The kicker for me was this company is not losing money but rather has seen profits increase by 10%+ each year
The funny thing is: At that point, management will start to believe that increasing profit exponentially is not enough - they want a higher rate of profit increase each year. "We had 10% higher profits this year? Great, next year the target is 12%!".
This works for a while, and then the company usually crashes.
And you never run out or memory since you've got an infinite amount of it?
If you allocate everything statically or on the stack, your code won't link if you run out of memory (if your linker correctly performs stack usage analysis, otherwise you can still run into a stack overflow).
They're just another kind of obstacle. Either the self-parking feature stops before running into obstacles... or it doesn't and it's entirely up to the driver to prevent the car from doing so.
I'll gladly have a look at your advertisements as long as they do not interfere with the page I am trying to view. In your interest, I will block anything that is intrusive (popup ads, anything that hogs 80% of my CPU time due to poorly designed flash, etc), since encountering these things makes me less likely to buy your products and diminishes my view of your company.
From experience I know that a well-trained, well-weathered assembly hacker can generate code faster than the compiler.
Maybe if you have a really bad compiler and a simple, non-pipelined CPU.
I tried to out-optimize my compiler on a simple (ARM Cortex-M3) CPU, and it was really close, but the compiler still beat my hand-optimized code by a few percent, probably because the compilers programmers spent much more time reading the CPUs datasheet than I did.
I've mostly given up assembly. C, if done right, is just as fast and much more readable.
The product containing my first work project is still being sold. Naive as I was, and lacking tutoring/guidance from more experienced folks, I wrote most of it in assembly on a DSP with lots of... interesting features - six-stage pipeline, delayed instructions, tons of internal states to keep track of (fractional mode, etc), zero-overhead looping, circular buffers in hardware, etc. I hope I'll never have to touch this code again.
I try and imagine what it would be like in 1945 to see a sky full of them.
Depending on where you are, it might be the last thing you see.
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If the biomatter belongs to a specific person
Things like clones and identical twins aside, the scientific way to attribute a certain glob of biomatter to a specific person with a high certainty would be DNA analysis.
The problem here is that this scientific way completely fails for fertilized eggs, as their DNA is clearly different from either biological parent.
It gets really interesting in a jurisdiction where
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The question gets really interesting in jurisdictions where the occurence of fertilization alone creates an heir.
The computer has no "tell"; but on the other hand, it probably can't read any human tells either.
I'm sure you could run a side-channel attack on the computer for tells, and I'm also sure the computer could be fitted with a camera and appropriate algorithms to read your heart rate, blood perfusion rate, respiration rate, rate of sweat production, etc, for information about your general level of anxiety, surprise, etc.
Less irreversible than execution. Also, it's easier for a person to sue for tons of money for wrongful incarceration than for the estate of a person to sue for tons of money due to wrongful execution.
And suing for lots of money is necessary to motivate the voters/taxpayers to keep the rate of wrongful convictions down. If wrongful convictions aren't freakishly expensive, there's no motivation.
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The funny thing is: At that point, management will start to believe that increasing profit exponentially is not enough - they want a higher rate of profit increase each year. "We had 10% higher profits this year? Great, next year the target is 12%!".
This works for a while, and then the company usually crashes.
After making 210k/yr and living expenses, OP does not seem to have anything left to invest. Budgeting advice should be a priority.
Some basic knowledge is helpful for things like cleaning, cooking and building bo ... err ... homemade fireworks.
I prefer bars of sintered cocoa powder.
If you allocate everything statically or on the stack, your code won't link if you run out of memory (if your linker correctly performs stack usage analysis, otherwise you can still run into a stack overflow).
If you drive a BMW, pedestrians will avoid you.
They're just another kind of obstacle. Either the self-parking feature stops before running into obstacles ... or it doesn't and it's entirely up to the driver to prevent the car from doing so.
On me, at least, it has the effect of making me less inclined to buy the advertised product.
I'm thorougly convinced there is a way of interpreting these four words that doesn't lead to mass murder. Really.
After all, they could be used for encryption algorithms using key sizes in the gigabyte range!
... I've read in quite a while.
Three additions. At the end, x will containt eight times its initial value.
8", 5.25" or 3.5"?
I'll gladly have a look at your advertisements as long as they do not interfere with the page I am trying to view. In your interest, I will block anything that is intrusive (popup ads, anything that hogs 80% of my CPU time due to poorly designed flash, etc), since encountering these things makes me less likely to buy your products and diminishes my view of your company.
Maybe if you have a really bad compiler and a simple, non-pipelined CPU.
I tried to out-optimize my compiler on a simple (ARM Cortex-M3) CPU, and it was really close, but the compiler still beat my hand-optimized code by a few percent, probably because the compilers programmers spent much more time reading the CPUs datasheet than I did.
I've mostly given up assembly. C, if done right, is just as fast and much more readable.
The product containing my first work project is still being sold. Naive as I was, and lacking tutoring/guidance from more experienced folks, I wrote most of it in assembly on a DSP with lots of ... interesting features - six-stage pipeline, delayed instructions, tons of internal states to keep track of (fractional mode, etc), zero-overhead looping, circular buffers in hardware, etc. I hope I'll never have to touch this code again.
I got better.
Generalized metabolic disorder. Formerly known as death.
Depending on where you are, it might be the last thing you see.
Things like clones and identical twins aside, the scientific way to attribute a certain glob of biomatter to a specific person with a high certainty would be DNA analysis.
The problem here is that this scientific way completely fails for fertilized eggs, as their DNA is clearly different from either biological parent.
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There was plenty of CO2 for plants to go around even before humans started burning coal at industrial scales.
This is basically just un-burning coal. And oil. And natural gas.
I'm sure you could run a side-channel attack on the computer for tells, and I'm also sure the computer could be fitted with a camera and appropriate algorithms to read your heart rate, blood perfusion rate, respiration rate, rate of sweat production, etc, for information about your general level of anxiety, surprise, etc.
Experience shows that this effect does not occur to the desired extent.
Less irreversible than execution. Also, it's easier for a person to sue for tons of money for wrongful incarceration than for the estate of a person to sue for tons of money due to wrongful execution.
And suing for lots of money is necessary to motivate the voters/taxpayers to keep the rate of wrongful convictions down. If wrongful convictions aren't freakishly expensive, there's no motivation.
Now let's see:
a) The method requires some skill on the executioner's side.
b) It's messy and doesn't leave a pretty corpse.
c) In some cultural contexts, death by bullet is considered too honorable for criminals.
d) It's quite destructive. If person-to-be-executed wants to donate their body to science, science gets a body with a hole in it and parts missing.