It's odd that he talks about using tools to validate your code on one hand and then recommends moving away from C or C++ on the other.
There's actually some pretty fantastic work on sanitizers being done right now in Clang (and other tooling chains) that can enforce memory and type safety at run time.
You can do all your development with the sanitizers turned on, and then when you want speed when you're ready to release, turn them off.
There's still nothing faster than C or C++ than assembly, and even then you have to be reasonably skilled to beat -O3 these days.
>they try to force people to download their silly little app.
And their app phones home all the bloody time. I installed a program on my phone to track open internet connections and Yelp was always talking to its servers, even when it wasn't open.
Yep. I quit editing wikipedia after a series of things such as:
1) I added ISBN numbers to a page on a historical personage that was missing them. Reverted by an admin within 15 seconds. Reverted it back, because the person obviously didn't even bother reading the change I made. Got warned for edit warring.
2) Got into a long and drawn out debate over the definition of alternative medicine. Despite citing every single major medical organization in the world, and the definition that they use, a group of a couple users locked it down with the wrong definition in the lede, and have moderators ready to ban any person trying to put the correct definition in. This is despite a lack of consensus on the comments page, and despite a constant stream of people noting that the lede (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine) is inaccurate. Making edits to it, thanks to the idiocy of the arbcomm, can yield immediate banning. The talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alternative_medicine) is a constant stream of people complaining the page is NPOV, but it only ever gets more biased as time goes on, not less.
3) Goaltending in general. Making any improvement to any page, no matter how minor, have a significant chance to be reverted, without explanation. Larger changes tend to be immediately reverted without discussion. I won't waste my time contributing when there's a real chance that my work will be for nothing. I could spend more time on talk trying to summon the other person to explain why adding a missing period at the end of a sentence is so controversial, but that wastes even more time. So I leave and the trolls and shills win.
Frankly, Wikipedia is a toxic cesspit. While I appreciate the works of the volunteers over the years, it can burn in hell for all I care.
I won't give any more money to Samsung after they force-patched my television to add ads on the menu bar. I returned it, and won't have anything more to do with them.
The Cultural Revolution drives the plot of the first book. I mean, I wouldn't put it past Hollywood to ruin anything, but I don't see any easy way of changing it.
Plus, it'd be a shame since this is the first Chinese sci-fi novel to really break through into the west.
>You could dissect these ants and find no evidence of consciousnesses and yet in cooperation are able to build a bridge or make a raft
The emergent properties of groups of ants are based on two things: how an individual ant behaves and how it acts in relation to others. Lacking either of these means no emergent behavior.
We have neither for consciousness. So it's just pure hope that it is an emergent property, and not actually an evidence-based finding.
Calling something an emergent property is just handwaving.
For something to be an emergent property, like the flocking of birds, there must be a well defined base condition, and usually-simple rules governing how the individual entities interact.
We have neither for the study of consciousness.
In fact, for it to be true, there must be some fundamental property of matter that supports consciousness... which is what TFA is talking about.
Nothing can compare with the x86 for cruftiness. Legacy support is one of the reasons why x86 has never been able to compete in the low power space with ARM.
ARM32 is my favorite assembly language to program in. It's simple, easy to understand, and because its lacks a lot of mal-features like doing operations directly in memory, it's not loaded with as many traps for the unwary.
"The first question they had about it [was], âIs that true?â(TM)â Wojcicki said on the latest Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. âoeThat really, really surprised me, because here I am â" Iâ(TM)ve spent so much time, so much of my career, to try to overcome stereotypes, and then here was this letter that was somehow convincing my kids and many other women in the industry, and men in the industry, convincing them that they were less capable. That really upset me.â
She was upset that people were interested in the facts over political correctness.
That was one of the first things I said after watching it. If you can destroy anything with a hyperspace jump, why the fuck isn't this the standard tactic? Jump an asteroid into the death star and call it a day.
There were lots of stupid plot decisions in the movie, but this was the biggest one.
>Does that 30% more to "charity" include tithes and other donations to their church? If so, then they are buying their places in heaven and donating to their local social club. A bit self serving in that type of charity.
Religious people donate both more to churches - no big surprise there - but also to secular charities at a higher rate than atheists.
"Community college is not flashy and does not make promises about your future employability. You will also likely not learn current way-cool web development technologies like React and GraphQL. In terms of projects, you're more likely to build software for organizing a professor's DVD or textbook collection than you are responsive web apps. I would tell you that all of this is OK because in community college computer science classes you're learning fundamentals, broad concepts like data structures, algorithmic complexity, and object-oriented programming. You won't learn any of those things as deeply as you would in a full-on university computer science program, but you'll get pretty far."
This is an insultingly stupid summary of community college computer science classes.
I learned React at a local community college, and, well, web apps aren't even the point of computer science. You want to learn how to write web apps, go take a 6 week bootcamp or something.
Our local community college teaches C++17 and has better homework assignments than Berkeley. I know this, since I have looked at the homework for Hilfinger's CS61A. They're surprisingly dull and uninteresting. (Look at them yourself: https://cs61a.org/) Students at our local computer science class learned about arrays by writing photoshop filters (of their own design and artistic sensibilities) on an array of RGB data.
Community college CS classes typically cap at around 40 students, and allow you to interact with the professor and ask for help. Most UCs, Berkeley included, have introductory CS classes in stadium classrooms with hundreds of students in it, where you can't ask a question if you're confused, and half the class doesn't even bother showing up.
Frankly, students get a better education at a community college, overall.
Being able to do a one-time override to connect to a hotel login screen doesn't compromise by ability to use https everywhere else, which is my normal means of operation.
Not with this hotels' Wifi, apparently. I have the latest version of the big three browsers.
I don't dispute that the hotel wifi was probably badly configured, but not being able to disable the security measures just to click through a login screen is bad design on the web browsers' part.
It is irritating enough as it is, with my web browsers screaming about invalid certificates and possible MitM attacks when simply trying to pull up a Wifi login screen.
All this was prompted by my phone randomly disconnecting and reconnecting when charging, which means late at night the screen turns itself on and off, waking me up. Google has apparently made no provision for a setting to turn off the screen when a charger is connected. The best you can do is download an app that will quickly turn the screen back off, but it will still flash randomly in a dark room, and this is annoying.
I want the ability to go through the source code for the kernel, find the place where it turns on the screen when a charger is connected, and disable it. Shouldn't take much time at all, but in my understanding, in the current ecosystem, it is basically impossible unless you have an unlocked device. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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All I want from Microsoft is a single toggle switch, labelled "Privacy?" with yes/no options.
If you choose yes, it shuts down all telemetry to Microsoft.
If you choose no, then you can individually pick and choose your settings, same as before.
Windows 10, contrary to rumor, is not actually a free OS, and so they shouldn't be able to get away with all of this freemium Google-esque spying.
Oh, that, and the ability to actually control updates again in Home.
It's odd that he talks about using tools to validate your code on one hand and then recommends moving away from C or C++ on the other.
There's actually some pretty fantastic work on sanitizers being done right now in Clang (and other tooling chains) that can enforce memory and type safety at run time.
You can do all your development with the sanitizers turned on, and then when you want speed when you're ready to release, turn them off.
There's still nothing faster than C or C++ than assembly, and even then you have to be reasonably skilled to beat -O3 these days.
>they try to force people to download their silly little app.
And their app phones home all the bloody time. I installed a program on my phone to track open internet connections and Yelp was always talking to its servers, even when it wasn't open.
Yep. I quit editing wikipedia after a series of things such as:
1) I added ISBN numbers to a page on a historical personage that was missing them. Reverted by an admin within 15 seconds. Reverted it back, because the person obviously didn't even bother reading the change I made. Got warned for edit warring.
2) Got into a long and drawn out debate over the definition of alternative medicine. Despite citing every single major medical organization in the world, and the definition that they use, a group of a couple users locked it down with the wrong definition in the lede, and have moderators ready to ban any person trying to put the correct definition in. This is despite a lack of consensus on the comments page, and despite a constant stream of people noting that the lede (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine) is inaccurate. Making edits to it, thanks to the idiocy of the arbcomm, can yield immediate banning. The talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alternative_medicine) is a constant stream of people complaining the page is NPOV, but it only ever gets more biased as time goes on, not less.
3) Goaltending in general. Making any improvement to any page, no matter how minor, have a significant chance to be reverted, without explanation. Larger changes tend to be immediately reverted without discussion. I won't waste my time contributing when there's a real chance that my work will be for nothing. I could spend more time on talk trying to summon the other person to explain why adding a missing period at the end of a sentence is so controversial, but that wastes even more time. So I leave and the trolls and shills win.
Frankly, Wikipedia is a toxic cesspit. While I appreciate the works of the volunteers over the years, it can burn in hell for all I care.
I won't give any more money to Samsung after they force-patched my television to add ads on the menu bar. I returned it, and won't have anything more to do with them.
The Cultural Revolution drives the plot of the first book. I mean, I wouldn't put it past Hollywood to ruin anything, but I don't see any easy way of changing it.
Plus, it'd be a shame since this is the first Chinese sci-fi novel to really break through into the west.
>You're using energy 24/7 making your TeeVee appear invisible?
Don't forget showing ads.
Samsung is infamous for patching firmware after release to cause the input bars to display ads on them, despite selling TVs that don't have ads.
I returned two of them, the second after I disabled firmware updates, and the TV updated the firmware anyway to have ads.
I won't buy Samsung now, period. I even switched my phones away from Samsung. They can burn in hell.
>You could dissect these ants and find no evidence of consciousnesses and yet in cooperation are able to build a bridge or make a raft
The emergent properties of groups of ants are based on two things: how an individual ant behaves and how it acts in relation to others. Lacking either of these means no emergent behavior.
We have neither for consciousness. So it's just pure hope that it is an emergent property, and not actually an evidence-based finding.
Calling something an emergent property is just handwaving.
For something to be an emergent property, like the flocking of birds, there must be a well defined base condition, and usually-simple rules governing how the individual entities interact.
We have neither for the study of consciousness.
In fact, for it to be true, there must be some fundamental property of matter that supports consciousness... which is what TFA is talking about.
Congratulations, you just played yourself.
Nothing can compare with the x86 for cruftiness. Legacy support is one of the reasons why x86 has never been able to compete in the low power space with ARM.
ARM32 is my favorite assembly language to program in. It's simple, easy to understand, and because its lacks a lot of mal-features like doing operations directly in memory, it's not loaded with as many traps for the unwary.
Literally, from TFA:
"The first question they had about it [was], âIs that true?â(TM)â Wojcicki said on the latest Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. âoeThat really, really surprised me, because here I am â" Iâ(TM)ve spent so much time, so much of my career, to try to overcome stereotypes, and then here was this letter that was somehow convincing my kids and many other women in the industry, and men in the industry, convincing them that they were less capable. That really upset me.â
She was upset that people were interested in the facts over political correctness.
Agreed. All digital voting is the biggest threat to democracy ever seen.
That was one of the first things I said after watching it. If you can destroy anything with a hyperspace jump, why the fuck isn't this the standard tactic? Jump an asteroid into the death star and call it a day.
There were lots of stupid plot decisions in the movie, but this was the biggest one.
Religious people donate both more to religious charities and to secular charities.
https://www.hoover.org/researc...
>Does that 30% more to "charity" include tithes and other donations to their church? If so, then they are buying their places in heaven and donating to their local social club. A bit self serving in that type of charity.
Religious people donate both more to churches - no big surprise there - but also to secular charities at a higher rate than atheists.
"Community college is not flashy and does not make promises about your future employability. You will also likely not learn current way-cool web development technologies like React and GraphQL. In terms of projects, you're more likely to build software for organizing a professor's DVD or textbook collection than you are responsive web apps. I would tell you that all of this is OK because in community college computer science classes you're learning fundamentals, broad concepts like data structures, algorithmic complexity, and object-oriented programming. You won't learn any of those things as deeply as you would in a full-on university computer science program, but you'll get pretty far."
This is an insultingly stupid summary of community college computer science classes.
I learned React at a local community college, and, well, web apps aren't even the point of computer science. You want to learn how to write web apps, go take a 6 week bootcamp or something.
Our local community college teaches C++17 and has better homework assignments than Berkeley. I know this, since I have looked at the homework for Hilfinger's CS61A. They're surprisingly dull and uninteresting. (Look at them yourself: https://cs61a.org/) Students at our local computer science class learned about arrays by writing photoshop filters (of their own design and artistic sensibilities) on an array of RGB data.
Community college CS classes typically cap at around 40 students, and allow you to interact with the professor and ask for help. Most UCs, Berkeley included, have introductory CS classes in stadium classrooms with hundreds of students in it, where you can't ask a question if you're confused, and half the class doesn't even bother showing up.
Frankly, students get a better education at a community college, overall.
> Not everyone is rich or brilliant enough to go to Stanford and get a CS degree, nor does every developer in your company need to be a Stanford grad.
You don't have to be rich to go to Stanford.
If your family makes less than $100k per year, you don't pay tuition.
If your family makes less than $60k, then you get an automatic full ride (tuition, room and board, books).
Anyone have any information on what distro they use? The article didn't say.
>Samsung's version of Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant.
And it is also the reason why I won't be buying a Galaxy S8.
I've hit my limit for anti-consumer practices with them.
Being able to do a one-time override to connect to a hotel login screen doesn't compromise by ability to use https everywhere else, which is my normal means of operation.
Not with this hotels' Wifi, apparently. I have the latest version of the big three browsers.
I don't dispute that the hotel wifi was probably badly configured, but not being able to disable the security measures just to click through a login screen is bad design on the web browsers' part.
>Because it is a MitM attack?
Yes, I know it is. And if the browser would let me go to the damn page, I could get rid of it.
>Nope, that hotel wifi is already broken.
Yes, it is. But it's not a security threat either.
Will this further break hotel wifi?
It is irritating enough as it is, with my web browsers screaming about invalid certificates and possible MitM attacks when simply trying to pull up a Wifi login screen.
Thanks for your kind response.
All this was prompted by my phone randomly disconnecting and reconnecting when charging, which means late at night the screen turns itself on and off, waking me up. Google has apparently made no provision for a setting to turn off the screen when a charger is connected. The best you can do is download an app that will quickly turn the screen back off, but it will still flash randomly in a dark room, and this is annoying.
I want the ability to go through the source code for the kernel, find the place where it turns on the screen when a charger is connected, and disable it. Shouldn't take much time at all, but in my understanding, in the current ecosystem, it is basically impossible unless you have an unlocked device. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Wouldn't a better solution be Google requiring the bootloader code to all be free and open source, and all phones to be rootable?
The biggest problem with Android right now is how vendors lock down phones and don't give the users control over the devices they literally own.