Jesus Christ lived in a world where milking goats was a living. Creative skills are what's needed to survive in a world where robots threaten to automate much of the world we know, and that means play time is vital.
Huh?
Matthew 6:25: "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these"
... on the bitcoin sub-reddit, where people are predicting it will be well over $10k USD per bitcoin before the holidays whilst at the same time denying that it is a bubble
It may well go over $10k, or even $12k. That still won't mean it isn't a bubble.
There was a time period of half a year or so when the Linux kernel was compiled using C++. It bought worse optimization, much slower compilation, strange bugs. No actually tangible advantages.
So instead of working on the C++ compiler, they did what...?
C++ is tricky to get right in a kernel context because you cannot depend on garbage collection. When using something like STL, stuff gets scattered across more memory pools than desirable. Reallocation strategies have unknown semantics and timing.
a) C++ doesn't have garbage collection. b) STL doesn't have to do reallocation, that's what the "reserve()" function is for.
Basically the stuff that gets solved in a black box manner, quite a boon for application programming, is not viable in a kernel.
There's nothing "black box" about C++ or STL. Everything is just as deterministic as C once you bother to learn it.
C++ has all the bad parts from both C and Object-orienting with little added benefit. There's also a reason why for example the Linux kernel isn't written in C++ but C, and that is the memory management of C++ that isn't predictable for use in the kernel.
No. The reason C++ isn't used for the kernel is that Linus Torvalds is a dolt.
C++ can do anything that C can. You want to use malloc? Nobody's stopping you.
std::vector will produce better, more reliable code though.
The same goes for std::string vs. C string functions. Why would anybody but an idiot still be using C strings?
How do you "trade" with it when the network is limited to single-digit transactions per second? How much will it be worth when people start getting stuck in queues, waiting several hours/days for transactions to complete?
Pretty much. Nobody is buying bitcoin right now to make purchases, you simply don't buy something that's experiencing value increaases like this to use to buy a hamburger tomorrow.
Tons of people are buying into it precisely because its shooting up... which makes it shoot up higher. That not only speculation... its bubble behavior.
Yep, and I can't wait to see what happens when it collapses and they all find out it will take several days to sell their stock because the entire bitcoin network is limited to about 7 transactions/second. Several days watching it crash, unable to sell unless they _seriously_ undercut everybody else to jump the queue.
It'll be a thing of beauty. A death spiral never before seen in any other 'bubble'.
BTC would be valuable as an anonymous digital currency if the ratio of coins to everything that can be traded for coins remained stable.
Or if the world bitcoin network could support more than single-digit number of transactions per second. Which it can't, not even in theory. (blockchain theory says real world transaction rates could be around 7/sec, or maybe even as low as 5/sec)
I don't think Bitcoin will be so valuable when a lot of people try to use it to buy stuff and find out there's a waiting list of several hours/days to complete their transaction.
I reckon if global warming turns out to be bad, something like this will be done
Yep. Those exact same climate scientists who currently know nothing about climate will be called upon to geoengineer things and save everybdy's asses when it starts to get real.
Not where I work. We don't hire smokers. We ask about tobacco use at the very beginning of the interview process, and reject all users.
Well, that's just stupid - you would really pass up a chance to hire the next Tesla or Hawkings, because they smoke? I bet your competition loves such counterproductive thinking.
If the next Tesla or Hawkings(sic) is going around handing in their CV and doing job interviews then they aren't who you think they are.
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It is generally believed by ignorant Bible Thumpers that somebody named Jesus did exist.
FTFY.
Jesus Christ lived in a world where milking goats was a living. Creative skills are what's needed to survive in a world where robots threaten to automate much of the world we know, and that means play time is vital.
Huh?
Matthew 6:25: "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these"
https://www.openbible.info/top...
... on the bitcoin sub-reddit, where people are predicting it will be well over $10k USD per bitcoin before the holidays whilst at the same time denying that it is a bubble
It may well go over $10k, or even $12k. That still won't mean it isn't a bubble.
The world's largest futures exchange, CME, is planning to list bitcoin futures in the second week of December.
There you go.
Proving what, exactly? That stockbrokers like commissions?
Film at 11.
MSIE won't have this. Ever.
It's been feature-frozen for years now.
"del" on a mac is "fn + backspace" isn't it?
Yes, and that's the point.
And maybe a "del" key.
Page up/down would be very useful, too. Would it really kill them to have a couple more keys?
There was a time period of half a year or so when the Linux kernel was compiled using C++. It bought worse optimization, much slower compilation, strange bugs. No actually tangible advantages.
So instead of working on the C++ compiler, they did what...?
C++ is tricky to get right in a kernel context because you cannot depend on garbage collection. When using something like STL, stuff gets scattered across more memory pools than desirable. Reallocation strategies have unknown semantics and timing.
a) C++ doesn't have garbage collection.
b) STL doesn't have to do reallocation, that's what the "reserve()" function is for.
Basically the stuff that gets solved in a black box manner, quite a boon for application programming, is not viable in a kernel.
There's nothing "black box" about C++ or STL. Everything is just as deterministic as C once you bother to learn it.
C++ has all the bad parts from both C and Object-orienting with little added benefit. There's also a reason why for example the Linux kernel isn't written in C++ but C, and that is the memory management of C++ that isn't predictable for use in the kernel.
No. The reason C++ isn't used for the kernel is that Linus Torvalds is a dolt.
C++ can do anything that C can. You want to use malloc? Nobody's stopping you.
std::vector will produce better, more reliable code though.
The same goes for std::string vs. C string functions. Why would anybody but an idiot still be using C strings?
How do you "trade" with it when the network is limited to single-digit transactions per second? How much will it be worth when people start getting stuck in queues, waiting several hours/days for transactions to complete?
It will be spectacular when it does go down.
Bitcoin is different in that the global number of transactions per second is limited. Only about 7 people can sell per second, in the entire world.
Wanna sell yours? Either you sell for cents on the dollar or you ain't selling at all.
When that happens I'm gonna put in some _really_ low bids for bitcoins.
Pretty much. Nobody is buying bitcoin right now to make purchases, you simply don't buy something that's experiencing value increaases like this to use to buy a hamburger tomorrow.
Tons of people are buying into it precisely because its shooting up... which makes it shoot up higher. That not only speculation... its bubble behavior.
Yep, and I can't wait to see what happens when it collapses and they all find out it will take several days to sell their stock because the entire bitcoin network is limited to about 7 transactions/second. Several days watching it crash, unable to sell unless they _seriously_ undercut everybody else to jump the queue.
It'll be a thing of beauty. A death spiral never before seen in any other 'bubble'.
BTC would be valuable as an anonymous digital currency if the ratio of coins to everything that can be traded for coins remained stable.
Or if the world bitcoin network could support more than single-digit number of transactions per second. Which it can't, not even in theory. (blockchain theory says real world transaction rates could be around 7/sec, or maybe even as low as 5/sec)
I don't think Bitcoin will be so valuable when a lot of people try to use it to buy stuff and find out there's a waiting list of several hours/days to complete their transaction.
I don't get this at all.
It's Texas. Wasn't everybody in the building carrying some sort of concealed firearm to defend themselves with, including the preacher?
This report is obviously retarded, liberal and gay.
The president will prove it wrong with a couple of tweets.
Burning it for power will use up 0.000000000001% of it. That'll make a huge difference.
Oh, wait...
Now would be a good time for him to sell.
It'd bring the whole thing crashing down overnight, of course, but he'd be set for several lifetimes.
I reckon if global warming turns out to be bad, something like this will be done
Yep. Those exact same climate scientists who currently know nothing about climate will be called upon to geoengineer things and save everybdy's asses when it starts to get real.
So it goes.
regenerative breaking making the brakes last a long time
At least you got one of those spellings right.
So... a bit like your grammar checker then?
Don't be a jackass. Every manufacturer has flaws & things that slip through quality control.
Difference is that GM would go ahead and manufacture it, defect and all.
If the recall costs them too much? They just go to Washington for another handout...
Not where I work. We don't hire smokers. We ask about tobacco use at the very beginning of the interview process, and reject all users.
Well, that's just stupid - you would really pass up a chance to hire the next Tesla or Hawkings, because they smoke? I bet your competition loves such counterproductive thinking.
If the next Tesla or Hawkings(sic) is going around handing in their CV and doing job interviews then they aren't who you think they are.
Meanwhile GM does about a million a month. But it's totally rational that the two have the same market cap.
It's almost as if you don't know that GM was bailed out by the taxpayer not too long ago.
I did,but not for any longer than I normally stare at the sun.
Why not?
Does anybody really think this info won't be "anonymized" and sent to Apple for further processing?