There was a time when we get by without electricity at all. Commerce, theater plays and even sites like "the local pub" worked real-time at life-like quality.
You'r going to find very little COBOL code on GitHub, despite it still being commonly used in large businesses. I also think GitHub measurement may be more indicative of the ecosystem of a language; it's common in Javascript to have use many small single-purpose plugins (and plugins for plugins) rather than all-encompasing libraries, which means there'll be many more projects for Javascript than a language where the ecosystem tends towards libraries.
invest in more STEM education and reform immigration policies
Really means;
ensure we can get cheap labour from poor countries while making it look like there's another reason for it besides profit
How about a plan to let those companies temporarily (until their domestic replacements finish school) hire immigrant workers at tenfold cost of domestic workers, with the extra money invested in STEM education? That would fix the "crisis" long term and short term, right?
I doubt this figure; this is an absurd amount of TV to watch on a daily basis on average. If you have a job, this figure pretty much means you spend all your free time on TV. Is this just number the cumulative amount of hours of all TV's in an average family household turned on, or is this actually time spent watching TV by an average individual?
I prefer Android myself, but... yeah... I've never seen garbage collection work well on any language, platform or device; it always seems to pause the machine when you need to interact with it.
Some people insist on defining "AI" as whatever they think some intangible thing their brains can do is. If you could make a perfectly accurate and fully functional physical reproduction of a human brain, including all the inputs and outputs, they still wouldn't consider it an AI because it's still missing something these people refuse to define in any measurable way.
Do you understand that, from the point of view of those who voted for britain leaving the EU, not leaving the EU would be fucking them over? You might not think they would be fucked over, but they most surely think so, and that is why they voted. This is a binary issue; either leave or don't leave. There is no option of "leave only a little bit", So what exactly would the right choice be, considering the only options are "fuck over 49%" or "fuck over 51%"? If you're going to have to fuck over some people, you might as well fuck over the least possible people. Again; not argueing for or against brexit, just that ignoring votes is effectively throwing away democracy altogether.
Ofcourse, you could claim that the 51% in this particular case would not be fucked over, but that argument would essentially boil down to "because I know better than them", and I'm assuming we can all see the folly of those ways.
The petition in question was about confirming the electorate's wishes if the vote was close. Rather like one of those "are you really sure" questions you get before doing something potentially dangerous (like reformatting a hard disk).
I thought the referendum was anonymous. How are they going to track down the people who voted in the referendum to confirm their vote? Or do you mean like how somebody who demonstrated they didn't care being allowed to confirm reformatting my harddisk?
The petition was about a redo. Just as many redo's as it would take to get a different result.
You may not agree with the result (I certainly don't), but voting is how a democracy works. Not ignoring votes until people vote the way you like.
You quit without any notice, not even a courtesy call, and then used that job as a reference? Were you expecting that previous employer to speak well of you?
They could also just buy property for the current low (compared to their own predictions) prices and sell them with massive profits when the property values increase; much more than any tax could provide. But then again, why gamble when you can have other people take the risk for you and still reap the benefits if it goes well.
The enemy is complexity of modern games code and graphics hardware, or rather the ability for a human to comprehend the whole. Bypassing abstraction layers isn't a realistic possibility these days for the vast majority of game studios. At best they'll optimize the rendering engine for the specific graphics hardware, but that is hardly on the same level of performance. Ofcourse, using a rendering engine at all is in itself yet another layer of abstraction.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because some random website claims something is true, doesn't actually make it true.
Banning porn is obvious, but will he also ban sites selling Slovanian brides?
There was a time when we get by without electricity at all. Commerce, theater plays and even sites like "the local pub" worked real-time at life-like quality.
You'r going to find very little COBOL code on GitHub, despite it still being commonly used in large businesses.
I also think GitHub measurement may be more indicative of the ecosystem of a language; it's common in Javascript to have use many small single-purpose plugins (and plugins for plugins) rather than all-encompasing libraries, which means there'll be many more projects for Javascript than a language where the ecosystem tends towards libraries.
invest in more STEM education and reform immigration policies
Really means;
ensure we can get cheap labour from poor countries while making it look like there's another reason for it besides profit
How about a plan to let those companies temporarily (until their domestic replacements finish school) hire immigrant workers at tenfold cost of domestic workers, with the extra money invested in STEM education? That would fix the "crisis" long term and short term, right?
5.38 hours per day
I doubt this figure; this is an absurd amount of TV to watch on a daily basis on average.
If you have a job, this figure pretty much means you spend all your free time on TV.
Is this just number the cumulative amount of hours of all TV's in an average family household turned on, or is this actually time spent watching TV by an average individual?
So our choices are either "Retro pixelated 2D" or "First person 3D".
What's wrong with classic gameplay but modern graphics?
I prefer Android myself, but... yeah... I've never seen garbage collection work well on any language, platform or device; it always seems to pause the machine when you need to interact with it.
No. It should mean that, but it doesn't.
Some people insist on defining "AI" as whatever they think some intangible thing their brains can do is.
If you could make a perfectly accurate and fully functional physical reproduction of a human brain, including all the inputs and outputs, they still wouldn't consider it an AI because it's still missing something these people refuse to define in any measurable way.
Then what do you call several independantly developed AI systems, like we currently have driving around in test cars?
Then maybe it's a good thing that your vote against your boss' policies would count as much as his vote.
Companies have employees. THEIR voices can be heard.
Do you understand that, from the point of view of those who voted for britain leaving the EU, not leaving the EU would be fucking them over?
You might not think they would be fucked over, but they most surely think so, and that is why they voted.
This is a binary issue; either leave or don't leave. There is no option of "leave only a little bit",
So what exactly would the right choice be, considering the only options are "fuck over 49%" or "fuck over 51%"?
If you're going to have to fuck over some people, you might as well fuck over the least possible people.
Again; not argueing for or against brexit, just that ignoring votes is effectively throwing away democracy altogether.
Ofcourse, you could claim that the 51% in this particular case would not be fucked over, but that argument would essentially boil down to "because I know better than them", and I'm assuming we can all see the folly of those ways.
Democracy isn't optimal.
Ignoring democracy is even less optimal.
You can disagree with me. But that would not be optimal for me, so I'd just ignore it and act like you agree with me. Thank you for agreeing with me.
The petition in question was about confirming the electorate's wishes if the vote was close. Rather like one of those "are you really sure" questions you get before doing something potentially dangerous (like reformatting a hard disk).
I thought the referendum was anonymous.
How are they going to track down the people who voted in the referendum to confirm their vote?
Or do you mean like how somebody who demonstrated they didn't care being allowed to confirm reformatting my harddisk?
The petition was about a redo. Just as many redo's as it would take to get a different result.
You may not agree with the result (I certainly don't), but voting is how a democracy works. Not ignoring votes until people vote the way you like.
Remember ST:Enterprise? A new TV series doesn't mean the franchise is still alive.
You quit without any notice, not even a courtesy call, and then used that job as a reference?
Were you expecting that previous employer to speak well of you?
And yet it's "professional" to just walk an employee out the door without prior notice? Riiiiiight.
It isn't.
That why most companies don't do that either.
Asshole companies get asshole employees and asshole employees get asshole companies.
Most people and companies aren't assholes, and they'll both be decent about ending employment.
http://aviation.stackexchange....
Seems roughly a quarter of the total weight during flight is in the "payload containing" part of an airplane.
The only revolution people want is to not have to deal with time-consuming and mentally and physically degrading security checks.
Doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't make it even more safe.
They could also just buy property for the current low (compared to their own predictions) prices and sell them with massive profits when the property values increase; much more than any tax could provide.
But then again, why gamble when you can have other people take the risk for you and still reap the benefits if it goes well.
and workers traveling between the two cities would spend less time commuting and more time working
All one of them? That must be daily savings of millions of dollars easily.
The enemy is complexity of modern games code and graphics hardware, or rather the ability for a human to comprehend the whole.
Bypassing abstraction layers isn't a realistic possibility these days for the vast majority of game studios.
At best they'll optimize the rendering engine for the specific graphics hardware, but that is hardly on the same level of performance.
Ofcourse, using a rendering engine at all is in itself yet another layer of abstraction.