Oddly enough, that is something I really love about cooking in the US..... while it would turn out different, I would argue that most of the time the improvised recipes turned out just as good as what they were based off of.
That matches my experience too. While not as extensively traveled, I have spent time in maybe half a dozen countries and quite a few states within the US, and have mostly found it a matter of finding the good restaurants. Perhaps the poster is simply skiled (or has the local knowledge) at finding good places in Itally. I know here figuring out which Chinese and Indian restaurants is a skill unto itself.
While I agree it is subjective, American beer generally is not well thought of. In WWII all the German beer brewers were run out of business in the US, after which locals had to pick up the slack and essentially start from scratch, so all the skill and knowledge was lost. We have started to catch up again now that we have cycled through a few generations but it was still a pretty serious fall.
Hard to say how well it will scale, but other types of manufacturing have. Farming has a lot of waste, a lot of inefficiency... depending on how the details work out, producing just the parts you want for an application might, long term, pan out pretty well.
Actually there are already a number of suppliers for vegan kinksters.
For many it will not matter since it is all about imagery, thus the fact the leather comes from particular animals is 'important'. Others will probably be happy to have more options in alternatives.
I think this is one of those situations that is really very context dependent... it will depend on things like how isolated the two teams are from each other, how frequent updates are rolled out, etc. You want a good process in place, but where individuals or groups fall across the process really comes down to 'what will work best in the situation as it is'. Even large(ish) scale operations you might have people wearing multiple hats and strong dividing lines would only make things less efficient.
No, but we do have some pretty nasty protests, though here groups tend to use less obvious methods to crush blasphemy. You would be surprised at just how devastating careful use of a sympathetic fire marshal can be at silencing people.
The reason we tend not to see violent religious protests in the US isn't because the people are any better, it is because they have some pretty powerful non-violent tools to hurt people with. The attitudes and goals are pretty much the same and I would wager that if they didn't have those powers, the same types of people would get violent here too.
Thing is, such Muslims stand up and denounce such things all the time, but when the media give them attention the sites are bashed for being 'liberal media' since such denouements do not fit with a certain narrative... so there is a rather strong selection bias going on.
It is amazing how often 'the future of all things!' really means 'the future of the niche I operate in and have trouble remembering there is a larger world'
Actually, there is a pretty sizable alt-med community that believe EM from modern electronics make us sick because the energy in their body is going a different direction or something. In the US they pay for (what they think) are shielded walls and stuff.
Actually, the 'free market' can fail rather badly. It is a nice toy system, but when implemented in the real world it dependency on pure forms can become a liability. Free Markets are like Anarchy... unstable and decay into other forms quickly.
Which is why using Steam as a statistics source isn't very useful.. gamers are less likely to be in the 'good enough' crowd, thus using it as representative of 'home users' is going to skew results rather badly.
Many female programmers will not date within their profession. It can be hard enough to be seen as a person in such an environment in the first place, dating around the office just cements the problem.
The factors have changed a little, but the basic equation remains the same. There is a trade off between cost and size, so how much space you need is important.
For instance, one of my computers has a 16GB SSD. I am not even using up that much space, so any larger a drive is just wasted, and at 16GB the cost differnce between SSD and a good platter drive are not that huge, so it make sense. I do my photo editing on a computer with a 120GB SSD, with a large platter drive attached externally for storage. Again I do not need huge amounts of space in the box itself, so the advantages of the SSD outweigh the minor advantage of 'it could be bigger for the same cost' of another drive.
Since bandwidth is not unlimited, nor is it always connected, I would say the paradigm is as valid is it ever has been.
Cloud Storage is just a re-branded version of what people have been already doing for decades, and thus factors in the same basic manner. There are what, about half a dozen levels of memory between a remote server and your CPU? Each one is a trade off between speed, size, and cost.
Damn right it is! Did you know some people are actually ok with mixing Star Wars and Star Trek when naming new servers? It causes confusion! Why don't they understand this!!!
Even less fortunately, often when people do not take these things into account, it isn't just them that pay the price...
Crow, I can recall a study a while back going over the alarmingly high percentage of accidents where the car that caused them was not one of the ones actually involved... so high speed reckless driving has a good chance of producing a situation were the only people killed are ones that were not speeding in the first place.
Thing is, you can only engineer so much into the highway's design before you start encountering more problems on the human side. Reaction times do not improve, and unfortunately people rarely increase their following distance when driving faster (esp as the number of users increases), so yes, higher permitted speeds tend to result in more accidents.
Thing is, this isn't a politician, scientists, or institution saying this, it is the insurance companies. They tend to do a pretty good job of cutting through the BS since their profits are directly connected to actually things right.
And while it is true that such collisions are 'rare', they are still common enough to be a daily occurrence on most major highways
The thing I find frustrating about this debate and ones like it in CS is just how absolute people get in their statements... "I do things X way because it is right, if I have power over someone in hiring and they do not do X then I will not hire them or let them go!". This is pretty scary since what it means, at least in part, is people are not being hired or retained based on if they can do the job, but on the roll of the dice that they just happen to match up with the particular philosphy of the person above them... and expletive help people who are flexible and can adjust to local standards... they don't even get past the interview stage since 'well, what is your convention' is often the 'wrong' answer when you are asked how to do something.
I can recall years ago having to fill out a programming test for an interview that involved how you would make a 'card' and 'deck' class. I pointed out there are something like half a dozen ways to implement this, all of which are valid but are aesthetically differ t based off the local culture. This was considered the 'wrong' answer because the interviewer had a very clear idea of what the right way to make a 'card' class was...
That is one of my major complaints. When time is short and changes are being made fast and furiously, or prototyping is being done, time spent commenting comes out of time getting something completed under a harsh deadline... which means comments are often not updated to reflect the new state of the code.. and incorrect comments can often be worse then no comments at all.
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Oddly enough, that is something I really love about cooking in the US..... while it would turn out different, I would argue that most of the time the improvised recipes turned out just as good as what they were based off of.
That matches my experience too. While not as extensively traveled, I have spent time in maybe half a dozen countries and quite a few states within the US, and have mostly found it a matter of finding the good restaurants. Perhaps the poster is simply skiled (or has the local knowledge) at finding good places in Itally. I know here figuring out which Chinese and Indian restaurants is a skill unto itself.
*nod* at this point it is more reputation then reality, esp now that microbrews have caught on. But go back to the 60s or 70s and it was pretty bad.
While I agree it is subjective, American beer generally is not well thought of. In WWII all the German beer brewers were run out of business in the US, after which locals had to pick up the slack and essentially start from scratch, so all the skill and knowledge was lost. We have started to catch up again now that we have cycled through a few generations but it was still a pretty serious fall.
There are plenty of people who do not want any of their money going to the cattle industry.
Hard to say how well it will scale, but other types of manufacturing have. Farming has a lot of waste, a lot of inefficiency... depending on how the details work out, producing just the parts you want for an application might, long term, pan out pretty well.
Actually there are already a number of suppliers for vegan kinksters.
For many it will not matter since it is all about imagery, thus the fact the leather comes from particular animals is 'important'. Others will probably be happy to have more options in alternatives.
I think this is one of those situations that is really very context dependent... it will depend on things like how isolated the two teams are from each other, how frequent updates are rolled out, etc. You want a good process in place, but where individuals or groups fall across the process really comes down to 'what will work best in the situation as it is'. Even large(ish) scale operations you might have people wearing multiple hats and strong dividing lines would only make things less efficient.
No, but we do have some pretty nasty protests, though here groups tend to use less obvious methods to crush blasphemy. You would be surprised at just how devastating careful use of a sympathetic fire marshal can be at silencing people.
The reason we tend not to see violent religious protests in the US isn't because the people are any better, it is because they have some pretty powerful non-violent tools to hurt people with. The attitudes and goals are pretty much the same and I would wager that if they didn't have those powers, the same types of people would get violent here too.
And Christianity is different how? Yet there are plenty of peaceful Christians around who denounce the violence.
Thing is, such Muslims stand up and denounce such things all the time, but when the media give them attention the sites are bashed for being 'liberal media' since such denouements do not fit with a certain narrative... so there is a rather strong selection bias going on.
It is amazing how often 'the future of all things!' really means 'the future of the niche I operate in and have trouble remembering there is a larger world'
Actually, there is a pretty sizable alt-med community that believe EM from modern electronics make us sick because the energy in their body is going a different direction or something. In the US they pay for (what they think) are shielded walls and stuff.
That is like saying poisons are not poisonous because they are chemicals, but because they chemically interact.
Actually, the 'free market' can fail rather badly. It is a nice toy system, but when implemented in the real world it dependency on pure forms can become a liability. Free Markets are like Anarchy... unstable and decay into other forms quickly.
Which is why using Steam as a statistics source isn't very useful.. gamers are less likely to be in the 'good enough' crowd, thus using it as representative of 'home users' is going to skew results rather badly.
Unlikely (but obviously happens).
Many female programmers will not date within their profession. It can be hard enough to be seen as a person in such an environment in the first place, dating around the office just cements the problem.
The factors have changed a little, but the basic equation remains the same. There is a trade off between cost and size, so how much space you need is important.
For instance, one of my computers has a 16GB SSD. I am not even using up that much space, so any larger a drive is just wasted, and at 16GB the cost differnce between SSD and a good platter drive are not that huge, so it make sense. I do my photo editing on a computer with a 120GB SSD, with a large platter drive attached externally for storage. Again I do not need huge amounts of space in the box itself, so the advantages of the SSD outweigh the minor advantage of 'it could be bigger for the same cost' of another drive.
Since bandwidth is not unlimited, nor is it always connected, I would say the paradigm is as valid is it ever has been.
Cloud Storage is just a re-branded version of what people have been already doing for decades, and thus factors in the same basic manner. There are what, about half a dozen levels of memory between a remote server and your CPU? Each one is a trade off between speed, size, and cost.
Damn right it is! Did you know some people are actually ok with mixing Star Wars and Star Trek when naming new servers? It causes confusion! Why don't they understand this!!!
Non-techies?
I would wager the engineers play a big role in all these names. Just look at what happens when the are asked to start naming their servers....
Even less fortunately, often when people do not take these things into account, it isn't just them that pay the price...
Crow, I can recall a study a while back going over the alarmingly high percentage of accidents where the car that caused them was not one of the ones actually involved... so high speed reckless driving has a good chance of producing a situation were the only people killed are ones that were not speeding in the first place.
Thing is, you can only engineer so much into the highway's design before you start encountering more problems on the human side. Reaction times do not improve, and unfortunately people rarely increase their following distance when driving faster (esp as the number of users increases), so yes, higher permitted speeds tend to result in more accidents.
Thing is, this isn't a politician, scientists, or institution saying this, it is the insurance companies. They tend to do a pretty good job of cutting through the BS since their profits are directly connected to actually things right.
And while it is true that such collisions are 'rare', they are still common enough to be a daily occurrence on most major highways
The thing I find frustrating about this debate and ones like it in CS is just how absolute people get in their statements... "I do things X way because it is right, if I have power over someone in hiring and they do not do X then I will not hire them or let them go!". This is pretty scary since what it means, at least in part, is people are not being hired or retained based on if they can do the job, but on the roll of the dice that they just happen to match up with the particular philosphy of the person above them... and expletive help people who are flexible and can adjust to local standards... they don't even get past the interview stage since 'well, what is your convention' is often the 'wrong' answer when you are asked how to do something.
I can recall years ago having to fill out a programming test for an interview that involved how you would make a 'card' and 'deck' class. I pointed out there are something like half a dozen ways to implement this, all of which are valid but are aesthetically differ t based off the local culture. This was considered the 'wrong' answer because the interviewer had a very clear idea of what the right way to make a 'card' class was...
That is one of my major complaints. When time is short and changes are being made fast and furiously, or prototyping is being done, time spent commenting comes out of time getting something completed under a harsh deadline... which means comments are often not updated to reflect the new state of the code.. and incorrect comments can often be worse then no comments at all.