In 20 years of c/c++ programming, I've never once used goto.
Neither have I, but I haven't needed lots of error-handling code or breaking out of deeply-nested loops/conditionals. I can see the usefulness and simplicity of a goto there, though.
Also, in C++ you'd probably use try/catch blocks for a similar purpose.
It's not ugly if it's used in this context (usually involving breaking out of several levels of loops/conditionals, and/or go to one specific error handling code snippet from several points in the function).
However, an x-ray scan is hardly plain view because it's an active scan, relying on backscatter in the case of these vans.
Physically, it's not more active than using a flashlight to illuminate a dark area. If the cops use a flashlight to find evidence, should that automatically preclude the evidence from being in plain view? A flashlight is just a source of photons, just like an x-ray source.
Is this safe?
"Ha ha. Prove that you got your nasty cancer from our vans, and not from radon, nuclear tests, radiology or whatever."
Because these vans are being paid for with tax dollars, don't people have a right to know how they're being used?
Um no.
At what point is it no longer acceptable to justify any and every form of surveillance under the excuse of terrorism?
When the War on Terrorism has ended with a resounding victory! Or when pigs fly. Or when hell freezes over.
"how the fuck I am supposed to meet that deadline on the lame arse 100Mhz 16 bit CPU the electrical engineers gave me when the brake guys are telling me I need to react to wheel slip within 100us otherwise I could kill somebody?"
100us, in the world of small embedded stuff, is a small eternity. 5ms is a large eternity. In 5ms, your 100 MHz 16-bit counter will have rolled over seven times!
An omniscient God precludes the possibility of human free will.
Well, an omnipotent God definitely allows the possibility of human free will. And omnipotence trumps omniscience hands down - someone who cannot decide what he wants to know, and what he doesn't want to know, or only wants to know later, definitely isn't omnipotent. It's kind of like root being able to read your email, but he can decide not to.
Also, things get a bit fuzzy when you consider the timelessness that is implied by omnipotence. You might be able to distinguish between "now" and "not now", but you can't really put things in a sequence of past, present and future.
The algorithm may not be very clever, but it scales almost perfectly with the number of cores (as long as you don't have more cores than characters in the string).
Comparing strings is a case for specialized hardware, not for more sophisticated algorithms.
If you really don't want the sun on your skin, why not just wear some, you know, clothes?
I take it you've never suffered a sunburn bad enough to make your skin peel off, through clothes and while trying to stay in the shade most of the time?
[ ] Engine complies with emissions standards in normal driving conditions.
[ ] Customer never needs to refill DEF/AdBlue/whatever outside regular maintenance.
[ ] Customer gets really good fuel mileage, instead of just average.
[ ] Customer gets lots of engine power in a wide operating range, instead of getting lots of engine power at one operating point and not so much power at all other points.
Oh, and guess which of these points actually sell cars.
Engineer: We can't make this engine pass NOx tests.
But the engine did pass NOx tests. It just runs better when it doesn't. Maybe it gets 140hp@4000 rpm, but with the emissions system working it only gets 90hp@2000rpm instead of, say, 120hp@2000rpm. (Numbers are completely made up).
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Neither have I, but I haven't needed lots of error-handling code or breaking out of deeply-nested loops/conditionals. I can see the usefulness and simplicity of a goto there, though.
Also, in C++ you'd probably use try/catch blocks for a similar purpose.
It's not ugly if it's used in this context (usually involving breaking out of several levels of loops/conditionals, and/or go to one specific error handling code snippet from several points in the function).
And next thing, someone who doesn't know about short circuit evaluation in C will swap the two conditionals.
Keysight Technologies?
Physically, it's not more active than using a flashlight to illuminate a dark area. If the cops use a flashlight to find evidence, should that automatically preclude the evidence from being in plain view? A flashlight is just a source of photons, just like an x-ray source.
Is this safe?
"Ha ha. Prove that you got your nasty cancer from our vans, and not from radon, nuclear tests, radiology or whatever."
Because these vans are being paid for with tax dollars, don't people have a right to know how they're being used?
Um no.
At what point is it no longer acceptable to justify any and every form of surveillance under the excuse of terrorism?
When the War on Terrorism has ended with a resounding victory! Or when pigs fly. Or when hell freezes over.
100us, in the world of small embedded stuff, is a small eternity. 5ms is a large eternity. In 5ms, your 100 MHz 16-bit counter will have rolled over seven times!
The bonus is that you keep your job.
An accident during a space mission, and only science, quick thinking and creative ad-hoc engineering saves the crew.
Right. If you're looking for hydrocarbons, Pluto may not be the best spot. Titan has oceans of liquid natural gas, though.
Well, an omnipotent God definitely allows the possibility of human free will. And omnipotence trumps omniscience hands down - someone who cannot decide what he wants to know, and what he doesn't want to know, or only wants to know later, definitely isn't omnipotent. It's kind of like root being able to read your email, but he can decide not to.
Also, things get a bit fuzzy when you consider the timelessness that is implied by omnipotence. You might be able to distinguish between "now" and "not now", but you can't really put things in a sequence of past, present and future.
Comparing strings is a case for specialized hardware, not for more sophisticated algorithms.
I take it you've never suffered a sunburn bad enough to make your skin peel off, through clothes and while trying to stay in the shade most of the time?
What's wrong with titanium dioxide again?
Because the shareholders obviously didn't hire the right people to run the company for them.
However, you can sue the people that did in fact run the company for the losses you incurred due to their illegal acts.
Even worse, 2+2 != 4 (depending on the quirks of your floating-point implementation).
Can you name a few completely non-dodgy companies that also pay well? Thanks.
Because turning them off increases engine performance over the range of operating conditions and increases gas mileage.
Just to be assholes?
No, because they want to sell cars. And engine performance and gas mileage sell cars.
[ ] Customer never needs to refill DEF/AdBlue/whatever outside regular maintenance.
[ ] Customer gets really good fuel mileage, instead of just average.
[ ] Customer gets lots of engine power in a wide operating range, instead of getting lots of engine power at one operating point and not so much power at all other points.
Oh, and guess which of these points actually sell cars.
But the engine did pass NOx tests. It just runs better when it doesn't. Maybe it gets 140hp@4000 rpm, but with the emissions system working it only gets 90hp@2000rpm instead of, say, 120hp@2000rpm. (Numbers are completely made up).
Then again, something similar might make a nice contest topic.
Stupid article that basically says "Metal wires conduct electricity."
Depends on how many kW of laser power you're piping into the cable.
We tried, but sudden blizzards seem to have interrupted all forms of communication.
Then again, Germans don't start rioting or similar when the price for electricity hits $0.30/kWh.
You need to pick a tactically advantageous moment for the admission for that to work. though.