There are different models to "explain" quantum physics. Some versions imply things can indeed be in two places at once. For that matter (no pun intended), what is a "place" and "at once" exactly? English wasn't meant to be precise enough for sub-atomic behavior.
Some languages may fit the way YOU think but not fit the way an average co-worker thinks.
For personal projects you don't have to give a shit if and how others read your code. Work languages tend to discourage one from being overly clever to make it digestible to a wider audience. It can take the fun out of things, but at least some other coder won't turn grey trying to read your experiment, or vice versa.
CNN fired all their investigative reporters years ago
I don't know about CNN specifically, but a lot of news organizations are cutting back due to the web, and instead are outsourcing reporters and hiring poorly-vetted amateurs. Paper, cable, and TV are shrinking, and going web is less revenue for most content companies. And, Craigslist murdered the ad business of almost every newspaper.
Cheap-skatery is sometimes mistaken for political bias. It's really wallet bias.
I'm not sure spinning is less powerful "lying" than outright invention (fabrication). In fact, spinning is arguably worse than outright invention because spun facts often have an element of truth to them, making them harder to debunk or dismiss. And you cannot outright dismiss the spinning source because they may not technically be lying.
Propaganda seems to last longer and goes further if it's based on partial truths.
For example, a common propaganda trick is to interview many members of the other side's group (such as at conventions or protests), edit out the normal interviews and play only the "stupid" interviews on TV. The cherry-picking makes the group members seem like idiots.
It's not outright made-up because they are real answers, but they have been filtered to present the entire group in a bad light: it's essentially a statistical trick of only showing the bad samples as if they are representative (random).
Compare that with hiring actors to act like the other side's group and say stupid things on camera. If the producers are caught, they are outright discredited for fabrication. The first approach involves no fabrication and the evidence can be deleted or hidden, such as deleting the "normal" interviews. If investigators cannot find the (excluded) normal interviews, they have no evidence of manipulation to present to the world.
The first approach (filtering) is almost just as powerful as outright fabrication, YET is not fabrication: it's all real, and the filtering trick can be buried.
Mainframes and mini-computers were the original cloud machines. It was cheaper to rent a slice and dial (modem) into them than to buy an on-premises machine. The fat-client viewpoint is a relatively new thing.
NASA engineer: "Our grand heat-tolerant computer is reporting back the latest findings from the probe... it confirms that all the scientific instruments are fried and not returning data."
They do matter, many just don't get accurate facts, or get conflicting sub-sets of facts such that they use "gut feelings" to sort them out--and guts are often wrong and manipulate-able.
We should probably also view T as an experiment. Many whose families lost jobs when factories closed or migrated away probably agree that automation is a bigger threat to that kind of work than China or Mexico.
BUT enough of them were willing to gamble that T was partly or mostly right about "unfair trade" being the primary cause of such losses that they pulled the lever and let the proverbial fruits spin.
This is a nation of immigrants who often took great risks in ships and covered wagons to find a new and better life. After all, if you could afford a covered wagon and supplies or sailing ship ticket, you probably had the means to stay put in relative comfort. Those who liked playing it safe stayed home in Europe or what-not.
As a nation we are inherent gamblers, and T is a big shiny orange slot machine. Whether he spits out more coins than bullsh&t is still arguably open...
In theory the "WebTubes" shouldn't influence our programming languages and techniques much, but for some reason it did. The way state is typically managed and kept (or not kept) in web apps, however, did end up influencing the languages, along with the emphasis on string handling for marshaling of info and variables to and from HTTP and HTML. In a mature environment, API's and session-friendly thread handling would hide or simplify most of such nitty gritty.
Perhaps orgs didn't want to wait for the tool stacks to mature before producing software for the web such that languages "closer" to webbativity got usage early, locking them in as de-facto standards.
I didn't get Design Patterns. It was still unclear on when to use what, and why. Many of the alleged limitations of the alternatives are language-specific. Sure, Java sucks at some things, C++ at others, etc. The real issues in comparing among design choices are subtle and complex.
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"We are the Musks, resistance is futile."
In the old days we'd have to do it manually
An ego big enough to generate gravity waves? Hmmm, who could that be?
There are different models to "explain" quantum physics. Some versions imply things can indeed be in two places at once. For that matter (no pun intended), what is a "place" and "at once" exactly? English wasn't meant to be precise enough for sub-atomic behavior.
It's an experiment. Let experiments run.
Some languages may fit the way YOU think but not fit the way an average co-worker thinks.
For personal projects you don't have to give a shit if and how others read your code. Work languages tend to discourage one from being overly clever to make it digestible to a wider audience. It can take the fun out of things, but at least some other coder won't turn grey trying to read your experiment, or vice versa.
Value conversion isn't necessarily the same as validation. If you want validation, then use validation operations. Use the right tool for the job.
He forgot the "great" in that sentence.
Why do you insist genders are discrete? If you are going to get anal about anal...
Fastidious and Anal Retentive are not the same thing
Somebody took it literally
Explains T's orange hair
Just have booth babes of both genders. Equal Opportunity Oogling.
English spelling is the Mother Of All Kludges.
I don't know about CNN specifically, but a lot of news organizations are cutting back due to the web, and instead are outsourcing reporters and hiring poorly-vetted amateurs. Paper, cable, and TV are shrinking, and going web is less revenue for most content companies. And, Craigslist murdered the ad business of almost every newspaper.
Cheap-skatery is sometimes mistaken for political bias. It's really wallet bias.
I'm not sure spinning is less powerful "lying" than outright invention (fabrication). In fact, spinning is arguably worse than outright invention because spun facts often have an element of truth to them, making them harder to debunk or dismiss. And you cannot outright dismiss the spinning source because they may not technically be lying.
Propaganda seems to last longer and goes further if it's based on partial truths.
For example, a common propaganda trick is to interview many members of the other side's group (such as at conventions or protests), edit out the normal interviews and play only the "stupid" interviews on TV. The cherry-picking makes the group members seem like idiots.
It's not outright made-up because they are real answers, but they have been filtered to present the entire group in a bad light: it's essentially a statistical trick of only showing the bad samples as if they are representative (random).
Compare that with hiring actors to act like the other side's group and say stupid things on camera. If the producers are caught, they are outright discredited for fabrication. The first approach involves no fabrication and the evidence can be deleted or hidden, such as deleting the "normal" interviews. If investigators cannot find the (excluded) normal interviews, they have no evidence of manipulation to present to the world.
The first approach (filtering) is almost just as powerful as outright fabrication, YET is not fabrication: it's all real, and the filtering trick can be buried.
NBC also has a bias problem.
I'm too lazy for that, I just change "D" to "M" and mumble about brains.
Mainframes and mini-computers were the original cloud machines. It was cheaper to rent a slice and dial (modem) into them than to buy an on-premises machine. The fat-client viewpoint is a relatively new thing.
NASA engineer: "Our grand heat-tolerant computer is reporting back the latest findings from the probe ... it confirms that all the scientific instruments are fried and not returning data."
They do matter, many just don't get accurate facts, or get conflicting sub-sets of facts such that they use "gut feelings" to sort them out--and guts are often wrong and manipulate-able.
We should probably also view T as an experiment. Many whose families lost jobs when factories closed or migrated away probably agree that automation is a bigger threat to that kind of work than China or Mexico.
BUT enough of them were willing to gamble that T was partly or mostly right about "unfair trade" being the primary cause of such losses that they pulled the lever and let the proverbial fruits spin.
This is a nation of immigrants who often took great risks in ships and covered wagons to find a new and better life. After all, if you could afford a covered wagon and supplies or sailing ship ticket, you probably had the means to stay put in relative comfort. Those who liked playing it safe stayed home in Europe or what-not.
As a nation we are inherent gamblers, and T is a big shiny orange slot machine. Whether he spits out more coins than bullsh&t is still arguably open...
In theory the "WebTubes" shouldn't influence our programming languages and techniques much, but for some reason it did. The way state is typically managed and kept (or not kept) in web apps, however, did end up influencing the languages, along with the emphasis on string handling for marshaling of info and variables to and from HTTP and HTML. In a mature environment, API's and session-friendly thread handling would hide or simplify most of such nitty gritty.
Perhaps orgs didn't want to wait for the tool stacks to mature before producing software for the web such that languages "closer" to webbativity got usage early, locking them in as de-facto standards.
So YOU are the one taxing our shared cloud servers!
I didn't get Design Patterns. It was still unclear on when to use what, and why. Many of the alleged limitations of the alternatives are language-specific. Sure, Java sucks at some things, C++ at others, etc. The real issues in comparing among design choices are subtle and complex.
In the spirit of Brainf*ck, I will use this to create a programming language called "Fourtran".