consumers don't care about [Windows] maintenance either
They don't, and that's part of the problem: it requires too much babysitting and preventative work to keep running right.
Malware is a big problem, especially when the PC is not configured properly or people visit too many shady sites or install shady software. PC vendors put all kinds of crap-ware on them and if you don't remove it, bleep often happens down the road.
About a year ago my Windows 7 PC couldn't get Windows updates; a bad update file jammed further updates. It took me several hours of trouble-shooting to finally resolve it. If I had ignored the problem, like most consumers would, security patches wouldn't come through and it would probably get breached within a few months.
PC's are alive and well in business, but shrinking at home. They are too expensive and too much trouble to maintain for consumers, in part because Windows is a POC.
The younger generation can type on virtual (mobile) keyboards as fast as most PC typers such that they don't need a PC for email etc.; and tablets can have plug-in keyboards.
An amateur has more freedom to tease out detail than NASA, who could risk being accused of "embellishing" if they overdo it. You can't fire an amateur/hobbyist.
I like attributes and logic (expressions) in a tubular form to both more easily identify visual patterns, and to re-project (query) the tables to emphasize different things for different needs: one is not stuck with the original coder's layout and positioning. Early on even with textual code I'd line up similar function calls so that parameters lined up into columns.
When I tried to promote the idea of "Table Oriented Programming"*, debates ensued about grokking, and I eventually realized how differently people think about programming and code (or want to think).
In general there seem to be visual thinkers (me), symbolic thinkers ("mathy"), and verbal thinkers, like the question submitter. That's probably an over-simplification, but covers the gist of my observations.
There are many ways to solve a given problem, and I don't believe any one is inherently better, at least not under all circumstances. The computer doesn't "care" what form logic is in as long the processing rules are "known" to it: it can process BrainFuck or Java or Lisp of the same algorithm just fine. Thus, the code style is largely an issue of human grokking.
* I didn't invent TOP; I once saw a book written around the early 1970's that discussed much of the idea, but haven't been able to google it.
If you have to "develop" AI for a specific task (play games) or whatever then in my view it's not AI. I think AI should learn to do what ever task you throw at it.
Hey, I couldn't perfect my soccer game either. Does that make me not "naturally intelligent"?
Anyhow, the definition fight over "AI" is a long and winding one. Might as well fight over Emacs vs. Vim.
Extremophiles here on Earth demonstrate that life can evolve to survive in some pretty inhospitable and outright toxic environments.
"Toxic" can be relative. When photosynthesis got into high gear on Earth, at first a waste product, oxygen, was absorbed into the rocks. However, the rocks got saturated and the oxygen levels spiked in the atmosphere. Most microbes found oxygen toxic and died off.
But a niche group learned to live with it, then incorporate it into their metabolism, and eventually even learned to "milk" it for higher metabolism, leading to the animals of the Cambrian Explosion.
Well, they've been a dick about many other things. For example, there was a pressured internal program to hook together all their services to make a one-stop social network to compete with "TwitterBook". People found personal info leaking from one service to the other without explicit confirmation, and it's still happening.
Over many decades, I've seen many stories about coffee being good, bad, good, bad, good, bad, etc. etc. It's kind of like Moore's Law: until the streak/pattern is broken for several years, assume it applies. (Moore's Law does appear slumped of late, but no such coffee-study swerve yet.)
Let's just call it even: coffee is medium for you if you don't overdue it.
Most people just grow a thick skin and move on, because there isn't much else you can do.
Amen! Life is full of assholes and bullies, and the earlier you learn to deal with it mentally, the better off you'll probably be. Disclaimer: I've never tested that theory in a controlled experiment (although I think it's being tested on a national level right now.)
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They don't, and that's part of the problem: it requires too much babysitting and preventative work to keep running right.
Malware is a big problem, especially when the PC is not configured properly or people visit too many shady sites or install shady software. PC vendors put all kinds of crap-ware on them and if you don't remove it, bleep often happens down the road.
About a year ago my Windows 7 PC couldn't get Windows updates; a bad update file jammed further updates. It took me several hours of trouble-shooting to finally resolve it. If I had ignored the problem, like most consumers would, security patches wouldn't come through and it would probably get breached within a few months.
There's other oddities I won't go into here.
PC's are alive and well in business, but shrinking at home. They are too expensive and too much trouble to maintain for consumers, in part because Windows is a POC.
The younger generation can type on virtual (mobile) keyboards as fast as most PC typers such that they don't need a PC for email etc.; and tablets can have plug-in keyboards.
"Informative" mod? I'm flattered, but the math is Fake News I should point out. It was intended as a joke.
Create a sound-effects-based language called Vaudeville++
Rats! As punishment for the typo, I'll change my handle to "Tublizer".
It's too early to know because the Juno pics have yet to be re-reprocessed, combined, and enhanced to their fullest.
Here's the results of an amateur's re-processing of Voyager photos. Great PC wall-paper.
An amateur has more freedom to tease out detail than NASA, who could risk being accused of "embellishing" if they overdo it. You can't fire an amateur/hobbyist.
Source:
https://phys.org/news/2015-06-...
By the way, the Great Red Spot has shrunk by about 20% since Voyager.
They haven't decided whether to call it the "Holocene extinction" or "Anthropocene extinction".
How about the Covfefecene extinction?
A 21 wanker solute!
I like attributes and logic (expressions) in a tubular form to both more easily identify visual patterns, and to re-project (query) the tables to emphasize different things for different needs: one is not stuck with the original coder's layout and positioning. Early on even with textual code I'd line up similar function calls so that parameters lined up into columns.
When I tried to promote the idea of "Table Oriented Programming"*, debates ensued about grokking, and I eventually realized how differently people think about programming and code (or want to think).
In general there seem to be visual thinkers (me), symbolic thinkers ("mathy"), and verbal thinkers, like the question submitter. That's probably an over-simplification, but covers the gist of my observations.
There are many ways to solve a given problem, and I don't believe any one is inherently better, at least not under all circumstances. The computer doesn't "care" what form logic is in as long the processing rules are "known" to it: it can process BrainFuck or Java or Lisp of the same algorithm just fine. Thus, the code style is largely an issue of human grokking.
* I didn't invent TOP; I once saw a book written around the early 1970's that discussed much of the idea, but haven't been able to google it.
COBOLers?
Here's how these things often play out:
Tech grunt: "Boss, I've identified 7 areas here where our security is lax."
PHB: "How many hours will it take to plug them?"
Tech grunt: "About a month's worth of labor."
PHB: "That would mean project X wouldn't be ready by the deadline, and I wouldn't get my Christmas bonus. Let's fix the security gaps next year."
Couldn't they put that feature into a config chip of some kind (WORM chip?) rather than hard-wire onto the motherboard?
Simple: Apple will only add back-doors to the Chinese editions.
I'll clarify it for you: it's 17,242.0571 Libraries of Congress.
It shall be powered by coal, and defended with horses and bayonets! Bigly jobs for #RealAmericans!
I keep seeing this. I suspect a spam campaign.
Hey, I couldn't perfect my soccer game either. Does that make me not "naturally intelligent"?
Anyhow, the definition fight over "AI" is a long and winding one. Might as well fight over Emacs vs. Vim.
Bender: "My shiny metal ass fell off! My shiny metal ass fell off!"
Only a little.
"Toxic" can be relative. When photosynthesis got into high gear on Earth, at first a waste product, oxygen, was absorbed into the rocks. However, the rocks got saturated and the oxygen levels spiked in the atmosphere. Most microbes found oxygen toxic and died off.
But a niche group learned to live with it, then incorporate it into their metabolism, and eventually even learned to "milk" it for higher metabolism, leading to the animals of the Cambrian Explosion.
Well, they've been a dick about many other things. For example, there was a pressured internal program to hook together all their services to make a one-stop social network to compete with "TwitterBook". People found personal info leaking from one service to the other without explicit confirmation, and it's still happening.
Over many decades, I've seen many stories about coffee being good, bad, good, bad, good, bad, etc. etc. It's kind of like Moore's Law: until the streak/pattern is broken for several years, assume it applies. (Moore's Law does appear slumped of late, but no such coffee-study swerve yet.)
Let's just call it even: coffee is medium for you if you don't overdue it.
Amen! Life is full of assholes and bullies, and the earlier you learn to deal with it mentally, the better off you'll probably be. Disclaimer: I've never tested that theory in a controlled experiment (although I think it's being tested on a national level right now.)
PHB's want shiny bouncy things.....besides tits
Oh, I've been mod-murdered many dozens of times via jokes about He Who Shall Not Be Named.