Well, English belongs to the second most compressible group for our technology, along with languages like Spanish and (maybe) German. There was one group that was even more compressible (e.g. Finnish, Italian) - by about 10-20%. Arabic was bad, took twice the space per word, although with only one client asking for it I never tried to see if I could optimize for it. I don't remember Hebrew and I don't see a built db on my disk to extrapolate. Chinese is a whole different story since you store pronunciations (pinyin, zhuyin etc) for hanzi characters and then hanzi sequences as well, so it is not comparable to anything else. Klingon didn't have a big enough dictionary, so while it seems simple enough I'd better not draw a conclusion.
I'll throw in one more data point. I developed a predictive text entry database for my previous employer - similar to the old T9 ( better obviously since I was involved;-) ) and for English (and similar languages) it would take about 4 bits per dictionary word you trained (which is less than 1 bit/char since the average word length is a bit over 5). It is worst-case as we are talking about a dictionary, so no repeating words etc that compress a lot - however the information about how long a word is is not included in those 4 bits, so you save there (the way to think about it is that the user provides the length of word knowledge, the linguistic db the rest). But the idea is that English is pretty compressible...
There is legit usage cases for this software. I, for one, would not trust people who jack off to images of deserts. They should be put on some police list of some sort, so that I know to avoid them.
Yeah, we don't want to miss the Star Trek series which has as a driving plot device of a universe full of sort of midichlorians/spores or something that allow you to travel anywhere instantly...
I didn't have high hopes, but on the very first episode they introduce a "science" vessel that has no probes/drones at all! And has some sort of "imaging processors" that make its optical instruments not be able to see things that a 20th century kiddy-scope can see! And to top all that, they prepare an EVA session (since, you know, there is no drone) and launch it with a ship-wide count-down!!! WTF? It hasn't gotten much better since. The Orville is also worse than expected, but I had higher expectations to begin with, so overall I still prefer it. The latter would actually be quite good if they adhered to some physics that don't affect the plot - even on a semi-serious TV-show I do get distracted by cartoon physics (still more annoying on the more expensive and "serious" Discovery).
So, what will happen to this "trust" when the bubble bursts? And that comparison of the financial system to untested code is rather cringe-worthy. Car analogies are much more insightful anyway.
I had a Xiaomi Mi5 which was a great phone, at a very low price compared to the competition, with the only problem being that it would not work with T-mobile and I visit the US now and then, so it was annoying. Enter the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 - their first device to support T-mobile LTE, and an amazing phone with a gorgeous 6" screen at a device size that is a little smaller than the 5.5" iPhone pluses. It is becoming very popular outside the US, in fact there is a fleet of copycat chinese manufacturers that are making "Mix 2" devices with small bezels (but slow Helios processors etc - nothing like the Xiaomi's top hardware).
It is mind boggling that you have government control on one side by granting potentially abusive monopolies, and at the same time you remove any consumer protective regulation so that these monopolies can be as abusive as they want... Sure, the US has a decent GDP/capita, but that really is no excuse to have up to 10x the telco cost compared to other developed countries (and/or depending the location get stuck with circa 2000 internet speeds). Well, OK, the fact that it is happening is not mind-boggling - just follow the money... The lack of realization/resistance from the people is the stranger and scarier aspect.
Seriously, this is VERY little power, especially for 4.6 billion hours of (exciting) entertainment! I mean, just my country house solar roof produces 15MWh/year - just 400 of those relatively small solar roofs are enough to power world porn! Or compare to the bitcoin network's 32TWh consumption - that's more than 5000 times the claimed amount of streaming porn (without the actual benefits!). I mean, the summary tries to say one thing, but the numbers seem to indicate the exact opposite!
Also, it is not "23 billion visitors", it is "23 billion visits". Unless our streaming porn is popular among extraterrestrial civilizations with populations numbering in the dozens of billions...
Stress severely limits life expectancy and while nutrition, medicine etc might improve, stress seems to be increasing as well at the same time, possibly removing part of the benefit of the other factors. Also, it is possible that there will be some sudden disruptive discovery in medicine that will have a significant effect to life expectancy. As for athletic performance & height, well, I guess we can't expect much improvement there without drugs, genetic manipulation etc - you don't exactly get taller by eating better, you just don't grow to your full potential when malnourished... Not that exciting research IMHO...
Granted, my Japanese is limited to what I've learnt to pick up from watching a lot of Japanese TV/movies, which is not much, but even if you don't know a single word you will realize that the interviewees are going on and on and there is a single sentence as a "translation" in the subtitles. Quite bad for something that purports to be a "documentary" film. I'll leave the discussion of things like why is this here, what are these guys who can afford million dollar cars etc to other threads;)
For those who don't know BLU, I had never heard of them either, so I assumed it is some sort of small Chinese OEM, but actually it seems BLU (Bold Like Us) phones are popular with the Latin population in the Americas. They have been known to to send data to China, so I guess their reputation is not top notch...
This is very funny, he actually found the biggest user escalation exploit in recent memory and he just nonchalantly posts it as an answer to a thread about someone who had his admin accounts turned to standard, with his only comment being "Solution 2 worked for me. No idea how or why. Hope this helps.".
Unless he did not stumble upon it, but read it elsewhere and that is why he is so "business as usual"...
Some years ago I was saying how bitcoin's value increase is not something sustainable, apart from having many of the characteristics of a pyramid scheme, it is also a transaction system that by design supports very few transactions per second (and that at considerable cost in energy and bandwidth), so does not have as much real world potential as you'd think. But after it broke $1000 and kept going I ceased commenting on the bitcoin price, it defies my logic, it boggles my mind, so I'll just wait to see how it goes without trying to comprehend.
I am a computer scientist, and I can confirm you are full of shit. Electronic voting only works in theory (and not even in a more complete theory that takes into accounts all actors involved in implementation & usage of such systems). In practice, you should only use technology to count physical ballots efficiently.
Here is an interesting article on what Raja was doing with RTG by HardOCP's Kyle Bennet (even talked about Intel interest in the AMD graphics). Kyle did also predict that Raja would not return when he went into Sabbatical a couple of months ago. The article is from a year and a half ago, so it is not about the current status: Kyle has since written that AMD seems to be on a good track with the internal shuffling and in its best form in years.
Well, actually Apple has quite a significant share of time-related bugs and it almost seems like they are trying to... ehm... "corner the DST market" ?:) For example, I distinctly remember my iPhone forgetting to wake me up in time a few years ago after DST. From a quick search I see it was 2010. So, iOS 4.1 had a bug where repeating alarms did not work across DST change boundaries. What was infuriating about the bug is that Apple had ample warning, as 2-3 weeks before the Europe, it hit Australia and NZ. That was not enough time for a fix (Apple appears to have suggested "use non-repeating alarms" aka "you're doing it wrong"), so it hit Europe and, then, a week later the US as well. Then they had a DST bug in 2013 as well.
But of course apart from DST there have been other gems like the aforementioned 1970 bug...
And these are the high profile bugs, as a developer I know of subtle bugs that you have to work around since Apple declares them as "as designed" (for example, the date formatter "HH" may or may not be affected by the "24h time" slider in settings, depending on what is the default of that slider in the phone region.. ugh).
What kind of retarded question is this? If you use any features that require the internet, connect it to the internet. I watch Amazon Video on my Smart TV, so it is online. If you don't need anything like that you might as well not connect it. If you are worried about the top-secret national security level stuff you have on your local network, well, ask you security team, not slashdot... And in any case from a security/privacy perspective you should probably be even more worried about other devices (starting with your mobile phone).
Exactly my question. And also, the helmsman had difficulty controlling both course and speed??? Of a ship with a top speed of 30knots??? Is the crew related to the Spaceballs' assholes? I mean no matter how "complicated" the UI is, this was still not a space shuttle, and people were actually piloting those...
Even "bless" is gone now as people use Mouse. Perl code can produce horrors, a bit easier than some other languages. But well written Perl is readable and efficient. People who hate it as a language in general, most likely have no idea what they are talking about. PHP with some pretty major issues as a language is quite down in the list, scoring about similar to Objective-C.... Seriously? Seems like a list made by bad/beginner devs, which I guess makes sense from the way it was produced...
I generally applaud everyone that fights patent trolls, but Apple, one of the biggest players who could actually push and affect change in the ridiculous patent system, is really happy to get their own useless patents granted in an effort to strong-arm either small players or get necessary technology for free, so in my book they are not better than patent trolls. Yeah, the system is broken, but we are happy with it as long as we come ahead in the long run. And we'll fight some small patent trolls, a symptom of the system, along the way just to show form...
Holy crap! If someone gets administrator access on my system, they can do bad things? With the SUBSYSTEM FOR LINUX, SPECIFICALLY??? Seriously,/., what is this shit?
There is a maximum for *small claims* court. Each state defines what the limit for a small claim is differently (most common is $5000). You can sue for as much as you want to, but if your claim is not small, well, you can't use the small claims court.
As a software engineer, it was a common pattern when I was working with iOS. The example was one that came quickly to my mind in a form that I could easily search and post. I even had issues as a user, e.g. for about 2 years Apple had broken support if you had a Mac Pro with upgraded graphics and a multi-monitor setup with a mix of landscape and portrait mode monitors. Their reply to the bug reports was something akin to "if you have that kind of setup, you're doing it wrong". Of course you could also say that Microsoft has entire OSes "bad by design" (Vista, Win 8 etc);) And, to answer your question, no, English is not my first language, but I usually get by...
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Well, English belongs to the second most compressible group for our technology, along with languages like Spanish and (maybe) German. There was one group that was even more compressible (e.g. Finnish, Italian) - by about 10-20%. Arabic was bad, took twice the space per word, although with only one client asking for it I never tried to see if I could optimize for it. I don't remember Hebrew and I don't see a built db on my disk to extrapolate. Chinese is a whole different story since you store pronunciations (pinyin, zhuyin etc) for hanzi characters and then hanzi sequences as well, so it is not comparable to anything else.
Klingon didn't have a big enough dictionary, so while it seems simple enough I'd better not draw a conclusion.
I'll throw in one more data point. I developed a predictive text entry database for my previous employer - similar to the old T9 ( better obviously since I was involved ;-) ) and for English (and similar languages) it would take about 4 bits per dictionary word you trained (which is less than 1 bit/char since the average word length is a bit over 5). It is worst-case as we are talking about a dictionary, so no repeating words etc that compress a lot - however the information about how long a word is is not included in those 4 bits, so you save there (the way to think about it is that the user provides the length of word knowledge, the linguistic db the rest).
But the idea is that English is pretty compressible...
There is legit usage cases for this software. I, for one, would not trust people who jack off to images of deserts. They should be put on some police list of some sort, so that I know to avoid them.
Yeah, we don't want to miss the Star Trek series which has as a driving plot device of a universe full of sort of midichlorians/spores or something that allow you to travel anywhere instantly...
I didn't have high hopes, but on the very first episode they introduce a "science" vessel that has no probes/drones at all! And has some sort of "imaging processors" that make its optical instruments not be able to see things that a 20th century kiddy-scope can see! And to top all that, they prepare an EVA session (since, you know, there is no drone) and launch it with a ship-wide count-down!!! WTF?
It hasn't gotten much better since. The Orville is also worse than expected, but I had higher expectations to begin with, so overall I still prefer it. The latter would actually be quite good if they adhered to some physics that don't affect the plot - even on a semi-serious TV-show I do get distracted by cartoon physics (still more annoying on the more expensive and "serious" Discovery).
So, what will happen to this "trust" when the bubble bursts?
And that comparison of the financial system to untested code is rather cringe-worthy. Car analogies are much more insightful anyway.
I had a Xiaomi Mi5 which was a great phone, at a very low price compared to the competition, with the only problem being that it would not work with T-mobile and I visit the US now and then, so it was annoying.
Enter the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 - their first device to support T-mobile LTE, and an amazing phone with a gorgeous 6" screen at a device size that is a little smaller than the 5.5" iPhone pluses. It is becoming very popular outside the US, in fact there is a fleet of copycat chinese manufacturers that are making "Mix 2" devices with small bezels (but slow Helios processors etc - nothing like the Xiaomi's top hardware).
It is mind boggling that you have government control on one side by granting potentially abusive monopolies, and at the same time you remove any consumer protective regulation so that these monopolies can be as abusive as they want... Sure, the US has a decent GDP/capita, but that really is no excuse to have up to 10x the telco cost compared to other developed countries (and/or depending the location get stuck with circa 2000 internet speeds).
Well, OK, the fact that it is happening is not mind-boggling - just follow the money... The lack of realization/resistance from the people is the stranger and scarier aspect.
Seriously, this is VERY little power, especially for 4.6 billion hours of (exciting) entertainment! I mean, just my country house solar roof produces 15MWh/year - just 400 of those relatively small solar roofs are enough to power world porn! Or compare to the bitcoin network's 32TWh consumption - that's more than 5000 times the claimed amount of streaming porn (without the actual benefits!). I mean, the summary tries to say one thing, but the numbers seem to indicate the exact opposite!
Also, it is not "23 billion visitors", it is "23 billion visits". Unless our streaming porn is popular among extraterrestrial civilizations with populations numbering in the dozens of billions...
Stress severely limits life expectancy and while nutrition, medicine etc might improve, stress seems to be increasing as well at the same time, possibly removing part of the benefit of the other factors. Also, it is possible that there will be some sudden disruptive discovery in medicine that will have a significant effect to life expectancy.
As for athletic performance & height, well, I guess we can't expect much improvement there without drugs, genetic manipulation etc - you don't exactly get taller by eating better, you just don't grow to your full potential when malnourished...
Not that exciting research IMHO...
Granted, my Japanese is limited to what I've learnt to pick up from watching a lot of Japanese TV/movies, which is not much, but even if you don't know a single word you will realize that the interviewees are going on and on and there is a single sentence as a "translation" in the subtitles. Quite bad for something that purports to be a "documentary" film. ;)
I'll leave the discussion of things like why is this here, what are these guys who can afford million dollar cars etc to other threads
For those who don't know BLU, I had never heard of them either, so I assumed it is some sort of small Chinese OEM, but actually it seems BLU (Bold Like Us) phones are popular with the Latin population in the Americas. They have been known to to send data to China, so I guess their reputation is not top notch...
This is very funny, he actually found the biggest user escalation exploit in recent memory and he just nonchalantly posts it as an answer to a thread about someone who had his admin accounts turned to standard, with his only comment being "Solution 2 worked for me. No idea how or why. Hope this helps.".
Unless he did not stumble upon it, but read it elsewhere and that is why he is so "business as usual"...
Some years ago I was saying how bitcoin's value increase is not something sustainable, apart from having many of the characteristics of a pyramid scheme, it is also a transaction system that by design supports very few transactions per second (and that at considerable cost in energy and bandwidth), so does not have as much real world potential as you'd think. But after it broke $1000 and kept going I ceased commenting on the bitcoin price, it defies my logic, it boggles my mind, so I'll just wait to see how it goes without trying to comprehend.
I am a computer scientist, and I can confirm you are full of shit. Electronic voting only works in theory (and not even in a more complete theory that takes into accounts all actors involved in implementation & usage of such systems). In practice, you should only use technology to count physical ballots efficiently.
Here is an interesting article on what Raja was doing with RTG by HardOCP's Kyle Bennet (even talked about Intel interest in the AMD graphics). Kyle did also predict that Raja would not return when he went into Sabbatical a couple of months ago. The article is from a year and a half ago, so it is not about the current status: Kyle has since written that AMD seems to be on a good track with the internal shuffling and in its best form in years.
Well, actually Apple has quite a significant share of time-related bugs and it almost seems like they are trying to... ehm... "corner the DST market" ? :)
For example, I distinctly remember my iPhone forgetting to wake me up in time a few years ago after DST. From a quick search I see it was 2010. So, iOS 4.1 had a bug where repeating alarms did not work across DST change boundaries. What was infuriating about the bug is that Apple had ample warning, as 2-3 weeks before the Europe, it hit Australia and NZ. That was not enough time for a fix (Apple appears to have suggested "use non-repeating alarms" aka "you're doing it wrong"), so it hit Europe and, then, a week later the US as well. Then they had a DST bug in 2013 as well.
But of course apart from DST there have been other gems like the aforementioned 1970 bug...
And these are the high profile bugs, as a developer I know of subtle bugs that you have to work around since Apple declares them as "as designed" (for example, the date formatter "HH" may or may not be affected by the "24h time" slider in settings, depending on what is the default of that slider in the phone region.. ugh).
What kind of retarded question is this? If you use any features that require the internet, connect it to the internet. I watch Amazon Video on my Smart TV, so it is online. If you don't need anything like that you might as well not connect it.
If you are worried about the top-secret national security level stuff you have on your local network, well, ask you security team, not slashdot... And in any case from a security/privacy perspective you should probably be even more worried about other devices (starting with your mobile phone).
Exactly my question.
And also, the helmsman had difficulty controlling both course and speed??? Of a ship with a top speed of 30knots??? Is the crew related to the Spaceballs' assholes?
I mean no matter how "complicated" the UI is, this was still not a space shuttle, and people were actually piloting those...
Even "bless" is gone now as people use Mouse.
Perl code can produce horrors, a bit easier than some other languages.
But well written Perl is readable and efficient. People who hate it as a language in general, most likely have no idea what they are talking about.
PHP with some pretty major issues as a language is quite down in the list, scoring about similar to Objective-C.... Seriously?
Seems like a list made by bad/beginner devs, which I guess makes sense from the way it was produced...
40 percent of all China's factories have been shut down at some point in order to be inspected by environmental bureau officials.
Wouldn't you want to inspect them before you shut them down? I mean how bad can the emissions of a shut-down factory be?
I generally applaud everyone that fights patent trolls, but Apple, one of the biggest players who could actually push and affect change in the ridiculous patent system, is really happy to get their own useless patents granted in an effort to strong-arm either small players or get necessary technology for free, so in my book they are not better than patent trolls.
Yeah, the system is broken, but we are happy with it as long as we come ahead in the long run. And we'll fight some small patent trolls, a symptom of the system, along the way just to show form...
Holy crap! If someone gets administrator access on my system, they can do bad things? With the SUBSYSTEM FOR LINUX, SPECIFICALLY??? /., what is this shit?
Seriously,
There is a maximum for *small claims* court. Each state defines what the limit for a small claim is differently (most common is $5000). You can sue for as much as you want to, but if your claim is not small, well, you can't use the small claims court.
As a software engineer, it was a common pattern when I was working with iOS. The example was one that came quickly to my mind in a form that I could easily search and post. I even had issues as a user, e.g. for about 2 years Apple had broken support if you had a Mac Pro with upgraded graphics and a multi-monitor setup with a mix of landscape and portrait mode monitors. Their reply to the bug reports was something akin to "if you have that kind of setup, you're doing it wrong". Of course you could also say that Microsoft has entire OSes "bad by design" (Vista, Win 8 etc) ;) And, to answer your question, no, English is not my first language, but I usually get by...
Huh, usually it's Apple with the "Broken As Designed stuff, I guess Microsoft is playing catch up in that area too ;)