I'm not sure where this "large projects can't enforce code discipline" idea comes from. What does he think "coding standards" are
Won't help you when your code is 30 years old and has been hacked around by slave labour in the form of military conscripts and customer provided "consultants".
We can only land on an asteroid which is going slowly enough to catch. If you try to land on a fast moving object you will go splat. There is a theoretical idea of using tethers to attach your vehicle to a fast moving object but you would need to know how the attachment point works, you would need many kilometers of tether, and a damping system so that slack is taken up gradually.
In this day and age it shouldn't be possible to over drive a speaker. The audio driver software should know what the limitations are. It should detect and over driven speaker and back off.
Its pretty clearly collided with something fairly large, splashing debris all over the place, leaving it with an uneven shape, and a lot of material in orbit.
The problem with heat engines for short hops is damage to engines caused by the thermal cycling. Its worst for glider tugs which are on full power for a few minutes, then nothing at all, but it does affect short distance commuter aircraft as well. This is why electric drivelines are being considered for short distance commuting, and why a gas turbine APU makes sense on these aircraft because it will be used to extend cruise.
I can imagine heavy and super heavy airliners using electric boosted fans down the track so they don't have to continually fire combustion chambers which are sized for their peak power output.
I watched the great video and was disappointed that their prices link is broken. It uses a folding prop so I don't see how it could recover energy, and anyway a powered hang glider isn't going to need to increase drag to descend.
Yeah I integrate pylint with my editor so I get that information more or less as I type it, but python generally can't tell me that I am making the wrong assumption about a variable passed in to the local scope, whereas java can because arguments are always typed.
Python allows too much fiddling with the standard library for static analysis to be reliable. The the same reason why java style just in time compilers won't work with python and precise locking for threads is so difficult.
Yeah but is it safe? I should have mentioned that my example was a safety critical real time system with actual lives at stake. Additionally it had hundreds of functions which might only get used in emergencies, and which would cost > $100 M to validate properly.
Current python programmer, and former C programmer here. Dynamic typing is great for a small to medium sized code bases but I would hate to work on anything really big and mature without static type checking. I have worked on large code bases with maybe 100 megabytes of code and C and Ada, a lot of it dating back 20 years or so. You can't safely refactor code that old, and you can't allow data of the wrong type to get in to it, so type checking at compile time is an important line of defense.
You can do that in python with run time checks of data types and thats what you would have to do at the entry point of your libraries, but it eats into your performance doing that. Python is too malleable for static type checking.
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I'm not sure where this "large projects can't enforce code discipline" idea comes from. What does he think "coding standards" are
Won't help you when your code is 30 years old and has been hacked around by slave labour in the form of military conscripts and customer provided "consultants".
We can only land on an asteroid which is going slowly enough to catch. If you try to land on a fast moving object you will go splat. There is a theoretical idea of using tethers to attach your vehicle to a fast moving object but you would need to know how the attachment point works, you would need many kilometers of tether, and a damping system so that slack is taken up gradually.
In this day and age it shouldn't be possible to over drive a speaker. The audio driver software should know what the limitations are. It should detect and over driven speaker and back off.
Free software (Linux) drives most mass deployments of software (as used for surveillance) because the marginal cost of the software is so small.
Yes but if you use a random number generator for that you are vulnerable to a tweaked algorithm, as is the case with crypto algorithms.
Please define "secure". The anonymity of voting goes against normal computer security, where A to B and B to A are always traceable.
Vary the order of candidates and choices in paper ballot
But thats your vulnerability. The top candidate gets the most votes so if you bias the order on the ballot, you bias the outcome.
It seems to have only a few km/s of residual velocity so its going to be hard to pin down its origin.
Its a pretty slow space craft. I doubt it came from Vega.
In comparison to Unity there is a lot of stuff not working on gnome, like power management and hibernation.
Unity is basically Gnome now.
You need a proper organisation in place to do that. Your IT chief needs a deputy who has access to this stuff and who management can trust.
Its pretty clearly collided with something fairly large, splashing debris all over the place, leaving it with an uneven shape, and a lot of material in orbit.
After watching Blade Runner 2049 this weekend I believe that Denis Villeneuve should give it a go.
He has not made one dud book and if I was to choose one to be best I would say The Peripheral but I could change my mind in 2018.
Please keep writing Bill.
It does bother me that the wing and keel are in the plane of the prop. If it sheds a blade, how much of a wing will you be left with?
The problem with heat engines for short hops is damage to engines caused by the thermal cycling. Its worst for glider tugs which are on full power for a few minutes, then nothing at all, but it does affect short distance commuter aircraft as well. This is why electric drivelines are being considered for short distance commuting, and why a gas turbine APU makes sense on these aircraft because it will be used to extend cruise.
I can imagine heavy and super heavy airliners using electric boosted fans down the track so they don't have to continually fire combustion chambers which are sized for their peak power output.
I watched the great video and was disappointed that their prices link is broken. It uses a folding prop so I don't see how it could recover energy, and anyway a powered hang glider isn't going to need to increase drag to descend.
Yeah I integrate pylint with my editor so I get that information more or less as I type it, but python generally can't tell me that I am making the wrong assumption about a variable passed in to the local scope, whereas java can because arguments are always typed.
..are you going to go, Bruce?
Python allows too much fiddling with the standard library for static analysis to be reliable. The the same reason why java style just in time compilers won't work with python and precise locking for threads is so difficult.
Yeah but is it safe? I should have mentioned that my example was a safety critical real time system with actual lives at stake. Additionally it had hundreds of functions which might only get used in emergencies, and which would cost > $100 M to validate properly.
Current python programmer, and former C programmer here. Dynamic typing is great for a small to medium sized code bases but I would hate to work on anything really big and mature without static type checking. I have worked on large code bases with maybe 100 megabytes of code and C and Ada, a lot of it dating back 20 years or so. You can't safely refactor code that old, and you can't allow data of the wrong type to get in to it, so type checking at compile time is an important line of defense.
You can do that in python with run time checks of data types and thats what you would have to do at the entry point of your libraries, but it eats into your performance doing that. Python is too malleable for static type checking.
anyone, including North Korea
Actually, NK really are that reckless. They deployed VX gas in the national airport of a friendly country.
Maybe a neurotoxin in the water? Nerve damage may cause people to hear phantom noises.