Yeah we all know that the climate has changed before. This is not news to anyone. But when people say the temperature has changed before, this is what they mean:
Ah I see you're using the "I don't understand it therefore it's wrong" line of reasoning. I like how you've been modded up for that. Way to go slashdot.
Of course C is more performant. It's not a high-level language. It is intermediate-level at best. That's why C++, for one example, is higherl-level and therefore easier to use but slower.
That's flat out not true. Bad C++ is slower than good C and bad C is slower than good C++. The only thing that makes C faster than C++ is the restrict keyword, which all major compilers support for C++ as an extension.
Idiomatic C++ is often faster than idiomatic C, compare for exampe std::sort to qsort.
A very large amount of a prose novel is tied up in descriptions of visuals, or elements that are redundant to the pictures in the medium (such as the words "said", "shouting", etc.)
In tome like fantasy (I like those) sure. Tell you what, read a Jane Austen novel and count how many words fit your description. If you like anti heroes, I'd recommend Lady Susan.
Naturally I picked a very famous author there. Not all authors get bogged down in lengthy descriptions.
In other words, you can't actually find anything that matches your claim.
and you actually want to change your readers' opinions,
Oh I do, but I don't always consider who I'm replying to as "the reader". Someone like you is basically a lost cause: you've already decided I'm, some left wing nutjob and therefore I must say what your mental model of a left wing nutjob says. The fact that there's no evidence of that will never penetrate your consciousness.
You YOU are not the reader. It's for other people reading who's opinions are not yet cemented so far as to be impervious to reason or evidence that I'm writing for. My making you reveal more and more depths of your ignorance serves very well to undermine your position.
But no, I don't expect your opinion to ever change. I don't think you're physically capable of it.
Children, being children, get bored easily and need stimulation. At home they have iPads to stimulate them... If you don't want them to spend all day dreaming about what they will do when they get home, you have to compete with that.
Ha sounds like my school days! Anyway, something tells me suspicious that the educationware is not stimulating, rather it's slow, boring and buggy.
My only recent experience with US secondary education was that they have shiny, colourful ways of teaching the same awful way they taught 20 years ago. Unfortunately putting a modern veneer on it did very little to help.
The money would be better spent unfucking the way everything is taught. Before that, the iPads vs books debate is a bit like rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic.
No developed country in the world does not register things like land and automobile ownership.
Being very pedantic, in the UK that's only to do with roads. You can own and operate unregistered vehicles on private land. They're also not covered by any of the safety or emissions regulations and can run legally on red (untaxed) fuel.
Airport vehicles are generally in this category, and this even applies to tiny little airfields which have ancient old jeeps with a propane conversion (speaking frome experience).
But yes as soon as people aren't opting in to be around your high velocity metal death machine, you have to register it.
I think the right to drive is honestly not regulated enough. I think retesting should be a thing, and it should be easier to get short driving bans.
We don't register knives because they're not as dangerous.
Plus a huge number of people use knives every day to actually achieve some goal which has nothing to do with knives per-se. For example, cooking requires sharp knives and is a very popular activity. They're also ubiquitous in workshops, with contractors and in fact people who use tools in general.
It started 20 years ago after a fashion and it has continued ever since. The desire did not start 20 years ago, the desire is much, much older. The ability for so many to widely disseminate started 20 years ago.
It has continued.
It's easy to like connecting with people when you have few hobbies and lots of time.
It's also easy to like when you have sufficient hobbies and very little time.
Fast forward to a time in your life when you have lots of hobbies, and little time, and plenty of people in your life.
In all of my hobbies (whether you consider it many or few) I have learned invaluable things from random people I will never meet and never speak to who enjoyed sharing things on the internet. I'm glad I can do the same.
I'm not interested in random people, nor in opinions, nor in new hobbies.
Eh, so your mind is closed. I'm not interested in *most* random people or *most* opinions or *most* new hobbies. Thing is the internet lets me reach the ones I am interested in. I don't much care for another opinion on the state of politics. an opinion on how to convey detail in a pencil drawing is much more of interest to me, as is a serious (even if light hearted) crit about a book I had strong feelings about.
I've got plenty in my own life.
Like fun hobbies from which you can learn from other people.
What I want is more time to enjoy the many hobbies and toys that I already have. There's no value otherwise.
I think most people forget that you post content too. Write a story, a good blog article, take a nice photograph. Wouldn't it be swell if you actually got paid for something that people make popular?
Honestly, no. I have a bunch of stuff: I have a personal website, a reasonable github accout and a blog.
I'm where I am onw on the back of some of the open source software I published. It led to not just my job but most of my career so far. That's great, I make a iving without the hassle of nickel and diming people. It wouldn't be covered by this DRM foolishness anyway, since it's code not "consumable content".
I have other software that's used by some people, for free of course. Most of my feeling about that is "holy shit I made a difference".
And then there's the purely personal stuff I posted that has nothing to d owith my career. Some of it is in use by other people who submit bugfixes. It's amazing. Firstly I can bond with random people from who knows where over shared interests. Secondly, they sometimes contribute bug fixes and feature enhancements. Wow! People help me with a hobby, for free! And I get to indulge in my hobby with other people!! How awesome is that?
And then there's my blog. I write that entirely for myself. I like documenting things I do, and it's entertaining to me to do that online rather than off. I have a few readers and occasionally get comments from people who must have the same shared esoteric interests. That alone is more than worth it. I have read tons of cool stuff for free on the internet, dating back to the geocities era when people just wanted to share for the hell of it and for the first time in human history could do so at scale.
It's not about money it's about passion. Anything, even 0.01c per view, that gets in the way is a detriment. Hell, I PAY for the privilige since I can have my site be advertisement free. I ike being able in my own tiny way to contribute to the shared knowledge of humankind. A tiny contribution from 7 billion people goes a very long way.
In some ways I have a fundamentally optimistic view. I write about stuff that interests me (for free), and that in some small way contributes to the pool which makes other people do so too. It's not a quid pro quo. I don't expect any particular person to contribute anything back. But I know people will in general because there are plenty of people who will produce stuff simply for the joy of sharing it.
So even if the barter were easy, I don't want to engage. I simply want people to share my passions in stuff I think is awesome.
Even then what's being asked here is like asking which power supply will make your computer faster; it makes no sense. You could have the hottest-shit-fast CPU available, and since you're booting it off a cheap USB 2 flash drive and a USB 2 video adapter, the performance will suck. Then you put it side-by-side with the cheapest shittiest CPU you can find, but with the best x16 PCIe graphics card and a top of the line SATA SSD, and it kicks the other systems' ass.
Or possibly the opposite based on the workload. Extreme example: I made a cluster a while ago (you can find the ask slashdot about it in fact!) which wound up being a bunch of diskless machines with no GPU (or rather the minimum integrated GPU which allows booting) and top end processors on PXE boot and NFS root.
Of course the problem was not IO bound and no GU accelereation existed for it.
I get it. You might have written it but you don't feel you meant it now. And facts are after all all about your feelings not the cold hard truth. Oh how you live up to your handle.
Well all zealots, computer, religious, or otherwise, tend to be pretty dumb people to begin with.
Yep.
As for Windows, it being the dominate player in the field the zealots are spread pretty thin
I've met plenty of zealots in my time. Funnily enough probably more a decade or more ago when windows was hugely dominant. Now it's borderline irrelevant in some industry sectors.
That and most windows zealots don't have to preach because to most people windows is a done deal.
It is? You must work in a different industry from me then. Linux is very dominant in the cloud services space, for example.
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Yeah we all know that the climate has changed before. This is not news to anyone. But when people say the temperature has changed before, this is what they mean:
https://xkcd.com/1732/
Ah I see you're using the "I don't understand it therefore it's wrong" line of reasoning. I like how you've been modded up for that. Way to go slashdot.
Because non-relational databases do not have data relations, yet most data you want to use is INHERENTLY relational
But they are not webscale.
Of course C is more performant. It's not a high-level language. It is intermediate-level at best. That's why C++, for one example, is higherl-level and therefore easier to use but slower.
That's flat out not true. Bad C++ is slower than good C and bad C is slower than good C++. The only thing that makes C faster than C++ is the restrict keyword, which all major compilers support for C++ as an extension.
Idiomatic C++ is often faster than idiomatic C, compare for exampe std::sort to qsort.
Well, that's one of the most entertainingly batshit ideas I've heard this week. Thanks!
A very large amount of a prose novel is tied up in descriptions of visuals, or elements that are redundant to the pictures in the medium (such as the words "said", "shouting", etc.)
In tome like fantasy (I like those) sure. Tell you what, read a Jane Austen novel and count how many words fit your description. If you like anti heroes, I'd recommend Lady Susan.
Naturally I picked a very famous author there. Not all authors get bogged down in lengthy descriptions.
Compare V for Vendetta's depth to that of Twilight.
So you read Twilight then?
I'd pay good money for Windows Mobile running on an iPhone, just to piss people off.
I don't like either system AND I'm stingy yet I still agree.
I have seen the rise and fall of [...] smart phones [...] even Linux
Fall of smartphones and Linux, what?
There is a whole planet to explore.
Indeed: it will be very exciting with the cops chasing you to bring you back home and ot school.
Hey kids, if you're reading, the key is to be exactly how adults imagine themelves to be.
IMHO Boredom is an untrained mind.
These are kids, right?
Besides I's day if you're not bored in school, it's a sign of having no mind.
Read your own words.
In other words, you can't actually find anything that matches your claim.
and you actually want to change your readers' opinions,
Oh I do, but I don't always consider who I'm replying to as "the reader". Someone like you is basically a lost cause: you've already decided I'm, some left wing nutjob and therefore I must say what your mental model of a left wing nutjob says. The fact that there's no evidence of that will never penetrate your consciousness.
You YOU are not the reader. It's for other people reading who's opinions are not yet cemented so far as to be impervious to reason or evidence that I'm writing for. My making you reveal more and more depths of your ignorance serves very well to undermine your position.
But no, I don't expect your opinion to ever change. I don't think you're physically capable of it.
Children, being children, get bored easily and need stimulation. At home they have iPads to stimulate them... If you don't want them to spend all day dreaming about what they will do when they get home, you have to compete with that.
Ha sounds like my school days! Anyway, something tells me suspicious that the educationware is not stimulating, rather it's slow, boring and buggy.
My only recent experience with US secondary education was that they have shiny, colourful ways of teaching the same awful way they taught 20 years ago. Unfortunately putting a modern veneer on it did very little to help.
The money would be better spent unfucking the way everything is taught. Before that, the iPads vs books debate is a bit like rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic.
An apt description of pretty much everything I've ever read from you on here.
[citation needed]
Huh it's just like someone trained a Markov chain on a right winger's opinion of what left wingers sound like.
Well, we clearly disagree on a lot of things, but it seems not on this one!
No developed country in the world does not register things like land and automobile ownership.
Being very pedantic, in the UK that's only to do with roads. You can own and operate unregistered vehicles on private land. They're also not covered by any of the safety or emissions regulations and can run legally on red (untaxed) fuel.
Airport vehicles are generally in this category, and this even applies to tiny little airfields which have ancient old jeeps with a propane conversion (speaking frome experience).
But yes as soon as people aren't opting in to be around your high velocity metal death machine, you have to register it.
I think the right to drive is honestly not regulated enough. I think retesting should be a thing, and it should be easier to get short driving bans.
We don't register knives because they're not as dangerous.
Plus a huge number of people use knives every day to actually achieve some goal which has nothing to do with knives per-se. For example, cooking requires sharp knives and is a very popular activity. They're also ubiquitous in workshops, with contractors and in fact people who use tools in general.
Sounds like me about twenty years ago.
It started 20 years ago after a fashion and it has continued ever since. The desire did not start 20 years ago, the desire is much, much older. The ability for so many to widely disseminate started 20 years ago.
It has continued.
It's easy to like connecting with people when you have few hobbies and lots of time.
It's also easy to like when you have sufficient hobbies and very little time.
Fast forward to a time in your life when you have lots of hobbies, and little time, and plenty of people in your life.
In all of my hobbies (whether you consider it many or few) I have learned invaluable things from random people I will never meet and never speak to who enjoyed sharing things on the internet. I'm glad I can do the same.
I'm not interested in random people, nor in opinions, nor in new hobbies.
Eh, so your mind is closed. I'm not interested in *most* random people or *most* opinions or *most* new hobbies. Thing is the internet lets me reach the ones I am interested in. I don't much care for another opinion on the state of politics. an opinion on how to convey detail in a pencil drawing is much more of interest to me, as is a serious (even if light hearted) crit about a book I had strong feelings about.
I've got plenty in my own life.
Like fun hobbies from which you can learn from other people.
What I want is more time to enjoy the many hobbies and toys that I already have. There's no value otherwise.
Exactly.
I think most people forget that you post content too. Write a story, a good blog article, take a nice photograph. Wouldn't it be swell if you actually got paid for something that people make popular?
Honestly, no. I have a bunch of stuff: I have a personal website, a reasonable github accout and a blog.
I'm where I am onw on the back of some of the open source software I published. It led to not just my job but most of my career so far. That's great, I make a iving without the hassle of nickel and diming people. It wouldn't be covered by this DRM foolishness anyway, since it's code not "consumable content".
I have other software that's used by some people, for free of course. Most of my feeling about that is "holy shit I made a difference".
And then there's the purely personal stuff I posted that has nothing to d owith my career. Some of it is in use by other people who submit bugfixes. It's amazing. Firstly I can bond with random people from who knows where over shared interests. Secondly, they sometimes contribute bug fixes and feature enhancements. Wow! People help me with a hobby, for free! And I get to indulge in my hobby with other people!! How awesome is that?
And then there's my blog. I write that entirely for myself. I like documenting things I do, and it's entertaining to me to do that online rather than off. I have a few readers and occasionally get comments from people who must have the same shared esoteric interests. That alone is more than worth it. I have read tons of cool stuff for free on the internet, dating back to the geocities era when people just wanted to share for the hell of it and for the first time in human history could do so at scale.
It's not about money it's about passion. Anything, even 0.01c per view, that gets in the way is a detriment. Hell, I PAY for the privilige since I can have my site be advertisement free. I ike being able in my own tiny way to contribute to the shared knowledge of humankind. A tiny contribution from 7 billion people goes a very long way.
In some ways I have a fundamentally optimistic view. I write about stuff that interests me (for free), and that in some small way contributes to the pool which makes other people do so too. It's not a quid pro quo. I don't expect any particular person to contribute anything back. But I know people will in general because there are plenty of people who will produce stuff simply for the joy of sharing it.
So even if the barter were easy, I don't want to engage. I simply want people to share my passions in stuff I think is awesome.
No you don't get it.
No I do get it. You either iswrote or said something stupid and instead of owning the mistake you're trying to pretend you never made it.
You seem to think sentences stand on their own,
Nothing else in your original post contradicts my interpretation.
Even then what's being asked here is like asking which power supply will make your computer faster; it makes no sense. You could have the hottest-shit-fast CPU available, and since you're booting it off a cheap USB 2 flash drive and a USB 2 video adapter, the performance will suck. Then you put it side-by-side with the cheapest shittiest CPU you can find, but with the best x16 PCIe graphics card and a top of the line SATA SSD, and it kicks the other systems' ass.
Or possibly the opposite based on the workload. Extreme example: I made a cluster a while ago (you can find the ask slashdot about it in fact!) which wound up being a bunch of diskless machines with no GPU (or rather the minimum integrated GPU which allows booting) and top end processors on PXE boot and NFS root.
Of course the problem was not IO bound and no GU accelereation existed for it.
For a general purpose setup you're correct.
I get it. You might have written it but you don't feel you meant it now. And facts are after all all about your feelings not the cold hard truth. Oh how you live up to your handle.
ARM stands for Advanced Risc Machines. ACORN was a different company.
Bro did you even read the link you sent me? The article starts:
Well all zealots, computer, religious, or otherwise, tend to be pretty dumb people to begin with.
Yep.
As for Windows, it being the dominate player in the field the zealots are spread pretty thin
I've met plenty of zealots in my time. Funnily enough probably more a decade or more ago when windows was hugely dominant. Now it's borderline irrelevant in some industry sectors.
That and most windows zealots don't have to preach because to most people windows is a done deal.
It is? You must work in a different industry from me then. Linux is very dominant in the cloud services space, for example.