No generalized health insurance - Good. Why should I, someone who takes good care of his body, fund the risky behaviours of others who don't? Although I agree that congenital disorders should be
Why you should ? For two reasons: 1) You, too, may become the victim of a gruesome disease or a bad accident 2)Because it is a moral thing, for the stronger, to help the weaker.
the NRA - Like it or not, there are too many guns in the USA to get rid of them. Of you try, the police and criminals will be the only ones with guns, and that's certainly not a good thing. Also, the NRA's existence means we have great freedom of speech laws, unlike Europe, which is going the PC censorship route
This is a classic argument against change: "Proposed change is not perfect, so let's rather do nothing". Moreover, here in Europe, with strict gun regulation, indeed only "police and criminals" have guns, and we have no school shootings. As for the NRA's existence guaranteeing "great freedom of speech", I won't even bend over the edge of such bottomless stupidity in order to try and see a rational argument there.
No generalized health insurance, the NRA, limitless capitalism, sugar in nearly all processed foods, Trump, the Bushes - Americans really know how to take risks.
You wouldn't. For two reasons: First, you need energy in order to extract them - where are you going to get that ? Second, you need oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur in order to anything meaningful with them. Where are you going to get those ? And if you are going to get them, with what energy ?
Humanity has the knowledge to solve its problems but lacks the moral insight to implement these ideas on a global scale.
This, in and by itself, is the most thoughtful remark by an American in 2015 I've read. From there, the author develops his stance that Mars should be liberated before any human lands on it. His train of thought and chained arguments avoid any extremism, be it political or philosophical and cite such successful devices as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( to which, BTW, the USA is not a party, alas ). In brief: the author makes an excellent point, parting from a single philosophical argument. We need a couple more like him.
Oil ? This is ridiculous. What are you going to do with that oil ? For lack of oxygen, you can't burn it there. So you could only lift it at great expense out of Mars' gravity well, and then transport it to Earth. To a place that already has enormous amounts of it, and - see the green and electrical revolution going on as we're watching - will probably not need to use a major part of it.
in slashdot comment threads on climate-related posts seems to be inversely proportional to the square of the post's age, and exponential in the number of USA citizens participating in the thread. One also notes such phenomena as the denial or neglect of simple laws of nature, the denial of the 119-year old findings of a well-respected scientist, ignorance of the basic tenets of technical, even polite discussion, and a statistically not insignificant tendency to adhere to conspiration theories. Slashdot discussion threads on climate, climate change and climate policy are, to an engineer, to a scientist or even to a concerned citizen, some of the most disheartening places on the internet.
Not only that. The Dutch system of coastal protection got built over centuries, and much of it in the 20th century, when the country, i.e. the state, finally came into some money. Even then, to build the system out to its current, world-class level, the state had to borrow enormous amounts of money, the last of which was only recently paid back. And this was a prosperous, fully industrialized country. Until the dawn of the 20th century BTW, and even during it, there were regular and major floods, with sometimes 1000s of casulties, in spite of the coastal protection already in place. The last of these floods took place after World War II. Disclaimer: I am Dutch.
The jump from "what" and "wherefrom" - e.g. an ip address, Korea - to the "whom" and "why" seems hardly to be feasible in a purely machine-based way. IMHO, you're pretty soon going to hit the limits of what a sysadmin can do, both technically and professionally. There are corporations and individuals specialized in this kind of work, which has many traits of the criminal investigator's.
Then again, to the sysadmin or the CTO, does the "why" really matter ?
He never will. In most of his work, the characters do not or hardly experience any evolution; moreover, much of his work builds upon the same small set of ever-repeated patterns. His work is indeed "fiction", but far away from being "literature".
I concur. Mod parent up. A company that pushes a new version, only slightly different, of its flagship product through the throats of customers every 1 to 2 years does not merit customers at all. Then again - the customers who DO buy that crap have merited their € 500+ throat fuck all right.
I once did a penetration test on a web site / app running under Tomcat, for an Austrian ministry. (Someone breaking into the system might have involved quite the financial loss.) I broke off the test after a couple of minutes: the guys, eager to "do devops", had deployed binaries... and a.jar file with the complete source code.
<quote><p>The reason Europeans were so susceptible to the plague is that they were Europeans, just as the reason Native Americans were so susceptible to small pox was that they were Native Americans. Inbreeding leads to weakness, crossbreeding leads to strength.</p></quote>
The reason that US Americans are so susceptible to firearm-induced deaths is that they, being Americans, are more vulnerable to bad logic and NRA fallacies than any other people in the world.
my new pellets stove had broken down. As all the mechanical parts seemed to work, it had to be the electronics. Called in the repair man, who changed the flame sensor. Thing still didn't work. After 2 days, temperature in the living room had dropped to about freezing point, with my partner huddling on the couch in blankets and jackets. So I took the fucking thing apart, checked everything meticulously, discovered that the fucking flame sensor had been mounted with wrong fucking polarity. Fired up stove, called repair man, who apologized and had a crate of beer delivered.
Solaris was MY first hands-on exposure to Unix. I was born in 1967, and until 1998, I had been programming, much of which for aerospace R & D, where we simply abstracted away both OS and hardware. So, at 31, I was sitting there, looking at the blinking bar in a ksh shell [bash was not available until later versions of Solaris]. I had just sunk more than a month's worth of pay into an HP server with TWO processors - the thing was considered a powerful beast, and trumped by far all machines any of my colleague programmers had at home.
So there I sat, typing away my first awks and seds, learning emacs and vi. I could bring up Solaris' baked-in firewall with a single command. The feeling of raw power at my fingertips was... amazing.
Nowadays, I use Linux. The only GUI I need is the one on the laptop I use for internet access. There are six other computers here at home, where I work. They run a Jenkins compile / build farm, and an OpenStack private cloud.
All configured and brought up and maintained by command line.
You are absolutely right. I just coded the algorithm in a programming language and noticed the same thing. It needs some extra encoding for symbol successor / predecessor relationships. I'll think about that while walking the dog post an update here ASAP.
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Care to come forward as a non-anonymus non-coward ? In which case I'll be glad to continue the discussion.
No generalized health insurance - Good. Why should I, someone who takes good care of his body, fund the risky behaviours of others who don't? Although I agree that congenital disorders should be
Why you should ? For two reasons: 1) You, too, may become the victim of a gruesome disease or a bad accident 2)Because it is a moral thing, for the stronger, to help the weaker.
the NRA - Like it or not, there are too many guns in the USA to get rid of them. Of you try, the police and criminals will be the only ones with guns, and that's certainly not a good thing. Also, the NRA's existence means we have great freedom of speech laws, unlike Europe, which is going the PC censorship route
This is a classic argument against change: "Proposed change is not perfect, so let's rather do nothing". Moreover, here in Europe, with strict gun regulation, indeed only "police and criminals" have guns, and we have no school shootings. As for the NRA's existence guaranteeing "great freedom of speech", I won't even bend over the edge of such bottomless stupidity in order to try and see a rational argument there.
No generalized health insurance, the NRA, limitless capitalism, sugar in nearly all processed foods, Trump, the Bushes - Americans really know how to take risks.
Well said. The CEO of one of the world's most visible companies should know better than to treat the politicians of his country with contempt.
You wouldn't. For two reasons: First, you need energy in order to extract them - where are you going to get that ? Second, you need oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur in order to anything meaningful with them. Where are you going to get those ? And if you are going to get them, with what energy ?
TFA opens its abstract with the observation that
Humanity has the knowledge to solve its problems but lacks the moral insight to implement these ideas on a global scale.
This, in and by itself, is the most thoughtful remark by an American in 2015 I've read. From there, the author develops his stance that Mars should be liberated before any human lands on it. His train of thought and chained arguments avoid any extremism, be it political or philosophical and cite such successful devices as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( to which, BTW, the USA is not a party, alas ). In brief: the author makes an excellent point, parting from a single philosophical argument. We need a couple more like him.
Oil ? This is ridiculous. What are you going to do with that oil ? For lack of oxygen, you can't burn it there. So you could only lift it at great expense out of Mars' gravity well, and then transport it to Earth. To a place that already has enormous amounts of it, and - see the green and electrical revolution going on as we're watching - will probably not need to use a major part of it.
in slashdot comment threads on climate-related posts seems to be inversely proportional to the square of the post's age, and exponential in the number of USA citizens participating in the thread. One also notes such phenomena as the denial or neglect of simple laws of nature, the denial of the 119-year old findings of a well-respected scientist, ignorance of the basic tenets of technical, even polite discussion, and a statistically not insignificant tendency to adhere to conspiration theories. Slashdot discussion threads on climate, climate change and climate policy are, to an engineer, to a scientist or even to a concerned citizen, some of the most disheartening places on the internet.
(Your fucking) God fucking bless fucking America.
Not only that. The Dutch system of coastal protection got built over centuries, and much of it in the 20th century, when the country, i.e. the state, finally came into some money. Even then, to build the system out to its current, world-class level, the state had to borrow enormous amounts of money, the last of which was only recently paid back. And this was a prosperous, fully industrialized country. Until the dawn of the 20th century BTW, and even during it, there were regular and major floods, with sometimes 1000s of casulties, in spite of the coastal protection already in place. The last of these floods took place after World War II. Disclaimer: I am Dutch.
The jump from "what" and "wherefrom" - e.g. an ip address, Korea - to the "whom" and "why" seems hardly to be feasible in a purely machine-based way. IMHO, you're pretty soon going to hit the limits of what a sysadmin can do, both technically and professionally. There are corporations and individuals specialized in this kind of work, which has many traits of the criminal investigator's.
Then again, to the sysadmin or the CTO, does the "why" really matter ?
He never will. In most of his work, the characters do not or hardly experience any evolution; moreover, much of his work builds upon the same small set of ever-repeated patterns. His work is indeed "fiction", but far away from being "literature".
I concur. Mod parent up. A company that pushes a new version, only slightly different, of its flagship product through the throats of customers every 1 to 2 years does not merit customers at all. Then again - the customers who DO buy that crap have merited their € 500+ throat fuck all right.
Harmless, bro. Absolutely harmless. What could go fucking wrong ?
welcome our new <null-pointer> overlords!
I once did a penetration test on a web site / app running under Tomcat, for an Austrian ministry. (Someone breaking into the system might have involved quite the financial loss.) I broke off the test after a couple of minutes: the guys, eager to "do devops", had deployed binaries... and a .jar file with the complete source code.
<quote><p>The reason Europeans were so susceptible to the plague is that they were Europeans, just as the reason Native Americans were so susceptible to small pox was that they were Native Americans. Inbreeding leads to weakness, crossbreeding leads to strength.</p></quote>
The reason that US Americans are so susceptible to firearm-induced deaths is that they, being Americans, are more vulnerable to bad logic and NRA fallacies than any other people in the world.
Well done, good logic, keep it going, dude.
Mod parent insightful. That is actually how academia seems to work, yes ( and is one of the major reasons I always kept clear from it ).
my new pellets stove had broken down. As all the mechanical parts seemed to work, it had to be the electronics. Called in the repair man, who changed the flame sensor. Thing still didn't work. After 2 days, temperature in the living room had dropped to about freezing point, with my partner huddling on the couch in blankets and jackets. So I took the fucking thing apart, checked everything meticulously, discovered that the fucking flame sensor had been mounted with wrong fucking polarity. Fired up stove, called repair man, who apologized and had a crate of beer delivered.
Nope. Those were Germans. Who else would have?
Overpriced, over-due and underperforming turkey has one more bug. Moped Jesus spotted on freeway. News at eleven.
Solaris was MY first hands-on exposure to Unix. I was born in 1967, and until 1998, I had been programming, much of which for aerospace R & D, where we simply abstracted away both OS and hardware. So, at 31, I was sitting there, looking at the blinking bar in a ksh shell [bash was not available until later versions of Solaris]. I had just sunk more than a month's worth of pay into an HP server with TWO processors - the thing was considered a powerful beast, and trumped by far all machines any of my colleague programmers had at home.
So there I sat, typing away my first awks and seds, learning emacs and vi. I could bring up Solaris' baked-in firewall with a single command. The feeling of raw power at my fingertips was... amazing.
Nowadays, I use Linux. The only GUI I need is the one on the laptop I use for internet access. There are six other computers here at home, where I work. They run a Jenkins compile / build farm, and an OpenStack private cloud.
All configured and brought up and maintained by command line.
The love story goes on, and on, and on !
to kangaroo farmers in the dust clouds of Kookaburra County, Nullarbor plains.
Agreed on the Patricia trie. Tried that out, coded one myself, the things are indeed lightning fast. Using primes is just a nicety, really...
You are absolutely right. I just coded the algorithm in a programming language and noticed the same thing. It needs some extra encoding for symbol successor / predecessor relationships. I'll think about that while walking the dog post an update here ASAP.