Mark my words, in 50 years, hopefully less, the whole idea of "transitioning" and "gender reassignment" will be consigned to the bin of crazy psychological ideals like trepanning and lobotomies.
Or, in a brighter future, technology has advanced to the point where anyone who wishes can flip their gender on a whim, therefore simultaneously obsoleting gender discrimination, giving people access to a wider set of expriences and giving people who's identity revolves around trying to control others plenty to impontently froth about.
South Park covered this brilliantly a few years ago: just because someone "feels like a dolphin" doesn't mean you should be performing surgery.
We don't currently have the medical technology that could transform people into dolphins or reasonably functional facsimiles. But if we did, and someone was happier that way... why not? What's it to anyone else, really?
There persists this weird idea that people have to conform to some definition of "normalcy". It's some weird combination of naturalistic fallacy and lingering remains of ancient religious (un)cleanliness code. It's time this monstrosity was laid to rest, before it claims any more victims.
In a real professional environment, we don't [b]use[/b] debian systems much less use package managers unless the location of the patches are managed in the environment.
Of course not. What real professional environments use are Windows systems with Visual Basic programs "some guy" wrote.
Let's face it, Saturday morning cartoons from the 60s to the 80s were 90% garbage.
90% of everything is garbage. It's just that the oceans of time wash it out, leaving only the gold nuggets. Of course, an actual ocean will also have the same effect, which is why anime became such a hit in the West.
The biggest mistake you can make in any language is to catch an OOM error and proceed (except in the very special case of deliberately exhausting memory in a single-threaded process to get the biggest possible buffer or whatever). It's more general in Java: don't catch throwable unless you then exit. No, not even then. Restarting is fine, but proceeding often leads to undefined behavior.
No, it doesn't. An OOM error in Java means the stack is unwound to the point where the error is caught, just like with any other throwable. While this can cause problems if the error occurred in the middle of a complex data structure manipulation, that can be worked around (for example by using immutable data structures). In my experience such programs work perfectly reliably, they simply require some more forethought.
If you've never worked on code that can exhaust memory of even a big server without leaking resources, perhaps that explains why you think it's safe to catch throwable.
Ooh, burn! But do explain to me how restarting helps in that case? Surely your code will use just as much memory on rerun than on the first? Unless, of course, some of that memory was actually being taken up by accumulated cruft that had not been freed despite no longer being needed - in other words, a resource leak.
So how is this the fault of the Catholic Church again?
Oh, and raping little virgin girls won't cure AIDs. As long as the Catholic Church speaks against contraception, the Catholic Church can and should be hold responsible for any and all consequences, such as the spread of AIDS. And yes, that includes rapes carried out from desperation as a result of said spread.
There's a more general point here: you can't wield power yet disown the consequences. Moving from a bunch of selfish, irresponsible individuals and tribes to a more mature mindset is the biggest challenge facing humanity right now. Catholic Church is still stuck on the "it's all about me" mindset, as demonstrated every time some of its dirty laundry gets aired, but it's not like our nation-states are much better.
Okay, was there no monkey meat business before 1920s? Why did it make the jump only at that time? How exactly does a virus change from a chimp version to a human version?
AFAIK the virus can jump species anytime, but a newly jumped version is so badly adapted to its new host that human immune system suppresses it in a few weeks. However, if the virus just happens to jump to a new host in that time, the battle starts from scratch there. Immune response takes time, so if there's a steady stream of new victims the virus can stay one step ahead - and all the time it's evolving and adapting, until you get to modern-day AIDS.
Enter King Leopold II of Belgium, under who's authority Congo Free State was an ideal hellhole for a new and exciting disease to get all the hosts it could possibly need to mature into a pandemic. So this is yet another modern-day problem that can be laid at the feet of colonialism.
With a sanely written C++ program (merely sticking to the modern approaches) memory and resource leaks are a thing of the past, but you still get the completely predictable and deterministic resource management of C.
I'm sadly working with Java services now, and we have a seriously problem in that there's no reasonable way to tell that a Java program is getting close to crashing due to memory exhaustion.
Why crash when you can catch such errors and recover?
In C++, you can just monitor heap size, and alarm based on values and trends and all that good predictive jazz.
I thought you said sane C++ doesn't leak resources?
The C++ committee would rather add a 2D graphics API that no one cares about to the language libs then focus on binary compatibility.
That is the correct decision, IMO. It's not the 80's anymore; standard input and standard output are not sufficient IO abstractions. Graphics and mouse input are the bare minimum for general usability these days, altough in a pinch terminal emulation might do.
On the other hand, binary compatibility for a language that relies heavily on compile-time code generation (template specialization) is frankly pointless, especially since libraries are going to continue being plain C due to near universal presence of C bindings.
having targetted enticements for people to enter a given field that is under-served isn't a bad thing.
Surely the soaring wages should be enticement enough. Or did you mean there's a lack of people willing to work unpaid overtime on minimum wage out of desperation?
If you wait until you stink to wash, you already have issues.
Perhaps, but skin irritation from too much washing is unlikely to be amongst them, and since you won't stink, it's not like anyone can tell. So what does it matter?
Contrast that with the government which forces itself on me and takes my money without my consent. If I chose to deny them my wealth they would send people to collect it by any means necessary up to and including killing me to get it.
Last I checked, it was legal to emigrate from the United States. If you choose to stay in the country, it's hardly unreasonable to demand that you pay your share of its maintenance. How long do you think "your money" would hold any value without anti-counterfeiting laws, or stay yours without police and courts? How would you get to work to earn it in the first place without roads? Especially since you'd need to stay home and guard your house against boarders without real estate registry and its enforcement.
People like you want all the benefits of civilization yet stick someone else with the bill. It's all your rhetoric really reduces to.
I'd like to see some evidence that the performance gain due to more registers outweighs the performance loss due to fewer pointers per cache in the majority of cases.
In the majority of cases, the program is IO bound. In the cases where it isn't, it's likely GPU bound. If it happens to be CPU bound, it finishes too soon for it to matter. And in the tiny number of cases of a CPU-bound, long running program, why guess when you can simply compile both versions, run them and terminate the one that gets left in the dust? If that's not worth doing, the issue is not worth worrying about in the first place.
Also, it seems to me that if you're doing a lot of pointer dereferencing, you're going to get so many cache misses this issue gets lost in the noise.
The "14yo brat" is free to call anyone he or she wishes a faggot, and you and anyone else is free not to listen.
Being called a faggot in an online game might affect your desire to continue playing online games. Thus, it affects interstate trade, and is clearly within the Federal Government's right to regulate. For that matter, since you listening or not listening to such insults will also affect your future gaming prospects, that too falls under the Federal Government's jurisdiction.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.
Sorry, no can do. Dying definitely diminshes your future interstate trade prospects, except perhaps in the organ market.
For a $25 billion plus industry, the trade press is really terrible. Perhaps people who play games expect more that what the existing setup delivers.
"Trade press" is not meant for people who consume the product, but for people who make it. And they're too busy working 60-hour weeks to spare time for reading.
I find it to be mostly repackaged PR pieces and manufactured outrage at issue X of the day. Its time to grow up and be professional.
"Professional" means someone who works for money. So being at the beck and call of games industry is being professional.
This is true for both sides of the "Obama is a foreigner" or "Bush did 9/11" debates, too. But that doesn't change the fact that one side is consistent with reality, while the other is absurd agenda-driven fantasy.
The HARD part is creating a movie where the plot is; "use large geometric shapes and pack them well!"
That's not the plot, that's the theme. The plot will be "good guys kill bad guys". The only real question is whether "Tetris" will turn up as a heroic or villainous doomsday weapon.
Assuming you're a survivor, there might not be much of a functional nation to return too, let alone the modern world.
In which case that stocked food won't do any good for you. If food production collapses, you're done for; even if you knew how to live off the land, enough other people do too to deplete any sources in short order.
There hasn't been a hijacking of a US flight since then, but given that the last passenger hijacking BEFORE 9/11 was in 1987, it's likely that this long dry spell is mostly if not entirely due to banning blades from carry on luggage.
Given that archetypal airplane hijacking in popular imagination prior to 9/11 was "some nutcase wants to go to Cuba, and will mildly inconvenience us if we don't interfere" but is now "some nutcase wants to kill us all, and will do so if we don't stop him", I don't think the availability of blades would make much of a difference nowadays.
As much as I don't want to validate trolling by responding to it: many of Martin's kills are done specifically to play with expectations. We killed the presumptive protagonist (Ned Stark). Then the audience realizes this story is about the sone and his revenge. So we kill him. But at least we know who the villan is. So Joffrey dies.
I haven't watched or read the series beyond some individual scenes so I can't say if that's an accurate assesment of it, but if it is, then it's evidence for the granparent's position. "Playing with expectations" is a gimmick. It can work once or perhaps even twice, but if the entire work revolves around it, that strongly suggests the author relies on constant shocks because they have nothing else up their sleeve.
I'm sure your novels are better.
Just like everyone who complains about Obama/Bush/whatever better have a succesful term or two of US presidency behind them?
Because I recall explaining it to you already, just a few weeks ago. Right here on slashdot. And here you are again, trolling on the subject as it it never occurred.
Truth is, we're heading for a collapse. Fossil fuels are running out, and couldn't be used ad infinitum even if they were in infinite supply do to their enviromental effects. They could be replaced with nuclear power, but the threat of nuclear war has - likely forever - tarnished their reputation, leading to slow pace of technical development, high costs and outright bans. Should fusion start working tomorrow, it would run headlong into these same problems. So what does that leave? A fantasy about windmills powering an industrial civilization. Of course people want to believe it. And so they will continue believing it, right until the bitter end - and the survivors will continue saying "if only windmills had gotten more money!"
There is no way to pack an efficient transformer into such a small space. There is no easy fix. Houses need wired seperately with a lower voltage appropriate for powering LED lights.
And then you waste energy due to higher current. But if you're willing to install new wiring, how about optic cables? You can generate light in a centralized fashion by a few ultra-efficient sources, and distribute it from there. And of course you could use sunlight when available.
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Or, in a brighter future, technology has advanced to the point where anyone who wishes can flip their gender on a whim, therefore simultaneously obsoleting gender discrimination, giving people access to a wider set of expriences and giving people who's identity revolves around trying to control others plenty to impontently froth about.
We don't currently have the medical technology that could transform people into dolphins or reasonably functional facsimiles. But if we did, and someone was happier that way... why not? What's it to anyone else, really?
There persists this weird idea that people have to conform to some definition of "normalcy". It's some weird combination of naturalistic fallacy and lingering remains of ancient religious (un)cleanliness code. It's time this monstrosity was laid to rest, before it claims any more victims.
Of course not. What real professional environments use are Windows systems with Visual Basic programs "some guy" wrote.
90% of everything is garbage. It's just that the oceans of time wash it out, leaving only the gold nuggets. Of course, an actual ocean will also have the same effect, which is why anime became such a hit in the West.
No, it doesn't. An OOM error in Java means the stack is unwound to the point where the error is caught, just like with any other throwable. While this can cause problems if the error occurred in the middle of a complex data structure manipulation, that can be worked around (for example by using immutable data structures). In my experience such programs work perfectly reliably, they simply require some more forethought.
Ooh, burn! But do explain to me how restarting helps in that case? Surely your code will use just as much memory on rerun than on the first? Unless, of course, some of that memory was actually being taken up by accumulated cruft that had not been freed despite no longer being needed - in other words, a resource leak.
Oh, and raping little virgin girls won't cure AIDs. As long as the Catholic Church speaks against contraception, the Catholic Church can and should be hold responsible for any and all consequences, such as the spread of AIDS. And yes, that includes rapes carried out from desperation as a result of said spread.
There's a more general point here: you can't wield power yet disown the consequences. Moving from a bunch of selfish, irresponsible individuals and tribes to a more mature mindset is the biggest challenge facing humanity right now. Catholic Church is still stuck on the "it's all about me" mindset, as demonstrated every time some of its dirty laundry gets aired, but it's not like our nation-states are much better.
AFAIK the virus can jump species anytime, but a newly jumped version is so badly adapted to its new host that human immune system suppresses it in a few weeks. However, if the virus just happens to jump to a new host in that time, the battle starts from scratch there. Immune response takes time, so if there's a steady stream of new victims the virus can stay one step ahead - and all the time it's evolving and adapting, until you get to modern-day AIDS.
Enter King Leopold II of Belgium, under who's authority Congo Free State was an ideal hellhole for a new and exciting disease to get all the hosts it could possibly need to mature into a pandemic. So this is yet another modern-day problem that can be laid at the feet of colonialism.
You can do this with Java too.
Why crash when you can catch such errors and recover?
I thought you said sane C++ doesn't leak resources?
That is the correct decision, IMO. It's not the 80's anymore; standard input and standard output are not sufficient IO abstractions. Graphics and mouse input are the bare minimum for general usability these days, altough in a pinch terminal emulation might do.
On the other hand, binary compatibility for a language that relies heavily on compile-time code generation (template specialization) is frankly pointless, especially since libraries are going to continue being plain C due to near universal presence of C bindings.
Surely the soaring wages should be enticement enough. Or did you mean there's a lack of people willing to work unpaid overtime on minimum wage out of desperation?
Perhaps, but skin irritation from too much washing is unlikely to be amongst them, and since you won't stink, it's not like anyone can tell. So what does it matter?
Last I checked, it was legal to emigrate from the United States. If you choose to stay in the country, it's hardly unreasonable to demand that you pay your share of its maintenance. How long do you think "your money" would hold any value without anti-counterfeiting laws, or stay yours without police and courts? How would you get to work to earn it in the first place without roads? Especially since you'd need to stay home and guard your house against boarders without real estate registry and its enforcement.
People like you want all the benefits of civilization yet stick someone else with the bill. It's all your rhetoric really reduces to.
In the majority of cases, the program is IO bound. In the cases where it isn't, it's likely GPU bound. If it happens to be CPU bound, it finishes too soon for it to matter. And in the tiny number of cases of a CPU-bound, long running program, why guess when you can simply compile both versions, run them and terminate the one that gets left in the dust? If that's not worth doing, the issue is not worth worrying about in the first place.
Also, it seems to me that if you're doing a lot of pointer dereferencing, you're going to get so many cache misses this issue gets lost in the noise.
So... why did you?
Fixed that for you.
Being called a faggot in an online game might affect your desire to continue playing online games. Thus, it affects interstate trade, and is clearly within the Federal Government's right to regulate. For that matter, since you listening or not listening to such insults will also affect your future gaming prospects, that too falls under the Federal Government's jurisdiction.
Sorry, no can do. Dying definitely diminshes your future interstate trade prospects, except perhaps in the organ market.
"Trade press" is not meant for people who consume the product, but for people who make it. And they're too busy working 60-hour weeks to spare time for reading.
"Professional" means someone who works for money. So being at the beck and call of games industry is being professional.
This is true for both sides of the "Obama is a foreigner" or "Bush did 9/11" debates, too. But that doesn't change the fact that one side is consistent with reality, while the other is absurd agenda-driven fantasy.
That's not the plot, that's the theme. The plot will be "good guys kill bad guys". The only real question is whether "Tetris" will turn up as a heroic or villainous doomsday weapon.
In which case that stocked food won't do any good for you. If food production collapses, you're done for; even if you knew how to live off the land, enough other people do too to deplete any sources in short order.
Why would Silk Road want to censor Viagra offers?
User interfaces designed by this philosophy are horrendously inefficient, since they don't let you automate or customize anything.
Given that archetypal airplane hijacking in popular imagination prior to 9/11 was "some nutcase wants to go to Cuba, and will mildly inconvenience us if we don't interfere" but is now "some nutcase wants to kill us all, and will do so if we don't stop him", I don't think the availability of blades would make much of a difference nowadays.
I haven't watched or read the series beyond some individual scenes so I can't say if that's an accurate assesment of it, but if it is, then it's evidence for the granparent's position. "Playing with expectations" is a gimmick. It can work once or perhaps even twice, but if the entire work revolves around it, that strongly suggests the author relies on constant shocks because they have nothing else up their sleeve.
Just like everyone who complains about Obama/Bush/whatever better have a succesful term or two of US presidency behind them?
Truth is, we're heading for a collapse. Fossil fuels are running out, and couldn't be used ad infinitum even if they were in infinite supply do to their enviromental effects. They could be replaced with nuclear power, but the threat of nuclear war has - likely forever - tarnished their reputation, leading to slow pace of technical development, high costs and outright bans. Should fusion start working tomorrow, it would run headlong into these same problems. So what does that leave? A fantasy about windmills powering an industrial civilization. Of course people want to believe it. And so they will continue believing it, right until the bitter end - and the survivors will continue saying "if only windmills had gotten more money!"
And then you waste energy due to higher current. But if you're willing to install new wiring, how about optic cables? You can generate light in a centralized fashion by a few ultra-efficient sources, and distribute it from there. And of course you could use sunlight when available.