Harassment isn't a growing problem; it's getting media attention at this time.
Throughout all of history, even in the Victorian age, people have fucked other people's wives; why do you think mistresses are a long-time common theme of a man's life in old stories, or weddings end with something about reasons two people shouldn't be married? The priest isn't asking you if the bride is a lying bitch; he's asking if the bride's dad secretly fucked the groom's mom one drunken night and so the dude is marrying his sister. We have a huge narrative about how the moral fiber of society is degrading, how teenagers are starting to sexualize themselves, how you never had people fucking their teachers in the 1920s or 1950s, teen pregnancy is the new thing, etc; all of that's been a constant theme through history, and teachers kept on fucking 12-year-old schoolgirls right through the ages where we pushed marriage from 12 to 18.
The same narrative is happening with harassment. It's a problem, sure; it's not a new or growing problem, though. Harassment has been with us since man figured out how to call some other man an ignorant little shit in front of his friends in order to elevate his own social status. Now instead of being afraid to leave your house because the big kid from school is waiting around the corner to jump you and give you a wedgie, you're afraid to get on Facebook because the big kid from school is waiting to tell you your tits are too small. Same shit, different day.
You're all dorks. I somehow wound up with a bunch of steam games, and the experience has been thus:
Most games play fine on my built-in Intel HD graphics in my old Core i5 and newer Pentium dual-core.
Some games--irritatingly, no-fog, low-effects, and even 2D-sprite-driven platformers--run at 6fps every time there's some action, and even go to 1FPS on a fucking loading screen with a 2D, flat, single-color progress bar. This is why I usually stick to consoles.
I don't even have the new Intel HD4000. I have the old Intel HD2000, the chip with 8 graphics cores instead of the $10 upgrade with 16 graphics cores.
Nobody wants that. If they have to think about the corporate oligarchy trying to get cheap labor, they have to realize that public-access college (free or federally-supported tuition) is just a way to get cheap labor at the expense of the individual. Whenever I explain this, people say that businesses would *never* respond to a labor shortage by *training* new employees; they'd just not hire anyone. They can't understand "Education" as K-12 and "Workforce Development" as college.
Which also doesn't make much sense, since there's not much advantage and a lot of disadvantage to 64-bit ISA. The x86-64 ISA adds extra registers and other instructions which would be useful to 16-bit processors, but it also makes word-sized values 64-bits wide by default.
It would load the memory at 0x0c00-0x0c0F into CPU cache, and copy the 0x0c00 address into a register. If you then tried to add 0x0c0A to that register, it would read it from cache.
I'm starting to wonder what really makes an architecture 32- or 64-bit. So far as I can tell, it's just the pointer size. 32-bit architectures can have 64-bit word sizes (double-word); the processor can internally carry 256-bit cache lines and have enormous data buses and still be an 8-bit 6502.
Seriously, you could make that: a 6502 with pin-outs for 256-bit data buses, but 8-bit addressing. Prefetches 32 words at once through one cycle into CPU cache. It would be nonsense. The Athlon 64 architecture used to internally predict register usage and break the 64-bit GPRs into 32-bit GPRs, and add those plus the remaining GPRs to a set of internal 32-bit registers, which it used to preload registers: when you wanted to load an address into a register, it would have predicted this action and already cached it in an internal register; if you wanted to add a memory location to a register, branch prediction would have that location in an internal register, and do an add of one register to another. It used its 64-bit data bus to prefetch two words at a time: rather than prefetching the next 8 words by 8 memory bus accesses, it would prefetch 8 words in 4 memory bus addresses--doubling memory access speed compared to a 32-bit architecture with the same FSB clock.
The key point of a 64-bit architecture is now the ability to address 64-bit memory locations. You can mess with 32-bit architecture to use 64-bit or 128-bit operations internally where appropriate--double words and other large data objects.
Materials are produced by the application of labor. We mine and refine oil into fuel; if we use that fuel to generate electricity to run a fusor, we can produce gold. There are mines with gold just sitting around, so it takes less labor to just dig it out of the ground than to produce it; we do produce cesium by nuclear fusion.
It's obviously possible to make a new process or product that's slower, more labor-intensive (expensive), and terribly unsuited for its purpose. The opposite must also be possible; and, in fact, by hybridization and genetic modification, we have made food plants which grow faster (shorter growing time, more yield), require less labor (less water, less fertilizer per yield), and produce more palatable and higher-nutrient foods. That's occurred over tens of thousands of years, since we stopped hunter-gathering and started agrarian society.
Begging the Question is a fallacy in which the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true. "Many ways" as in "What many ways?"
Because our tasks are uniquely difficult: not only are they complex, but they're impossible to verify. If all the hackers and security auditors and Bruce Schneier think your network is secure, that's the end of that; if all the NASA engineers in the world think your plane will fly, they can stand around scratching their heads about it when it doesn't.
After a flood of media coverage, the media backed off quickly when the news became depressing. I saw a few reports of tidal power plants shutting down, then nothing; nobody wants to talk about it. They're just expensive, complicated, and unreliable. It's like hydroelectric dams: all the rage for a decade or so, and then people just stopped building them because they're expensive as living fuck.
In essence, real tidal and geothermal plants are like real RTG nuclear plants: Russia has used them, the US has researched them, but we gave up on that after we started putting it in practice and found it to be expensive, unreliable, and outright dangerous. New tech might make geothermal useful, eventually; hydroelectric and tidal have their own specific troubles that just spell "it was a bad idea" on the front in big, block letters.
That's not how that works. The population of bacteria over a surface is huge; it's not going to evolve to live on a plastic duck any more than humans have evolved to live in the antarctic without special equipment.
Pebble-bed reactors can't recycle fuel, and get much lower output per volume. They're labor-intensive and require constant inspection of fuel spheres for cracks and other failures. Essentially, they're nuclear at 1000 times the cost.
Breeder reactors are a great way to manage waste, but they also have higher operating cost than regular reactors. Storing waste underground is cheap, and probably our best alternative: if we store it properly (e.g. in a neutron-dampening material like heavy water or graphite blocks), we can rely on it decaying little over time. When newly-refined nuclear fuel becomes scarce, we'll have better, lower-labor tech to recycle spent fuel into useful fuel: breeder fuel becomes cheaper than newly-mined fuel.
Every option to do anything has a downside. That old "Fast, Cheap, Good, Pick Two" thing is bullshit: you can make it faster, cheaper, and better than all alternatives available, and it'll still have a cost in labor and materials, and all kinds of negative side-effects. They may all be less severe than every other alternative, and less severe than not doing anything at all, but there are still costs.
There are other strains of dental bacteria which don't produce the acids which destroy your teeth. When you completely wipe out the bacteria in your mouth, they get re-introduced from the environment. Take your pick; there's plenty of reasons this will work forever.
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Harassment isn't a growing problem; it's getting media attention at this time.
Throughout all of history, even in the Victorian age, people have fucked other people's wives; why do you think mistresses are a long-time common theme of a man's life in old stories, or weddings end with something about reasons two people shouldn't be married? The priest isn't asking you if the bride is a lying bitch; he's asking if the bride's dad secretly fucked the groom's mom one drunken night and so the dude is marrying his sister. We have a huge narrative about how the moral fiber of society is degrading, how teenagers are starting to sexualize themselves, how you never had people fucking their teachers in the 1920s or 1950s, teen pregnancy is the new thing, etc; all of that's been a constant theme through history, and teachers kept on fucking 12-year-old schoolgirls right through the ages where we pushed marriage from 12 to 18.
The same narrative is happening with harassment. It's a problem, sure; it's not a new or growing problem, though. Harassment has been with us since man figured out how to call some other man an ignorant little shit in front of his friends in order to elevate his own social status. Now instead of being afraid to leave your house because the big kid from school is waiting around the corner to jump you and give you a wedgie, you're afraid to get on Facebook because the big kid from school is waiting to tell you your tits are too small. Same shit, different day.
You're all dorks. I somehow wound up with a bunch of steam games, and the experience has been thus:
Most games play fine on my built-in Intel HD graphics in my old Core i5 and newer Pentium dual-core.
Some games--irritatingly, no-fog, low-effects, and even 2D-sprite-driven platformers--run at 6fps every time there's some action, and even go to 1FPS on a fucking loading screen with a 2D, flat, single-color progress bar. This is why I usually stick to consoles.
I don't even have the new Intel HD4000. I have the old Intel HD2000, the chip with 8 graphics cores instead of the $10 upgrade with 16 graphics cores.
Nobody wants that. If they have to think about the corporate oligarchy trying to get cheap labor, they have to realize that public-access college (free or federally-supported tuition) is just a way to get cheap labor at the expense of the individual. Whenever I explain this, people say that businesses would *never* respond to a labor shortage by *training* new employees; they'd just not hire anyone. They can't understand "Education" as K-12 and "Workforce Development" as college.
Customer inquiries are customer-initiated cold-calls. They have nothing to do with how happy your employees are.
Which also doesn't make much sense, since there's not much advantage and a lot of disadvantage to 64-bit ISA. The x86-64 ISA adds extra registers and other instructions which would be useful to 16-bit processors, but it also makes word-sized values 64-bits wide by default.
Right, just the internal architecture of an 8-bit processor is for some reason now 64-bit.
You'd say, "Get the memory at 0x0c00".
It would load the memory at 0x0c00-0x0c0F into CPU cache, and copy the 0x0c00 address into a register. If you then tried to add 0x0c0A to that register, it would read it from cache.
I'm starting to wonder what really makes an architecture 32- or 64-bit. So far as I can tell, it's just the pointer size. 32-bit architectures can have 64-bit word sizes (double-word); the processor can internally carry 256-bit cache lines and have enormous data buses and still be an 8-bit 6502.
Seriously, you could make that: a 6502 with pin-outs for 256-bit data buses, but 8-bit addressing. Prefetches 32 words at once through one cycle into CPU cache. It would be nonsense. The Athlon 64 architecture used to internally predict register usage and break the 64-bit GPRs into 32-bit GPRs, and add those plus the remaining GPRs to a set of internal 32-bit registers, which it used to preload registers: when you wanted to load an address into a register, it would have predicted this action and already cached it in an internal register; if you wanted to add a memory location to a register, branch prediction would have that location in an internal register, and do an add of one register to another. It used its 64-bit data bus to prefetch two words at a time: rather than prefetching the next 8 words by 8 memory bus accesses, it would prefetch 8 words in 4 memory bus addresses--doubling memory access speed compared to a 32-bit architecture with the same FSB clock.
The key point of a 64-bit architecture is now the ability to address 64-bit memory locations. You can mess with 32-bit architecture to use 64-bit or 128-bit operations internally where appropriate--double words and other large data objects.
Materials are produced by the application of labor. We mine and refine oil into fuel; if we use that fuel to generate electricity to run a fusor, we can produce gold. There are mines with gold just sitting around, so it takes less labor to just dig it out of the ground than to produce it; we do produce cesium by nuclear fusion.
It's obviously possible to make a new process or product that's slower, more labor-intensive (expensive), and terribly unsuited for its purpose. The opposite must also be possible; and, in fact, by hybridization and genetic modification, we have made food plants which grow faster (shorter growing time, more yield), require less labor (less water, less fertilizer per yield), and produce more palatable and higher-nutrient foods. That's occurred over tens of thousands of years, since we stopped hunter-gathering and started agrarian society.
Begging the Question is a fallacy in which the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true. "Many ways" as in "What many ways?"
Begs the question: "In Many Ways"? What ways? Is the Gnome3 shell more up-to-date and running on Wayland?
Because our tasks are uniquely difficult: not only are they complex, but they're impossible to verify. If all the hackers and security auditors and Bruce Schneier think your network is secure, that's the end of that; if all the NASA engineers in the world think your plane will fly, they can stand around scratching their heads about it when it doesn't.
Get the OSCP.
After a flood of media coverage, the media backed off quickly when the news became depressing. I saw a few reports of tidal power plants shutting down, then nothing; nobody wants to talk about it. They're just expensive, complicated, and unreliable. It's like hydroelectric dams: all the rage for a decade or so, and then people just stopped building them because they're expensive as living fuck.
In essence, real tidal and geothermal plants are like real RTG nuclear plants: Russia has used them, the US has researched them, but we gave up on that after we started putting it in practice and found it to be expensive, unreliable, and outright dangerous. New tech might make geothermal useful, eventually; hydroelectric and tidal have their own specific troubles that just spell "it was a bad idea" on the front in big, block letters.
That's not how that works. The population of bacteria over a surface is huge; it's not going to evolve to live on a plastic duck any more than humans have evolved to live in the antarctic without special equipment.
Because wind, geothermal, and tidal produce far less energy per labor-unit invested, and thus are expensive.
Tidal and geothermal have been proven bullshit.
Pebble-bed reactors can't recycle fuel, and get much lower output per volume. They're labor-intensive and require constant inspection of fuel spheres for cracks and other failures. Essentially, they're nuclear at 1000 times the cost.
Breeder reactors are a great way to manage waste, but they also have higher operating cost than regular reactors. Storing waste underground is cheap, and probably our best alternative: if we store it properly (e.g. in a neutron-dampening material like heavy water or graphite blocks), we can rely on it decaying little over time. When newly-refined nuclear fuel becomes scarce, we'll have better, lower-labor tech to recycle spent fuel into useful fuel: breeder fuel becomes cheaper than newly-mined fuel.
Cockroaches will die off well before ants.
Every option to do anything has a downside. That old "Fast, Cheap, Good, Pick Two" thing is bullshit: you can make it faster, cheaper, and better than all alternatives available, and it'll still have a cost in labor and materials, and all kinds of negative side-effects. They may all be less severe than every other alternative, and less severe than not doing anything at all, but there are still costs.
It's in your mouth, so it's killing localized bacteria.
It's not wasteful if the plastic polymer is cheap and labor-non-intensive to manufacture compared to alternatives.
There are other strains of dental bacteria which don't produce the acids which destroy your teeth. When you completely wipe out the bacteria in your mouth, they get re-introduced from the environment. Take your pick; there's plenty of reasons this will work forever.