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  1. Re:Hiring competence is expensive on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I was more thinking about Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Kypernetes ... and containers like Docker.

  2. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    And maybe you never do that, but many people, including myself, do.
    Yeah, but that means you have to declare a char and cast an enum into it and out of it ...

    I have only limited knowledge about Python, but memory problems never were an issue.

  3. You are simply an idiot.
    I suggest to read a book about GMO "problems".

    And as long as you are pro GMO, what the fuck is your agenda preventing proper labeling? If everything is so harmless, why are you against labels?

    Are you seriously unaware that EVERY plant, 100% of them, produces multiple pesticides?
    Why do you claim such nonsense? Oh, the nonsense is: you claim I'm unaware.
    Hint, you stupid moron: it is a difference if a plant produces so much pesticides that a bug will fly away and settle on another plant or: kills a rat, or causes caner in humans. Can't be so hard to grasp

  4. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    E.g. I don't need an int64 to keep track of what's basically an enum, or whatnot.
    You don't *need*, true.
    But the compiler will usually make sure that a variable of your enum type fits into an 'int' ... and on a modern compiler/processor architecture an int is an int64 ... to change that you need to know a bit more about C/C++ :D
    On the stack stuff like this is completely irrelevant anyway, it only matters for members of structs when you allocate huge amounts of such structs.

  5. Re:Hiring competence is expensive on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Not nitpicking, but if you can afford 100 machines you most likely can afford a competent, especially remote, admin.
    Most tools relevant are open source and free to use commercially anyway.

  6. Re:Modest proposal: Tab should lose its ASCII code on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    And how exactly would you then print a text document on a traditional line printer?

    The tab "character" as in ASCII code, moves the printer head to the next tabulator position, which can be completely arbitrary, usually it is encoded in the first line of the document as ESC sequences or you _manually_ set them at the printer by moving the hardware tab stops.

    You have no clue padawan ....

  7. Re: It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The main reason is using a database were we traditionally would simply use a file. Or wrong usage of XML ...

  8. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    A "char" in C is not the same as an Integer in Python.
    No idea why you wasted your time to compare a 1 byte structure with a pointer to an object.
    Hint: you should at least have used: int64 ....

  9. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    For a competent admin it is no difference if he administers 1, 10 or 100 machines. Especially with modern provisioning tools.

  10. Genetic engineering is not a mutation.
    It is something completely different.
    It is adding or removing a gene or many genes.
    A random mutation *changes* an existing gene.
    You have no clue about what you are talking.

    And all the GMO trouble would be no trouble if:
    a) the industry would stop lying so that people like you get a clue
    b) people like you actually would be _forced_ to take a reasonable amount of biology in school

    c) it was labeled

    What the funk do you lose if it is labeled? Nothing. I don't care that you are to stupid for a) and b) but denying me my right of c), that is idiotic. You have no advantage from that. It is just pure evilness.You do it "just because" for absolutely no rational reason.

  11. "GMOs are poison" is equivalent to ...
    Scientists disagree ...

    https://www.gmwatch.org/en/new...

    How do you come to the idea that maize that deliberately was changed to produce pesticides in its skin is not poisonous

  12. You need 16 different shelves for them in stores.
    Why would you need that?

    Wine is sorted by country of origin, usually split up into continent and then ordered by alphabetical by country. And in the country subsection by region. If it is "bio" or not is all on the label. And bottom line everything is on the label: winery, grape, year of production, year of resting, kind of barrel, bio or not, alcohol amount, best served temperature, hint of meals.

    WTF is wrong with you? That can be done with every kind of food. No special truck, delivery or shelf needed.

    100+ different types of sweet corn which all look the same, taste the same, have essentially the same nutritional content, and pose the same amount of "risk" to the consumer, but which you want to keep separate because reasons.
    How would that be the case, unless everyone is farming it from the same kind of seed and has the same soil ... and if it is dangerous for me to eat a corn that contains a kelp protein or a chicken protein: YOU don't know!

  13. The other reason is nothing more than pure politics.
    The other reason: I want to be able to vote with my valet

    If you prevent labels you restrict my freedom to buy what I want. And why would you do that? What is your agenda?

  14. I want to know what companies produced the tractors that were used in the production of my food.
    And how is that relevant for the contents of your food?

    I demand a label! I want to know what nationalities of the people who handle the food are. Label it!
    And how is that relevant for the contents of your food?

  15. First of all, not all coals are contaminated with radioactive materials. It simply depends which kind of rock or sediments are around the coal.

    Radioactivity comes mainly from Radon, Uranium, Thorium and some Lead isotopes.
    As ash is collected and the typical "fly ash" no longer exists in industrialized countries, not much is escaping.

    The numbers one can find are that worst case the ash is as concentrated as yellow cake uranium ore from pit mines.

    Yes, I fully agree that isotopes where every they come from should not be spread around.

  16. Re:I wonder if it's some kind of investment scam on Two US Hyperloop Startups Line Up Financing From China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe TGVs as well as the German ICEs try to have the trains in 30 minutes gaps. The point is potential delays in communications. E.g. if a train has to stop, and it takes more than 10 minutes to inform the next train or signaling centers, there might be trouble.
    The rails are actually split into sections, that don't allow a second train into the section as long as the previous one is still inside. But nevertheless there is a time gap. I googled a bit but don't find a reliable info.

  17. 1st link: two workers drown during construction of a wind mill, what is your point?
    2nd link: two workers died due to a fire introduced through a short (in Netherlands): what is your point?

    We all know that the German forces have some trouble, but they are greatly exaggerated. I personally don't like how much they shrunk the German navy. And I don't like that no one has the guts to have a public discussion if/whether we actually still need/want our own defense forces. I would agree if we completely abandon it. But I would prefer if we had a decent strike force, which can be smaller than it is right now, but fully operational all the time. The bad shape we are in at the moment is basically because we upgraded/switched to to many new systems in short succession. New destroyers, new submarines, new planes, new helicopters, and because of BREXIT we are in talks with France to start developing a new fighter again.

    And when Berlin decides it will not pony up the promised 2 percent of GDP for its NATO contribution, other laggard countries follow its example. Only six of the 29 NATO members (other than the U.S.) so far have met their promised assessments.

    If Germany would follow what Trump actually demands: 4% GDP contribution to defense, then Germanys defense budget would be twice as high as that from Russia. No one wants that. We will probably increase it to something like 45B EUR over the next few years, and that is it.

    USA would not sell gas to Europe/Germany via pipeline but via liquified natural gas in tanker ships. OTOH: we all agree that fracking at the moment is a bit questionable. No idea what they do wrong in America with fracking, we frack in Germany since 70 years and have no problem with water pollution etc.

    Like the democrats in Germany they think we should stop drilling for erdgas
    In the long run that is the only solution, as nat gas still produces CO2. However it might not be feasible e.g. in Alaska.

  18. The windmill fire you linked in your other answer was in Netherlands, not Germany.
    Make sure you don't mix up Austria, Switzerland or Netherlands with Germany :D for unknown reasons they don't really like that.

  19. The only apple I like is an old german breed: Boskoop.
    A little bit sour, but also sweet, nice flesh. Easy to store over a winter in a cellar.

  20. Re:Missed Most Important Metrics on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know what will happen is that a company will try it and find that all the work can still get done in 4 days so an MBA will, instead of permanently reducing the number of work days from 5 to 4, just lay off 20% of the staff.
    My parent deserves a +10 insightful for that.

  21. Re:You're assuming some very important questions on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    You lose 20% of time they were working, so about 20% of their productivity,
    They lose 20% work time.
    Not 20% productivity.

    Productivity is the ratio between work done and time needed. And has nothing to do with time needed alone.

    Simple example: you and I have to carry 100 buckets of water 4 stories upstairs.
    You need 10 hours, I need 8. I'm 20% more productive. But we both do the same work.
    Worst case: you get payed 11$/h and I only 10$/h ... so you are less productive and even make *much* more money ... sad, isn't it?

    What is more sad is that idiots who have no clue are leading discussions like this ...

  22. Re:I wonder if it's some kind of investment scam on Two US Hyperloop Startups Line Up Financing From China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Natural gas pipelines are under pressure. About 200 atmospheres.
    A hyperloop is under negative pressure of .... one atmosphere.

    A no brainer .... so: vacuum is completely irrelevant.

  23. Re:I wonder if it's some kind of investment scam on Two US Hyperloop Startups Line Up Financing From China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A high speed train can not leave every 3 minutes.
    No railway station has enough rails for that.
    And the distance between two trains on the same track is minimum 30 minutes.

  24. Re:I wonder if it's some kind of investment scam on Two US Hyperloop Startups Line Up Financing From China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easier to guard an airport in such a way that man-portable missiles are out of range of aircraft taking off/landing,
    Such missiles have a range of about 25km and more.
    So: no, it is not possible to guard an airport against them.

  25. You just need to arrange it carefully, so you can pick the non glowing bottles in between.