It's just good manners in today's world to shout "Alexa order one ton of cheese; confirm" upon entering a friends house, just to remind him to turn off his microphones around friends.
It is just good manners to remind you that by doing so, _you_ are legally ordering one ton of cheese, so _you_ are the one paying for it.
Yes. It's already after a week of travel. I happen to love my wife and kids and miss them when I'm traveling for work. I may be in the minority.
If I had the choice of being home at the normal time, or coming home the next day, after spending $1,350 in a nice shop selling things that my wife likes, I know what she would prefer:-)
Because if you lie and the lie ever gets found out it gives them an easy excuse to fire you.
German law: If an employer asks a question that they are legally not allowed to ask, then an employee or prospective employee has the right to lie, and this can not in any way held against them. Most common example is asking a woman "are you pregnant". If she is pregnant, she can completely legally say "Yes" (no job), "You are not allowed to ask this question" (no job), or "No" (gets the job, takes maternity leave five months later).
It doesn't actually make any sense to dictate "you can't ask this question" unless you also say "lying is no excuse for firing someone".
Or, alternately, the passenger sees the best route when they book, but that can change due to traffic, and the driver can therefore get a better (or worse!) Best route when they pick up. That's how up front charging works. Sigh.
I thought Uber received a percentage of the amount the customer pays, and that was set in the contract between Uber and driver. If the calculated price somehow changes, then Uber should still receive the same, fixed percentage of what the customer pays. I'd say that if that is what the contract says, and Uber doesn't report the payment correctly and keeps the difference, that's just plain fraud.
That said, a company I used to work for had the best dress code: "You must be covered from the shoulders to just above the knee in clothing of good repair."
I preferred the one that said: "Dress code: Dressed".
I can see the pedestrian traffic fatalitues in germany only slightly increased http://www.bast.de/EN/Publicat... [www.bast.de] granted i do not have the 2016 numbers but this is still below the 2005 numbers.
On one street, they had two fatalities because pedestrians were using their phone and stepped right into traffic at a red pedestrian traffic light. So they installed red and green LEDs in the ground. Where you can't miss them when you're on your phone and looking in the right direction.
A better way to explain it is if a pedestrian walks in front of your vehicle within your stopping distance, then a collision with the pedestrian is guaranteed unless you can swerve and hit a baby buggy or plow into a bus stop instead.
Actually, as you learn and become a good driver, you will just know which pedestrians are likely to do something absolutely stupid, and slow down your speed, and/or have an escape plan ready that doesn't involve the baby or the bus.
I think these girls just moved on on the Dunning-Kruger curve.
According to Dunning-Kruger, people who are incompetent believe themselves to be highly competent, because they don't realise how stupid they are. As they become more competent, they realise more of what they don't know and feel they are less competent. Once they are competent, they think that they are probably just average. Only people who are highly competent have the same level of confidence as the total incompetents.
So I think these girls were on the part of the curve where more competence shows you more things you don't know, and makes you feel less competent. It's the move from "how hard can it be" to "this is hard". They need some more lessons to move on to "it's not that hard after all".
How are ISP going to manage their privacy policies if each states has different laws? This is why the FCC needed to regulate the abuse of user data at the federal level.
There are two obvious solutions: Make sure that you only sell the data of people outside of Minnesota, and the data of people in Minnesota who have given written consent. OR don't sell that data at all.
Option 2 is much easier to implement, requires absolutely no changes to your existing systems, and is customer friendly.
The majority of coders can actually be better than the mean (average) coder. The median coder, though...
If the number of coders is odd, then less than half the coders are better than the median. And less than half are less good than the median. And at least one is exactly as good as the median.
If the number of coders is even, then at most half are better than the median.
W = set of programmers that are worse than average. |W| = 50%
Says who? As an example of a situation where 99% are above average: Most people have two arms. Some are unlucky and have one or none. The average number of arms is maybe 1.99. More than 99% of humans have more than the average number of arms.
"Searching for another job just to invite my employer into a bidding war over my salary is an asshole thing to do."
It's not an asshole thing to do, it's a stupid thing to do. If you pull it off, you'll be gone within a year. If you don't pull it off, you'll still be gone within a year.
Search for another job to find a new employer who is willing to pay you more for leaving your old job and starting with them.
I guess that's true if you're driving an offroad 4x4. There are speed "bumps" around here you actually go around the block to avoid driving over in anything less. The tops of those bumps are heavily scarred from those that thought, like you, ahh, I can drive over these.... only to leave a transmission behind.
On the other hand, I have nine speed bumps on the road to my home, and sometimes I'm stuck behind an SUV that isn't moving. Because their car can't handle the bumps. Driven by the kind of people who buy spray cans with dirt to pretend their SUV has gone off road.
Very nice find. So Acushnet made some threatening accusations, and now Costco is taking them to court, asking for a declaratory judgement.
They want to stop Acushnet to make any accusations of patent infringement, because (a) in all 11 cases the Costco balls are not made in the way that the patent claims, and (b) in all 11 cases the Acushnet patent is invalid because of prior art. For example, one patent claim is for balls "where dimples cover more than 80% of the surface", and Costco says with their balls, dimples _don't_ cover that much surface.
Acushnet also accuses Costco of "false advertising" because they are saying "their products are as good or better than top brands". And there Costco's argument is that (a) they never directly compared to Acushnet, and (b) reviewers and players have repeatedly said that their golf balls are at least as good as Acushnet.
I think someone at Acushnet is in trouble now for sending threatening letters.
I'm wondering if this will affect known methods used by law enforcement to break into iPhones in high-profile cases (such as the San Bernardino shooting). Anyone have any insight as to whether the underlying encryption has an affect on those attack vectors?
For many years, the file system has been encrypted with 256 bit keys, and different keys per file. (I know this is supposedly an advantage of the new filesystem, but that's been there for years). And 256 bit means: Forget it.
The only way to read the files on an iPhone is to enter the right passcode. There's just no way around that. Now the problem was people using 4 digit passcodes (10,000 possible codes). Apple adds some security by adding delays when you enter the wrong passcode more than 6 times, which means if I have your 4 digit passcode locked phone, I can't unlock it in a day with some patience but it could take years. The FBI paid someone to get around this; I think they could check 6 passcodes in 90 seconds or something like that, which makes 4 digits crackable. The methods used don't work on iPhone 6, iPhone 7, or iPhone 5s and 5se.
HFS+ has supported case-sensitive mode for years, but you do have to make the choice when the partition is first formatted, and it's not recommended for the boot partition, just in case some random program fails with it.
Problem is that very few people use it, including very few developers. Let's say a game installer creates a "World Of Warcraft" folder, then copies files into the "World of Warcraft" folder, that would work on most machines, including mine, including most likely that developer's machine, but not on a case sensitive file system.
On the other hand, iPhone file system has always been case sensitive.
Conversations would be different if the uber car was at fault but not all accidents can be avoided.
There are accidents that nobody could avoid, there are accidents that I cannot avoid, and accidents that could be avoided.
Obviously self driving cars will initially have to be clever enough to only cause accidents very, very rarely, At some point when this is achieved, they will try to avoid avoidable accidents where someone else is at fault.
If lexmark win this then every car manufacturer will be able to create their own fuel and shut out generic petrol alternatives.
The first car maker trying that would go bankrupt within a very short time. If Ford were mad enough to build a car that I can only fill up at Ford gas stations, what sane person would buy that car?
I'm not clear on patent law in this case (certainly not the US laws), but I thought patent licenses cover manufacturing, not use.
It covers use as well. Imagine someone with a _real_ patent, and some company makes a million unlicensed products and sells them cheap. Then as a buyer you can't say "I'm just using the product, I didn't produce it, I should be allowed to use it".
Obviously when you pay a patented cartridge made by Lexmark you _have_ a license to use it. And if you sell that cartridge to me then I have a license to use it, and you don't have it anymore.
The catch is that it's starting to be "never buy anything" from anyone. There isn't a company on this planet that doesn't want this ability to control it's products after purchase, and they consistently get away with it.
It seems that I can get third party cartridges for my Brother laser printer quite easily. It seems that Brother doesn't try stopping others from making cartridges.
It doesn't really matter. They have patented _something_ and nobody claims that patent would be invalid. They then go on to claim that because they have some patent, nobody is allowed to refill their cartridges. And that's what should fail in court.
The exception would be if they have a patent on refilling cartridges, then they can deny you the right to refill cartridges _using their patented method_, but they still can't deny you the right to refill cartridges in any other way.
They don't have anybody by the balls. There is a big, big difference between opening your big mouth and claiming you have access to 300 million iTunes accounts, and having access to 300 million iTunes accounts.
And one of the "hackers" will get his ass spanked by his grandma for deleting her account.
The first example: std::insert should do nothing if an item is already present. So calling std::insert only if the object is not yet present is 100% equivalent to calling std::insert directly, but it is 7 times slower.
This violates the important principle that when using a library, the obvious way to do things should be the fasted. So hacks are required to make your code fast, and that shouldn't happen.
I assume the explanation is probably that std::find is small enough to be inlined, while std::insert is too big, so nothing is inlined at all when you call it.
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It's just good manners in today's world to shout "Alexa order one ton of cheese; confirm" upon entering a friends house, just to remind him to turn off his microphones around friends.
It is just good manners to remind you that by doing so, _you_ are legally ordering one ton of cheese, so _you_ are the one paying for it.
Yes. It's already after a week of travel. I happen to love my wife and kids and miss them when I'm traveling for work. I may be in the minority.
If I had the choice of being home at the normal time, or coming home the next day, after spending $1,350 in a nice shop selling things that my wife likes, I know what she would prefer :-)
Because if you lie and the lie ever gets found out it gives them an easy excuse to fire you.
German law: If an employer asks a question that they are legally not allowed to ask, then an employee or prospective employee has the right to lie, and this can not in any way held against them. Most common example is asking a woman "are you pregnant". If she is pregnant, she can completely legally say "Yes" (no job), "You are not allowed to ask this question" (no job), or "No" (gets the job, takes maternity leave five months later).
It doesn't actually make any sense to dictate "you can't ask this question" unless you also say "lying is no excuse for firing someone".
Or, alternately, the passenger sees the best route when they book, but that can change due to traffic, and the driver can therefore get a better (or worse!) Best route when they pick up. That's how up front charging works. Sigh.
I thought Uber received a percentage of the amount the customer pays, and that was set in the contract between Uber and driver. If the calculated price somehow changes, then Uber should still receive the same, fixed percentage of what the customer pays. I'd say that if that is what the contract says, and Uber doesn't report the payment correctly and keeps the difference, that's just plain fraud.
if you think that mexican drug gangs and people flooding across the border to steal jobs from Americans is a good thing
What jobs are drug gangs trying to steal from Americans? Drug dealer jobs?
That said, a company I used to work for had the best dress code: "You must be covered from the shoulders to just above the knee in clothing of good repair."
I preferred the one that said: "Dress code: Dressed".
But we'll never know because everyone gets 'lawyered up' and I assume they settle.
The lorry driver will settle. His insurance will settle. The woman won't settle, but at least the earth on her grave will settle.
I can see the pedestrian traffic fatalitues in germany only slightly increased http://www.bast.de/EN/Publicat... [www.bast.de] granted i do not have the 2016 numbers but this is still below the 2005 numbers.
On one street, they had two fatalities because pedestrians were using their phone and stepped right into traffic at a red pedestrian traffic light. So they installed red and green LEDs in the ground. Where you can't miss them when you're on your phone and looking in the right direction.
A better way to explain it is if a pedestrian walks in front of your vehicle within your stopping distance, then a collision with the pedestrian is guaranteed unless you can swerve and hit a baby buggy or plow into a bus stop instead.
Actually, as you learn and become a good driver, you will just know which pedestrians are likely to do something absolutely stupid, and slow down your speed, and/or have an escape plan ready that doesn't involve the baby or the bus.
I think these girls just moved on on the Dunning-Kruger curve.
According to Dunning-Kruger, people who are incompetent believe themselves to be highly competent, because they don't realise how stupid they are. As they become more competent, they realise more of what they don't know and feel they are less competent. Once they are competent, they think that they are probably just average. Only people who are highly competent have the same level of confidence as the total incompetents.
So I think these girls were on the part of the curve where more competence shows you more things you don't know, and makes you feel less competent. It's the move from "how hard can it be" to "this is hard". They need some more lessons to move on to "it's not that hard after all".
How are ISP going to manage their privacy policies if each states has different laws? This is why the FCC needed to regulate the abuse of user data at the federal level.
There are two obvious solutions: Make sure that you only sell the data of people outside of Minnesota, and the data of people in Minnesota who have given written consent. OR don't sell that data at all.
Option 2 is much easier to implement, requires absolutely no changes to your existing systems, and is customer friendly.
The majority of coders can actually be better than the mean (average) coder. The median coder, though...
If the number of coders is odd, then less than half the coders are better than the median. And less than half are less good than the median. And at least one is exactly as good as the median.
If the number of coders is even, then at most half are better than the median.
W = set of programmers that are worse than average. |W| = 50%
Says who? As an example of a situation where 99% are above average: Most people have two arms. Some are unlucky and have one or none. The average number of arms is maybe 1.99. More than 99% of humans have more than the average number of arms.
"Searching for another job just to invite my employer into a bidding war over my salary is an asshole thing to do."
It's not an asshole thing to do, it's a stupid thing to do. If you pull it off, you'll be gone within a year. If you don't pull it off, you'll still be gone within a year.
Search for another job to find a new employer who is willing to pay you more for leaving your old job and starting with them.
I guess that's true if you're driving an offroad 4x4. There are speed "bumps" around here you actually go around the block to avoid driving over in anything less. The tops of those bumps are heavily scarred from those that thought, like you, ahh, I can drive over these.... only to leave a transmission behind.
On the other hand, I have nine speed bumps on the road to my home, and sometimes I'm stuck behind an SUV that isn't moving. Because their car can't handle the bumps. Driven by the kind of people who buy spray cans with dirt to pretend their SUV has gone off road.
Very nice find. So Acushnet made some threatening accusations, and now Costco is taking them to court, asking for a declaratory judgement.
They want to stop Acushnet to make any accusations of patent infringement, because (a) in all 11 cases the Costco balls are not made in the way that the patent claims, and (b) in all 11 cases the Acushnet patent is invalid because of prior art. For example, one patent claim is for balls "where dimples cover more than 80% of the surface", and Costco says with their balls, dimples _don't_ cover that much surface.
Acushnet also accuses Costco of "false advertising" because they are saying "their products are as good or better than top brands". And there Costco's argument is that (a) they never directly compared to Acushnet, and (b) reviewers and players have repeatedly said that their golf balls are at least as good as Acushnet.
I think someone at Acushnet is in trouble now for sending threatening letters.
I'm wondering if this will affect known methods used by law enforcement to break into iPhones in high-profile cases (such as the San Bernardino shooting). Anyone have any insight as to whether the underlying encryption has an affect on those attack vectors?
For many years, the file system has been encrypted with 256 bit keys, and different keys per file. (I know this is supposedly an advantage of the new filesystem, but that's been there for years). And 256 bit means: Forget it.
The only way to read the files on an iPhone is to enter the right passcode. There's just no way around that. Now the problem was people using 4 digit passcodes (10,000 possible codes). Apple adds some security by adding delays when you enter the wrong passcode more than 6 times, which means if I have your 4 digit passcode locked phone, I can't unlock it in a day with some patience but it could take years. The FBI paid someone to get around this; I think they could check 6 passcodes in 90 seconds or something like that, which makes 4 digits crackable. The methods used don't work on iPhone 6, iPhone 7, or iPhone 5s and 5se.
HFS+ has supported case-sensitive mode for years, but you do have to make the choice when the partition is first formatted, and it's not recommended for the boot partition, just in case some random program fails with it.
Problem is that very few people use it, including very few developers. Let's say a game installer creates a "World Of Warcraft" folder, then copies files into the "World of Warcraft" folder, that would work on most machines, including mine, including most likely that developer's machine, but not on a case sensitive file system.
On the other hand, iPhone file system has always been case sensitive.
Conversations would be different if the uber car was at fault but not all accidents can be avoided.
There are accidents that nobody could avoid, there are accidents that I cannot avoid, and accidents that could be avoided.
Obviously self driving cars will initially have to be clever enough to only cause accidents very, very rarely, At some point when this is achieved, they will try to avoid avoidable accidents where someone else is at fault.
If lexmark win this then every car manufacturer will be able to create their own fuel and shut out generic petrol alternatives.
The first car maker trying that would go bankrupt within a very short time. If Ford were mad enough to build a car that I can only fill up at Ford gas stations, what sane person would buy that car?
I'm not clear on patent law in this case (certainly not the US laws), but I thought patent licenses cover manufacturing, not use.
It covers use as well. Imagine someone with a _real_ patent, and some company makes a million unlicensed products and sells them cheap. Then as a buyer you can't say "I'm just using the product, I didn't produce it, I should be allowed to use it".
Obviously when you pay a patented cartridge made by Lexmark you _have_ a license to use it. And if you sell that cartridge to me then I have a license to use it, and you don't have it anymore.
The catch is that it's starting to be "never buy anything" from anyone. There isn't a company on this planet that doesn't want this ability to control it's products after purchase, and they consistently get away with it.
It seems that I can get third party cartridges for my Brother laser printer quite easily. It seems that Brother doesn't try stopping others from making cartridges.
Excuse me? What have they patented exactly?
It doesn't really matter. They have patented _something_ and nobody claims that patent would be invalid. They then go on to claim that because they have some patent, nobody is allowed to refill their cartridges. And that's what should fail in court.
The exception would be if they have a patent on refilling cartridges, then they can deny you the right to refill cartridges _using their patented method_, but they still can't deny you the right to refill cartridges in any other way.
Do they know its Apple they have by the balls?
They don't have anybody by the balls. There is a big, big difference between opening your big mouth and claiming you have access to 300 million iTunes accounts, and having access to 300 million iTunes accounts.
And one of the "hackers" will get his ass spanked by his grandma for deleting her account.
The first example: std::insert should do nothing if an item is already present. So calling std::insert only if the object is not yet present is 100% equivalent to calling std::insert directly, but it is 7 times slower.
This violates the important principle that when using a library, the obvious way to do things should be the fasted. So hacks are required to make your code fast, and that shouldn't happen.
I assume the explanation is probably that std::find is small enough to be inlined, while std::insert is too big, so nothing is inlined at all when you call it.