Always prefer less violent means when possible. But also understand that if you make peaceful resolution of conflict impossible, you thereby make violent resolution of conflict inevitable. When "government" not only refuses to punish predators, but actively protects them, it creates the sort of conflict that, again, inevitably requires the use of defensive or retaliatory force to address.
I do not believe that any form of collectivism or totalitarianism should ever be tolerated, including, but not limited to, regular socialism, national socialism, or communism. In our day, most if not all such forms of idiotic evil are rooted firmly in Marxism. That includes much of the so-called "right wing." Hitler was a "National Socialist." That's what Nazi means. Look it up. But in most cases it is not the person who holds an idiotically evil ideology whom I am unwilling to tolerate. It is the ideology itself. I believe in God and the Lord Jesus Christ first and foremost, but also in freedom, (at most) limited government, rule of natural law, free enterprise, and peace. We are not likely to be close friends if you actively oppose any of these. But the only way I'm going to actively oppose you is if you act on your beliefs in such a way as to deprive others of life, liberty, or property without their consent.
Sure and the right never does that. Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.
Conservative/libertarian and (by some definitions) Christian here, and the worst that I will do, depending on how well I know you, is to offer you historical evidence of His existence, as well as that of formerly "gay" people whom He had delivered from this and all of the rest of their sin, even though some of them weren't living accordingly at the time. Oh, and I will pray for you. What I will not do, however, is to condone nor to participate in beliefs or actions I know to be sin. For instance, I will not attend your so-called "gay wedding" nor your "Jesus Never Existed" conferences. I will not pretend to agree with your beliefs nor your lifestyle, if either or both are sinful and/or stupid. But I will tolerate you. For two reasons. One, you are my neighbor, and God commanded that we love our neighbor. Second, God may yet one day reveal Himself to you and make you His child, and, therefore, a brother or sister to every other one of His children.
Everyone is slamming this comment, and I myself don't fully agree with it, but I think the OP has a point. If you have a lower-level language that can scale up to a degree, *and* a higher-level language that can interface with it, then you get the best of both worlds. Where I disagree is that I don't know that C, C++, or Python are always going to be the best choices in all circumstances.
Well, their/your legacy will certainly live on. There can be no doubt that FOSS has changed our world in ways that couldn't have even been imagined in the beginning. However, I'm 51 and in poor health, so probably in the same boat as you in terms of facing the inevitability that at some point this life does end for everyone. I hate that every year I have to go to more funerals, and often of people around my same age or even younger. My biggest fear is not of dying, but of outliving more and more of the people I care about.
It is best to think of lasers as emitting very specific wavelengths of EM radiation, in a very straight and thin line. Those that emit wavelengths detectable by our eyes (mostly in the red, green, and blue ranges since that is what our cones are designed to perceive) are considered visible; those that don't are not. For comparison purposes, consider that sunlight contains a wide range of wavelengths from longer than visible (e.g., infrared) to shorter than visible (e.g., ultraviolet) and it is actually the latter, the ultraviolet, that tends to cause sunburn and associated cell damage.
If I understand correctly, the problem is not how to produce energy without fossil fuels, which we can do easily and renewably in most parts of the world, but, rather, how to store and transport it.
Pipe organ emulator software (e.g., Hauptwerk, GrandOrgue, OrganWerx) typically requires a great deal of RAM to hold pipe samples in memory. Spinning rust was never fast enough. As those get slowly displaced by SSDs, and as those get faster, direct-from-disk may become an option. Today, for this particular use case, it's not. CPU requirements for this job are not particularly insane, but RAM requirements still are and will be for some time to come.
Sure, no problem. If you don't mind cops showing up at your door and taking you to FPMITA Prison. Even a pirated W10 will still phone home with any of your information it feels like mining, and should Microsoft decide, you can be found guilty of felony copyright infringement in many jurisdictions. I don't like it either, but no game I own or ever likely will is worth going to prison for.
This will be useful for me and folks like me. I don't live near the city, but do visit from time to time, often on weekends when there are planned service disruptions in addition to the countless unplanned disruptions and delays that I'm told happen 24/7/365. I have very basic familiarity with the subways, but not enough to know the best ways around them. But I'm also not going to try to drive or park in Manhattan, nor do I have the bus routes memorized, nor do I wish to walk with my kids at night through Flatbush or East New York if my branch of the A train goes missing for no obvious reason.
Used to be a lot quicker and more reliable, but, back then, it also tended to be dirty and a bit dangerous. I don't mind using it when I'm there (mainly weekends) because all other options are vastly worse.
In a genuinely defensive war, the only kind that is defensible in the first place, maximum combat-readiness and military effectiveness saves lives, because, if you can't keep your enemy from overrunning your defenses and torturing/raping/murdering your civilian population, it's more likely than not that they will. A poorly performing automated army may well lead to many more body bags, not fewer.
Desktop Linux is still a niche which I don't see changing right away. But most of the world's smartphones run Linux, as do most of the servers (including many hosted by Microsoft itself), and Microsoft now seems to recognize the value of "playing nice" in order to position itself in growing market segments while still making a decent return on the stagnant or declining ones. There may be something on the horizon to disrupt these trends, but if there is, I'm not seeing it, so my educated guess is you'll see these ones continue at least for a while.
It will shorten my life because even WITH health insurance I can't afford to have healthcare both for my family and also for myself. The premiums, copays, deductibles, and coinsurance have all at least doubled since Obamacare and some of them have gone up 10x. I instead chose to buy a bunch of life insurance and to accept that by not seeking regular preventative care I will likely die early of something preventable. Now, this is WITH decent health insurance. Many families are not nearly so lucky. They must choose between healthcare or food or rent or heating or a way to get to their jobs (if they have jobs). While the death toll for Obamacare may never be precisely known, I'm guessing it will eventually be proven to be among the top 10 worst democides in recorded history.
Gentoo did turn out to be the right choice for me. Others in my family not so much. That's why we still have some degree of variety and choice in the Linux world, systemd and like abominations notwithstanding. We also have Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Windows in our home (the latter was not by my choice, but some of our kids are gamers, and felt they didn't really have a choice).
It basically almost works now, but at greatly reduced capacity, and increased cost, due to DECADES of just-short-of-barely-adequate maintenance, lower speed limits due to outdated signaling and safety systems, and problems caused by disasters such as Hurricane Sandy that have yet to be fully fixed (IIRC). But just as most of us here are familiar with the concept of technical debt in software, the NYC subway system faces a version of the same thing, as does much of the rest of the infrastructure of the United States. We've deferred it for so long that it is *not* going to get better until/unless we become willing to invest in fixing it, and even then, it will get much worse before it starts to get better.
Manhattan and much of Brooklyn have been cleaned up obviously, and Staten Island was never too bad. But bits of the S,. Bronx, Flatbush, East New York, etc. are still as lawless as ever.
IIRC there is still damage from Hurricane Sandy that's yet to be repaired more than 5 years later. Of course, Sandy was truly nasty . . . it blew roofs of houses where I am, more than 800km inland, but the eyes of the storm passed very near NYC.
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The phrase originated when most electronics were based on vacuum tubes, to signify implementation via transistors (germanium or silicon) instead.
Always prefer less violent means when possible. But also understand that if you make peaceful resolution of conflict impossible, you thereby make violent resolution of conflict inevitable. When "government" not only refuses to punish predators, but actively protects them, it creates the sort of conflict that, again, inevitably requires the use of defensive or retaliatory force to address.
I do not believe that any form of collectivism or totalitarianism should ever be tolerated, including, but not limited to, regular socialism, national socialism, or communism. In our day, most if not all such forms of idiotic evil are rooted firmly in Marxism. That includes much of the so-called "right wing." Hitler was a "National Socialist." That's what Nazi means. Look it up. But in most cases it is not the person who holds an idiotically evil ideology whom I am unwilling to tolerate. It is the ideology itself. I believe in God and the Lord Jesus Christ first and foremost, but also in freedom, (at most) limited government, rule of natural law, free enterprise, and peace. We are not likely to be close friends if you actively oppose any of these. But the only way I'm going to actively oppose you is if you act on your beliefs in such a way as to deprive others of life, liberty, or property without their consent.
Sure and the right never does that. Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.
Conservative/libertarian and (by some definitions) Christian here, and the worst that I will do, depending on how well I know you, is to offer you historical evidence of His existence, as well as that of formerly "gay" people whom He had delivered from this and all of the rest of their sin, even though some of them weren't living accordingly at the time. Oh, and I will pray for you. What I will not do, however, is to condone nor to participate in beliefs or actions I know to be sin. For instance, I will not attend your so-called "gay wedding" nor your "Jesus Never Existed" conferences. I will not pretend to agree with your beliefs nor your lifestyle, if either or both are sinful and/or stupid. But I will tolerate you. For two reasons. One, you are my neighbor, and God commanded that we love our neighbor. Second, God may yet one day reveal Himself to you and make you His child, and, therefore, a brother or sister to every other one of His children.
Everyone is slamming this comment, and I myself don't fully agree with it, but I think the OP has a point. If you have a lower-level language that can scale up to a degree, *and* a higher-level language that can interface with it, then you get the best of both worlds. Where I disagree is that I don't know that C, C++, or Python are always going to be the best choices in all circumstances.
I think you meant monkies [sic].
Well, their/your legacy will certainly live on. There can be no doubt that FOSS has changed our world in ways that couldn't have even been imagined in the beginning. However, I'm 51 and in poor health, so probably in the same boat as you in terms of facing the inevitability that at some point this life does end for everyone. I hate that every year I have to go to more funerals, and often of people around my same age or even younger. My biggest fear is not of dying, but of outliving more and more of the people I care about.
It is best to think of lasers as emitting very specific wavelengths of EM radiation, in a very straight and thin line. Those that emit wavelengths detectable by our eyes (mostly in the red, green, and blue ranges since that is what our cones are designed to perceive) are considered visible; those that don't are not. For comparison purposes, consider that sunlight contains a wide range of wavelengths from longer than visible (e.g., infrared) to shorter than visible (e.g., ultraviolet) and it is actually the latter, the ultraviolet, that tends to cause sunburn and associated cell damage.
Same here, and one reason I ended up doing mostly C# rather than Java during the past decade or so.
If I understand correctly, the problem is not how to produce energy without fossil fuels, which we can do easily and renewably in most parts of the world, but, rather, how to store and transport it.
Pipe organ emulator software (e.g., Hauptwerk, GrandOrgue, OrganWerx) typically requires a great deal of RAM to hold pipe samples in memory. Spinning rust was never fast enough. As those get slowly displaced by SSDs, and as those get faster, direct-from-disk may become an option. Today, for this particular use case, it's not. CPU requirements for this job are not particularly insane, but RAM requirements still are and will be for some time to come.
Sure, no problem. If you don't mind cops showing up at your door and taking you to FPMITA Prison. Even a pirated W10 will still phone home with any of your information it feels like mining, and should Microsoft decide, you can be found guilty of felony copyright infringement in many jurisdictions. I don't like it either, but no game I own or ever likely will is worth going to prison for.
You mean there's a difference????
Whoever modded this "flamebait" . . .did you click the link? I think they linked to the whole source tarball, not the changelog.
I for one welcome our 95mb-long "changelog"!
Turns out Emacs is the better initd replacement, while systemd has the better text editor.
This will be useful for me and folks like me. I don't live near the city, but do visit from time to time, often on weekends when there are planned service disruptions in addition to the countless unplanned disruptions and delays that I'm told happen 24/7/365. I have very basic familiarity with the subways, but not enough to know the best ways around them. But I'm also not going to try to drive or park in Manhattan, nor do I have the bus routes memorized, nor do I wish to walk with my kids at night through Flatbush or East New York if my branch of the A train goes missing for no obvious reason.
Used to be a lot quicker and more reliable, but, back then, it also tended to be dirty and a bit dangerous. I don't mind using it when I'm there (mainly weekends) because all other options are vastly worse.
In a genuinely defensive war, the only kind that is defensible in the first place, maximum combat-readiness and military effectiveness saves lives, because, if you can't keep your enemy from overrunning your defenses and torturing/raping/murdering your civilian population, it's more likely than not that they will. A poorly performing automated army may well lead to many more body bags, not fewer.
Desktop Linux is still a niche which I don't see changing right away. But most of the world's smartphones run Linux, as do most of the servers (including many hosted by Microsoft itself), and Microsoft now seems to recognize the value of "playing nice" in order to position itself in growing market segments while still making a decent return on the stagnant or declining ones. There may be something on the horizon to disrupt these trends, but if there is, I'm not seeing it, so my educated guess is you'll see these ones continue at least for a while.
It will shorten my life because even WITH health insurance I can't afford to have healthcare both for my family and also for myself. The premiums, copays, deductibles, and coinsurance have all at least doubled since Obamacare and some of them have gone up 10x. I instead chose to buy a bunch of life insurance and to accept that by not seeking regular preventative care I will likely die early of something preventable. Now, this is WITH decent health insurance. Many families are not nearly so lucky. They must choose between healthcare or food or rent or heating or a way to get to their jobs (if they have jobs). While the death toll for Obamacare may never be precisely known, I'm guessing it will eventually be proven to be among the top 10 worst democides in recorded history.
Gentoo did turn out to be the right choice for me. Others in my family not so much. That's why we still have some degree of variety and choice in the Linux world, systemd and like abominations notwithstanding. We also have Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Windows in our home (the latter was not by my choice, but some of our kids are gamers, and felt they didn't really have a choice).
It basically almost works now, but at greatly reduced capacity, and increased cost, due to DECADES of just-short-of-barely-adequate maintenance, lower speed limits due to outdated signaling and safety systems, and problems caused by disasters such as Hurricane Sandy that have yet to be fully fixed (IIRC). But just as most of us here are familiar with the concept of technical debt in software, the NYC subway system faces a version of the same thing, as does much of the rest of the infrastructure of the United States. We've deferred it for so long that it is *not* going to get better until/unless we become willing to invest in fixing it, and even then, it will get much worse before it starts to get better.
Manhattan and much of Brooklyn have been cleaned up obviously, and Staten Island was never too bad. But bits of the S,. Bronx, Flatbush, East New York, etc. are still as lawless as ever.
IIRC there is still damage from Hurricane Sandy that's yet to be repaired more than 5 years later. Of course, Sandy was truly nasty . . . it blew roofs of houses where I am, more than 800km inland, but the eyes of the storm passed very near NYC.