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  1. That would be boost phase. Where is/was that laser armed 747? Parked in theory.

  2. Games theory. The point is to put uncertainty into North Korea's plan.

    Now his certainty is lower, he will need to spend more resources on numbers.

    If and when he gets an actual ICBM working, it will be liquid fueled. Fuel/Oxidizer that can be stored is a bitch, fuel that can be stored in the rocket is even worse. He won't have solid boosters for some time. A bunch of silos full of liquid fueled rockets in North Korea? cue 'Exploding Blue Danube...' At the very least it will cost a fortune, in blood and money.

  3. Those people's kids were Reagan college republicans. It's how it works here. Kids politics are like their music, largely intended to piss off their parents. Except for the suck asses, who imitate their 'rents generation's rebels.

    My question: What will piss off GWAR fans? If one of them ever gets lucky. Has the fetus avoid the hoover. (A: Lawrence Welk listening monarchists?)

  4. Re:How many different ways to solve problems? on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Back then, the type was implicit in the first letter of the name and only two characters counted.

  5. Re:It doesnt matter on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    IIT is an exception. Some of their grads are competent, but not all. Much better than the average Indian diploma mill.

    I've never interviewed a moron from CalTech or MIT, but aside from those two schools they _all_ let some 'bad ones' through. I bet they do too, just very few.

  6. Re:So many students... on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Pretty standard. Large lecture (likely two times), small labs. TAs do 99% of the teaching.

  7. Re: Upset you can't scam... on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    By commenting out the lines that generated errors.

  8. Re: Upset you can't scam... on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an old question: How do you deal with a moron for a client? I say: 'Rape them, like the chumps that they are.'

    They are too clueless to recognize 'good work', so just maximize short term revenue.

  9. Podcast should also support UUencoded streams. Because if wasting 3x the bandwidth for JSON is a good idea, then so is UUencoding.

  10. Re:$1000 min cost for 44 pci-e lanes vs $300-$350 on Intel's Massive 18-core Core i9 Chip Starts a Bloody Battle For Enthusiast PCs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You will buy ECC RAM for your workstation once.

    When you are 'done' with that PC, you will go into bios and check the ECC fix log, then never waste the money again.

  11. More than half the market for high end CPUs and almost all of the market for high end GPUs.

    In other words: Intel and AMD care about games.

  12. Re:no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    That had to leave a mark.

  13. Re:Capitalism is at fault on British Airways CEO Won't Resign, Says Outsourcing Not To Blame For IT Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    How much fuel do you put on the plane and in which tanks? Is it due for any inspections? Did it throw a code last flight? 'Ready to fly' is an assumption.

    You could print it all at the start of a shift, but you know they didn't. It wouldn't be 100% anyhow, gates change, shit happens.

  14. The ones that could were/are _terrible_coders_. UI configuration is more complicated than a screenshot can capture. If they complete it from a screenshot without asking questions, fire their incompetent asses. They missed a lot, guaranteed, assumed even more...

    UI Mockup is a small part of systems analysis. Comes relatively late in the process. Mostly the UI 'falls out' of the data structure or data/business layers, depending on how you 'squint' at the process.

    But that's all old stuff, doesn't involve AI...doesn't reflect 'UI designers' ability to fuck the whole process up while applying a glorified skin to the app. Now get off my lawn...

  15. Re:I RTFA on Startup Uses AI To Create Programs From Simple Screenshots (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yep, everybody did win. Back in 1990, when Rapid Application Development (RAD in the hype of the day) tools did this.

    Your IDE still has this feature. Drag and drop UI drawing is better than having any UI inferred from a drawing. How do you draw a mask?

    Trying to do this well, transparently for multiple different devices plus 'browser' is challenging, to say the least. But...GOOD NEWS...each of these markets is big enough to support a UI team of it's own. Claiming to do it well, automatically from a 'napkin sketch', for all significant platforms is braggadocious to the point where adults start to whisper about where the person's keeper is, calling him 'Sheldon'.

    But we all remember being 22 and doing similar; 'that's easy, just...' The time it takes from 'that's easy' to 'uhh....shit' is what separates success from failure, long term.

    The best, this will do is produce a 'wrong' (control behavior from a drawing?) UI for a 'sketch artist' who hasn't bothered to learn to use his IDE. Somebody still has to come along, muddling through the messes (one per target), and fix it.

  16. Re:THIS DOOD--ECONOMIC TERRORIST? on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    So far, it's just the usual suspects, throwing tantrums and swinging blunt objects.

    Black block should watch it's back. One gut-shot is less than I would have expected for the degree and volume of asshole behavior they've displayed.

    But the trump side should be careful too. The b-tards are trolling the commies (which is great fun), but as soon as it becomes more fun to troll the right wingers, they will.

    That's hard to imagine, liberals being so unhinged, they will be buckets of fun until they are 'all cried out'. But many are on a chemtantrum, x cut with speed (plus whatever unknown chems are coming from China) will keep them chanting, without self awareness, indefinitely. I bet their is a significant number of loonie bin inhabitants in 2030 still chanting anti-Trump slogans. The chems out there right now, plus this group dynamic are sure to cause some seized mental bearings.

  17. Re:Yaay!!! Go Trump! on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This will also help less connected companies hire real, PhD level people, the quota not being filled with infosys 'air thieves'.

  18. Re:UBI does not redistribute upwards on Silicon Valley Continues To Explore Universal Basic Incomes (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    90% of the effort in filing taxes is defining what constitutes 'income'.

    Which is why your taxes are so simple, if you're an employee.

  19. Re:You haven't really been paying attention, have on Silicon Valley Continues To Explore Universal Basic Incomes (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let the poor be more than 50% or you are screwed in democracy, duh.

    America has nowhere near 50% 'poor'. Guess you should redefine 'poor' again.

    Historically, 2 out of 3 undisputed, self described fascist governments (Spain, Italy, Germany) were openly socialist, the third was Catholic religious and hostile to capitalism. You're going to have to distinguish more clearly.

  20. Re:Maybe ... maybe not on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla talking shit about clear thinking...LOL.

    You realize that Tesla and Edison were both very accomplished _tinkerers_. Neither understood electric fields, Tesla demonstrated just how poorly he understood electric fields in his later years with his unworkable suggestions for wireless power.

    They both had to work their asses off as they were 'trial and error' inventors.

  21. Re: Never understood bias against the olds on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Find better friends. People who have grown past middle school thinking.

  22. Week old flounder or fresh Ahi tuna?

  23. Re:Maybe on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about 'a drink or two' either. But I'm also not talking about constantly drinking like a Baptist. (Who are sots if they drink at all, having convinced themselves that booze is that powerful.)

    People don't typically wear out, they rust. The right amount of exercise is an important part of taking care of yourself. Your liver is no different, take it out for a jog once in awhile.

  24. Re:Maybe on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to say: Of the competent female computer people I've known, most were/are, very bull, dykes.

  25. Re:In other news, te Trump administartion announce on Researchers Found Perfect Contraceptives In Traditional Chinese Medicine (inverse.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What stage of grief is 'idiotic snark'?

    Get on with it.