From an end user experience, I'm not sure why choice of language is a critical issue, so I assume you are talking about using "java garbage" for development.
Have you tried Visual Studio for Android Development? It has an Android Emulator and the Xamarin stack included now does provide a passable cross platform development environment. While it is better supported for C#, you can develop for Android using C++ in Visual Studio as well.
Politicians need to be forced to take a public stand on issues so they can be held accountable by their constituents if not their donors. This is how democracy should work, and our system clearly can stand some improvements the founding fathers couldn't foresee.
We have a right to know where they stand on many issues, e.g. Green New Deal, release of full Mueller Report to closed door House and Senate oversight committees, immigration strategy and tactics, health care reform, gerrymandering, reproductive rights, taxation, deficit spending, etc. As it stands now, its hard to know what these guys stand for anymore...
Mitch McConnell should not have the authority to deny a vote on a bill passed by the House. Nancy Pelosi should not have the authority to block a bill passed by the Senate.
We need a rule that forces a vote on any bill passed by the other body after a suitable period of time for debate. We as voters have a right to know where our elected officials stand, otherwise the people lose control to wealthy donors.
With AVX instructions, I believe that each core can perform 32 fused add/multiply operation per clock cycle. These are critical for machine learning applications and with 56 cores should allow cascade lake to perform on a par with GPUs. VNNI (vectorized neural network instructions) also will help close any gap in neural networks as well.
One of the biggest challenges in machine learning is moving data around from storage and OSs to the machine learning hardware for training and execution. General purpose CPUs typically have direct high performance access to data and this can have a dramatic effect on overall system performance and ease of implementation.
A couple examples come to my mind. The toilet:-) The IBM PC-AT. It amazes me that the basic mechanical design for many PCs is essentially the same today as it was in 1984.
Many more really good examples are old cars and military equipment. Its a shame today that we accept products that are not designed to last and be maintained. The critical factor is profit and cost and I think we as consumers deserve better and we as engineers are responsible to make it so.
In my experience, many of the H1B visa people are project managers and team leads that funnel work offshore where "professionals" are willing to work for a small fraction of what american professionals need to live.
Short sighted corporate strategy seeks the lowest cost without a concern for total life-cycle cost.
>Beyond that.... the users need to be afraid of IoT devices and be concerned that they could he hacked. Because they all will be.
I'm not sure I can agree. Modern credit card terminals are often IOT devices and implement strong measures very resistant to hacking.
If an IOT device can only be configured using Bluetooth, an unauthorized user would need to be in close proximity to the device and if a unique code is required to access the configuration is printed on the device, they would need physical access to the device to change its settings. Alternatively, a challenge/response scheme implemented on a trusted server with predefined GUIDs and timing would also be secure.
If all connections are protected by TLS1.2 and inbound connections only allowed from a whitelisted domain/IP address, its hard for me to understand how the device can be compromised.
IOT is like the early days of the Internet. If it works at all, victory is declared by idiots.
Our current understanding of how human intelligence works and the role genetics play is still somewhat crude.
Who can say that the same genetic code variation that makes mice appear smarter could have profound negative effects in humans. It could be a good thing if the consequences of this application of Crispr were better understood, but they are not.
To be so egotistical to roll the dice like that for personal benefit and whose consequences would be paid by innocent children is psychopathic.
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I'm sure they know how easy it would be to circumvent this measure from external threats getting in. All it takes is a bunch of satellite based routes and compromised consumer equipment to get in and be difficult to detect.
Doesn't everybody really understand why the US government is so concerned about Huawei? Governments understand that all the routers running BGP control what gets blocked and what get routed. Whose routers do people think are being used everywhere?
This "experiment" is meant to block Russian citizens from accessing the world of free speech to protect their oligarchy in the event of an emergency.
Reminds me of the following story: True Value was sued because some idiot picked up his running lawn mower to trim his bushes. After chopping off fingers he decided to sue. Now there are insane disclaimers on lawn mower boxes and documentation.
While anecdotal, I've had a similar experience as have many others. Several years ago, I had a serious issue with my gall bladder. I ate nothing solid for 6 days and had IV fluid only for 5. During this period I lost 9 pounds. I too did the math and my baseline metabolism should only have accounted for maybe 3 pounds. The weight of my gall bladder was negligible.
Other posters have pointed to water weight and this is likely a big part of the missing weight loss effect, but cannot explain all of it.
I suspect that the gut has something to do with this effect as well. We have between 2 and 6 pounds of gut flora and fauna. I suspect when you don't eat, this bacteria gets eliminated and is another contributing factor in temporary weight loss after extended fasting.
It could also lead to long term benefits by resetting the population of gut bacteria to a more healthful balance depending upon what you eat after a period of extended fasting.
Amazon already supports selection and billing of multiple services in one convenient place. Tivo and Roku are sure to follow. Not sure about Google, but if they don't already do it, they will...
The marketplace will sort out pricing with package deals sure to follow.
As for the cost, you usually get what you pay for.
TLDR; You can pay a little extra and get streaming quality internet and the good content is out of cable's reach.
There is a lot of good content free over the air. We have a Tivo and record most of what we watch to skip over commercials we're not interested in. There is no way to degrade that.
We do use AT&T but we pay $20/month extra for streaming video capability.
I went on vacation and watched cable for a while and the content is laughably bad. Netflix is making their own content and it is vastly better. We also have Amazon Prime already and their content is fantastic too.
You have obviously never looked a whale in the eye. They are intelligent beings that have as much right to life as you. Nobody's survival depends upon eating whales. Maybe a moral argument could have been made a couple of hundred years ago, but today its not civilized behavior.
> At least the wise ones.
On the surface, it seems wisdom is in short supply. Digging deeper it seems that people make logical choices based upon the information they are given. It is an unintended consequence of the Internet to see the decline in journalism. Media outlets are under intense pressure to survive and are making choices to run unsubstantiated stories that would never have been run more than 20 years ago, This is combined with more than half of people getting their news from social media which is loaded with self serving outright lies. Pilots crash their airplanes when their instruments give false information. Society is crashing because it is being fed false information. There are laws and agencies in place to prevent this, but we are in an era of intense deregulation and laws are not being enforced fairly if at all..
Unfortunately, the Bloomberg reporter has nothing to fear in today's environment and I pray this doesn't embolden even more egregious fake news.
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From an end user experience, I'm not sure why choice of language is a critical issue, so I assume you are talking about using "java garbage" for development.
Have you tried Visual Studio for Android Development? It has an Android Emulator and the Xamarin stack included now does provide a passable cross platform development environment. While it is better supported for C#, you can develop for Android using C++ in Visual Studio as well.
Its more than than net neutrality, IMHO
Politicians need to be forced to take a public stand on issues so they can be held accountable by their constituents if not their donors. This is how democracy should work, and our system clearly can stand some improvements the founding fathers couldn't foresee.
We have a right to know where they stand on many issues, e.g. Green New Deal, release of full Mueller Report to closed door House and Senate oversight committees, immigration strategy and tactics, health care reform, gerrymandering, reproductive rights, taxation, deficit spending, etc. As it stands now, its hard to know what these guys stand for anymore...
Mitch McConnell should not have the authority to deny a vote on a bill passed by the House. Nancy Pelosi should not have the authority to block a bill passed by the Senate.
We need a rule that forces a vote on any bill passed by the other body after a suitable period of time for debate. We as voters have a right to know where our elected officials stand, otherwise the people lose control to wealthy donors.
LOL
>Toilets aren't that easy to maintain... Unclogging is not fun
Its more fun than changing an iPhone battery
With AVX instructions, I believe that each core can perform 32 fused add/multiply operation per clock cycle. These are critical for machine learning applications and with 56 cores should allow cascade lake to perform on a par with GPUs. VNNI (vectorized neural network instructions) also will help close any gap in neural networks as well.
One of the biggest challenges in machine learning is moving data around from storage and OSs to the machine learning hardware for training and execution. General purpose CPUs typically have direct high performance access to data and this can have a dramatic effect on overall system performance and ease of implementation.
A couple examples come to my mind. The toilet :-) The IBM PC-AT. It amazes me that the basic mechanical design for many PCs is essentially the same today as it was in 1984.
Many more really good examples are old cars and military equipment. Its a shame today that we accept products that are not designed to last and be maintained. The critical factor is profit and cost and I think we as consumers deserve better and we as engineers are responsible to make it so.
I'm even more amazed that we all place our safety into the hands of total strangers who shouldn't be trusted.
is ease to maintain.
Maybe he was drinking Gin at the time. :-)
In my experience, many of the H1B visa people are project managers and team leads that funnel work offshore where "professionals" are willing to work for a small fraction of what american professionals need to live.
Short sighted corporate strategy seeks the lowest cost without a concern for total life-cycle cost.
This.
I wish I could give more points - the score on this should not be limited to 5.
>Beyond that .... the users need to be afraid of IoT devices and be concerned that they could he hacked. Because they all will be.
I'm not sure I can agree. Modern credit card terminals are often IOT devices and implement strong measures very resistant to hacking.
If an IOT device can only be configured using Bluetooth, an unauthorized user would need to be in close proximity to the device and if a unique code is required to access the configuration is printed on the device, they would need physical access to the device to change its settings. Alternatively, a challenge/response scheme implemented on a trusted server with predefined GUIDs and timing would also be secure.
If all connections are protected by TLS1.2 and inbound connections only allowed from a whitelisted domain/IP address, its hard for me to understand how the device can be compromised.
IOT is like the early days of the Internet. If it works at all, victory is declared by idiots.
IMHO, IOT devices can be secured..
Our current understanding of how human intelligence works and the role genetics play is still somewhat crude.
Who can say that the same genetic code variation that makes mice appear smarter could have profound negative effects in humans. It could be a good thing if the consequences of this application of Crispr were better understood, but they are not.
To be so egotistical to roll the dice like that for personal benefit and whose consequences would be paid by innocent children is psychopathic.
.
I'm sure they know how easy it would be to circumvent this measure from external threats getting in. All it takes is a bunch of satellite based routes and compromised consumer equipment to get in and be difficult to detect.
Doesn't everybody really understand why the US government is so concerned about Huawei? Governments understand that all the routers running BGP control what gets blocked and what get routed. Whose routers do people think are being used everywhere?
This "experiment" is meant to block Russian citizens from accessing the world of free speech to protect their oligarchy in the event of an emergency.
Reminds me of the following story: True Value was sued because some idiot picked up his running lawn mower to trim his bushes. After chopping off fingers he decided to sue. Now there are insane disclaimers on lawn mower boxes and documentation.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
>Took me 10-15 minutes to measure and design an improved flexible insert
What software do you use for design?
>I printed with flexible filament
What filaments do you like?
Do you know if resin printers have a nice smooth surface? The surfaces on my 3D prints aren't really smooth...
While anecdotal, I've had a similar experience as have many others. Several years ago, I had a serious issue with my gall bladder. I ate nothing solid for 6 days and had IV fluid only for 5. During this period I lost 9 pounds. I too did the math and my baseline metabolism should only have accounted for maybe 3 pounds. The weight of my gall bladder was negligible.
Other posters have pointed to water weight and this is likely a big part of the missing weight loss effect, but cannot explain all of it.
I suspect that the gut has something to do with this effect as well. We have between 2 and 6 pounds of gut flora and fauna. I suspect when you don't eat, this bacteria gets eliminated and is another contributing factor in temporary weight loss after extended fasting.
It could also lead to long term benefits by resetting the population of gut bacteria to a more healthful balance depending upon what you eat after a period of extended fasting.
We'll find a way to make do with a shitty and changing environment. Unfortunately the only remaining insects will feed on us. We are made out of meat.
Amazon already supports selection and billing of multiple services in one convenient place. Tivo and Roku are sure to follow. Not sure about Google, but if they don't already do it, they will...
The marketplace will sort out pricing with package deals sure to follow.
As for the cost, you usually get what you pay for.
TLDR; You can pay a little extra and get streaming quality internet and the good content is out of cable's reach.
There is a lot of good content free over the air. We have a Tivo and record most of what we watch to skip over commercials we're not interested in. There is no way to degrade that.
We do use AT&T but we pay $20/month extra for streaming video capability.
I went on vacation and watched cable for a while and the content is laughably bad. Netflix is making their own content and it is vastly better. We also have Amazon Prime already and their content is fantastic too.
Space exploration is a good thing for humanity.
You have obviously never looked a whale in the eye. They are intelligent beings that have as much right to life as you. Nobody's survival depends upon eating whales. Maybe a moral argument could have been made a couple of hundred years ago, but today its not civilized behavior.
...we do really need
You make excellent points.
> At least the wise ones.
On the surface, it seems wisdom is in short supply. Digging deeper it seems that people make logical choices based upon the information they are given. It is an unintended consequence of the Internet to see the decline in journalism. Media outlets are under intense pressure to survive and are making choices to run unsubstantiated stories that would never have been run more than 20 years ago, This is combined with more than half of people getting their news from social media which is loaded with self serving outright lies. Pilots crash their airplanes when their instruments give false information. Society is crashing because it is being fed false information. There are laws and agencies in place to prevent this, but we are in an era of intense deregulation and laws are not being enforced fairly if at all..
Unfortunately, the Bloomberg reporter has nothing to fear in today's environment and I pray this doesn't embolden even more egregious fake news.
It a shame that the burden of proof is on the injured party having the task of proving a negative.
The SEC needs to investigate illegal Short and Distort stock scams. The FCC needs to enforce laws where media intentionally spread false reports.
I dislike government oversight, but I dislike anarchy more.