It is kinda like discussed if black people are really genetically inferior or jews really are eating babies and running the world. Just because people do not want to discuss it doesn't mean it has any merit or is even worth refuting.
At best a lot of his 'evidence' pretty much comes down to 'it isn't sexism, women really are just worse, otherwise they would be doing better in physics because we only care about merit!'
They theory is that the misogynistic assholes who treat other developers like crap are more important than the people they drive away, so if you do not cater to the fragile egos of a handful of jerks they will take their code away and no one will replace them.
Heh. I spent a great deal of my career working on problems that came down to 'shaving off 2ms means this works or does not' or 'you have a hard memory limit of X before trashing will render the application unusable', so I do indeed put in the elbow grease to verify if something really does behave well enough or not.
What I have generally found is that the language and library writers tend to be pretty good. Python has a pretty large scientific computing community where time is money and if you use the number crunching libraries correctly they can actually be surprisingly efficient even when compared to custom rolled solutions in C or FORTRAN. When you have something specialized that REALLY needs to be tiny and fast it can still be best to switch to other languages, but even then it can be difficult to match the work of the library authors without putting in similar amounts of time and effort.
This is true, and there is always room for taking a close look at those tightly wound paths that need to execute over and over. But more often than not, the savings there tend to come from how the path is structured as opposed to which language it was written in.
Part of the problem is, it wasn't really an suboptimal solution. It has worked really well, with the problem being that the industry has moved on and does not produce new programmers with the same 'hit the ground running' skills. But the technical solution has uptime that modern frameworks can only dream of.
Yeah, I used to feel the same way about FORTRAN, then I discovered you could do the same tasks in Python with the right library, far more readable, and only marginally less efficient.
Tech, unfortunately, has a culture of fetishizing ignorance of the past. People keep rediscovering old solutions because learning from old people, or even worse, from books, is uncool.
Unless we return to an single homogeneous ethnostate, yes, it is going to infect everything because it is everything. PC culture is just what people call it when those who they view as not knowing their place try to have the same consideration as their betters. If you 'stop' it, all you do is assert another PC culture in its place catering to other demographic groups.
Eh, I can recall this topic coming up at least as far back as the 80s, so it isn't exactly new. The terms were chosen by people with no particular connection to them, and there has always been a bit of simmering annoyance from people who do have a connection.
Transactional costs are exactly where BTC are terrible and can never compete with other systems. Transaction costs were only cheap early on because miners were still producing lots of new coins, but now we have moved off that reward and transaction costs are going to rise in order to cover the increasing costs of a system that was designed to be as expensive to operate as possible.
And on the tool end this means they have something built into their loader now capable of detecting what application an installer is associated with and consulting a table of actions to take based off that. Once that capability is there, it is gonna be hard to resist adding more cases to it.
Anyone who can run for that level of office is going to be backed by powerful companies and institutions. As a voter, it is mostly a matter of deciding which of those actor's needs align the best with your own.
One of the factors that caused the satanic panic to blow up so much was the introduction of fax machines, which allowed the panic to spread in ways that earlier ones were unable to. So there is a 'new technology' aspect that seems to allow things to allow a period of new panics until the tech becomes common place, then you get new panics when some new technology comes onto the scene.
Damn. Now I am wondering if Ben Carson and Civ's designers got the idea from some common root, or if Civ's use of the Pyramids somehow seeped into evangelical mythology.
So.. a centrally controlled blockchain based money transfer system? Thinking back to various 'internet gold' projects, I can not imagine this going well
The only three options I can see are they either take a cut as you convert them to/from USD, take a cut as you transfer them, or use the deposited USD as investment capital.
I don't know, sometimes it seems like IT spends a lot of time creating messes that only they can clean up. Sure, it is always the user's fault, but systems that have been working fine for a decade or more mysteriously stop working when IT decides the network doesn't have enough buzz words in it.
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It is kinda like discussed if black people are really genetically inferior or jews really are eating babies and running the world. Just because people do not want to discuss it doesn't mean it has any merit or is even worth refuting.
At best a lot of his 'evidence' pretty much comes down to 'it isn't sexism, women really are just worse, otherwise they would be doing better in physics because we only care about merit!'
Well, more specifically, a physicists wanting his and only his politics injected.
They theory is that the misogynistic assholes who treat other developers like crap are more important than the people they drive away, so if you do not cater to the fragile egos of a handful of jerks they will take their code away and no one will replace them.
Heh. I spent a great deal of my career working on problems that came down to 'shaving off 2ms means this works or does not' or 'you have a hard memory limit of X before trashing will render the application unusable', so I do indeed put in the elbow grease to verify if something really does behave well enough or not. What I have generally found is that the language and library writers tend to be pretty good. Python has a pretty large scientific computing community where time is money and if you use the number crunching libraries correctly they can actually be surprisingly efficient even when compared to custom rolled solutions in C or FORTRAN. When you have something specialized that REALLY needs to be tiny and fast it can still be best to switch to other languages, but even then it can be difficult to match the work of the library authors without putting in similar amounts of time and effort.
This is true, and there is always room for taking a close look at those tightly wound paths that need to execute over and over. But more often than not, the savings there tend to come from how the path is structured as opposed to which language it was written in.
Part of the problem is, it wasn't really an suboptimal solution. It has worked really well, with the problem being that the industry has moved on and does not produce new programmers with the same 'hit the ground running' skills. But the technical solution has uptime that modern frameworks can only dream of.
but.. I thought blockchain was going to replace it all? Can you implement blockchain in COBOL?
Yeah, I used to feel the same way about FORTRAN, then I discovered you could do the same tasks in Python with the right library, far more readable, and only marginally less efficient.
Java NIOng!
More cores are worthless for many implementations of most tasks, which is not the same as being worthless for the task itself.
Tech, unfortunately, has a culture of fetishizing ignorance of the past. People keep rediscovering old solutions because learning from old people, or even worse, from books, is uncool.
Most people also believe that 'observation' is the universe caring about human consciousness.
Evacuation makes sense if you want everyone out of the building so it can be picked apart and examined.
Unless we return to an single homogeneous ethnostate, yes, it is going to infect everything because it is everything. PC culture is just what people call it when those who they view as not knowing their place try to have the same consideration as their betters. If you 'stop' it, all you do is assert another PC culture in its place catering to other demographic groups.
Eh, I can recall this topic coming up at least as far back as the 80s, so it isn't exactly new. The terms were chosen by people with no particular connection to them, and there has always been a bit of simmering annoyance from people who do have a connection.
Transactional costs are exactly where BTC are terrible and can never compete with other systems. Transaction costs were only cheap early on because miners were still producing lots of new coins, but now we have moved off that reward and transaction costs are going to rise in order to cover the increasing costs of a system that was designed to be as expensive to operate as possible.
Lack of central authority is an ideological plus, but that is about it. It pretty much loops back to 'nothing to offer but themslves'.
And on the tool end this means they have something built into their loader now capable of detecting what application an installer is associated with and consulting a table of actions to take based off that. Once that capability is there, it is gonna be hard to resist adding more cases to it.
Anyone who can run for that level of office is going to be backed by powerful companies and institutions. As a voter, it is mostly a matter of deciding which of those actor's needs align the best with your own.
One of the factors that caused the satanic panic to blow up so much was the introduction of fax machines, which allowed the panic to spread in ways that earlier ones were unable to. So there is a 'new technology' aspect that seems to allow things to allow a period of new panics until the tech becomes common place, then you get new panics when some new technology comes onto the scene.
Damn. Now I am wondering if Ben Carson and Civ's designers got the idea from some common root, or if Civ's use of the Pyramids somehow seeped into evangelical mythology.
So.. a centrally controlled blockchain based money transfer system? Thinking back to various 'internet gold' projects, I can not imagine this going well
The only three options I can see are they either take a cut as you convert them to/from USD, take a cut as you transfer them, or use the deposited USD as investment capital.
I don't know, sometimes it seems like IT spends a lot of time creating messes that only they can clean up. Sure, it is always the user's fault, but systems that have been working fine for a decade or more mysteriously stop working when IT decides the network doesn't have enough buzz words in it.