Why should we care? Porn is ubiquitous, and you can see much kinkier stuff from your local web-pimp. Hop over to fetlife and you can find someone to do it with. If it's that he paid: again so what? Prostitution ts legal in (parts of) the US and Canada.
Oh the horror! Trump may have done something that I* do! But it's bad when he does it! (*Not saying you're into peeing hookers; likely your tastes would make Trump blush.)
How long before we see malware kits that hack these devices via firmware exploits? Set all the fridges in the USA to "freeze" or "off". Or turn on the camera and capture pix of folks walking around their kitchen in their underwear. Or inventory your bluetooth-enabled groceries, upload it to Walmart so they can target you with grocery mailers and spam that your pickles are expired, or upload it to your health insurance provider so they can raise your rates because of all the junk food you consume? You'll get a health insurance "discount" if you enable your fridge to upload your groceries, but pay top dollar if you choose privacy.
Then again maybe I can install Linux on my fridge, program it to upload my neighbor's data instead of mine.
I would love this. Install Linux and add a cordless mouse and I have a replacement desktop, and can play games when tired of editing code.
Battery is a useless waste of space and weight, though. Replace the battery with an extra drive and a heavy duty cooling unit, I'd just carry a power cord.
Eh, speaking for myself: not likely. I loved curses programming! Clean and straightforward compared to modern stuff. (And curses was kind of ugly even then. Its just that everything is so much worse now.)
What you can do today -- that you couldn't then -- is make much more complex programs, and use them in more places. The code is butt-ugly and tedious to develop, but the end result is impressive.
But clean elegant simplicity is fun and satisfying. I love to refactor a function until it is clean and simple. Makefiles are so much more enjoyable than coding in XML, at least until you try to do something complicated. C++ was fun when it was little more than "C with classes." Linux was fun until we got Systemd. HTML used to be fun until you had to add CSS and Javascript etc. Of course you can still code straight HTML in vim, and you can also write 8-bit assembler in a an emulator, but these things are not relevant any more. You almost have to use an IDE for some things, like programming Unity or Unreal. As soon as I "have" to use an IDE the fun is gone.
But for fun coding, I think it was more fun back in the day. I had more fun doing BASIC on an 8-bit system, more fun writing curses in C, more fun working with PC graphics in Turbo C, just because it was clean and simple. It's always more fun to pioneer new territory, even if it's crude. In my opinion simplicity is more fun, but it never lasts because it is limited. Sometimes a language like Python brings back the simplicity but only for a little while until it gets extended with new features.
We need to rebuild things from scratch, to reinvent the wheel on a regular basis, because then we can change the paradigms and abstractions so they simplify current technology. Old systems are always lousy for up to date things, with patch upon patch. Its not nostalgia or failure to keep up with the times, it is that kludgy patches are just not good. Why don't we have threading and graphics and networking and decent error handling built right into C? We have 1970s style libraries instead. THAT is the problem. It's a great language when you don't need that stuff, but cumbersome when you do. C++ will be trotted out as the answer, but it has become utterly arcane, defeating the point. Java is targeted toward 20 year old technologies, and extensions are awkward. So is OpenGL. Things collapse under their own weight.
Wait. You're saying that SJW's can give out a tongue lashing for "causes" but everyone else has to just silently take it? You're saying you want to dish it out but you're too pathetic to take it in return? It's not the priests who are attempting the rape here.
This is especially funny since California has long been known for Silicon Valley, the innovation center for the fastest and most powerful new computing technology. (Well, at least until China took the crown.) Now they'll be known for keeping their computers turned off, and running at throttled speeds when they are on. Software developers will have their beefy i7's replaced with anemic Atoms. Go California!! (just don't go too fast...)
Yes, but I expect fucking computers will be exempted as soon as the cyber-queer community sues for discrimination. Business computers, on the other hand, are permanently screwed.
Pure democracies destroy themselves in short order because people are, for the most part, foolish. The USA walks a perilous path as it is, one it will probably not ultimately survive, but switching to a pure democracy will only hasten our downfall. The federal government is an attempt to find a balanced middle ground between tyranny and democracy, neither of which is desirable. Anyone who does not understand this (1) needs an education, and (2) is exhibit #1 for why democracy is a really bad idea.
The federal government is first and foremost a government of states, not people.
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Its the new micro-nagging economy. Every time you press the "fuck you" button to shut her up, you pay Microsoft 1 cent.
I'll bet she'll still be active and silently reading your email.
Coming soon from Microsoft: there's a robot for that.
Can I just put my brain in a jar instead of exercising?
One of the nice things about lisp is that it is so clean. Lux appears verbose and cluttered with odd symbols.
Lisp:
(defun hello ()
"Hello, world!"
)
Lux:
(;module: {#;doc "This will be our program's main module."}
lux
(lux (codata io)
[cli #+ program:]))
(program: args
(io (log! "Hello, world!")))
Why should we care? Porn is ubiquitous, and you can see much kinkier stuff from your local web-pimp. Hop over to fetlife and you can find someone to do it with. If it's that he paid: again so what? Prostitution ts legal in (parts of) the US and Canada.
Oh the horror! Trump may have done something that I* do! But it's bad when he does it! (*Not saying you're into peeing hookers; likely your tastes would make Trump blush.)
But really, what does this have to do with Lux?
I don't like dat. I don't like it at all.
How long before we see malware kits that hack these devices via firmware exploits? Set all the fridges in the USA to "freeze" or "off". Or turn on the camera and capture pix of folks walking around their kitchen in their underwear. Or inventory your bluetooth-enabled groceries, upload it to Walmart so they can target you with grocery mailers and spam that your pickles are expired, or upload it to your health insurance provider so they can raise your rates because of all the junk food you consume? You'll get a health insurance "discount" if you enable your fridge to upload your groceries, but pay top dollar if you choose privacy.
Then again maybe I can install Linux on my fridge, program it to upload my neighbor's data instead of mine.
Nah, they'll just work out a deal with Comcast to connect up to the nearest cable router, even if it's at your neighbor's house.
M29 Davy Crockett. It's the only way to be sure.
I would love this. Install Linux and add a cordless mouse and I have a replacement desktop, and can play games when tired of editing code.
Battery is a useless waste of space and weight, though. Replace the battery with an extra drive and a heavy duty cooling unit, I'd just carry a power cord.
First thing I thought of, of course. Bal-Sagoth - In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica
Eh, speaking for myself: not likely. I loved curses programming! Clean and straightforward compared to modern stuff. (And curses was kind of ugly even then. Its just that everything is so much worse now.)
What you can do today -- that you couldn't then -- is make much more complex programs, and use them in more places. The code is butt-ugly and tedious to develop, but the end result is impressive.
But clean elegant simplicity is fun and satisfying. I love to refactor a function until it is clean and simple. Makefiles are so much more enjoyable than coding in XML, at least until you try to do something complicated. C++ was fun when it was little more than "C with classes." Linux was fun until we got Systemd. HTML used to be fun until you had to add CSS and Javascript etc. Of course you can still code straight HTML in vim, and you can also write 8-bit assembler in a an emulator, but these things are not relevant any more. You almost have to use an IDE for some things, like programming Unity or Unreal. As soon as I "have" to use an IDE the fun is gone.
But for fun coding, I think it was more fun back in the day. I had more fun doing BASIC on an 8-bit system, more fun writing curses in C, more fun working with PC graphics in Turbo C, just because it was clean and simple. It's always more fun to pioneer new territory, even if it's crude. In my opinion simplicity is more fun, but it never lasts because it is limited. Sometimes a language like Python brings back the simplicity but only for a little while until it gets extended with new features.
We need to rebuild things from scratch, to reinvent the wheel on a regular basis, because then we can change the paradigms and abstractions so they simplify current technology. Old systems are always lousy for up to date things, with patch upon patch. Its not nostalgia or failure to keep up with the times, it is that kludgy patches are just not good. Why don't we have threading and graphics and networking and decent error handling built right into C? We have 1970s style libraries instead. THAT is the problem. It's a great language when you don't need that stuff, but cumbersome when you do. C++ will be trotted out as the answer, but it has become utterly arcane, defeating the point. Java is targeted toward 20 year old technologies, and extensions are awkward. So is OpenGL. Things collapse under their own weight.
Wait. You're saying that SJW's can give out a tongue lashing for "causes" but everyone else has to just silently take it? You're saying you want to dish it out but you're too pathetic to take it in return? It's not the priests who are attempting the rape here.
And all the beta males on Slashdot quickly added, "please"
Tell me you DID give it a self-destruct
Sailor1: Sir, we captured an American underwater drone!
Officer: Throw it back! QUICK! It's a self service torpedo...
This is especially funny since California has long been known for Silicon Valley, the innovation center for the fastest and most powerful new computing technology. (Well, at least until China took the crown.) Now they'll be known for keeping their computers turned off, and running at throttled speeds when they are on. Software developers will have their beefy i7's replaced with anemic Atoms. Go California!! (just don't go too fast...)
Yes, but I expect fucking computers will be exempted as soon as the cyber-queer community sues for discrimination. Business computers, on the other hand, are permanently screwed.
The election hasn't actually happened yet, but she is expected to lose by 74 votes, having won only 43% of the total.
You mean I'll lose a whole second every two, maybe three months? That's a second of my life I'll never get back.
...you shouldn't have built it in the first place.
I know, preaching to the choir. If only I could send Amber Alerts to the idiots who are apparently in control.
(hint: I'm holding up one finger)
Once you go Aeropress, you'll never settle for less
Pure democracies destroy themselves in short order because people are, for the most part, foolish. The USA walks a perilous path as it is, one it will probably not ultimately survive, but switching to a pure democracy will only hasten our downfall. The federal government is an attempt to find a balanced middle ground between tyranny and democracy, neither of which is desirable. Anyone who does not understand this (1) needs an education, and (2) is exhibit #1 for why democracy is a really bad idea.
The federal government is first and foremost a government of states, not people.
You had me at Pepe