C has such lovely arcane features, and I cut my teeth doing bare-metal programming with it. Good times indeed.
If you haven't shipped at least of few thousand lines of production C you don't know what the fuck you're doing.
Not that writing that little C makes you a Torvalds or Wietse Venema, but at least you are demystified on a number or essential things for which the average "masters degree" graduate that hasn't seen anything the preceded Java and Javascript are entirely unqualified.
I'm not going to undertake reforming academe in a slashdot thread. Were I king; retract this farcical garbage, even if only because it was allowed to be mischaracterized — deliberately or otherwise — as "science," reprimand all involved and study how we might avoid tarnishing the name of science with such abusive nonsense in the future.
None of that will happen. So were back to where I started this thread; don't be the least bit surprised when, next week, you read yet another headline chronicling the ever growing skepticism of "science" and "scientists" because their credibility is being pissed away for political purposes.
the hard part is presenting realistic alternatives
Did that happen here? Did I miss something?
What "alternative" emerged? All I found was yet another scree against "capitalism" coupled with yet more calls for public money, more regulation, more hairshirt environmentalism, more favoritism and more statist mentality. The same old song. The only new element is a sad attempt to couch this the form of "science," and it clearly fooled no one beyond the cohort Useful Idiots you'd expect.
So if this was some noble attempt to offer an "alternative" it went down in flames — accomplishing nothing — except maybe to add yet more suspicion to anything labeled "science."
Subject-matter-experts are not necessarily "scientists" in the strictest sense. Good science takes reproducability of an observation or experiment.
I'm sorry, I must have misread the headline now replicating verbatim around the planet. I thought I read "Scientists," implying some manner of actual science had occurred. Thank goodness we have you to explain my mistake. o_O I mean, if it wasn't for you I might think some laboratory had managed to isolate "capitalism" in a beaker and determined its half-life!
It's a warning light, not the final say. But warning lights deserve attention nevertheless.
Here's another warning light; science is being debased as what credibility scientists have is squandered on behalf of an entrenched political class seeking ever more power. This vacuous paper is a glittering example of exactly that phenomena.
What "new" system? There isn't a single original proposal offered at any point. It's exactly the same stuff; more regs, more taxes on rich countries, continue exempting the "developing" countries of all responsibility, etc. If there were even one original thought offered this supposed scientific research might actually be worthy of consideration. As it is all we have is establishment group think with the imprimatur of "science," bouncing around the left wing echo chamber for a cycle.
These developing countries do not need to begin by dismantling the fossil-fuelled infrastructure that has provided a range of low-cost production and consumption opportunities in rich countries for decades.
This would require economic thinking that enables large public investment programs on the one hand and strong regulation and environmental caps on the other.
Same old leftist/establishment group think, now new and improved with added Scientists!
Stay tuned; next week we'll have headlines about how "science" isn't universally trusted as impartial and what a terrible shame that is.
The US congress has been warning US corporations to avoid Huawei and ZTE since 2012. You reveal your own ignorance if you actually believe current events are something sudden or surprising.
Australia has joined the US in banning Huawei from infrastructure work. They recognize this company is simply a commercial arm of the PLA and are wisely keeping it out of critical infrastructure.
This is the sort of naiveté people in the US use to have about Russia.
It's a read-only file system from Huawei, intended to be an improvement on over existing read-only file systems for Android devices. Yes, this is the same Huawei that makes phone you can't (couldn't, may not be able to in the future...?) take into a US military facility, FWIW.
If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them!
You gang up on someone and start shoving them around it's at least battery and probably several other crimes. You'll attribute only the most benign meaning to these words because that fits your preferred narrative but that's not the only way to read it, and the ambiguity is deliberate.
If there's something we've learned since "conservatives" allied with neo-nazis and white supremacists...
The the circle widens. Back here you offered narrow criteria for who deserved deplatforming; the tattooed Nazis and self described white supremacists, oh my! But here we see that what I accused you of then is in fact true; it's anyone that voted for Trump, the new Republican mainstream, "conservatives" supposedly allied with all these bogeymen... all these evil people are indistinguishable to you and deserve the same fate as far as your hate filled little soul is concerned.
When people on the right do what Maxine did they are said to be inciting violence and are de-platformed wherever possible. Yet somehow we're supposed to apply only the most benevolent possible interpretation to her calls for harassment.
Sorry bud. That double standard doesn't fly in a world full of James Hodgkinsons.
have Nazi tattoos... describe themselves as White nationalists
Alex Jones — messed up as he is — doesn't have or do either of those things so the notion that this moral panic is limited to demonstrative "Nazi" sympathizers or self proclaimed white nationalists is bogus. It's plainly obvious that you aim for a much larger set of wrong-thinkers and chanting "Nazi" to rationalize this is you lying about your desire and intent.
If they don't like the terms at Twitter they are free to go start a new service where they can set the terms.
"They" are.
And yes, this is the correct solution to corporate censorship. This is our moral panic; anything that fails to conform to prevailing "virtue" is labeled an incitement to violence and banned.
First, cars haven't gotten lighter. The average passenger vehicle weight is over 4000 lbs today, whereas it was around 3300 lbs in 1979. Second, all passenger vehicles have "gotten safer," not just small cars; this evolution is orthogonal and irrelevant to the discussion. The simple, painful, cognitive dissonance inducing reality remains; people die more frequently and suffer more severe injuries during collisions in smaller cars than those in larger cars.
The entire PC / laptop market had its origins in "clones." We used to celebrate this, even as the lawsuits flew every which way. Now we get media hit pieces and angry apple fanbois demanding explanations.
I'm sure you can revise your statement to somehow exclude pilots, truck drivers, train conductors, etc to completely undermine your points while pretending to be internally consistent.
That's not necessary. Your inability to distinguish anecdote from data make any revision unnecessary.
To be fair, it probably is a deathtrap if someone hits you
It is. It's a death trap if someone hits you, it's a death trap if you hit someone else, it's a death trap if you crash into anything with enough velocity. There is a direct correlation between the mass ratio of passenger to vehicle and the rate of injury and fatalities clearly evident in the actuarial record of insurance companies; smaller vehicles injure more severely and kill more frequently than large vehicles.
The only credible rational for polices that drive people into smaller vehicles is that the energy savings and pollution reduction are worth the added deaths and crippling. Every other argument is bullshit and the people that offer them liars or ignoramuses.
Why is the government giving handouts to unprofitable __________?
banks
automobile manufacturers
insurance companies
airlines
nuclear power plants
pension funds
dairy farmers
coal miners
oil companies
universities
fisheries
solar panel companies
aerospace companies
GSEs
S&Ls
postal systems
railroads ...
The list goes on and on. Everyone has one or more entries on the list they are convinced are entirely legitimate and deserving. As such the power exists to
dip into the public trough and get some. What's why.
there is a fairly large risk to have someone move someone else's equipment and/or wires.... doesn't have the same training, or cuts corners, and messes something up
Either you haven't investigated this or you're spreading FUD. The OTMR rules require the utility pole owners to designate qualified contractors to do the work. Only these contractors are eligible to move or add anything. The poles won't be swarmed by unaccountable bozos wrecking everything.
With change comes risk. Try not to be a sackless coward, prattling on about the parade of horribles inside your head. They're just wires on poles. We can cope with them as we have for 150+ years now. The only actual problem with any of this is that it's at least twenty years overdue.
Why should *they*, the Russians, be allowed to interfere in democracy without repercussions?
Because the alternative — not "allowing" the Russians or anyone else to do "ads" for one reason or another — means that every platform has to be policed by minders from end to end, and those minders will have the means to persecute whomever exhibits sufficient wrongthink when they advertise their views. You're turning all discourse, legitimate or otherwise, into a minefield for anyone that doesn't have an establishment escort, all because you think you lost something in an election.
I get it
No, you don't. No amount of ruination is too much to "fix" the outcomes you're not happy with, beginning with polluting your own mind with fictional conspiracies. At some point it's going to dawn on you that the real problem is the damn voters and the fact that they can still vote.
Phones sound like shit and the poor audio quality is fatiguing during hours working with remote people. There are several factors involved, so don't claim "but this or that can be fixed herp derp." Phones can't match good headsets with high quality audio codecs over reliable, low latency broadband.
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C has such lovely arcane features, and I cut my teeth doing bare-metal programming with it. Good times indeed.
If you haven't shipped at least of few thousand lines of production C you don't know what the fuck you're doing.
Not that writing that little C makes you a Torvalds or Wietse Venema, but at least you are demystified on a number or essential things for which the average "masters degree" graduate that hasn't seen anything the preceded Java and Javascript are entirely unqualified.
Pollyanna apologist.
It seems like a basic common sense request to me.
I'm not going to undertake reforming academe in a slashdot thread. Were I king; retract this farcical garbage, even if only because it was allowed to be mischaracterized — deliberately or otherwise — as "science," reprimand all involved and study how we might avoid tarnishing the name of science with such abusive nonsense in the future.
None of that will happen. So were back to where I started this thread; don't be the least bit surprised when, next week, you read yet another headline chronicling the ever growing skepticism of "science" and "scientists" because their credibility is being pissed away for political purposes.
the hard part is presenting realistic alternatives
Did that happen here? Did I miss something?
What "alternative" emerged? All I found was yet another scree against "capitalism" coupled with yet more calls for public money, more regulation, more hairshirt environmentalism, more favoritism and more statist mentality. The same old song. The only new element is a sad attempt to couch this the form of "science," and it clearly fooled no one beyond the cohort Useful Idiots you'd expect.
So if this was some noble attempt to offer an "alternative" it went down in flames — accomplishing nothing — except maybe to add yet more suspicion to anything labeled "science."
None of those circumstances apply to this case.
Yeah, whatever. California said the children are endangered and California knows best for everyone so it must be thus.
Subject-matter-experts are not necessarily "scientists" in the strictest sense. Good science takes reproducability of an observation or experiment.
I'm sorry, I must have misread the headline now replicating verbatim around the planet. I thought I read "Scientists," implying some manner of actual science had occurred. Thank goodness we have you to explain my mistake. o_O I mean, if it wasn't for you I might think some laboratory had managed to isolate "capitalism" in a beaker and determined its half-life!
It's a warning light, not the final say. But warning lights deserve attention nevertheless.
Here's another warning light; science is being debased as what credibility scientists have is squandered on behalf of an entrenched political class seeking ever more power. This vacuous paper is a glittering example of exactly that phenomena.
Obviously, their new system will be perfect.
What "new" system? There isn't a single original proposal offered at any point. It's exactly the same stuff; more regs, more taxes on rich countries, continue exempting the "developing" countries of all responsibility, etc. If there were even one original thought offered this supposed scientific research might actually be worthy of consideration. As it is all we have is establishment group think with the imprimatur of "science," bouncing around the left wing echo chamber for a cycle.
These developing countries do not need to begin by dismantling the fossil-fuelled infrastructure that has provided a range of low-cost production and consumption opportunities in rich countries for decades.
This would require economic thinking that enables large public investment programs on the one hand and strong regulation and environmental caps on the other.
Same old leftist/establishment group think, now new and improved with added Scientists!
Stay tuned; next week we'll have headlines about how "science" isn't universally trusted as impartial and what a terrible shame that is.
Sudden panic banning
The US congress has been warning US corporations to avoid Huawei and ZTE since 2012. You reveal your own ignorance if you actually believe current events are something sudden or surprising.
Australia has joined the US in banning Huawei from infrastructure work. They recognize this company is simply a commercial arm of the PLA and are wisely keeping it out of critical infrastructure.
This is the sort of naiveté people in the US use to have about Russia.
It's a read-only file system from Huawei, intended to be an improvement on over existing read-only file systems for Android devices. Yes, this is the same Huawei that makes phone you can't (couldn't, may not be able to in the future...?) take into a US military facility, FWIW.
cannot be read in any way as inciting violence
Simple intellectual dishonesty right there.
You can't even quote her inciting violence
Sure I can.
If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them!
You gang up on someone and start shoving them around it's at least battery and probably several other crimes. You'll attribute only the most benign meaning to these words because that fits your preferred narrative but that's not the only way to read it, and the ambiguity is deliberate.
If there's something we've learned since "conservatives" allied with neo-nazis and white supremacists...
The the circle widens. Back here you offered narrow criteria for who deserved deplatforming; the tattooed Nazis and self described white supremacists, oh my! But here we see that what I accused you of then is in fact true; it's anyone that voted for Trump, the new Republican mainstream, "conservatives" supposedly allied with all these bogeymen... all these evil people are indistinguishable to you and deserve the same fate as far as your hate filled little soul is concerned.
When people on the right do what Maxine did they are said to be inciting violence and are de-platformed wherever possible. Yet somehow we're supposed to apply only the most benevolent possible interpretation to her calls for harassment.
Sorry bud. That double standard doesn't fly in a world full of James Hodgkinsons.
have Nazi tattoos ... describe themselves as White nationalists
Alex Jones — messed up as he is — doesn't have or do either of those things so the notion that this moral panic is limited to demonstrative "Nazi" sympathizers or self proclaimed white nationalists is bogus. It's plainly obvious that you aim for a much larger set of wrong-thinkers and chanting "Nazi" to rationalize this is you lying about your desire and intent.
Nazi
Self righteous name calling; classic moral panic behavior.
I'm okay with that
Said every virtuemonger ever.
If they don't like the terms at Twitter they are free to go start a new service where they can set the terms.
"They" are.
And yes, this is the correct solution to corporate censorship. This is our moral panic; anything that fails to conform to prevailing "virtue" is labeled an incitement to violence and banned.
First, cars haven't gotten lighter. The average passenger vehicle weight is over 4000 lbs today, whereas it was around 3300 lbs in 1979. Second, all passenger vehicles have "gotten safer," not just small cars; this evolution is orthogonal and irrelevant to the discussion. The simple, painful, cognitive dissonance inducing reality remains; people die more frequently and suffer more severe injuries during collisions in smaller cars than those in larger cars.
The entire PC / laptop market had its origins in "clones." We used to celebrate this, even as the lawsuits flew every which way. Now we get media hit pieces and angry apple fanbois demanding explanations.
I'm sure you can revise your statement to somehow exclude pilots, truck drivers, train conductors, etc to completely undermine your points while pretending to be internally consistent.
That's not necessary. Your inability to distinguish anecdote from data make any revision unnecessary.
To be fair, it probably is a deathtrap if someone hits you
It is. It's a death trap if someone hits you, it's a death trap if you hit someone else, it's a death trap if you crash into anything with enough velocity. There is a direct correlation between the mass ratio of passenger to vehicle and the rate of injury and fatalities clearly evident in the actuarial record of insurance companies; smaller vehicles injure more severely and kill more frequently than large vehicles.
The only credible rational for polices that drive people into smaller vehicles is that the energy savings and pollution reduction are worth the added deaths and crippling. Every other argument is bullshit and the people that offer them liars or ignoramuses.
Why is the government giving handouts to unprofitable __________?
banks
...
automobile manufacturers
insurance companies
airlines
nuclear power plants
pension funds
dairy farmers
coal miners
oil companies
universities
fisheries
solar panel companies
aerospace companies
GSEs
S&Ls
postal systems
railroads
The list goes on and on. Everyone has one or more entries on the list they are convinced are entirely legitimate and deserving. As such the power exists to dip into the public trough and get some. What's why.
there is a fairly large risk to have someone move someone else's equipment and/or wires .... doesn't have the same training, or cuts corners, and messes something up
Either you haven't investigated this or you're spreading FUD. The OTMR rules require the utility pole owners to designate qualified contractors to do the work. Only these contractors are eligible to move or add anything. The poles won't be swarmed by unaccountable bozos wrecking everything.
With change comes risk. Try not to be a sackless coward, prattling on about the parade of horribles inside your head. They're just wires on poles. We can cope with them as we have for 150+ years now. The only actual problem with any of this is that it's at least twenty years overdue.
In much the same fashion as Guns don't kill people, People kill people
Ironic, given that Google has banned guns from certain searches.
Why should *they*, the Russians, be allowed to interfere in democracy without repercussions?
Because the alternative — not "allowing" the Russians or anyone else to do "ads" for one reason or another — means that every platform has to be policed by minders from end to end, and those minders will have the means to persecute whomever exhibits sufficient wrongthink when they advertise their views. You're turning all discourse, legitimate or otherwise, into a minefield for anyone that doesn't have an establishment escort, all because you think you lost something in an election.
I get it
No, you don't. No amount of ruination is too much to "fix" the outcomes you're not happy with, beginning with polluting your own mind with fictional conspiracies. At some point it's going to dawn on you that the real problem is the damn voters and the fact that they can still vote.
There's this thing, its called 'phone'.
Phones sound like shit and the poor audio quality is fatiguing during hours working with remote people. There are several factors involved, so don't claim "but this or that can be fixed herp derp." Phones can't match good headsets with high quality audio codecs over reliable, low latency broadband.