No we have have finally have a theory to explain the conundrum. Musk is obviously a bright guy, visionary in fact, actually delivered incredible products that amazes people. Upends decades of conventional wisdom etc etc
At the same time almost all the deadlines he predicts are missed and he is hopeless in constructing timelines that approach reality. How can it be?
The theory is this, his mind is traveling at some relativistic speed and the time dilation sets in. It will only take 9 years in Elon's mind. But it will be a long time for people stuck on Earth going at a staid pace of about 900,000 kmph around the Sun.
All file/path names are always allocated dynamically in our code. MAXPATHLEN is used limit user input in dialogs. This is necessary to protect against buffer overflow vulnerability. Copying and pasting humongous amount of data, including control characters and non printable characters into edit boxes are one of the oldest hacking techniques. We NEVER allow unlimited amount of data from any user input field. All user input goes into a preallocated buffer, never an overflow. Then we filter out irrelevant and unreasonable characters in the input. This is true for ALL input fields. If the input field is file name it has one validation rule, if it is a double it has different data validation rule.
Of course Microsoft probably used fixed length buffers some time in the distant past to shave a few micro seconds off the dynamic allocation time. By the time code was copy/paste\ed in so many places and in so many modules, it gets carved in stone and becomes very difficult to change.
Most progressives understand and talk about the things that will benefit the poorer working class white people. But every proposal that would benefit them would also benefit other poor people of other color too. The Republican party deliberately plays up the benefits that will go to the poor non-white people to create resentment and anger and make them see progressives as their enemy instead of a friend.
The working class white people have been trained to fear the phrase, "I am from the government and I am here to help". Now there is no one to stop them from being robbed blind by the crony capitalists of the Republican party.
I would trust Hawking's (or any other mathematician, scientist, or physicist)'s opinion on something well outside their field of expertise than trust Trump on anything outside his core ability. I would Trump's core ability is running a media circus.
He will simply calculate all possible Pythagorean triples in his head, write down 7285 in a piece of paper as the "solution" and leave the proof as an elementary exercise to the reader.
Back in the day when most engineering applications were on unix machines and they were being migrated to windows workstation, the path name limitation was a big issue. PTC (Parametric technologies corp, a vendor of CAD/CAM software) would typically use a MAXPATHLEN of about 10*BUFSIZ but user can configure it to be bigger if they needed it. And its parts libray used very long hashes for file names. Everything from part name, author name, version number, creation date gets munged into the file names, bearing_housing_djt_284985473754653746544v.prt or something like that.
They found the 8.3 file name format very confining. So they did a simple hack. They would construct the file/path name just as they would in unix. Then send it through a string processor that will insert a "\" after every 8th char and keep creating sub directories to get the file name they wanted! User will see humongous file names and path names.
Our company has been supporting 4K path names now, I remember setting MAXPATHLEN to be 1025 (remember to allocate space for the trailing null) back when joined the company decades ago.
Come on, if 640K is enough for the whole damned program, 260 bytes should be enough for a filename. In fact one digit is enough for Windows version numbers.
The Gun culture is not idiotic, but very rationally racist. In USA any black/brown/yellow person brandishing anything that remotely resembles a gun, or even something that could have appeared to be a gun with enough benefit of doubt is enough to shoot and kill that person. But white people openly carrying guns, even long guns, even with their finger on the trigger, who picks an argument with police officer will be treated gingerly. The police will make sure that the gun wielders' constitutional second amendment rights are not even remotely infringed upon.
If you guys think anyone other than white people can freely brandish guns, you are sadly mistaken.
And collectively human beings have never killed other human beings in such low levels ever in history. Get this human beings inherently violent, xenophobic and have gut level antipathy for everyone outside their extended family or clan. It is a great testament to the control of mind over instinct, they overcame this genetically wired violence and have peaceful, for the most part, by and large
Focusing on the existing violence alone, and not putting it in proper context with historical trend lines is what called "making the perfect the enemy of the not-bad-and-its-getting-better".
In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.
This incident reveled another little known program in the Facebook organization. The trapped people, preoccupied with the trivial (i.e. trivial to Facebook) matter of getting out the elevator car, neglected to update their status for more than 15 minutes. That triggered a red alert in the monitoring the frequency of status update. Unnamed sources reveal a blue alert is issued after 5 minutes, orange after 10 and red after 15 minutes. The company's stock valuation depends on exponential growth of active status update and very low mean-time-between-update. Two years ago red alert was at 120 minutes, for this quarter the target is 15 minutes. They think two years from now the target is likely to be 15 micro seconds. Once red alert is triggered, fake postings of concern, and requests for status update were posted by robotic agents. Since they got no updates for many robotic proddings with increasing urgency, desperation and frequency, actual human beings looked at the accounts, and traced the last status update to "entering the elevator at FB HQ, OMG! Its so cool". That is how it was revealed they were trapped in the elevator.
Be it Volkswagen cheating emission standards, or radio active waste being dumped, nothing happens in Germany by accident. They level of documentation they maintain, the procedures they follow, it is just incredible. We sell software and we know much they check and verify before they will accept an upgrade to the next version.
Look, these are the people who set up folding chairs and meticulously recorded the names of prisoners before gassing them. Or recorded the names of deserters who were caught and executed by firing squad just before the whole army surrendered in Stalingrad. I would not be surprised if every shell fired by every one of their AA guns was individually inspected, numbered and recorded by one soldier and signed off by his officer and countersigned by the officer's officer. They are that good in record keeping.
Pakistan has nuclear bombs and more unstable than India. The scary scenario is that some terrorist group aided and abetted by Pak government will steal the weapons. Pak army has tenuous control over the terrorists it uses for cross border attacks against India.
But if some group steals a nuclear weapon, sure as hell they won't use it against India. India is a soft target for simple crude bombs and AK47. Once you got a nuclear bomb, you go after mother of all your enemies. Israel or America.
I sincerely hope CIA and US govt has good contingency plans to disarm nuclear weapons if it leaves the perimeter of Pak controlled bases. Even Pak army should be shit scared of its weapons.
I call upon the Pakistanis with wonderful sense of patriotism to rise to the occasion and beat the record set by India. I am sure Pakistan will post 52 degree record soon.
Just wondering. I don't remember taking any medical test for H1B. Something was needed for F1 visa, but that is general infectious disease test done for all people. Then there was a medical test for citizenship or green card, not sure. Lots of fingerprinting and photographing, but not really sure there was a drug test.
Well, I am not going into the stock market to make money. I am going there not to lose money (to inflation). Middle of the road, simple returns are enough for me. I am sticking to index fund, knowing very well this is not the fastest way to make a million bucks unless you start with 20 million bucks.
I have resisted buying Apple stock from day 1. I saw the original iPad with 20GB or 40GB hard disk and a wheel and four buttons, I knew it was a hit. Still stuck to my "never an individual stock. Always funds. Always index funds". Finally I see decline in AAPL, and finally coming around to feeling smug, "ha! I knew I was right not to buy the stock". While my bandwagon friends are laughing at me, they can unload it after it loses another 20% and still will beat my great index fund strategy. Now, Apostle of Value, the one who never buffeted by winds of change, the guru from AUMaha, is jumping in?
Well, that is why he is a billionaire and I am a code monkey.
(Caveat: I used to belong to sort of them. Was Indian. Now American).
In the West, we have built very strong enduring institutions. For people who grew up in the USA, they seem to be slowly decaying becoming corrupt. But only when you come in from a different society, after growing up there, you would see the difference. The level of honesty and trust in the government, in the institutions, private or public, is very high in America. It would take India a century or more to build such institutions of integrity. I told my bond broker cousin in Bombay, "As the Watergate scandal was picking up steam, IRS audited the sitting President of the USA, found him in violation of tax code, and assessed half a million dollars in taxes and penalties. It cut Nixon's net worth by half. Nixon paid without complaining or creating a ruckus. Nixon!". He was stunned beyond belief. Such things do not simply happen there. Despite all the insider trading and the banksters becoming fraudsters, SEC and Wall Street is light years ahead of regulation and disclosure of Indian capital markets.
Here in USA we build mountains. Someone is on top of the mountain, but there are several who could replace him/her, and that person, single handedly does not achieve any thing big. In the Middle East and in India, probably China, it is all personality cult. Build one pedestal, put a flag pole on it, and put their leader on top of the flag pole. Leader goes down, there is no one to step and continue the system. The leader actively undermines and sabotages the career of anyone who could replace him. Surrounded by sycophants and flatterers, the leaders live in bubbles. India is way better than Pakistan in this respect, and Pakistan is better than Bangladesh and the Arab countries. But none of them even come close to USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and NZ in terms of governance and public integrity.
B1 visa abuse is very old. When I graduated back in 1984, I had offers to work in USA on B1 visa. This visa is meant for high level executives from other countries to visit USA to conduct business, and to provide warranty service for imported machinery. The abuse was rampant. The US consulate in India, Bombay, Madras, Delhi and Calcutta had the impossible task for vetting the visa applications and determining the bona fide of the paper work. It was hit and a miss, the agents figured out what the red flags were, took "care" of them, usually using forged documents that the consulate could not verify.
I know cases of three people with identical papers applying for B1, one getting it and the other two getting, "not eligible to apply for ANY visa to USA for 2 years" stamped on their passports. It was as if the first guy is up for stealing a policeman's helmet on the Oxford boat race night. Gets off with a five pound fine. The next guy up for the same thing. The magistrate notices a sudden spurt in theft of police helmets and sentences Agustus Fink-Nottle to two weeks in the slammer.
If Tesla has bought the paint shop from a shell company in Eastern Europe, and if this is part of erection and delivery contract, it would be covered under B1 visa rules.
I think it worked in large scale because they were from Eastern Europe. Embassies in India, China, Africa etc would have smelled a rat miles away.
I hate audio and video auto playing and auto looping. At least with flash there are a number of add-ons that work and block the damned thing. HTML5 video is not as easily blocked. As the advetisers and clickbaiters figure out more creative ways to be annoying, I'm wondering what the state of the art is in blocking unwanted audio, video, autoplay, autoloop etc?
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Bingo! I got bingo in my buzzword bingo card.
At the same time almost all the deadlines he predicts are missed and he is hopeless in constructing timelines that approach reality. How can it be?
The theory is this, his mind is traveling at some relativistic speed and the time dilation sets in. It will only take 9 years in Elon's mind. But it will be a long time for people stuck on Earth going at a staid pace of about 900,000 kmph around the Sun.
You want to keep tabs on her. She wants her spaces. The relationship is doomed from the start.
Of course Microsoft probably used fixed length buffers some time in the distant past to shave a few micro seconds off the dynamic allocation time. By the time code was copy/paste\ed in so many places and in so many modules, it gets carved in stone and becomes very difficult to change.
The working class white people have been trained to fear the phrase, "I am from the government and I am here to help". Now there is no one to stop them from being robbed blind by the crony capitalists of the Republican party.
I would trust Hawking's (or any other mathematician, scientist, or physicist)'s opinion on something well outside their field of expertise than trust Trump on anything outside his core ability. I would Trump's core ability is running a media circus.
Do?
He will simply calculate all possible Pythagorean triples in his head, write down 7285 in a piece of paper as the "solution" and leave the proof as an elementary exercise to the reader.
They found the 8.3 file name format very confining. So they did a simple hack. They would construct the file/path name just as they would in unix. Then send it through a string processor that will insert a "\" after every 8th char and keep creating sub directories to get the file name they wanted! User will see humongous file names and path names.
Our company has been supporting 4K path names now, I remember setting MAXPATHLEN to be 1025 (remember to allocate space for the trailing null) back when joined the company decades ago.
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If you guys think anyone other than white people can freely brandish guns, you are sadly mistaken.
Under the hood and without the spyware/Cortana/Store, Windows 10 is actually a good upgrade.
That is a great endorsement. If you ignore all the bad, what remains must be good. By definition.
2. Throw a little money into astro turf organization to protest.
3. Astro turf will denounce it as Big Government, Obamanet, over reach and argue for the program to be axed.
4. Some law makers will be persuaded by the lobbyists to fake concern and axe the program.
5. The companies will blame the funding cut to renege on all promises
Lather, rinse and repeat.
Subject: Unix virus
You have been attacked by the unix virus. Please forward this mail to everyone in your .mailrc and delete a bunch of files from $home
You talk as if it existed sometime in the past.
Focusing on the existing violence alone, and not putting it in proper context with historical trend lines is what called "making the perfect the enemy of the not-bad-and-its-getting-better".
In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.
This incident reveled another little known program in the Facebook organization. The trapped people, preoccupied with the trivial (i.e. trivial to Facebook) matter of getting out the elevator car, neglected to update their status for more than 15 minutes. That triggered a red alert in the monitoring the frequency of status update. Unnamed sources reveal a blue alert is issued after 5 minutes, orange after 10 and red after 15 minutes. The company's stock valuation depends on exponential growth of active status update and very low mean-time-between-update. Two years ago red alert was at 120 minutes, for this quarter the target is 15 minutes. They think two years from now the target is likely to be 15 micro seconds. Once red alert is triggered, fake postings of concern, and requests for status update were posted by robotic agents. Since they got no updates for many robotic proddings with increasing urgency, desperation and frequency, actual human beings looked at the accounts, and traced the last status update to "entering the elevator at FB HQ, OMG! Its so cool". That is how it was revealed they were trapped in the elevator.
Look, these are the people who set up folding chairs and meticulously recorded the names of prisoners before gassing them. Or recorded the names of deserters who were caught and executed by firing squad just before the whole army surrendered in Stalingrad. I would not be surprised if every shell fired by every one of their AA guns was individually inspected, numbered and recorded by one soldier and signed off by his officer and countersigned by the officer's officer. They are that good in record keeping.
But if some group steals a nuclear weapon, sure as hell they won't use it against India. India is a soft target for simple crude bombs and AK47. Once you got a nuclear bomb, you go after mother of all your enemies. Israel or America.
I sincerely hope CIA and US govt has good contingency plans to disarm nuclear weapons if it leaves the perimeter of Pak controlled bases. Even Pak army should be shit scared of its weapons.
I call upon the Pakistanis with wonderful sense of patriotism to rise to the occasion and beat the record set by India. I am sure Pakistan will post 52 degree record soon.
Just wondering. I don't remember taking any medical test for H1B. Something was needed for F1 visa, but that is general infectious disease test done for all people. Then there was a medical test for citizenship or green card, not sure. Lots of fingerprinting and photographing, but not really sure there was a drug test.
Well, I am not going into the stock market to make money. I am going there not to lose money (to inflation). Middle of the road, simple returns are enough for me. I am sticking to index fund, knowing very well this is not the fastest way to make a million bucks unless you start with 20 million bucks.
Well, that is why he is a billionaire and I am a code monkey.
In the West, we have built very strong enduring institutions. For people who grew up in the USA, they seem to be slowly decaying becoming corrupt. But only when you come in from a different society, after growing up there, you would see the difference. The level of honesty and trust in the government, in the institutions, private or public, is very high in America. It would take India a century or more to build such institutions of integrity. I told my bond broker cousin in Bombay, "As the Watergate scandal was picking up steam, IRS audited the sitting President of the USA, found him in violation of tax code, and assessed half a million dollars in taxes and penalties. It cut Nixon's net worth by half. Nixon paid without complaining or creating a ruckus. Nixon!". He was stunned beyond belief. Such things do not simply happen there. Despite all the insider trading and the banksters becoming fraudsters, SEC and Wall Street is light years ahead of regulation and disclosure of Indian capital markets.
Here in USA we build mountains. Someone is on top of the mountain, but there are several who could replace him/her, and that person, single handedly does not achieve any thing big. In the Middle East and in India, probably China, it is all personality cult. Build one pedestal, put a flag pole on it, and put their leader on top of the flag pole. Leader goes down, there is no one to step and continue the system. The leader actively undermines and sabotages the career of anyone who could replace him. Surrounded by sycophants and flatterers, the leaders live in bubbles. India is way better than Pakistan in this respect, and Pakistan is better than Bangladesh and the Arab countries. But none of them even come close to USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and NZ in terms of governance and public integrity.
I know cases of three people with identical papers applying for B1, one getting it and the other two getting, "not eligible to apply for ANY visa to USA for 2 years" stamped on their passports. It was as if the first guy is up for stealing a policeman's helmet on the Oxford boat race night. Gets off with a five pound fine. The next guy up for the same thing. The magistrate notices a sudden spurt in theft of police helmets and sentences Agustus Fink-Nottle to two weeks in the slammer.
If Tesla has bought the paint shop from a shell company in Eastern Europe, and if this is part of erection and delivery contract, it would be covered under B1 visa rules.
I think it worked in large scale because they were from Eastern Europe. Embassies in India, China, Africa etc would have smelled a rat miles away.
I hate audio and video auto playing and auto looping. At least with flash there are a number of add-ons that work and block the damned thing. HTML5 video is not as easily blocked. As the advetisers and clickbaiters figure out more creative ways to be annoying, I'm wondering what the state of the art is in blocking unwanted audio, video, autoplay, autoloop etc?