*nod* I think sometimes a lot of IT or App oriented people do not appreciate how disruptive updates and changes are to labs that are using computers to do highly specialized work.
But it is also about who is 'controlling' and who is the 'others'. Is it neighbor against neighbor, or small community against external government and commercial interests?
*nod* to expand on this.... true, Apple never did go under. But look how many computer companies started up around the same time and did. It is fun to look at the successes and compare them to the naysayers who were wrong, but the ones who were right, well, their predictions did not leave much to talk about today.
It is really difficult to say if the naysayers or hypesters are more often right or wrong. One problem with looking back at negative guesses is we only really remember the ones that turned out to be wrong since the evidence is in modern use today, while all the naysayers that we right, well, the things they were right about faded into obscurity.
The difference is all the players involved in paper money are constantly looking for ways to be more cost effective, while BTC's whole value is rooted in being as expensive to produce as possible.
I think the big worry is not the complete elimination, but the vast reduction. There will probably always be some, but it is unknown if it will really be enough to be a career choice or field. I've already seen a few domains go through this transition, and as I watch students in machine learning build their systems, what they do is not really the same kind of 'programming' we think of today. Someone still needs to write the libraries they use, but that takes a tiny percentage in comparision.
You kidding? Companies love hiring english majors. They can actually write and have people understand them. As for the minor in queer studies, queer employees probably appreciate having people around who know something about them. Given how much 'cultural fit' seems to favor young white men, having some other cultural knowledge in your department might 'fit' some talented people.
I think CS would work better as a field if we had more history majors in it, or at least history minors. STEM and business tend to suffer a lot of tunnel vision and have shocking, almost fetishized unawareness of anything that happened before they were in school, leading to significant waste.
Having debugged Adobes installers for OSX stuff, Adobe is terrible at keeping to OS conventions and writes some pretty brittle stuff. They are the type of company that will hardcode a path rather then ask the OS where something is located, so things that should be seamlessly backward compatible break with them.
Which is why I still use the offline CS version, even though it is pretty dated at this point. Still works, works with my OS, and I do not need to upgrade anything unless I can justify it by some benefit to me.
Having developed cross platform APIs, that is not necessarily a good idea. Not only does it fail to solve the problem since you still have to maintain the API, but you've added an additional layer of complexity that has to be constantly changed and tested. As you say, it is a 'cross platform developer tutorial #1', but stops being a simple solution by #10.
As long as Photoshop is the standard courseware taught at colleges for people planning on entering related professions, Adobe is probably not going anywhere.
Well yes. Those 'people in cities' spend decades developing specialized skills that give them knowledge and insight farmers do not have the time or reason to learn. The majority of the skills that go into that high level management and planning are completely useless when it comes to everyday operation of running an agribusiness, and vice versa.
Well, even if there is no controversy, the process of NASA deciding where to build a facility and the politics that go into it are still newsworthy.
But beyond that there is always discussion about the value of going back to the moon, the value of public space travel, the value of private space travel, and of course the irony in Texas politics being so anti-NASA most of the time, but now they are pro-NASA for this project.
Not only do we have all the iron and solar power we could want, we also have all the foundries and factories for working with it and the shipping costs are much lower.
Having grown up in a rural area, my take is that generally farmers think they are anti-bad-regulation, but really they just end up being anti-whatever-their-lobby-tells-them regulation. They are kinda like small business owners, specialists with enough prestige that they tend to suck at knowing their limits and are easily suckered into voting against their best interests.
No, that isn't a strawman, that is all the fight against 'identity politics' is. The desire to return to a time when there was only one identity and everyone else kept quiet. One identity, no politics about it.
Yeah, wasn't life so much simpler when there was just one identity and everyone knew their place? How dare other groups try to act like their betters, it is all their fault for existing.
Actually no, you can not easily find a schematic on building a nuclear weapon. The basics yes, but there are reasons that the nations who have built them tend to poach each other's scientists and steal existing plans. The specs are highly regulated and you can not export them.
It is not designed to be sustainable long term, it is a policy that makes sense for the current and near future. The system will have to change if a large percentage of the power is being produced by residential sources, but at that point the distribution network itself will probably have to change too.
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*nod* I think sometimes a lot of IT or App oriented people do not appreciate how disruptive updates and changes are to labs that are using computers to do highly specialized work.
Having had to manage end of life problems with various linux installs, this does not really fix the problem.
But it is also about who is 'controlling' and who is the 'others'. Is it neighbor against neighbor, or small community against external government and commercial interests?
*nod* to expand on this.... true, Apple never did go under. But look how many computer companies started up around the same time and did. It is fun to look at the successes and compare them to the naysayers who were wrong, but the ones who were right, well, their predictions did not leave much to talk about today.
It is really difficult to say if the naysayers or hypesters are more often right or wrong. One problem with looking back at negative guesses is we only really remember the ones that turned out to be wrong since the evidence is in modern use today, while all the naysayers that we right, well, the things they were right about faded into obscurity.
The difference is all the players involved in paper money are constantly looking for ways to be more cost effective, while BTC's whole value is rooted in being as expensive to produce as possible.
I think the big worry is not the complete elimination, but the vast reduction. There will probably always be some, but it is unknown if it will really be enough to be a career choice or field. I've already seen a few domains go through this transition, and as I watch students in machine learning build their systems, what they do is not really the same kind of 'programming' we think of today. Someone still needs to write the libraries they use, but that takes a tiny percentage in comparision.
You kidding? Companies love hiring english majors. They can actually write and have people understand them. As for the minor in queer studies, queer employees probably appreciate having people around who know something about them. Given how much 'cultural fit' seems to favor young white men, having some other cultural knowledge in your department might 'fit' some talented people.
I think CS would work better as a field if we had more history majors in it, or at least history minors. STEM and business tend to suffer a lot of tunnel vision and have shocking, almost fetishized unawareness of anything that happened before they were in school, leading to significant waste.
Having debugged Adobes installers for OSX stuff, Adobe is terrible at keeping to OS conventions and writes some pretty brittle stuff. They are the type of company that will hardcode a path rather then ask the OS where something is located, so things that should be seamlessly backward compatible break with them.
Which is why I still use the offline CS version, even though it is pretty dated at this point. Still works, works with my OS, and I do not need to upgrade anything unless I can justify it by some benefit to me.
Having developed cross platform APIs, that is not necessarily a good idea. Not only does it fail to solve the problem since you still have to maintain the API, but you've added an additional layer of complexity that has to be constantly changed and tested. As you say, it is a 'cross platform developer tutorial #1', but stops being a simple solution by #10.
As long as Photoshop is the standard courseware taught at colleges for people planning on entering related professions, Adobe is probably not going anywhere.
Well yes. Those 'people in cities' spend decades developing specialized skills that give them knowledge and insight farmers do not have the time or reason to learn. The majority of the skills that go into that high level management and planning are completely useless when it comes to everyday operation of running an agribusiness, and vice versa.
Well, even if there is no controversy, the process of NASA deciding where to build a facility and the politics that go into it are still newsworthy.
But beyond that there is always discussion about the value of going back to the moon, the value of public space travel, the value of private space travel, and of course the irony in Texas politics being so anti-NASA most of the time, but now they are pro-NASA for this project.
Not only do we have all the iron and solar power we could want, we also have all the foundries and factories for working with it and the shipping costs are much lower.
Having grown up in a rural area, my take is that generally farmers think they are anti-bad-regulation, but really they just end up being anti-whatever-their-lobby-tells-them regulation. They are kinda like small business owners, specialists with enough prestige that they tend to suck at knowing their limits and are easily suckered into voting against their best interests.
No, that isn't a strawman, that is all the fight against 'identity politics' is. The desire to return to a time when there was only one identity and everyone else kept quiet. One identity, no politics about it.
Yeah, wasn't life so much simpler when there was just one identity and everyone knew their place? How dare other groups try to act like their betters, it is all their fault for existing.
I am perfectly willing to criticize CNN and Fox News, but I also do not hold The Intercept as a bastion of honest reporting either.
Or switching to skirts.
Actually no, you can not easily find a schematic on building a nuclear weapon. The basics yes, but there are reasons that the nations who have built them tend to poach each other's scientists and steal existing plans. The specs are highly regulated and you can not export them.
The actual case is not a constitutional one, but an export control one.
It is not designed to be sustainable long term, it is a policy that makes sense for the current and near future. The system will have to change if a large percentage of the power is being produced by residential sources, but at that point the distribution network itself will probably have to change too.
The targets are not real, but the overlay includes any real people in the shot allowing you to shoot at them too.