but it was a stylishly done retread. It certainly wasn't perfect: if didn't need another even bigger death star, but it was pretty fun and I enjoyed it.
Ep 1 however was an utter heap of crap. Really boring annoying crap with incredibly annoying characters, a boring story and a woeful script.
The last one especially was cringe-worthy.
Less so than Ep's 1 to 3. I give you "I don't like sand..."
but the scene is ruined within minutes(!) as Rose prevents a main character from doing it again, even though the kamikaze was the single most helpful act in the film
Yeah that was stupid. In fact I disliked Rose entirely. Wouldn't have it been so much better if Rose was a mole? The it wouldn't need the random "we can track ships through hyperspace but only with a weirdly specific rule" and the massive compartmentalisation of information would have fitted better.
Plot woes also arise because X-wings are faster-than-light capable
Yeah but don't forget the rule "you can get away with anything if it looks cool enough". It was seriously cool.
If the price of paying for a commercial license is cheaper than paying lawyers
It doesn't work like that. The company lawyers always want to read the license, no matter how cheap or expensive the software. It's easiest by far wiht F/OSS with standard licenses because the lawyers (if they're any good) just go "yep I know this, accept".
They destroyed their original advantage of powerful extensions
No they haven't. They did a necessary change in architecture which killed off anything using the old API. They've been working hard to make the new, more secure and (importantly) concurrent system up to scratch.
And they've more or less succeeded. Even pretty intrusive extensions like NoScript work just fine now. Even better is that extensions have a good chance of working on firefox mobile as well as desktop so I get noscript on my phone as well.
That's missing the point abut as badly as it's possible to miss.
Sure so America has done some pretty bad stuff, but surely that doesn't mean you want people to do it back to you in turn. Even if you argue turnabout is fair play, it's also entirely fair and wise to protect against it.
America is not and never has been a "Christian nation".
The constitution is the starting point to define the body of laws. It doesn't define the culture of the country. In practice, America (which explicily disallows the government from favuring a religion) is far more of a Christian nation than the UK (which has a state religion and that religion has some voting power in the Lords).
There's the legal aspect and then there's how people act. In the US, a lot of politicians fall over themselves to display their religious credentials, especially if they're on the whackjob fringe. In the UK for example, politicians on the whackjob fringe coughBlaircough keep it very, vey quiet.
Then there's the "one nation under god" pledge of allegiance. Frankly, I barely had that much religion at the C of E school I went to up until 11 (that is hyperbole by the way).
Anyway as a some-time resident of a few years, America seemed much much more Christian in practice than my homeland no matter what the constitution says.
On a Sunday the church car parks were always full. In the UK there's a serious problem with declining attendance which means that there's a real lack of funds to perform upkeep on important historic architecture.
But I digress. Even Donald Trump (who if nothing else, we can all agree is not a conventional politician) felt the need to advertise his Christian credentials during his campaign.
America might not be a Christian nation from a legal point of view, but from just about every other point of view it looks, feels and behaves like one.
Whereas some professional sports (cricket, tennis, fotball) have adopted ball tracking for some refereeing tasks. The rules are straightforward (does the ball cross the line) the physics of ball flight is complex but easy enough to model especially with high speed tracking which is also very much doable with specialised cameras.
Sadly the "don't have a TV" thing is kind of dated. I don't have a TV in the traditional sense...
I do yoga oh shit!
I do eat meat and I mostly watch DVDs which I buy second hand since there's a great second hand shop where I live, a bit of youtube and a bit of paid streaming service TV. I don't have a "TV" because the latop+screen does more than well enough.
Well it won't be for much longer. Sure it's GNU/Linux now, by next year it'll be SystemD/Linux and the year after SystemD/SystemD. After that all the major tools (vi, grep, libreoffice, you know everything) will gain systemd inegration and by integration I mean they'll be integrated all the way into systemd and cease to exist as separate entities.
There are no plans to ever integrate pulseaudio though since it's known to be too full of bugs.
I'm kind of at a loss to know what you think you even mean by "SJW" any more.
I mean it used to be shorthand for "I hate it when you correctly point out I'm sexist", and a family of things related around that. Kind of baffling how a company intent on eroding workers rights and with a rather bad reputation for sexism can be "SJW".
When men were hunting a mammoth, women collected tubers with a kid in tow.
And yet, you still talk about "pissy little articles".
Yes. The article isn't simply a bland list of facts, it has an opinion. A pissy lttle one, but an opiion nonetheless.
No, but the discussion of the claims hasn't a lot to do with Ada either,
Claims about a person's life achievements not having much to do with them? What?
The contributions themselves we understand quite well.
Apparently not.
Babbage was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Indeed he was! Something he achieved at age 37, whereas Lovelace died age 36. And tell me, what was Babbage before that: a gentleman scientist.
And she was enabled to be that by...guess what, the other circumstances of her life.
Just like everyone else. Babbage was funded by his father. He was enabled by the circumstances of his life.
And yet with Babbage people talk about the analytical engine, but that article about Lovelave first talks about motherhood and lovers. they were both massively enabled by the circumstances of their lives, yet no one mentions that Babbage was a father. Massive double standards.
Ada was a socialite, not a "scientific luminary". The debate is whether or not she's a scientific luminary. So why are these mentions surprising to you?
They're not surprising because double standards with respect to men and women do not surprise me in the slightest. They are however utterly irrelevant to whether or not the claims of her contributios are true.
math was more or less a privileged hobby.
Ah well that clinches it! She couldn't be a "gentleman scientist" (like um Babbage for example) because she wasn't a gentleman.
In the pissy little Salon article from 1999, sure. The internet wasn't as good then and it was much harder to search for stuff. The thing is, her notes actually exist and you an go and look at them yourself and see the program with your eyes.
And even people claiming that she *did* write that one
She did write one. You can go and read this for yourself.
Finally, the article is clearly biased.
So there's an introduction and then follows with:
Reading Ada's letters, as published in Toole's book, we're treated to a very different Ada. This one is a mother...
In articles about male scientific luminaries, they basically never lead with descriptions of fatherhood and family life. But when it's about a femal one, that's the first thing to come up. That makes the article seem very very biased from the otuset. It then goes on about affairs and whatnot. Who the fuck cares?
C++ seems to have lost focus and the later standards seem somewhat strange like they're adding new features that aren't needed except to pad out the new standard.
Like what? I mea technically no feature is "needed" in that the language is turing complete and pretty fuctional circa 1998, but I'd say the latest standards have added a fair bit good. C++14 and 17 have both been fairly minor additions, but have given some nice refinements to the rules and some much needed additions to the library.
A shame concepts never made it in to 17 (roll on 2a!). They've been on the cards since the early 90s.
Now it's not so great for a low level systems language
Yes it is. The new features haven't modified anything in that regard.
unless you use a lot of self discipline to avoid features,
Like what? You could argue exceptions though unless you're writing hard realtime code, or some parts of kernel code I'd disagree.
and it's completely bloated for big applications if you use the fashionable styles,
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It's also vital for scientists to actually publish papers that disprove their own theories. In these cases, the "negative" is just as important as the "positive."
That doesn't happen directly all that much. It's more common for someone to publish a competing theory (which only disproves the old oe by inference), then the old one slowly falls into obscurity and effectively vanishes.
Let's do the numbers
India's total installed capacity is 340GW. Even with solar's lower capacity factor than most other things, this is still a very substantial amunt extra available.
Now, fair enough, if you don't have a lightbulb and a fridge that sounds jolly nice, but it isn't exactly energy nirvana is it?
The poverty line in India is about 50 cents per day. You decide if that would be trasformational.
But make it easy again to *completely switch off Javascript*. No "NoScript" plugin with cheap cop-outs.
What's wrong with NoScript? You can set it to block everything always.
Granted, his last works don't exactly give me much confidence, but those movies they made instead, let's just cut the crap and agree that they were bad.
No, I'm not going to agree by reason of I disagree. Ep 7 was a complete retread of Ep 4, but it was a stylishly done retread. It certainly wasn't perfect: if didn't need another even bigger death star, but it was pretty fun and I enjoyed it.
Ep 1 however was an utter heap of crap. Really boring annoying crap with incredibly annoying characters, a boring story and a woeful script.
The last one especially was cringe-worthy.
Less so than Ep's 1 to 3. I give you "I don't like sand..."
Scooby Doo & Shaggy don't count because not backed by supernatural powers.
Depends, does being so high they can actually fly all the way to orbit count as a superpower?
but the scene is ruined within minutes(!) as Rose prevents a main character from doing it again, even though the kamikaze was the single most helpful act in the film
Yeah that was stupid. In fact I disliked Rose entirely. Wouldn't have it been so much better if Rose was a mole? The it wouldn't need the random "we can track ships through hyperspace but only with a weirdly specific rule" and the massive compartmentalisation of information would have fitted better.
Plot woes also arise because X-wings are faster-than-light capable
Yeah but don't forget the rule "you can get away with anything if it looks cool enough". It was seriously cool.
If the price of paying for a commercial license is cheaper than paying lawyers
It doesn't work like that. The company lawyers always want to read the license, no matter how cheap or expensive the software. It's easiest by far wiht F/OSS with standard licenses because the lawyers (if they're any good) just go "yep I know this, accept".
They destroyed their original advantage of powerful extensions
No they haven't. They did a necessary change in architecture which killed off anything using the old API. They've been working hard to make the new, more secure and (importantly) concurrent system up to scratch.
And they've more or less succeeded. Even pretty intrusive extensions like NoScript work just fine now. Even better is that extensions have a good chance of working on firefox mobile as well as desktop so I get noscript on my phone as well.
What has the US ever done? ...
That's missing the point abut as badly as it's possible to miss.
Sure so America has done some pretty bad stuff, but surely that doesn't mean you want people to do it back to you in turn. Even if you argue turnabout is fair play, it's also entirely fair and wise to protect against it.
America is not and never has been a "Christian nation".
The constitution is the starting point to define the body of laws. It doesn't define the culture of the country. In practice, America (which explicily disallows the government from favuring a religion) is far more of a Christian nation than the UK (which has a state religion and that religion has some voting power in the Lords).
There's the legal aspect and then there's how people act. In the US, a lot of politicians fall over themselves to display their religious credentials, especially if they're on the whackjob fringe. In the UK for example, politicians on the whackjob fringe coughBlaircough keep it very, vey quiet.
Then there's the "one nation under god" pledge of allegiance. Frankly, I barely had that much religion at the C of E school I went to up until 11 (that is hyperbole by the way).
Anyway as a some-time resident of a few years, America seemed much much more Christian in practice than my homeland no matter what the constitution says.
On a Sunday the church car parks were always full. In the UK there's a serious problem with declining attendance which means that there's a real lack of funds to perform upkeep on important historic architecture.
But I digress. Even Donald Trump (who if nothing else, we can all agree is not a conventional politician) felt the need to advertise his Christian credentials during his campaign.
America might not be a Christian nation from a legal point of view, but from just about every other point of view it looks, feels and behaves like one.
Who cares?
Lots of people apparently.
Sports are meaningless.
So's everything else, ultimately.
But they should replace cops, judges and politicians with AI as soon as it's possible.
They're trying an it's gone about as well as could be predicted:
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/...
Whereas some professional sports (cricket, tennis, fotball) have adopted ball tracking for some refereeing tasks. The rules are straightforward (does the ball cross the line) the physics of ball flight is complex but easy enough to model especially with high speed tracking which is also very much doable with specialised cameras.
my good the horror: a company has to make itself attractive to the people it wants working there.
You don't own someone because you give them a paycheck.
That made me chuckle.
Sadly the "don't have a TV" thing is kind of dated. I don't have a TV in the traditional sense...
I do yoga oh shit!
I do eat meat and I mostly watch DVDs which I buy second hand since there's a great second hand shop where I live, a bit of youtube and a bit of paid streaming service TV. I don't have a "TV" because the latop+screen does more than well enough.
Don't worry, some of us live in the real world
Some of indeed. I wouldn't count you among their number though.
Oh yeah, right.
Well it won't be for much longer. Sure it's GNU/Linux now, by next year it'll be SystemD/Linux and the year after SystemD/SystemD. After that all the major tools (vi, grep, libreoffice, you know everything) will gain systemd inegration and by integration I mean they'll be integrated all the way into systemd and cease to exist as separate entities.
There are no plans to ever integrate pulseaudio though since it's known to be too full of bugs.
This inevitable increase in use of alternative energy is never taken into account by climate models that assume an ever increasing generation of CO2.
No that's yoyu making shit up to fit your agenda.
Look at the future extrapolation bit:
https://xkcd.com/1732/
yes, it is sourced.
but sadly that is not how the world works any longer, no one wants real data,
At least you're honest!
It's Mashiki: he angrily invents stuff them posts about it.
your claim sounds a bit fishy to me.
This is mindless SJWism [ ... ] Its even f'ing up hollywood
Huh so SJW are responsible for the continual churn of mediocre reboots, remakes and cookie cutter superhero movies?
Is there ANYTHING SJW won't stoop to???? :clutches pearls:
. First, menial tasks: recent Uber data (an extremely SJW company)
I'm kind of at a loss to know what you think you even mean by "SJW" any more.
I mean it used to be shorthand for "I hate it when you correctly point out I'm sexist", and a family of things related around that. Kind of baffling how a company intent on eroding workers rights and with a rather bad reputation for sexism can be "SJW".
When men were hunting a mammoth, women collected tubers with a kid in tow.
Ah yes we hunted the mammoth.
lol
Obviously the field attracts people who tend to be very analytical and rational.
No, it clearly attracts people who believe thye're super-rational.
And yet, you still talk about "pissy little articles".
Yes. The article isn't simply a bland list of facts, it has an opinion. A pissy lttle one, but an opiion nonetheless.
No, but the discussion of the claims hasn't a lot to do with Ada either,
Claims about a person's life achievements not having much to do with them? What?
The contributions themselves we understand quite well.
Apparently not.
Babbage was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Indeed he was! Something he achieved at age 37, whereas Lovelace died age 36. And tell me, what was Babbage before that: a gentleman scientist.
And she was enabled to be that by...guess what, the other circumstances of her life.
Just like everyone else. Babbage was funded by his father. He was enabled by the circumstances of his life.
And yet with Babbage people talk about the analytical engine, but that article about Lovelave first talks about motherhood and lovers. they were both massively enabled by the circumstances of their lives, yet no one mentions that Babbage was a father. Massive double standards.
Which is citing other authors and sources.
Yeah yeah so does everyone else.
Ada was a socialite, not a "scientific luminary". The debate is whether or not she's a scientific luminary. So why are these mentions surprising to you?
They're not surprising because double standards with respect to men and women do not surprise me in the slightest. They are however utterly irrelevant to whether or not the claims of her contributios are true.
math was more or less a privileged hobby.
Ah well that clinches it! She couldn't be a "gentleman scientist" (like um Babbage for example) because she wasn't a gentleman.
Which appears to be rather disputed.
In the pissy little Salon article from 1999, sure. The internet wasn't as good then and it was much harder to search for stuff. The thing is, her notes actually exist and you an go and look at them yourself and see the program with your eyes.
And even people claiming that she *did* write that one
She did write one. You can go and read this for yourself.
Finally, the article is clearly biased.
So there's an introduction and then follows with:
In articles about male scientific luminaries, they basically never lead with descriptions of fatherhood and family life. But when it's about a femal one, that's the first thing to come up. That makes the article seem very very biased from the otuset. It then goes on about affairs and whatnot. Who the fuck cares?
Show me the code!
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbag...
C++ seems to have lost focus and the later standards seem somewhat strange like they're adding new features that aren't needed except to pad out the new standard.
Like what? I mea technically no feature is "needed" in that the language is turing complete and pretty fuctional circa 1998, but I'd say the latest standards have added a fair bit good. C++14 and 17 have both been fairly minor additions, but have given some nice refinements to the rules and some much needed additions to the library.
A shame concepts never made it in to 17 (roll on 2a!). They've been on the cards since the early 90s.
Now it's not so great for a low level systems language
Yes it is. The new features haven't modified anything in that regard.
unless you use a lot of self discipline to avoid features,
Like what? You could argue exceptions though unless you're writing hard realtime code, or some parts of kernel code I'd disagree.
and it's completely bloated for big applications if you use the fashionable styles,
No it isn't. There's no evidence for this.