Properly programmed assembler should always be as fast or faster than C++ and C, but out of order execution is nearly impossible to program these days. In any case, interpreted languages with Just In Time (JIT) compilers can outperform static compilers, but in practice they rarely do outside of controlled environments, at least in my experience. I've seen SmallTalk (Squeak I believe) absolutely smoke a compiled Windows program, but it was demo'd by a SmallTalk guy that probably wrote everything that is advantageous to SmallTalk and disadvantageous to Windows intentionally just to show off how a JIT can be better than a compiled program if conditions are right.
Video games were popular in 1982, like incredibly popular, as in a multi-billion dollar industry. The 2600 was still around, but showing its age. Mattel's Intellivision was starting to chip at its market share and ColecoVision came out that year. Computer gaming was taking off as well. Then 1983 happened. The video game industry went from $3+ billion (almost 8 billion adjusted for inflation) to $100 million industry over the next two years. Video gaming was declared a dead fad in the United States and virtually disappeared. The US may have given up, but Japan didn't - they released the NES into the US market in 1986 and it was raking in $5 billion by 1989 with a virtual monopoly on consoles (some late comers like Sega Genesis had some market share, but Nintendo dominated).
From what I've read, it is a fancy way of saying modules will enforce the object oriented paradigm. In true object oriented languages like SmallTalk you can't change anything inside the object without accessor functions into the object, but languages like java and c++ have the idea of 'public,' which allows access and even changing things inside an object (and the reasoning is that it is much faster to just change x than have accessor functions like setValue(x) and getValue(x)). Not having modular code makes modular testing difficult because any other class can change values in the class you want to test without the class knowing about it, so problems with a module may not be caused by your module. For example, if some other class (module) tries to set the resolution to 3840 × 2160 but the monitor doesn't support that, you can have your class (module) enforce the maximum resolution and refuse the new setting. Enforcement of those settings can therefore be entirely contained to the module and tested within the module.
Chernobyl and Fukushima were old reactor designs. Chernobyl lacked the protective housing US designs required and Fukushima didn't follow US generator policy changes that were made in the 1970s for that type of reactor that said they needed to be protected from flooding if in a flood plain. Because the power grid was down and they had flooded generators, they weren't able to shut down the power plant. That was a known design problem with this very old reactor.
Marcoule and Flamaville were accidents that happened at nuclear reactors but neither were nuclear accidents. One was a furnace used to melt metals that contained an extremely low amount of hazardous radiation that exploded and the other was a turbine explosion. Ever seen a wind or gas turbine explode? It isn't all that uncommon.
Waste for the most part is unnecessary. Most if not all Gen IV reactors can breed what we call waste into fuel and passive safety is a requirement. What remains after these new reactors burn the fuel and waste will have radiation levels lower than background radiation in about 200-300 years, not thousands. Just and FYI if you haven't kept up.
Yeah, AFAIK the Kerberos and IPsec protocols are secure. That doesn't mean the implementer didn't mess things up. I never heard any complaints about Kerberos on Linux and used it for years (albeit in the early 2000s, so not recently - for LDAP specifically). I've heard of multiple issues with it on Windows, though.
The problem is it seems far-fetched even at that. The ionization chamber where the Americium is stored should be shrouded by metal and that would completely stop alpha emissions. I'm not saying that couldn't be leaking, just that the way smoke detectors are designed you shouldn't be exposed to any radiation (and even if you are, you pretty much need to swallow the Americium to be at any risk). Another issue is Geiger counters usually don't detect alpha emissions. Given that this was a storage site filled with what probably was mainly alpha and beta emitters (radioactive decay likely removed most of the gamma emitters), it is possible they had a Geiger counter for detecting alpha-beta-gamma emissions. The vast majority of Geiger counters only detect gamma emissions, though.
Yeah, the last C++ app I worked on had the same model due to the STL where we did reference counting and deallocation. None of this was managed by programmers like me, we called a class and it handled all the work. Speaking of STL, though, what a horrible interface. I mean, yeah, it keeps you from reinventing the wheel, but usage is a bitch and it is ugly as hell (IMO). While there are plenty of things I despise about C# and javascript (my current coding platforms, with a bit of Java and selenium automation interspersed), I can't say I miss STL at all.
It doesn't help that the cheapest foods are usually loaded with carbs and sugar and have little nutritional value. Processed foods are incredibly cheap. When I see poor people shop, they have zero fresh vegetables and fruits in their cart and a bunch of shit like mac and cheese and spaghetti-Ohs. They may get some staples like eggs and milk, but those are also cheap. Yogurt? Never gonna happen.
So yeah, most poor people I know are fat, especially if they have stamps and housing. If they're on the street, not so much (many of these people don't even have stamps).
Even NASA thinks 6-9 months is too long and is investigating fission and fusion drives that can reduce the travel time of a larger vessel to 1-3 months. Another option is [photonic propulsion] from earth, which could propel a 100kg (220lb) vessel that carries no propulsion itself to Mars in as little as 3 days. Obviously a 100kg vessel is not manned, but could be used for probes or sending supplies.
If we weren't adverse to nuclear power, we could send ships to Mars in about 39-90 days (Vasimr and a fusion drive proposed by NASA have these approximate dates attached). Probably no need for a lunar base or staging location in either case. I know the Vasmir I saw proposed was well under heavy rocket payload weight, the fusion rocket is still theoretical, so there weren't a lot of details on weight.
Also my answer. Work supports Android (Alphabet/Google) and iOS (Apple) mobile apps and we have both Azure and AWS cloud backends (Microsoft and Amazon, respectively). That means Facebook is the odd man out. We use Facebook, but losing it wouldn't kill any products or services we offer. The same information is on Twitter and other sources.
DEC had some inroads into banking as well, but yeah, IBM AS/400 jobs are still out there because banks are reluctant to move off of their expensive servers they bought in the 1980s. I know a guy making over a million dollars a year maintaining an AS/400 installation and he previously worked on a DEC banking system (both ran COBOL). He lives in Silicon Valley and his cost of living is absurd, too. When he took that job they offered him $800000 a year and 20% down payment on a house to move there and that was barely worth it.
I use a mnemonic that depends on the web site name usually. That backfires on places that own multiple sites like gamespot owns gamefaqs and uses the same password, so I have to remember where I registered it. The good thing is I don't use the same password or a password manager, the bad is you could figure out my passwords through cryptoanalysis. That said, I rely on the relatively low sample size of the password itself for having any decoding ability, plus there are always some seemingly random characters and numbers thrown in. If you don't have the key for those characters and numbers and their placement you probably aren't cracking any other password of mine.
As for two factor, that is what my work uses. I really don't worry about that password, even though I have to change it every 35 days. If you don't have my physical keycard and the PIN code, you probably aren't getting in.
Still far too many easy ones that way. A friend of mine I've seen use asdfjkl;asdf for 12 characters with a 1 symbol or number requirement and I'm sure he's not alone.
When I had my most restrictive password change rules, which were at least 8 characters, must contain 1 symbol and one #, no 3 characters could be the same, I found that I could just rotate the password and it worked fine because the text requirement meant in the same place. So at first I could have 1cadaver# and the next month cadaver#1 and the next month adaver#1c, etc. I used a far more complex password with no words though - words make for an easier example.
Unless OP meant Sysco stock, which is a food service company with mediocre food except in their Asian Foods division (which they bought). Strangely, both have had relatively good performance over time. Cisco did tank a bit over 5 days when I checked, but over 5 years it still is pretty good growth.
Most of Europe pays for a Television License and/or Radio License for over the air broadcasts. That supposedly makes up for some of the advertising, but my friends in Germany say it is minimal. A guy I knew in Germany went on a rant a decade ago when he found out they were also taxing computers (more specifically monitors) because TV tuner cards could get around the fee, but that meant he went from paying for one TV to paying for five (and expensive - that'd be €200 to €1000 back then).
Opening powershell scripts global execution policy all the time seems dangerous, kind of like running as root all the time. I recall scripting that in a bat file or something and running the bat as administrator (to do powershell installs on Windows 10 beta), but it's been a while. I've been on web dev for the last year and a half, so that stuff is long behind me.
Desire to kill other people is not normal behavior. The German pilot didn't do it for political reasons, he was suicidal. Taking other people with him is murder-suicide, but since he didn't do it on ethical or moral grounds I wouldn't call it terrorism. A guy walking into a bar and yelling "Allah u Akbar," pledging himself to ISIS and then opening fire when he has no ties to ISIS or even really Islam and really just wants to kill a bunch of people and get himself killed in a hail of bullets is also mentally ill. The same guy with radical indoctrination deciding a bar is a house of sin even if just because of the alcohol being sold there and then shooting it up because he's promised a bunch of virgin women to boink in heaven is a terrorist (well, OK, I technically don't know if those virgin women are for sex - in my mind it always seemed to be implied).
I've never lived anywhere with open carry laws, and when I have been to places like Texas, I've never seen anyone openly carrying, thankfully. When I go to places like Mexico and there are armed guards with assault rifles patrolling the streets it is unnerving. They're all armed and dangerous in my mind. Shooting a black man (or Mexican or whatever) in Texas for open carry is racism and a double standard. If that guy is shot because of it, even by police, that person/officer should go to jail for breaking their own laws.
What happened shortly thereafter, however (and this may be what you were thinking of, but your number is off), is parliament was dissolved and the Nazis won 37% of the Reichstag (the largest majority). Hitler was then offered vice-chancellorship. When a false rumor in 1933 appeared saying Hindenburg was going to be arrested, Hindenburg conceded and made Hitler Chancellor and Hitler took absolute power from there, mainly after Hindenberg, already in poor health, died as I previously said.
Note that Germany had a democracy for 14 years at that point, and all it brought them was poverty - fascism was pretty much what they knew had brought them prosperity. Hitler promised them food and to get them back to work. He actually accomplished those things by creating a commodity based co-currency and borrowing heavily. I agree with you on the sci-fi plot of killing Hitler being pointless. The Nazi chant had words saying they would destroy "that goddamn Jewish republic" - they basically accused the republic itself of being run by Jews. The people supported Hitler also because of the other problem, which was the rise of communism in the east which they feared. Hitler purged communist parties after taking power. Basically, they chose fascism over communism (by choosing the Nazis in the reichstag elections when there also was a big push by communists). The nail in the coffin, though, is Hitler didn't have anything to do with creating the death camps. That was Goebbels with the help of Himmler (Goebbels thought it up, Himmler had complete control of the SS and implemented it). Hitler mostly had Jews taken out into fields and shot, but mostly he tried to get them deported (but lacking a state, nobody would take them).
Apple - we'll trade you 100 tons of Washington apples for each iPhone you want. Rest of America - we'll use Android then Google - the fuck you will - we want potatoes en-masse. Microsoft - hey, we have a mobile platform too Rest of America - here, have our apples and potatoes.
I'm joking of course (I personally don't mind Windows phone), but I have a lot of friends and relatives attached to iPhones and they would never use Windows phone and most dislike Android as well.
Well I could meet one of my Senators very easily and do nearly every year. She and my wife have something in common, having both lost loved ones to opiate pain addiction and so we attend the same charity event each year. $100 donation and wait for the event window and you easily can get 20 minutes of one-on-one time with a Senator. She also tends to bring the mayor of my city with as a guest because they're longtime friends, so I can get a 2-for-1.
That said, if I tried calling her office I'd never get past the intern.
She's also shown to be completely uninformed on technology, sponsored CISA and pushing a bill that makes encryption illegal
I really can't see how Silicon Valley would ever have voted her in, but if I recall correctly, she's been in office practically forever, so maybe being the perennial incumbent means change never happens. Probably also easily wins Hollywood voters since many studios are run by Jews like her (might be favoritism based on shared religion is all I mean).
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Properly programmed assembler should always be as fast or faster than C++ and C, but out of order execution is nearly impossible to program these days. In any case, interpreted languages with Just In Time (JIT) compilers can outperform static compilers, but in practice they rarely do outside of controlled environments, at least in my experience. I've seen SmallTalk (Squeak I believe) absolutely smoke a compiled Windows program, but it was demo'd by a SmallTalk guy that probably wrote everything that is advantageous to SmallTalk and disadvantageous to Windows intentionally just to show off how a JIT can be better than a compiled program if conditions are right.
Video games were popular in 1982, like incredibly popular, as in a multi-billion dollar industry. The 2600 was still around, but showing its age. Mattel's Intellivision was starting to chip at its market share and ColecoVision came out that year. Computer gaming was taking off as well. Then 1983 happened. The video game industry went from $3+ billion (almost 8 billion adjusted for inflation) to $100 million industry over the next two years. Video gaming was declared a dead fad in the United States and virtually disappeared. The US may have given up, but Japan didn't - they released the NES into the US market in 1986 and it was raking in $5 billion by 1989 with a virtual monopoly on consoles (some late comers like Sega Genesis had some market share, but Nintendo dominated).
From what I've read, it is a fancy way of saying modules will enforce the object oriented paradigm. In true object oriented languages like SmallTalk you can't change anything inside the object without accessor functions into the object, but languages like java and c++ have the idea of 'public,' which allows access and even changing things inside an object (and the reasoning is that it is much faster to just change x than have accessor functions like setValue(x) and getValue(x)). Not having modular code makes modular testing difficult because any other class can change values in the class you want to test without the class knowing about it, so problems with a module may not be caused by your module. For example, if some other class (module) tries to set the resolution to 3840 × 2160 but the monitor doesn't support that, you can have your class (module) enforce the maximum resolution and refuse the new setting. Enforcement of those settings can therefore be entirely contained to the module and tested within the module.
Chernobyl and Fukushima were old reactor designs. Chernobyl lacked the protective housing US designs required and Fukushima didn't follow US generator policy changes that were made in the 1970s for that type of reactor that said they needed to be protected from flooding if in a flood plain. Because the power grid was down and they had flooded generators, they weren't able to shut down the power plant. That was a known design problem with this very old reactor.
Marcoule and Flamaville were accidents that happened at nuclear reactors but neither were nuclear accidents. One was a furnace used to melt metals that contained an extremely low amount of hazardous radiation that exploded and the other was a turbine explosion. Ever seen a wind or gas turbine explode? It isn't all that uncommon.
Waste for the most part is unnecessary. Most if not all Gen IV reactors can breed what we call waste into fuel and passive safety is a requirement. What remains after these new reactors burn the fuel and waste will have radiation levels lower than background radiation in about 200-300 years, not thousands. Just and FYI if you haven't kept up.
Yeah, AFAIK the Kerberos and IPsec protocols are secure. That doesn't mean the implementer didn't mess things up. I never heard any complaints about Kerberos on Linux and used it for years (albeit in the early 2000s, so not recently - for LDAP specifically). I've heard of multiple issues with it on Windows, though.
The problem is it seems far-fetched even at that. The ionization chamber where the Americium is stored should be shrouded by metal and that would completely stop alpha emissions. I'm not saying that couldn't be leaking, just that the way smoke detectors are designed you shouldn't be exposed to any radiation (and even if you are, you pretty much need to swallow the Americium to be at any risk). Another issue is Geiger counters usually don't detect alpha emissions. Given that this was a storage site filled with what probably was mainly alpha and beta emitters (radioactive decay likely removed most of the gamma emitters), it is possible they had a Geiger counter for detecting alpha-beta-gamma emissions. The vast majority of Geiger counters only detect gamma emissions, though.
Yeah, the last C++ app I worked on had the same model due to the STL where we did reference counting and deallocation. None of this was managed by programmers like me, we called a class and it handled all the work. Speaking of STL, though, what a horrible interface. I mean, yeah, it keeps you from reinventing the wheel, but usage is a bitch and it is ugly as hell (IMO). While there are plenty of things I despise about C# and javascript (my current coding platforms, with a bit of Java and selenium automation interspersed), I can't say I miss STL at all.
It doesn't help that the cheapest foods are usually loaded with carbs and sugar and have little nutritional value. Processed foods are incredibly cheap. When I see poor people shop, they have zero fresh vegetables and fruits in their cart and a bunch of shit like mac and cheese and spaghetti-Ohs. They may get some staples like eggs and milk, but those are also cheap. Yogurt? Never gonna happen.
So yeah, most poor people I know are fat, especially if they have stamps and housing. If they're on the street, not so much (many of these people don't even have stamps).
Meant to include a link and the brackets were supposed to remind me - photonic propulsion for the 100kg 3 day trip.
Even NASA thinks 6-9 months is too long and is investigating fission and fusion drives that can reduce the travel time of a larger vessel to 1-3 months. Another option is [photonic propulsion] from earth, which could propel a 100kg (220lb) vessel that carries no propulsion itself to Mars in as little as 3 days. Obviously a 100kg vessel is not manned, but could be used for probes or sending supplies.
If we weren't adverse to nuclear power, we could send ships to Mars in about 39-90 days (Vasimr and a fusion drive proposed by NASA have these approximate dates attached). Probably no need for a lunar base or staging location in either case. I know the Vasmir I saw proposed was well under heavy rocket payload weight, the fusion rocket is still theoretical, so there weren't a lot of details on weight.
Also my answer. Work supports Android (Alphabet/Google) and iOS (Apple) mobile apps and we have both Azure and AWS cloud backends (Microsoft and Amazon, respectively). That means Facebook is the odd man out. We use Facebook, but losing it wouldn't kill any products or services we offer. The same information is on Twitter and other sources.
DEC had some inroads into banking as well, but yeah, IBM AS/400 jobs are still out there because banks are reluctant to move off of their expensive servers they bought in the 1980s. I know a guy making over a million dollars a year maintaining an AS/400 installation and he previously worked on a DEC banking system (both ran COBOL). He lives in Silicon Valley and his cost of living is absurd, too. When he took that job they offered him $800000 a year and 20% down payment on a house to move there and that was barely worth it.
I use a mnemonic that depends on the web site name usually. That backfires on places that own multiple sites like gamespot owns gamefaqs and uses the same password, so I have to remember where I registered it. The good thing is I don't use the same password or a password manager, the bad is you could figure out my passwords through cryptoanalysis. That said, I rely on the relatively low sample size of the password itself for having any decoding ability, plus there are always some seemingly random characters and numbers thrown in. If you don't have the key for those characters and numbers and their placement you probably aren't cracking any other password of mine.
As for two factor, that is what my work uses. I really don't worry about that password, even though I have to change it every 35 days. If you don't have my physical keycard and the PIN code, you probably aren't getting in.
Still far too many easy ones that way. A friend of mine I've seen use asdfjkl;asdf for 12 characters with a 1 symbol or number requirement and I'm sure he's not alone.
When I had my most restrictive password change rules, which were at least 8 characters, must contain 1 symbol and one #, no 3 characters could be the same, I found that I could just rotate the password and it worked fine because the text requirement meant in the same place. So at first I could have 1cadaver# and the next month cadaver#1 and the next month adaver#1c, etc. I used a far more complex password with no words though - words make for an easier example.
Unless OP meant Sysco stock, which is a food service company with mediocre food except in their Asian Foods division (which they bought). Strangely, both have had relatively good performance over time. Cisco did tank a bit over 5 days when I checked, but over 5 years it still is pretty good growth.
Actually, there are laws in several cities and states banning sleeping IN vehicles but ON them may be perfectly legal. Reddit has a sub on van living.
Most of Europe pays for a Television License and/or Radio License for over the air broadcasts. That supposedly makes up for some of the advertising, but my friends in Germany say it is minimal. A guy I knew in Germany went on a rant a decade ago when he found out they were also taxing computers (more specifically monitors) because TV tuner cards could get around the fee, but that meant he went from paying for one TV to paying for five (and expensive - that'd be €200 to €1000 back then).
Opening powershell scripts global execution policy all the time seems dangerous, kind of like running as root all the time. I recall scripting that in a bat file or something and running the bat as administrator (to do powershell installs on Windows 10 beta), but it's been a while. I've been on web dev for the last year and a half, so that stuff is long behind me.
Desire to kill other people is not normal behavior. The German pilot didn't do it for political reasons, he was suicidal. Taking other people with him is murder-suicide, but since he didn't do it on ethical or moral grounds I wouldn't call it terrorism. A guy walking into a bar and yelling "Allah u Akbar," pledging himself to ISIS and then opening fire when he has no ties to ISIS or even really Islam and really just wants to kill a bunch of people and get himself killed in a hail of bullets is also mentally ill. The same guy with radical indoctrination deciding a bar is a house of sin even if just because of the alcohol being sold there and then shooting it up because he's promised a bunch of virgin women to boink in heaven is a terrorist (well, OK, I technically don't know if those virgin women are for sex - in my mind it always seemed to be implied).
I've never lived anywhere with open carry laws, and when I have been to places like Texas, I've never seen anyone openly carrying, thankfully. When I go to places like Mexico and there are armed guards with assault rifles patrolling the streets it is unnerving. They're all armed and dangerous in my mind. Shooting a black man (or Mexican or whatever) in Texas for open carry is racism and a double standard. If that guy is shot because of it, even by police, that person/officer should go to jail for breaking their own laws.
Fact check failure - Hitler actually lost the election to Paul von Hindenburg in 1932, who died in 1933 after Hitler was named chancellor and the president seat declared vacant.
"On a dark, rainy Sunday, April 10, 1932, the people voted. They gave Hitler 13,418,547 or 36%, an increase of two million, and Hindenburg 19,359,983 or 53%, an increase of under a million.". I don't think he ever won a popular vote unless something later was staged.
What happened shortly thereafter, however (and this may be what you were thinking of, but your number is off), is parliament was dissolved and the Nazis won 37% of the Reichstag (the largest majority). Hitler was then offered vice-chancellorship. When a false rumor in 1933 appeared saying Hindenburg was going to be arrested, Hindenburg conceded and made Hitler Chancellor and Hitler took absolute power from there, mainly after Hindenberg, already in poor health, died as I previously said.
Note that Germany had a democracy for 14 years at that point, and all it brought them was poverty - fascism was pretty much what they knew had brought them prosperity. Hitler promised them food and to get them back to work. He actually accomplished those things by creating a commodity based co-currency and borrowing heavily. I agree with you on the sci-fi plot of killing Hitler being pointless. The Nazi chant had words saying they would destroy "that goddamn Jewish republic" - they basically accused the republic itself of being run by Jews. The people supported Hitler also because of the other problem, which was the rise of communism in the east which they feared. Hitler purged communist parties after taking power. Basically, they chose fascism over communism (by choosing the Nazis in the reichstag elections when there also was a big push by communists). The nail in the coffin, though, is Hitler didn't have anything to do with creating the death camps. That was Goebbels with the help of Himmler (Goebbels thought it up, Himmler had complete control of the SS and implemented it). Hitler mostly had Jews taken out into fields and shot, but mostly he tried to get them deported (but lacking a state, nobody would take them).
Yeah, and that will work...
Apple - we'll trade you 100 tons of Washington apples for each iPhone you want.
Rest of America - we'll use Android then
Google - the fuck you will - we want potatoes en-masse.
Microsoft - hey, we have a mobile platform too
Rest of America - here, have our apples and potatoes.
I'm joking of course (I personally don't mind Windows phone), but I have a lot of friends and relatives attached to iPhones and they would never use Windows phone and most dislike Android as well.
Well I could meet one of my Senators very easily and do nearly every year. She and my wife have something in common, having both lost loved ones to opiate pain addiction and so we attend the same charity event each year. $100 donation and wait for the event window and you easily can get 20 minutes of one-on-one time with a Senator. She also tends to bring the mayor of my city with as a guest because they're longtime friends, so I can get a 2-for-1.
That said, if I tried calling her office I'd never get past the intern.
She's also shown to be completely uninformed on technology, sponsored CISA and pushing a bill that makes encryption illegal
I really can't see how Silicon Valley would ever have voted her in, but if I recall correctly, she's been in office practically forever, so maybe being the perennial incumbent means change never happens. Probably also easily wins Hollywood voters since many studios are run by Jews like her (might be favoritism based on shared religion is all I mean).