The difference I see today vs. yesteryear is that the populace at-large is doing less critical thinking about how news should be ingested. That is, asking the following questions: Who is writing it? Why are they writing it? Is it to inform or entertain (or both)? What viewpoint are they trying to convey and why is that viewpoint important from the perspective of the author? How is it important to you as the reader/viewer?
Not to mention, what are the actual facts, what is the evidence, who did the gathering, who paid for it, when was it done, are there compounding issues, how was the data obtained, etc. If we cannot all agree on the facts, then the rest is just dildos and sandpaper. And I find we cannot agree on the facts.
How much is workers being paid over the national median, but having to live in extremely expensive, high cost locations such that a six figure salary actually doesn't mean much.
FPGAs have advanced a lot in 20 years, but they are the moral equivalent of running your code under Java. That's not at all what they do, but their ability to configure on the fly comes at a very high cost in terms of frequency, power and area. A custom chip is always going to be faster, smaller and cheaper (COGS wise).
It's true that FPGA mfg's could do more to enable other tools, but their motivation is very weak.
Not to mention that the tools that area already automated to *assist* with this stuff are buggy as fuck, and EDA companies software development practices make Microsoft look good.
But more power to DARPA, the more that can be automated, the more that can be accomplished. Chip design is still so expensive that only a few people with very deep pockets can participate.
OpenGL has been dead for the sorts of uses that most people commenting in this thread care about. It's still pretty much complete and robust as a basic graphics library for applications that just need 3D visualization. As a game 3D API, it's pretty much obsolete.
Vulkan's main benefit is obviously that it's a cross platform industry standard. However it's not very capable yet, and no one involved has the motivation to make it a priority. The major players are all pushing proprietary features, and so many game developers are on Unity or Unreal, who have the resources to support all the things, that it has become (temporarily) irrelevant.
Metal supports everything Apple wants for their agenda, and gives them control of their own destiny. It supports the features they feel are essential to the market, and they are in a position to evolve it quickly. However, to me, the bonehead choice was wrapping it up in Swift. If it were just a C API, all the noise would fade away, as you could once again create cross platform apps with relatively less headache. Unfortunately C is too hard for the sorts of people doing computer programming these days, so they had to make a new language...
The major takeaway should be that quite a lot of people see opportunity and activity in the 3D graphics world, and that has fragmented the programming APIs. There is a lot going on that hasn't seen much light, but is driving a lot of this flux.
I think the recruiters like it since they believe you will just blindly check your voice mail and be subjected to their spiel and cannot filter it out easily as you can with text messages where you can a) see who sent it and ignore it if it's someone you don't know and b) quickly tell that you're not interested. For most of us, this is trash. We're either looking for a job or not, there is very little "casual" looking these days as companies expect you are "all in" on interviews or HR throws you out before you get to the door, and while we may be looking to improve our wages, that's not a function the job market wishes to support. At all.
If you ARE in the job market, then this just makes everything harder. Time you could be spending developing your resume, developing contacts, researching prospects, etc. is lost listening to someone speak at you in real time.
Whenever there's an article about a shortage of X, it's usually because the pay/conditions of X are terrible, nobody wants to do it FOR THAT WAGE, and thus there's a shortage. But the hope is that somehow this shortage will etiher drum up business for schools/certification, remove regulations that prevent unqualified people from doing the work, or otherwise prevent having to take the revenue that is lost to profit and use it for employees. Really hard to give a flying fuck.
The general public subsidizes taxi rides when it has to detour due to construction, they have to subsidize it when a subway or bus line is out for any reason, that's the way of the world. We already subsidize airlines when they fly around other forms of restricted airspace, including (as is the subject of numerous court cases) because darth cheeto happens to be golfing that day.
But, strictly speaking, if airlines are given adequate notice about launch blackouts and they plan properly, it really is their problem to not waste fuel. I'm not interested in saddling one industry to another. If, however these blackouts are scheduled too frequently or are blocking access to pre-existing resources too often, then there needs to be restrictions on how often they can happen.
Actually, we need a "Cease-and-Desist" order for drivers who refuse to pay attention to the road, despite the explicit instructions from Tesla.
This, because it will be hard to C&D oranges . Actually police should just mail this guy a speeding ticket for fun, since not only was he driving recklessly, he was also clearly speeding by 6mph.
I mean I don't exactly run to the police and say "Officer, please write me a ticket, I was clearly doing 100 in a 55"
It's good that he resigned immediately, without a prolonged drama and submitted to the same rules they hold employees to. I'm not exactly sure I expect anyone to volunteer this. A consequence of these rules is that people are still people, bosses have flings with underlings. But if the underling wishes, at any point he or she complains and brings down the boss. As long as everyone keeps quiet, and keeps a low profile, it minimizes the inequity. If, however, anyone at all is exempt from the rules, or bypasses them somehow, the system falls apart.
No it's actually provably true. I know more than 2 people who are below poverty and want to work, and do work, who simply aren't making enough. I even can assess that I know more than 6 people in this case. That's a lot, I'm running out of fingers.
Therefore, for some values of "a lot", the statement has been validated. You are welcome.
Even if you somehow magically come up with the trillion dollars a year you would need to provide a significant amount of money to a significant number of people, what happens when you spend all that money nobody is any better off? The truth is, you're just giving them more money to waste on stupid unnecessary shit.
While I suspect "a trillion dollars" originates somewhere deeper than the colon, I can agree with this statement. However, unless you are arguing for not solving a problem and letting it fester, this argues more strongly for social programs to provide people what they need but are unable or unwilling to provide for themselves. Personally I favor this approach, UBI seems like a libertarian wet dream.
No this is pretty much how this gets handled all the time. I've seen mails like this before from other CEOs over the years. Usually they don't believe the person in question is acting alone, so they make statements about vague confessions and try to get his partners to make incriminating moves to protect themselves, thinking they might have been named. Sometimes that is how they identify the buyer for the stolen data.
The last maybe duplicates a bit on the former. Probably others. Gender is definitely not binary, and I cannot imagine what such people go through in life but without things of this nature, there wouldn't be a human race to have the debate.
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The difference I see today vs. yesteryear is that the populace at-large is doing less critical thinking about how news should be ingested. That is, asking the following questions: Who is writing it? Why are they writing it? Is it to inform or entertain (or both)? What viewpoint are they trying to convey and why is that viewpoint important from the perspective of the author? How is it important to you as the reader/viewer?
Not to mention, what are the actual facts, what is the evidence, who did the gathering, who paid for it, when was it done, are there compounding issues, how was the data obtained, etc. If we cannot all agree on the facts, then the rest is just dildos and sandpaper. And I find we cannot agree on the facts.
How much is workers being paid over the national median, but having to live in extremely expensive, high cost locations such that a six figure salary actually doesn't mean much.
FPGAs have advanced a lot in 20 years, but they are the moral equivalent of running your code under Java. That's not at all what they do, but their ability to configure on the fly comes at a very high cost in terms of frequency, power and area. A custom chip is always going to be faster, smaller and cheaper (COGS wise).
It's true that FPGA mfg's could do more to enable other tools, but their motivation is very weak.
Not to mention that the tools that area already automated to *assist* with this stuff are buggy as fuck, and EDA companies software development practices make Microsoft look good.
But more power to DARPA, the more that can be automated, the more that can be accomplished. Chip design is still so expensive that only a few people with very deep pockets can participate.
OpenGL has been dead for the sorts of uses that most people commenting in this thread care about. It's still pretty much complete and robust as a basic graphics library for applications that just need 3D visualization. As a game 3D API, it's pretty much obsolete.
Vulkan's main benefit is obviously that it's a cross platform industry standard. However it's not very capable yet, and no one involved has the motivation to make it a priority. The major players are all pushing proprietary features, and so many game developers are on Unity or Unreal, who have the resources to support all the things, that it has become (temporarily) irrelevant.
Metal supports everything Apple wants for their agenda, and gives them control of their own destiny. It supports the features they feel are essential to the market, and they are in a position to evolve it quickly. However, to me, the bonehead choice was wrapping it up in Swift. If it were just a C API, all the noise would fade away, as you could once again create cross platform apps with relatively less headache. Unfortunately C is too hard for the sorts of people doing computer programming these days, so they had to make a new language...
The major takeaway should be that quite a lot of people see opportunity and activity in the 3D graphics world, and that has fragmented the programming APIs. There is a lot going on that hasn't seen much light, but is driving a lot of this flux.
I think the recruiters like it since they believe you will just blindly check your voice mail and be subjected to their spiel and cannot filter it out easily as you can with text messages where you can a) see who sent it and ignore it if it's someone you don't know and b) quickly tell that you're not interested. For most of us, this is trash. We're either looking for a job or not, there is very little "casual" looking these days as companies expect you are "all in" on interviews or HR throws you out before you get to the door, and while we may be looking to improve our wages, that's not a function the job market wishes to support. At all.
If you ARE in the job market, then this just makes everything harder. Time you could be spending developing your resume, developing contacts, researching prospects, etc. is lost listening to someone speak at you in real time.
Whenever there's an article about a shortage of X, it's usually because the pay/conditions of X are terrible, nobody wants to do it FOR THAT WAGE, and thus there's a shortage. But the hope is that somehow this shortage will etiher drum up business for schools/certification, remove regulations that prevent unqualified people from doing the work, or otherwise prevent having to take the revenue that is lost to profit and use it for employees. Really hard to give a flying fuck.
I do tons of real work, mostly engineering. And I don't use Windows. Ever.
If it's microsoft, don't buy it. End of story.
Rehabilitated into a perfectly functional lump of coal, ready for a power plant.
Sometimes when you pull out you get left with 20 years of trouble
Believe me, the number of people staying home from work will be big, really yuge.
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The general public subsidizes taxi rides when it has to detour due to construction, they have to subsidize it when a subway or bus line is out for any reason, that's the way of the world. We already subsidize airlines when they fly around other forms of restricted airspace, including (as is the subject of numerous court cases) because darth cheeto happens to be golfing that day.
But, strictly speaking, if airlines are given adequate notice about launch blackouts and they plan properly, it really is their problem to not waste fuel. I'm not interested in saddling one industry to another. If, however these blackouts are scheduled too frequently or are blocking access to pre-existing resources too often, then there needs to be restrictions on how often they can happen.
I think the airlines probably deserve to have more notice about these launches, so that they can plan appropriately and avoid delays.
Adding 62 miles to their flightpath is definitely something they need to suck up, the world cannot be held hostage for this.
My heart stopped when I read it.
We're not talking about Star Trek.
Plot woes also arise because X-wings are faster-than-light capable, making jihad a tactically obvious option for the Rebels
Particularly when they can be piloted by droids. Cut out all the life support and space for a human, turn them into guided missiles, win.
Actually, we need a "Cease-and-Desist" order for drivers who refuse to pay attention to the road, despite the explicit instructions from Tesla.
This, because it will be hard to C&D oranges . Actually police should just mail this guy a speeding ticket for fun, since not only was he driving recklessly, he was also clearly speeding by 6mph.
I mean I don't exactly run to the police and say "Officer, please write me a ticket, I was clearly doing 100 in a 55"
It's good that he resigned immediately, without a prolonged drama and submitted to the same rules they hold employees to. I'm not exactly sure I expect anyone to volunteer this. A consequence of these rules is that people are still people, bosses have flings with underlings. But if the underling wishes, at any point he or she complains and brings down the boss. As long as everyone keeps quiet, and keeps a low profile, it minimizes the inequity. If, however, anyone at all is exempt from the rules, or bypasses them somehow, the system falls apart.
This may or may not be true
No it's actually provably true. I know more than 2 people who are below poverty and want to work, and do work, who simply aren't making enough. I even can assess that I know more than 6 people in this case. That's a lot, I'm running out of fingers.
Therefore, for some values of "a lot", the statement has been validated. You are welcome.
Even if you somehow magically come up with the trillion dollars a year you would need to provide a significant amount of money to a significant number of people, what happens when you spend all that money nobody is any better off? The truth is, you're just giving them more money to waste on stupid unnecessary shit.
While I suspect "a trillion dollars" originates somewhere deeper than the colon, I can agree with this statement. However, unless you are arguing for not solving a problem and letting it fester, this argues more strongly for social programs to provide people what they need but are unable or unwilling to provide for themselves. Personally I favor this approach, UBI seems like a libertarian wet dream.
I don't like Fox news, but they usually do not lie. They equivocate, they dissemble, but they don't (usually) lie.
No this is pretty much how this gets handled all the time. I've seen mails like this before from other CEOs over the years. Usually they don't believe the person in question is acting alone, so they make statements about vague confessions and try to get his partners to make incriminating moves to protect themselves, thinking they might have been named. Sometimes that is how they identify the buyer for the stolen data.
It'd be easier to doubt his story if employee sabotage and industrial espionage weren't becoming more common in other places.
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The last maybe duplicates a bit on the former. Probably others. Gender is definitely not binary, and I cannot imagine what such people go through in life but without things of this nature, there wouldn't be a human race to have the debate.
3. People who had their bootstraps superglued to the ceiling from birth.