Yes, it did. The statement "QWERTY was designed to keep keys on mechanical typewriters from jamming, Dvorak should be much faster." is a non-sequiter without assuming such claim, thus it's made implicitly.
Modern C++, if you're not dumb about how you use it, lets you avoid all of the C's unsafety, automagically, and it can enforce many safety constraints for you at compile time, too. I don't really understand why anyone writing big, scalable server applications would want to use Java when running the same stuff on C++ will cost you less in datacenter power & cooling.
Because as the size and age of the codebase grow towards infinity, the chances of at least one dumb person touching it grow towards one.
Limiting damage from dumb mistakes is more important than absolutely best efficiency. That's true for all projects, not just programming. It's pretty much the definition of Murphy's Law.
They also have never used C or C++, and really have no idea what efficient software without any bloated external runtime is actually like.
Hand-coded assembly in COM format running on DOS and crashing if everything isn't set up as and you don't input exactly what the programmer expected, basically. Good riddance.
There will always be people for and against the death penalty and the debate is probably going to continue until the end of our species.
Well... No. The severity of punishments have been going down for centuries, and death penalty is banned in most of the civilized world, as this very article mentions. It's on its way out as part of the general downward trend of violence. The US is simply backwards in this matter.
The phrasing in the 8th amendment is "cruel and unusual" FYI, and I'm pretty sure a court will find a stay of executions necessary until a new method is devised.
Or they could just make this the new standard way of execution, thus making it not unusual, which is enough to render "cruel and unusual" logically false.
Anyway, both nitrogen or a stick of dynamite are fast, cheap and painless. Why insist on using weird combination of drugs? Unless, of course, executions are ultimately less about justice and more about venting bloodthirst on "acceptable" targets.
The fact is, history has ups and downs. The West is currently on a slippery slope towards doom. It might end up in a disaster of epic proportions like the game of one-upmanship did 100 years ago, or it can be halted, like the Cuban missile crisis was. But right now, governments and corporations are competing in which can increase surveillance faster, political decisions with far-reaching consequences are increasingly based on wishful thinking rather than facts and logic, both climate change and energy crisis are hitting us simultaneously, technology is making our economic system obsolete and increasingly a hindrance to stability and prosperity...
It could still go either way, but pretending things can continue like this without something giving is deceiving yourself.
Which is precisely why the "cash=terrorism" scare campaigns have already started.
I dunno if I should be terrified that fascism is once again rising from its grave, or laugh at the sheer comical ineptness of the whole affair. It's like a zombie clown trying to get out of a clown car to eat your brains. Scary, yes, but also damn hilarious.
Oh well, enjoy peace while it lasts and buckle up for World War Three: Here We Go Again...
Apparently they aren't fixing it either. They say the performance isn't good on larger cities, which translates to "We fucked our engine up bad so it can't scale at all."
If, as EA claimed, every resident - and everything else to the last spark of electricity - actually gets simulated individually at the level of walking on street, then the engine likely scales linearly (twice the residents require twice the computing power); it's just that even a small town requires route-finding for tens of thousands of agents in realtime, which is not feasible.
Not that this should had been a surprise to anyone, given that other games that simulate individuals at this level - such as Tropico - aim for a few thousand residents tops.
She hired a black woman to be their mentor and instill black culture in them so that they wouldn't feel isolated from other blacks.
What black culture would that be? Ghetto ganstas? Somali muslims? Bill Cosby Show?
While race and culture and separate things, they are closely related.
Race and culture are related like ice cream and drowning: there's a third variable - physical proximity over long periods of time and hot weather, respecively - that correlates with two otherwise unrelated things.
Of course you can: make them do the exercises until they get them right. Just like you would force a kid to do anything else they don't want to but is necessary.
they will just deal with however miserable you can make their life in school for 6 hours a day
A portion of the government wants as many people on food stamps as possible, because as soon as you condition a person to free handouts you get power over them.
I've heard that before - indeed almost exactly the same words - but I don't understand. It's so vague.
It's a slogan, a political equivalent of "Where do you want to go today?" or "Reality is our game". Think of it as the flag of the Conservative Tribe, and you aren't far off. It also describes the basic mythology of that tribe: the Government is the Ultimate Evil who's constantly looking to consume your soul and needs to be resisted.
Once you realize that politics - especially American politics, but also the politics of any nation that's not under immediate threat - is a battle of myths rather than facts, it becomes a lot more understandable.
How else do you get the citizens of idiocracy to fund the effort?
Come up with a good enough argument for why they should fund it.
Of course, that would require thinking them as rational human beings rather than idiots. This, in turn, would require some amount of control over your own mind and attitude. Since you post as an AC, I presume you're already aware of having a problem, so now all you need to do is take conscious control over your personal development and steer it towards being less of an arrogant prick and more of an effective persuader.
Yes, capitalism is unfair. Sadly, all other economic systems -- when implemented in large scale, and in the real world -- are even less fair. Otherwise, the Soviet Union would have survived while the US collapsed.
So maximum fairness is the same as maximum efficiency, the only difference between SU and US was the economic system, and there are only two possible economic systems?
Government, though, do have that control but tend to act in their own self-interest, which is to keep the economy running so that they can continue to collect taxes. See how that works out nicely? No need to trust in altruism.
Actually, you still need to trust that each individual Government member puts the good of the Goverment as a whole above their personal interests, which usually revolve around tilting the playing field in favour of their backers. Sure, if they all do so all the time the whole house of cards will collapse, but every single politician is better served by defecting and hoping the others won't. It's classic tragedy of the commons at work, and the government doesn't have any higher governing body to enforce cooperation, so that leaves altruism as the only viable alternative, feeble as it might be; US politicians lack it, thus the total dysfunction of its political system.
Yes, today, but really there hasn't been much focus on anything except ways to reduce element size for decades.
True but misleading. A smaller element has less surface area to dissipate its heat, thus it must either generate less or run hotter. And silicon ran into the upper limits of the material years ago, which is why processors have required active cooling for a long time now. But that has practical limits, so the TDP of new flagship processors stays around the same (100-200 W) and after a few generations their tech gets recycled into a power-optimized model.
In other words, you can't reduce element size without also reducing power usage or the damn thing will melt.
It had everything to do with the "current stuff", as the patient lying and abusing cocaine as an elderly person ties everything together logically. Medical mystery solved, the doctor goes about his day. Seeing gramps come into the hospital after shooting up or smoking some dope is uncommon, but not unheard of.
Except, of course, the medical mystery has not been solved. Using cocaine in no way rules out other possible reasons, such as greasy arteries. In fact it, if merely admitting that they use cocaine makes the doctor declare "mystery solved", then it would be in the patient's best interests to lie about it to get a proper examination.
False analogy... rape is an act of violence against a person, and causes harm against that person, while the mere act of knowing something about someone else which they may not have wanted anyone else to know is not, and does not really infringe on their rights in any way. What a person *does* with that information might hurt somebody, but the mere fact that they know it does not, and privacy only covers what people simply know about, not necessarily what they do with the information.
Aiming a gun at me doesn't hurt me either, but do you really expect me to just sit there and wait to see if you'll pull the trigger? Knowledge is power, and knowledge about me is power over me. If you set out to gather it, you force me to react for the same reason why pulling a gun at me forces me to react: I might not be bleeding yet, but if I don't act, chances are I'll be soon enough.
So in a post-privacy world, it may be obvious that some legislation will need to be made in what a person is legally allowed to practice based on information that they discovered without the knowledge or consent of the person that they discovered it about.
Or we could simply acknowledge that googling me is a form of stalking, and should be treated as such.
Sure - the one who GETS the information will be empowered by what he or she THINKS is facts, because it's out there - in plain text for everyone to see. But what you DON'T see, is the context, context as in "the other information", we're talking the "real" story here...
No, you miss the point. The problem is precisely the party that already holds more power in the interaction is even further empowered. The problem is that a potential employer can check what I do in my free time ("this guy drinks beer?"), not that I don't get to excuse my actions ("I only took half a pint"). That means I no longer have free time. The entire world will/has become a panopticon, which is a prison.
One time Obama is a 'micromanager' and the next he's 'out of touch'
Are you implying that these qualities can't exist in the same person at the same time? Because I assure you, they can and often do. Heck, if anything being an idiot and wanting to control everything are the most stereotypical politician traits imaginable.
Over-sized military spending isn't a sign of collapse.
Large military spending is a sign of either corruption, being faced with a major threat or a dependency on foreign resources. All of these can easily become points of fracture if and when a major crisis occurs.
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So basically, Atlas Shrugged is wish fulfilment for the rich. But I guess it accurately sums up Objectivism.
Yes, it did. The statement "QWERTY was designed to keep keys on mechanical typewriters from jamming, Dvorak should be much faster." is a non-sequiter without assuming such claim, thus it's made implicitly.
Because as the size and age of the codebase grow towards infinity, the chances of at least one dumb person touching it grow towards one.
Limiting damage from dumb mistakes is more important than absolutely best efficiency. That's true for all projects, not just programming. It's pretty much the definition of Murphy's Law.
Hand-coded assembly in COM format running on DOS and crashing if everything isn't set up as and you don't input exactly what the programmer expected, basically. Good riddance.
Well... No. The severity of punishments have been going down for centuries, and death penalty is banned in most of the civilized world, as this very article mentions. It's on its way out as part of the general downward trend of violence. The US is simply backwards in this matter.
Or they could just make this the new standard way of execution, thus making it not unusual, which is enough to render "cruel and unusual" logically false.
Anyway, both nitrogen or a stick of dynamite are fast, cheap and painless. Why insist on using weird combination of drugs? Unless, of course, executions are ultimately less about justice and more about venting bloodthirst on "acceptable" targets.
You're taking this pirate thing way too far.
Which would be January 1914. And they were right.
The fact is, history has ups and downs. The West is currently on a slippery slope towards doom. It might end up in a disaster of epic proportions like the game of one-upmanship did 100 years ago, or it can be halted, like the Cuban missile crisis was. But right now, governments and corporations are competing in which can increase surveillance faster, political decisions with far-reaching consequences are increasingly based on wishful thinking rather than facts and logic, both climate change and energy crisis are hitting us simultaneously, technology is making our economic system obsolete and increasingly a hindrance to stability and prosperity...
It could still go either way, but pretending things can continue like this without something giving is deceiving yourself.
An almost-perfect copy of Sun located in an "open" cluster? I didn't know the FSF was branching into stellar engineering :).
Which is precisely why the "cash=terrorism" scare campaigns have already started.
I dunno if I should be terrified that fascism is once again rising from its grave, or laugh at the sheer comical ineptness of the whole affair. It's like a zombie clown trying to get out of a clown car to eat your brains. Scary, yes, but also damn hilarious.
Oh well, enjoy peace while it lasts and buckle up for World War Three: Here We Go Again...
If, as EA claimed, every resident - and everything else to the last spark of electricity - actually gets simulated individually at the level of walking on street, then the engine likely scales linearly (twice the residents require twice the computing power); it's just that even a small town requires route-finding for tens of thousands of agents in realtime, which is not feasible.
Not that this should had been a surprise to anyone, given that other games that simulate individuals at this level - such as Tropico - aim for a few thousand residents tops.
What black culture would that be? Ghetto ganstas? Somali muslims? Bill Cosby Show?
Race and culture are related like ice cream and drowning: there's a third variable - physical proximity over long periods of time and hot weather, respecively - that correlates with two otherwise unrelated things.
Of course you can: make them do the exercises until they get them right. Just like you would force a kid to do anything else they don't want to but is necessary.
Don't make them miserable, make them study.
It's a slogan, a political equivalent of "Where do you want to go today?" or "Reality is our game". Think of it as the flag of the Conservative Tribe, and you aren't far off. It also describes the basic mythology of that tribe: the Government is the Ultimate Evil who's constantly looking to consume your soul and needs to be resisted.
Once you realize that politics - especially American politics, but also the politics of any nation that's not under immediate threat - is a battle of myths rather than facts, it becomes a lot more understandable.
Correlation does not demonstrate causality. However, it strongly correlates with it.
Come up with a good enough argument for why they should fund it.
Of course, that would require thinking them as rational human beings rather than idiots. This, in turn, would require some amount of control over your own mind and attitude. Since you post as an AC, I presume you're already aware of having a problem, so now all you need to do is take conscious control over your personal development and steer it towards being less of an arrogant prick and more of an effective persuader.
Good luck.
So maximum fairness is the same as maximum efficiency, the only difference between SU and US was the economic system, and there are only two possible economic systems?
Nice logic.
Actually, you still need to trust that each individual Government member puts the good of the Goverment as a whole above their personal interests, which usually revolve around tilting the playing field in favour of their backers. Sure, if they all do so all the time the whole house of cards will collapse, but every single politician is better served by defecting and hoping the others won't. It's classic tragedy of the commons at work, and the government doesn't have any higher governing body to enforce cooperation, so that leaves altruism as the only viable alternative, feeble as it might be; US politicians lack it, thus the total dysfunction of its political system.
Not everything, but crazy copyright laws are.
True but misleading. A smaller element has less surface area to dissipate its heat, thus it must either generate less or run hotter. And silicon ran into the upper limits of the material years ago, which is why processors have required active cooling for a long time now. But that has practical limits, so the TDP of new flagship processors stays around the same (100-200 W) and after a few generations their tech gets recycled into a power-optimized model.
In other words, you can't reduce element size without also reducing power usage or the damn thing will melt.
Except, of course, the medical mystery has not been solved. Using cocaine in no way rules out other possible reasons, such as greasy arteries. In fact it, if merely admitting that they use cocaine makes the doctor declare "mystery solved", then it would be in the patient's best interests to lie about it to get a proper examination.
Aiming a gun at me doesn't hurt me either, but do you really expect me to just sit there and wait to see if you'll pull the trigger? Knowledge is power, and knowledge about me is power over me. If you set out to gather it, you force me to react for the same reason why pulling a gun at me forces me to react: I might not be bleeding yet, but if I don't act, chances are I'll be soon enough.
Or we could simply acknowledge that googling me is a form of stalking, and should be treated as such.
No, you miss the point. The problem is precisely the party that already holds more power in the interaction is even further empowered. The problem is that a potential employer can check what I do in my free time ("this guy drinks beer?"), not that I don't get to excuse my actions ("I only took half a pint"). That means I no longer have free time. The entire world will/has become a panopticon, which is a prison.
Are you implying that these qualities can't exist in the same person at the same time? Because I assure you, they can and often do. Heck, if anything being an idiot and wanting to control everything are the most stereotypical politician traits imaginable.
Large military spending is a sign of either corruption, being faced with a major threat or a dependency on foreign resources. All of these can easily become points of fracture if and when a major crisis occurs.